The citizen's job is to be rude - to pierce the comfort of professional intercourse by boorish expressions of doubt.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil.
The measure of your quality as a public person, as a citizen, is the gap between what you do and what you say.
I believe that there's a way to question authority with manners, with dignity. There's no reason to be rude about it.
This idea that you can't be an honest man and a Washington politician is a myth, a crock made up by sellouts and careerist hacks who don't stand for anything and are impatient with people who do. It's possible to do this job with honor and dignity.
The job of elected officials is to answer to the people who sent them to Washington - not to scorn them, not to demean them, not to mock them, and not to sell their jobs and dreams to the highest bidder.
There is a kind of courtesy in skepticism. It would be an offense against polite conventions to press our doubts too far.
A citizen is a political and moral agent who in fact has a shared sense of hope and responsibility to others and not just to him or herself.
If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.
The job of a citizen is to keep his mouth open.
Citizenship is a tough occupation which obliges the citizen to make his own informed opinion and stand by it.