Country Quotes

It's probably listening to country music that got me to start playing a lot cleaner, not as distorted.

The really pop country stuff can sound a little bland because they put in strings and horns and all of that.

There are guys in country music who are wizards on the guitar. If you're a country fan, you're used to it. But as a rock guitar player, you listen.

Sometimes faggot is the right word. There's a trend in this country to avoid words: "We can't say that one anymore it's offensive."

I was always fascinated by politics, and I did not like the direction the country was going under Bill Clinton.

I consider myself a Chicagoan. I came here to study at the Art Institute in 1951 when I was 18 years old, and I've been here ever since. I still think Chicago is the best city in the country.

We [the United States] are not every other country. And models that work elsewhere may not have the same impact here.

My movies have always done pretty well in the UK - 'The Matrix' films did very well in this country and I do like the crews here and the people we're working with here.

If one doesn't know one's own country, one doesn't have standards for foreign countries.

Whoever would understand the poet Must go into the poet's country. [Ger., Wer den Dichter will verstehen Muss in Dichters Lande gehen.]

If one mistreats citizens of foreign countries, one infringes upon one's duty toward one's own subjects; for thus one exposes themto the law of retribution.

No one feels himself easy in a garden which does not look like the open country.

But the truth of the matter is that there is there is an opportunity for them to participate in the economic and political future of the country and certainly in the security life of the country.

Swim or sink, live or die, survive or perish with my country was my unalterable determination.

If the way to do good to my country were to render myself popular, I could easily do it. But extravagant popularity is not the road to public advantage.

The Commission on Presidential Debates must be replaced if we want to have a democracy in this country.

Our manifesto, whatever it will be called, will come from the people who are really in charge of this country, and that's the American people.

I wouldn't give up on Russia. I think they have legitimate security concerns from Islamic fundamentalism, not only on their border but in their country.

I've been surrounded by some of the best economic minds in the country, and hopefully I've absorbed some of that.

Nearly every country in the world is now becoming industrialized as rapidly as it can.

Indeed, American companies make three times as much profits from their investment in one E.U. country, Ireland, than they do from all their investments in China.

Especially in the case of India and Pakistan, it's very clear that significant parts of the elites in both countries view having nuclear weapons as a ticket to prestige.

There is an international treaty framework for this. It's the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). Most countries in the world are members of the treaty.

The Imagi-Nation is a little country in your head. When you're young, you go there to play. When you get older, you go there to worry.

If we can make Washington more like Texas, the whole country will be a winner.

This country has gotten seriously off track under the Supreme Court when it went so far as to limit the right of even private citizens to freely express their religious views in public.

Believing that fundamental conditions of the country are sound ... my son and I have for some days been purchasing sound common stocks

One of the best ways countries can combat poverty is to use development assistance to promote a growing private sector, in which the poor can fully participate.

It is obvious to any observer that in every western country the increase of importance of public schools has been at least coincident with the relaxation of older family ties.

I wonder by my troth, what thou, and I Did, till we loved? were we not weaned till then? But sucked on country pleasures, childishly? Or snorted we in the seven sleepers' den?

Eh Bien you like this sacred pig of a country?" asked Marco. "Why not? I like it anywhere. It's all the same, in France you are paid badly and live well; here you are paid well and live badly.

I believe it is wrong, in a country of such wealth and prosperity, to have 36 million Americans living in poverty.

Last year, more Americans went to symphonies than went to baseball games. This may be viewed as an alarming statistic, but I think that both baseball and the country will endure.

Where else, in a non-totalitarian country, but in the political profession is the individual expected to sacrifice all-including his own career-for the national good?

America that has done more to support Israel than any other country cannot be true to our own values if we allow a viable two-state solution to be destroyed before our own eyes.

It's very hard to get other countries to give up their weapons when you're busy developing a new one.

There is a much cheaper way, less complicated way to bring Iraq and Saddam Hussein to its knees: it is simply to send the Bush economic team over there and let them run the country.

We do not need to divide America over who served and how. I have personally always believed that many served in many different ways.

America has an ability to try to make some things happen that other countries don't necessarily have.

I defended this country as a young man, and I will defend it as president.

I am sympathetic to developing countries’ concerns: because of our emissions it’s their crops that will disappear; because of our inaction, it’s their fields that turn to desert...

It's hard to say that something is legitimate when a whole portion of the country can't vote and doesn't vote.

[Bashar] Assad has made a series of choices ever since then that is literally destroying his country.

So I learnt a few country western songs, I bought a chord book, and right away I started writing my own stuff, which nobody else did that, I don't know why.

I cannot bear to think that our young men are merely living four years in a country club and spending their lives wholly in a spirit of calculation and snobbishness.

If we say, as we do, that no one in this country intends for racism to lead to genocide, the effects of racism are genocidal, regardless of our intentions.

If you feel strongly about people having abortions, don't have one. But we are a country - USA - that likes to be punitive. We want to restrict. It is a kind of religious fervor run amuck.

I certainly think Obama is the most hopeful president I've seen in the country since John Kennedy.

We permit bad taste in this country. In fact, we even encourage it - and reward it in all manner of ways.

At the end, the Saudis have agreed to put together a coalition inside of Syria to stabilize that country.