Country Quotes

In a country where women regard themselves as equal, they are not prepared to see men running the show themselves.

it is a testament to the strength and purity of the democratic sentiment in the country, that the republic has not been overthrown by its newspapers.

The instruction furnished is not good enough for the youth of such a country ... There is not even any systematic instruction given on political morals: an enormous deficiency in a republic.

I like Colin Powell, I like his West Indian background, I like his intellect, I like a lot of things that he does and his style. What is at fault here is a policy that's taking this country to hell.

I think that one thing that America is guilty of is not ever apologizing for the greatest sin of the country, which is slavery.

The best thing you can say about offshore investors is that they're tax cheats in their home countries.

If there is one country and its people that have contributed most to western civilisation's man-made world continuously for the last 2000 years, it must surely be Italy.

I am worrying about my country. I feel I have a responsibility as a novelist to do something.

We in Iraq have not descended from another planet. Just as people in many other countries have gotten over the tragedy of war, Iraq will get over its ordeal.

I live in a small country in Europe - Finland - and I don't speak English well and I had nothing to do with publishing houses in the West. I lived in complete isolation.

The people in Arab countries are now speaking out and asking many questions about human rights, minorities, religion, democracy, "the other," and so on.

We cannot be sure that we ought not to regard the most criminal country as that which in some aspects possesses the highest civilization.

There has never been any country at every moment so virtuous and so wise that it has not sometimes needed to be saved from itself.

I know how hard it can be to communicate in a different country, find your way around, and deal with the mentality of other people and different cultures.

It is an admitted fact that the ordinary tomtit of commerce has a sounder aesthetic taste than the average female relative in the country.

My job is baseball. That's it. After, I'll talk to my country. I'm happy to do that.

Afghanistan is one of the poorest countries on earth. Security issue or no security issue, there would need to be a focus on it.

Of course as a small country you're not necessarily in the strongest negotiating position unless you're negotiating with other small countries.

Haiti is the poorest country in the western hemisphere; some say the poorest in the world.

America is such a nation of suppressed emotion, and when you arrive in L.A., you can smell the fear. It's the most alien country I've ever been to.

I love that country [Israel].

I can't help being Christian because I was brought up in Britain, and the morality of Christianity is part of the fabric of this country.

I think 40 is a good age to run a country. But I've always been fast.

Countries do not assume burdens because it is fair, only because it is necessary.

The Russian empire under czars and commissars has been hard to deal with for other countries.

In the 1960s, I would have considered China with its CPC an ideologically more dynamic country than the Soviet Union. But the Soviet Union was strategically more threatening.

In some countries a hunting parson is no uncommon sight. Such a one might make a good shepherd's dog, but is far from being the Good Shepherd.

I am a citizen of the world first, and of this country at a later and more convenient hour.

In respect to religion and the healing art, all nations are still in a state of barbarism. In the most civilized countries the priest is still but a Powwow, and the physician a Great Medicine.

Don't spend your time in drilling soldiers, who may turn out hirelings after all, but give to undrilled peasantry a country to fight for.

Give me a country where it is the most natural thing in the world for a government that does not understand you to let you alone.

Two or three hours' walking will carry me to as strange a country as I expect ever to see. A single farmhouse which I had not seen before is sometimes as good as the dominions of the King of Dahomey.

He may travel who can subsist on the wild fruits and game of the most cultivated country.

Instead of the scream of a fish hawk scaring the fishes, is heard the whistle of the steam-engine, arousing a country to its progress.

The country is an archipelago of lakes,--the lake-country of New England.

The mission of men there seems to be, like so many busy demons, to drive the forest all out of the country, from every solitary beaver swamp and mountain-side, as soon as possible.

As a true patriot, I should be ashamed to think that Adam in paradise was more favorably situated on the whole than the backwoodsman in this country.

Some general officers should pay a stricter regard to truth than to call the depopulating other countries the service of their own.

Providing reserves and exchanges for the whole world is too much for one country and one currency to bear.

Novelist-Citizen of Two Countries Interpreter of his Generation on both Sides of the Sea.

Nelson Mandela will always be the face of South Africa. The traveler passing through the country will see Mandela's face almost everywhere he looks. Truly, the man is omnipresent.

I think young people should travel and travel often to other countries like I do.

America is a country born from semi-mythologized blood, glory and acts of selfless patriotic sacrifice.

A country that has been through as much as Vietnam has to have some crazy music somewhere.

When people make my country look bad, I can't stand it.

I have been curious about Haiti for many years. The history of the country is as fascinating as it is turbulent.

The most interesting place by far was Afghanistan. Just because it is a place that I cannot see myself living. The hardness of the people and the history of the country is just so completely intense.

Retirement in another country is your body is too racked with pain and your hands are too arthritic from the life in the rice patty fields, so you can't work anymore.

The country is not priest-ridded, but press-ridden.

A man must be of a very quiet and happy nature, who can long endure the country; and, moreover, very well contented with his own insignificant person.