Country Quotes

Until MTV, television had not been a huge influence on music. To compete with MTV, the country music moguls felt they had to appeal to the same young audience and do it the way MTV did.

I'm a London lad, but I'm fascinated by America. I want to take a motorcycling trip across the country and see those wide open spaces.

Playing the Opry, when I get the opportunity - it's one of the coolest honors for any musician in any genre, but especially for a country musician.

On the contrary, I'm a universal patriot, if you could understand me rightly: my country is the world.

Britney Spears' album Blackout is one of the hottest-selling CDs in the country. We're in a bad place, people: The world is melting, we're at war, and Two and a Half Men is a huge hit.

If I wanted to be a pop singer, I would have done that 20 years ago. I love country music.

I have no nationality, no country.

If I write novels in a country in which most citizens are illiterate, who then is my community?

I've had trouble now and again in Nigeria because I have spoken up about the mistreatment of factions in the country because of difference in religion. These are things we should put behind us.

Presidents do not go off on leave without telling the country.

When your dad is a country music fan and you take long car trips, you become one too.

We Canadians need, as a country, to be much more present globally than we have been today.

Comedy has been crossing the country with remarkable speed way before the Internet, social media, even cable TV.

I've had some of the best times of my life at The KK. The best staff at the greatest college bar in the country!

What is Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton done to this country? That the most basic responsibility of an administration is to protect the safety and security of the American people.

I think what he [Donald Trump] has said is that people are not going to be eligible for legalization or citizenship unless they leave the country and get back in line.

[Donald Trump] will appoint an attorney general, who will send very clear messages about how law enforcement is to be pursued in this country.

New Jersey was threatened like no other region in this country and what we did was we took action within the constitution to make sure that law enforcement had all the information they needed.

This is a guy [Donald Trump] who has been very consistent on no amnesty, no legalization, for folks who have been coming to the country illegally.

The message [of Donald Trump ] is that if anybody lives in those circumstances in this country, that's something that the government should be working to try to change.

We need to support our police officers and make sure that community policing becomes something that becomes the standard across the country.

Horror in your country is something you take a dose of to remind yourself that you are not suffering from it.

"Go and Say Goodbye" by the Buffalo Springfield stands as one of the first examples of what would later be branded country rock

The President Barack Obama said if we get out of this business of trade expansion, we turn it over to the Chinese. This brings us into partnership with 11 other Pacific Rim countries.

I think we all [americans] think we're a special country. But the question is, what - what call does that give us?

America's the one country in the world where anybody who comes here does better than where they came from.

The Obama administration kind of shows how you can use diplomacy to bring the most important countries together and get the whole world on board.

I definitely want to keep working in Ireland, and without being too worthy about it, if it's possible to bring work into the country, that's no harm.

Undoubtedly, at the moment, the major cause of CO2 emission is what happens in developed countries.

America is the greatest country in the whole world.

You aren't just voting for the president. So many issues that affect your everyday life are decided locally on that ballot as well. So go get that god damn sticker. Your country needs you.

I get paid to lie to people as an actor. Country music is the one area that I don't lie. I tell the truth.

But to be self-obsessed is simply not o.k. for the most important country in the world, the United States, which affects every other country in the world.

Harvard produces leaders. People with Harvard degrees go on to become administrators in high-level positions in state educational departments and in public schools around the country.

Why one day in the country Is worth a month in town; Is worth a day and a year Of the dusty, musty, lag-last fashion That days drone elsewhere.

The difficulty that negotiators have is often based on the cultural difference that various countries have.

Regulation is necessary, particularly in a sector, like the banking sector, which exposes countries and people to a risk.

Going out into the country after living in the city is a loss of control.

I take great pride in the fact that I have lived in a Spanish-speaking country.

I'd always somehow felt slightly as if I'd been born in the wrong country.

I don't think Donald Trump is going to lose by 15 points to Hillary Clinton or even 10. The country still feels too polarized for that to happen.

That whole country, Malaysia has a history of telling other countries back off, we'll do our business. They're pretty stubborn bunch of people. So they will do what they have to do.

I live sort of in the country and I like that. It's very quiet, it's beautiful.

Gary Allan has long been one of country's most reliably velvet-voiced beautiful losers.

I have never believed you go to war in Iraq, you go to war in Afghanistan, and believe that you can deal with those battlefields, those countries, in microcosms, or narrow channels.

I would not trade America's position in the world - our ledger, our debts and assets - for any country in the world. There isn't a country in the world even close to America.

I grew up on a farm, and we didn't have cable and only limited radio stations, so I wasn't inundated with culture the way people in other parts of the country were. But I was really interested in it.

A lot of Democrats ask and a lot of people ask, "Why is it necessary for people in this country, who are not in law enforcement, to have assault weapons?"

Jeb Bush is conservative governor,his record as governor is more conservative than any current republican governor in the country.

I feel like I gave my son to this country in an illegal and immoral war. I'll never get him back.