Country Quotes

Obviously, education is hugely important, along with healthcare. They're the basics and you're hurting your own country if you don't pour money into them.

It's a big country out there and there are tens of millions of Americans who like what the president [Donald Trump] is doing.

There is an essential goodness in Americans. They love this country.

Why was it, Lloyd wondered, that the people who wanted to destroy everything good about their country were the quickest to wave the national flag?

I'm more interested in politicians who deal with human rights in their own country rather than lecture the rest of the world.

The sight of one man standing up to challenge God and country is something that Madison, Jefferson and Franklin would cheer, and every American can celebrate.

Any country that has sexual censorship will eventually have political censorship.

There are a few countries that, for whatever reason, really enjoy listening to my music.

It's just a favorite language to me, that country finger-picking guitar style.

Highway spending, which I think most everybody says is badly needed in this country, creates American jobs, and also makes America more competitive.

This country's crazy in terms of fame and what people think it means. They expect a writer to be something between a Hollywood starlet and the village idiot.

I want my children to live in the country, to be a part of nature.

If I find what I like, maybe in about five years well be able to afford to build a home in the country.

I love country music, blues, and punk, and one day I might make those kinds of records.

It's not very long ago that we were all singing country music. And country music is equally black as it is white and that's important to recognize.

I think country music is a champion of women. That stuff coming out of Nashville now wants to see a woman looking good in the kitchen whipping up some biscuits.

The media here is the opposition party. They don't understand this country. They still do not understand why Donald Trump is the president of the United States.

Sometimes I wonder if I got lulled into not wanting things because I grew up black in this country.

I just love music, and I'm not as genre specific as most songwriters. A lot of my buddies just listen to country, or just Americana, or whatever their style is, and I just listen to everything.

Basically, if you're a young Canadian now and Trudeau puts this country into $1.5 trillion in debt, you will never have the opportunity that I had as a young Canadian.

If you look back through history in the United States, there have been very few landslide elections. Half the country always voted for someone else.

In our public life, California is on the verge of being a failed state, and no state has failed in the history of this country.

My future is in Perth, hopefully as a citizen and I want to be an asset to the country as much as I want to be a part of the community and be a citizen.

The country [Afghanistan] faces enormous problems. There is a violent insurgency hampering the rule of law and developmental efforts.

Good relations with Egypt are extremely important to us. Egypt is our neighbor and the largest Arab country. The people in all Muslim countries are on our side.

You hate Jesus because someone from the North Country said He was the Son of God. But you hate one another because each of you deems himself too great to be the brother of the next man.

I have always touched on different genres whether it has been hip-hop, country and the rock element.

I've always had a love of country music.

I got skin on the game. I want to serve my country.

Simón Bolívar is the only person in history to be exiled from a country named after him.

I think that [Barack] Obama was elected because young people are starting to get interested in their country and I think that's a very healthy thing.

I want to leave my country without leaving my home.

John F. Kennedy brought style and charisma to the White House and a first family that captivated the country: a handsome, witty president, an elegant first lady, and two adorable young children.

It is extreme arrogance for one to think he...and it's usually he, is the only one who can govern his country and nobody else can do it.

We tend to look at countries in terms of failed states and functioning states, which is rather simplistic.

We have to be very clear with the population and the countries we enter what we can do and what we cannot do.

I live out in the country now and it's quiet and it's a place where I can think a lot.

I swear...I'll deliver the message for the love of my country.

One of the things that defines a country song for me is that it's honest. It's not putting on a tuxedo to go eat at the Burger King. It's about a song being emotionally true to itself.

Well, you know, people don't know me as a country artist and I am new to the genre. But that's how I grew up singing.

Much of the conversation in the country consisted of lines from television shows, both past and present.

I was hoping to build a country and add to its literature. That's why I served in World War II, and that's why I wrote books.

Urban development in India... will be the biggest sunrise industry that any country has seen in any part of the world.

No Queen with a frozen heart is fit to rule any country.

This means more to me than any Grammy I could ever win ... It will take a village and an army, [some] countries and continents to make bullying a hate crime.

They say that this country is free, and they say that this country is equal, but it is not equal if it's 'sometimes'...We need change now. We demand actions now.

I'm encouraging you to know what you're worth. And know that no matter who has more money in class, who has more stuff, who has a country house - nobody is worth more than anybody else.

I love James Baldwin essays, but also his novels. I recently read "Another Country." I couldn't believe how ahead of his time he was.

I'm cautious about the currency situation, oil pricing and the economies of some countries not performing as we are expecting.

Wait long enough and you reap what you sow. That hold for men. That hold for towns. That hold for a whole country.