Country Quotes

It is a fact that around the world the elites of every country are making money.

There are rich people everywhere, and yet they don't contribute to the growth of their countries.

Too many women in too many countries speak the same language, of silence.

Washington is not a place to live in. The rents are high, the food is bad, the dust is disgusting and the morals are deplorable. Go West, young man, go West and grow up with the country.

I think everybody who puts on a uniform for their country is a hero.

There's a very healthy tradition in America of skepticism of centralized power. If we ever lose the skepticism of centralized power, we'll lose the essence of the country.

It's not how good you can play when you play good. It's how good you play when you play bad and we can play as bad as anyone in the country.

Words uttered under coercion are proof of loyalty to nothing but self-interest. Love of country must spring from willing hearts and free minds.

Whenever my country has something bad happening I feel guilty for not being there. It's weird.

In a country where half a million die every year only for drinking polluted water, it is more necessary for us to do something for them.

In most of Pakistan it is a feudal country. People are very scared and oppressed by authority. But when you move to these wilder areas, they are not so easily suppressed.

If we have a common currency, the main regulator for policy in the country is the fiscal policy.

One of the Republicans' major products is dream making. People are dying to get into this country... not out of it.

While I've lived in cities for most of my adult life, I really prefer the quiet, boring, mundanity of the country. It's the best place for me to work, think, and invent.

Sudan is not really a country at all, but many. A composite layers, like a genetic fingerprint of memories that were once fluid, but have since crystallized out from the crucible of possibility

We decry violence all the time in this country, but look at our history. We were born in a violent revolution, and we've been in wars ever since. We're not a pacific people.

I flatter myself [we] have in this country extinguished forever the ambitious hope of making laws for the human mind.

Above all we want people to remember that there are three values we bring to this country. Family, God and hard work.

one day in the country is exactly like another.

England is my home, but Australia is my land and my country. This is where my heart is and where my family are. Australia will always be there, but I've made the decision to live here.

How can you not have fun going around the country playing baseball for a living? Being a baseball player is the next best thing to being a rock star.

The FDA is now warning people not to eat raw cookie dough this holiday season. Is that how fat we're getting in this country? Our ovens are too slow now?

Everyone always dies for his country. If you have lived in it, well and wisely and actively, you die for it too.

To one who loves his country in all its parts, it is natural to rejoice in whatever contributes to the prosperity and honor and marks the stability and progress of any portion of its people.

Airports should all belong to the same country. The country of Crappacia. Or Bleakovania. Or Suckitan.

What will it profit this country if we... put our man on the Moon by 1970 and at the same time you can't walk down Woodward Avenue in this city without fear of some violence?

I will not be a Democrat or a Republican. They are the problem, not the solution. We need to abolish political parties in this country.

My job is to express who I am and what I hate about the country and what I love about it and what I hate about myself and what I love about myself and to make you laugh while I'm doing it.

When you go visiting countries, you start reading the history of the place and you start getting into the culture, and then you have to leave. In my experience, all countries have hidden treasures.

Not only is America a country where torture is now policy. It's now outsourced. It's given to companies at a cost-plus basis. It's a triple whammy of surreal, absolute madness.

It's beyond belief that any Australian could be so stupid as to carry drugs into any country in Asia.

You grow up Latin in this country and you're a third class citizen from the word go, and so you have to deal with everything around you from that point of view and trying to feel entitled.

I just think if the song's good, sing it. I don't care who's doing it. I don't care if it's a country act. I don't care if it's a rock act. If the song's good, sing it.

A gentleman of one of the first fortunes upon the continent...sacrificing his ease, and hazarding all in the cause of his country.

Death is not a journey into an unknown land; it is a voyage home. We are going, not to a strange country, but to our fathers house.

On all levels American society is rigged. I am troubled by the cynical immorality of my country. It cannot survive on this basis.

Why, in our "free" country, do Americans meekly stand aside and let the state limit our choices, even when we are dying?

The United States, democratic and various though it is, is not an easy country for a fiction-writer to enter: the slot between the fantastic and the drab seems too narrow.

One of the cool, chaste countries - Canada or Sweden.

Laws aren't ghosts in this country, they walk around with the smell of earth on them.

I have always thought that being a good American is appreciating the world, not just your own country.

Iran, Ireland, Israel. That's three countries, four religions that HATE each other. Way to go, 'I'.

I only find out where countries are when we start bombing them.

There's a real question at stake now. Is President Obama creating a civil war in our own country?

Norway or Switzerland are two marvelous countries, I very much admire, the most advanced countries in the world in fact with great qualities of life.

I think we all have a tendency to feel like, "Well, what can I do? I can't influence the government or politics in my country."

I was a devil in other countries, and I was a little devil in America, too.

The only country that hasn't liked my music is my own.

People started saying I was ignoring my country, making up stories about me. Ludicrous things, like that I throw tea on my assistants.

I am an Australian citizen, and I miss my country a great deal.