Country Quotes

I will do my best to transform our trade policy and take on these corporations who want to invest in low-income countries around the world rather than in the United States of America.

What I saw in Baltimore was distressing and it tells me we need stronger policies in this country.

To implement a new sport aside your tradition takes time. You definitely need a strategy for the entire country. You need highly qualified coaches for all regions that work with the same concept.

If consumers are asked to make greater sacrifices than industry, this country is going to have its greatest shortage of all -- a shortage of consumers.

In the country, weather is as important as food and sometimes means the difference between life and death.

Any private security is a joke in a country where youre up against your own government.

A small country like Georgia has little influence on conflicts that must be resolved at the global level.

I had to choose: Either leave the country, where it's become dangerous for me, or go on the offensive.

Organizing the working class in England or the U.S. or any other advanced capitalist country has been a daunting challenge.

[Lyndon ] Johnson was responding to a black freedom movement that was tearing the country open and he did what he had to do as a conservative politician.

I was arrested in 1965 for opposing the war in Vietnam. There were 39 of us arrested that day. But thousands opposed us. And the majority of the people in the country supported the war then.

I spent my childhood scrambling round badgers and foxes and playing fantastic country kid games like knocking on people's doors and running away. God that was a good game.

I can't imagine there has ever been a more gratifying time or place to be alive than America in the 1950s. No country had ever known such prosperity.

In a funny way, nothing makes you feel more like a native of your own country than to live where nearly everyone is not.

The United States has put more money on HIV, AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis than any country in the world and it's having an impact real quick.

The US spends more on energy R&D than all other countries put together, and I personally consider it quite inadequate.

We are one with God and He loves us. Now if that isn't a hazard to this country-How're we gonna keep building nuclear weapons?

The New York Times - but the whole country gives it that weight. It's like the Asian kid in math class. Everybody in the media cheats off The New York Times.

Sarah Palin has strong opinions on the Libyans. She said, 'Marriage is between a man and a woman and Libyans like Rachel Maddow are what's ruining this country.'

I think I know now why we are occupying Iraq. In case we have to sell America and move to a smaller country.

I would rather put up with Rush Limbaugh and live in a country where we all do have freedom of speech.

Why are there so many puritans in this country, and why can't the rest of us make them go away?!

But isn't there something wrong when I'm the only guy in the country that got fired for 9/11?

The electricity is back on in Baghdad. That is a very climactic moment in any country's liberation, when the lights come back on and you get a good look at what you looted.

The country can't get well if the people are sick. And the people are sick.

I understand we're on our way to being a Third World country. Could we just stop at 'Second World' before we get there?

In this country, a smart leader is suspect. That's just the way it is. Even George Bush's father, who was a lot smarter than the son, had to sort of prove that he wasn't that bright.

Everybody has a magazine and a channel. There are 500 channels and 500 magazines, and we wonder why we're not united as a country.

I don't think there's any question that someday somebody who is innocent will be executed in this country again.

Those of us in the west have figured out a lot of ways to damage the lives of poor people in this country and around the world over the years.

Country music belongs to America.

Standing up to your government can mean standing up for your country.

Why is the country not having this conversation, the kind of conversation that requires the politicians who are responsible for the war to be specific to the concerns of the American people.

Chicago is seriously my favorite city in the country. People have roots here, which is nice. When you go to Los Angeles, no one is actually from Los Angeles.

The last thing we need to do, relating to teachers, is the key to a good education in this country is a strong teacher. I would have a minimum wage for all our teachers, $40,000 per year.

When I competed, it was for honor and country. It was a privilege to be a part of the U.S. team.

The ability to mingle with so many countries and cultures is extremely valuable for men and women.

NATO will not become involved in partitioning that country, .. We're not going to engage in an operation that will fix demarcation lines. This is one country, and it will remain one country.

I certainly hope the strengths and values of this country hold up to comparison to other cultures.

An American presidential campaign resembles a forced march through enemy country.

It has been preached in every country, taught everywhere, but only believed in by a few, because until we get the experience ourselves, we cannot believe in it.

I love Spain. It's my favorite country that I've been to and I've traveled quite a bit. I've been really fortunate as an adult to have been to a lot of interesting places like Egypt and China.

I am a big believer in the value of traveling while you are young. The experiences you have in other countries can inspire greatness.

What you need to know about me is that I always just wanted to be a country singer. I didn't choose the path of television or being on magazine covers.

Now, I do come from a part of the country where the people say that the only thing in the middle of the road is a yellow line or roadkill.

Many Muslim countries are closed to missionaries, a policy Christians see as a denial of religious liberty.

We in the west walked away from Afghanistan at the end of the cold war and left it as a country devastated socially and armed to the teeth. If we do that again there will be consequences.

Countries around the world are celebrating new oil and natural gas discoveries that hold the promise of greater prosperity for their citizens.

I started writing songs after I heard Hank Williams.

Well I'm living in a foreign country but I'm bound to cross the line. Beauty walks a razor's edge...someday I'll make it mine.