Country Quotes
Ninety countries still hold on to capital punishment, and, sadly, one of these is the United States, the only Western industrialized country to practice this barbaric punishment.
Russia itself is an extremely complex country, and sometimes I feel like all of that comes back to haunt me. I can see why so many Russian writers were so tortured.
Always when you go to a new country and they teach you bad words, you just say them without knowing the value and people look at you because you didn't know that value of them.
I have absolute respect for Israel and people in Israel who are critical of their own country.
In a novel, my feelings and sense of outrage can find a broader means of expression which would be more symbolic and applicable to many European countries.
Other countries have access to the markets, whereas Greece does not. Therefore, we have to get liquidity through the ECB.
There is number of different efforts around the country are to try to redesign the math pathway and the courses that students have to take to make it more applicable to the real world.
I have found that many other countries will buy off on anything American. As much as they hate us, they want to be us more than anything.
Mangalore, the coastal Indian town where I lived until I was almost 16, is now a booming city of malls and call-centres. But, in the 1980s, it was a provincial town in a socialist country.
The American journey has not ended. America is always still to build ... West is a country in the mind, and so eternal.
Holland is a fairly small country, and in a weird way, somewhat conservative. That might surprise people because it is a very tolerant place, but it's also a somewhat Calvinist country.
America is a country ready to be taken - in fact, longing to be taken - by political leaders ready to restore democracy and trust to the political process.
The only tool we have to fix the problems of this country - the democratic process - is itself broken. Which is why nothing will fundamentally change until we solve the problem of money in politics.
Most writers who leave their country physically have already left it mentally and emotionally.
Other countries have outeducated us. They have made this a priority. And a big part of what I'm trying to do, frankly, is raise the profile of education and get America to wake up.
Other countries haves passed us by. They're outworking us. They're outcompeting us. We have got to wake up and we have got to start moving.
There's so much that we're doing wrong today. And studies show we're one of three countries that doesn't invest more in disadvantaged communities.
I've always been a big thinker that the more international competition that we create through sports the better relationships we'll have with countries.
I didn't know the English were good at swimming. I have been in this country for 12 years and I haven't seen a swimming pool.
No country can allow its safety to be wholly dependent on faithful observance by other states of rules to which they are obliged.
On general principles, it is best that I should not leave the country. Scotland Yard feels lonely without me, and it causes an unhealthy excitement among the criminal classes.
I have twenty countries in my memory and trail in my soul the colors of one hundred cities.
I find, on my own travels, that the most depressing form of culture shock is experienced when you go into a country that is under the thumb of a dictator.
Thus, the struggle for peace includes the struggle for freedom and justice for the masses of all countries.
I don't know what the country's coming to. Everyone trying to be better than their betters--mink coats and no manners. No wonder Germany's arming.
I once dealt with a prima donna on a movie set. I won't say who, but his first name is a country. A communist country. Run by Fidel Castro.
An old-growth forest, a mountain range or a river valley is more important and certainly more loveable than any country will ever be.
I prefer to stay in my country. But this doesn't mean if someone does want to leave Iran, I think they've done something wrong - the desire to leave is completely understandable.
Crisis for others is a source of despair. For me, it's an opportunity to bring reform. I owe this country a debt I cannot repay.
It's fair to say average Americans think that the average Afghan doesn't want American troops in their country.
It was very difficult to write about my own country, because I have always been the outsider looking in.
I never thought that I could reach such a high political position. But I have always been ready to serve my country.
Every culture feels like their parents are the most stringent as far as, "We came to this country to work hard, we want you to be a doctor or a lawyer."
As the evidence has shown, the cases of voter fraud across the country are statistically minimal if you go back decades.
I don't think any country can survive as a prosperous and dignified country unless there is rule of law.
People think of the military as being about guns and fighting wars, but it's really about service to country and community.
In school I really loved Shakespeare, and I participated in a country-wide Shakespeare competition.
Money is so noble a medium that it does not compete with guns and it does not make terms with brutality. It will not permit a country to survive as half-property, half-loot.
So from Jazz, Blues, R&B, Soul, Classical and Country music, Hip Hop has introduced us to a little bit of everything.
Boundaries, and countries, if we don't have that we are all brothers and sisters, we can all have love and joy and compassion for each other: the world would be much more beautiful.