I think if we go back and check our record, the Negro has proven beyond a doubt that we have been more than patient in seeking our rights as American citizens.

I didn't think that the government would go as far as to include American citizens to be interned without a hearing.

It's important that we elevate and primarily focus on the rights of American citizens, but it's also important that we don't forget, 95 percent of the world's population lives beyond our own borders.

I'm obviously an American citizen. My parents are American citizens. But I'm not looked at as an American.

One of the most effective tools that the Cheney-Bush junta has used to marginalize dissenting or even mildly inquisitive American citizens has been the accusation of being unpatriotic.

The largest untapped constituency in American politics are the 300 million American citizens who have been completely left out of the immigration debate.