Country Quotes

Winston Churchill could not definitely remember a time when his country had not been at war.

Each time I come it's amazing to watch the development of this incredible country [China].

We need a coalition in this country. A coalition of change. People who have had enough of this.

There are those people who don't want change. Well there needs to be a coalition for change amongst the hard-working mainstream majority of the country to crack on and sort out Britain's problems.

[Banks] have a clear obligation to help get this country off its addiction to debt because they sure as hell helped to get this country addicted to debt.

I find China such a fascinating and interesting country. Each time I come back something has changed and it's moved on in leaps and bounds.

Between 1980 and 1990, the number of countries that were classified as 'free' or 'mostly free' increased by about 50%.

Like an odorless gas, [inequality] pervades every corner of the United States and saps the strength of the country's democracy. But it seems impossible to find the source and shut it off.

If Hillary Clinton becomes president, how is she going to be able to get the country behind her when she seems like a political figure from another era?

I will always be upfront with the Greek people, so we can solve the country's problems together.

How can a parliamentarian or a leader in a country say, on the one hand, that we're going to support Greece but at the same time say that Greeks are lazy?

Countries are not like financial markets. Social change cannot be executed as swiftly as credit-default swaps. You cannot sell short on social commitments and practical responsibilities.

My hope is that we will turn Greece into maybe the most transparent country in the world with everything on the web.

I have a deep sense of responsibility to my country and Greek people.

If you put all the European countries together, we are the biggest economy in the world.

Names are hard. I have a library of What to Name Your Baby books, and I’m always picking up new books, and books of baby names from other countries. I like cool-sounding names.

It is right to prefer our own country to all others, because we are children and citizens before we can be travellers or philosophers.

A country doesn't need a businessman to run it: it needs a heartful, worldly, compassionate leader.

In the end, I'll put my good acts up against those of anybody in this country. Anybody.

Protests [against Donald Trump] four nights running.Thousands marching across the country.

We have also seen this spate of incidents, racially-charged incidents, across the country right now. What should President-Elect [Donald] Trump do to get that under control?

Most of our imports come from other countries

Democracies don't war; democracies are peaceful countries.

We want more people owning things in this country. Let me put it to you bluntly: In a changing world, we want more people to have control over your own life.

My administration will be more supportive of the good works done here than any administration in the history of this country because I understand the power of faith, that faith can change lives.

Russia's most precious resource is the brain power of this country. And you've got a lot of it. It's going to take a lot of brains in Russia to create a drain.

I make decisions based on what I think is best for the country.

We have one country, one Constitution and one future that binds us.

Anybody who is in a position to serve this country ought to understand the consequences of words.

There may be some tough times here in America. But this country has gone through tough times before, and we're going to do it again.

We're creating an ownership society in this country, where more Americans than ever will be able to open up their door where they live and say, welcome to my house, welcome to my piece of property.

The students at Yale came from all different backgrounds and all parts of the country. Within months, I knew many of them.

Iraqis are sick of foreign people coming in their country and trying to destabilize their country.

We've got a lot of relations with countries in our neighborhood.

There needs to be debates, like we're going through. There needs to be townhall meetings. There needs to be travel. This is a huge country.

First, we would not accept a treaty that would not have been ratified, nor a treaty that I thought made sense for the country.

I... you know, I... look, after 9/11, I vowed to protect this country.

The United States and rich countries cannot change Africa from within. It has to impose reform on Africa; it has to come from within.

We have to find the origin of the problem. The origin of the problem in many African countries is that you've got state bureaucracies which are too bloated.

Using tax payers' money to provide liquidity to Wall Street so that the country wouldn't head into a depression was the right decision, in my judgment.

I hope that's what the taxpayers of Great Britain expect, is expect us to, when we make investments in countries, that they work. And they don't work if a nation doesn't invest in its people.

Foreign fighters are travelling into Iraq to make it a front line in the war on terror. And I would rather defeat them there than face them in our own country.

You can imagine these radicals getting a hold of a country where they're able to pull oil off the market to run the price of oil up to extract concession.

I think, to a certain extent the economy and these decisions I made to protect the country matter a lot.

So many people commute in this country by car long enough distances to really cut into their income, their real income, that they would change their vote based on gas prices.

Culture of life is really important for a country to have if it's going to be a hospitable society.

After 9/11, I told the American people I would do everything in my power to protect the country, within the law, and that's exactly how I conduct my presidency.

USA have got a comprehensive strategy to not only chase down the Al Qaida, wherever it exists - but to make sure that countries that harbor terrorists are held to account.

To stand well in the estimation of one's country is a happiness that no rational creature can be insensible of.

The liberality of sentiment toward each other, which marks every political and religious denomination of men in this country, stands unparalleled in the history of nations.