Country Quotes

Nothing marks the change from the city to the country so much as the absence of grinding noises. The country is never silent. But its sounds are separate, distinct, and as it were, articulate.

I have all over the country and all over the world. It is an honor for me to meet the fans, a blessing.

Of the whole sum of human life no small part is that which consists of a man's relations to his country, and his feelings concerning it.

[N]o country can squander itself to prosperity on the ruin of its taxpayers.

Many women are now holding posts of grave responsibility in city and country and state and nation, and their number must be greatly increased.

The fundamental business of the country, that is production and distribution of commodities, is on a sound and prosperous basis.

Jazz has been the voice of freedom for so many countries over the past half century.

World peace is no longer some pie-in-the-sky thing, because no single person or country is going to solve it on their own.

My message of common-sense solutions is resonating with people. People around the country are starting to know who I am and starting to identify me with solutions, not rhetoric.

In some things, we Americans leave to other countries the carrying out of the principle that stands at the head of our Declaration of Independence.

Soft men tend to be born from soft countries.

If you eat a chicken wing or a chicken tender in some parts of the country, I probably supplied it.

I think it is going to take another fifty years for the report to be in. If I were to give a preliminary report, I would say that [Margaret Thatcher] wrecked this country.

[Margaret Thatcher] was pretending that running a country was like running a household, which she knew wasn't true.

I think it's time that the wealthy and corporations paid their fair share to support this country.

I have a million ideas. The country can't afford them all.

If men like [Ken] Starr and his allies could ignore the Constitution and abuse power for ideological and malicious ends to topple a President, I feared for my country.

Donald Trump reflects a distorted view of the American people and what this country is all about.

Haiti is the poorest country in our hemisphere. The earthquake and the hurricanes, it has devastated Haiti. Bill Clinton and I have been involved in trying to help Haiti for many years.

America is a country founded on religious freedom and liberty.

Listening to what people in other countries are saying and trying to understand how they perceive their place in the world is essential to a future of peace and security at home and abroad.

I'm not going to quit. Why should I quit? This country is worth fighting for.

Countries that will not tax their elite who expect us to come in and help them serve their people are just not going to get the kind of help from us that historically they may have.

Egypt is a large, complex, very important country.

I will always be dedicated to the talented men and women at our headquarters in Brooklyn and across the country.

I would love having the job of president because I know how to do it. I know what the country needs.

I think we do not need to send more jobs to low wage countries. I think corporate America has to start investing in this country and create decent paying jobs here.

The central question in this election [2016] is really what kind of country we want to be and what kind of future we'll build together.

I think we should be talk about what we want to do for the country. But if we're going to get into labels, I don't think it was particularly progressive to vote against the Brady Bill five times.

When the middle class thrives, the country thrives, and when it doesn't, we don't.

Donald Trump abuses his power, games the system, puts his own interests ahead of the country's.

It's just awfully good that someone with the temperament of Donald Trump is not in charge of the law in our country [America].

I want a country where citizens like you and your family are just as welcome as anyone else.

Donald Trump's shipped jobs to 12 countries, including Mexico.

I want to imagine a country where people's wages reflect their hard work, where we have healthcare for everyone, and where every child gets to live up to his or her potential.

We need to believe Donald Trump when he bullies and threatens to throw out every immigrant in the country.

Getting countries working together was my job every day as your secretary of state.

There are so many music genres competing against each other, but I feel like country music has always been a unified front.

'Need You Now' is a universal subject matter. It's something that not just country fans, not just pop fans - everybody's been there. And the production was a little left of center.

When I first began writing In the Country of Men all I had was the voice of the protagonist. He intrigued me and my desire to want to know him and his world became almost compulsive.

One omen is best, to fight in defense of one's country.

A glorious death is his, who for his country falls.

France is a country that loves to change their government if it is always the same.

Iran is a huge country and much, much more sophisticated than most people imagine... It certainly has the potential to be at least the way Turkey is to most Americans.

Do not lounge in the cities! There is room & health in the country, away from the crowds of idlers & imbeciles. Go west, before you are fitted for no life but that of the factory.

Germany must be a country which generates political ideas and leadership, which is capable of compromise, which is sovereign and yet knows that it needs its partners on both sides of the Atlantic.

America is a conservative country with a small "c" - they want change, but they don't want too much change too fast.

This country was the moral leader of the world until George Bush became president.

What I want to do more than anything as president of the United States is to restore the honor and dignity and respect that this country is owed around the world.

The status quo helps liberals. We're going to change the country.