Country Quotes

There's a lot of anxiety about terrorism among the country at large. There's also a feeling the country has stagnated.

Discoveries made during the last hundred years have shown that liberalism is the best system to improve a country's well being.

Because Katrina put it out there, no one can play the pretend game anymore that there isn't poverty and inequality in this country. The Millions More Movement - Katrina gives it added significance.

American Dream Is Under Assault. People that haven't been able to find a job in months and this growing sense in this country that this is the new normal, well we can't accept that.

If my house was on fire, I can't compromise about which part of the house I'm going to save. You save the whole house or it will all burn down. We either save this country or we do not.

For many of us who were born and raised in this country, including me, it's sometimes easy to forget how special America really is.

Every generation in America has faced the same question, do we we want America to be special? Or do we just want America to be another country? The time has come again.

Even today with the problems that we face, who would you rather be? Which country would you trade places with?

People end up fleeing countries who adopt economic policies based on these flawed principles. And more often than not, they come here.

But since her earliest days, America has inspired people from all over the world. Inspired them with the hope that one day their own countries would be one like this one.

Most countries choose to have government run the economy.

[Nicolas Maduro] completely controls the judicial branch, controls the courts, has denied their basic rights and the responsibility that the legislative branch has in that country.

The best thing that could happen for the president Donald Trump, and the country, is a full and credible investigation.

America is not a special country by accident. It did not happen on its own. It happened because for over 200 years, each generation before us did what needed to be done.

I'm running for president because I want to change the direction of this country, and it will require me for the time being to miss some votes in the U.S.

Ted Cruz supported a 500-percent increase in the number of H-1 visas, the guest workers that are allowed into this country, and Ted supports doubling the number of green cards.

If Cuba wants normal relations, there's certain things they need to do like become a normal country that respects the rights of their citizens.

Oftentimes, your choices are down to two less than ideal outcomes, but you have to choose which one is the best one for the country. I personally believe he continues to struggle to articulate that.

Certainly being governor is an important job, and there are quality governors that could serve our country as president and have done so in the past.

I'm not new to the political process; I was making a contribution as the speaker of the third largest and most diverse state in the country well before I even got into the Senate.

Think of the country mouse and of the town mouse, and of the alarm and trepidation of the town mouse.

Americans just love convening. They are a convention-happy country and they love to get together to talk.

The use of "religion" as an excuse to repress the freedom of expression and to deny human rights is not confined to any country or time.

Canada is a balloon-puncturing country. You are not really allowed to be an icon unless you also make an idiot of yourself.

Axiom: you are a sea. Your eye- lids curve over chaos My hands where they touch you, create small inhabited islands soon you will be all earth: a known land, a country.

[On social change:] What I say is that if one country is annexed by another, its nationality is not changed overnight. Social processes are often very, very slow.

A severe disease that transmits easily will leave very little international surge capacity as most countries will need their own staff and resources to combat the outbreak in their territories.

The Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness, and the related Accra Agenda for Action, are useful policy instruments that set out the mutual responsibilities of donors and recipient countries.

Parents feel like immigrants in the country of the young.

Far less wealthy industrialized countries have committed to end child poverty, while the United States is sliding backwards. We can do better. We must demand that our leaders do better.

The globalized nature of production and innovation means that the benefits don't necessarily stay in the country where the investments are made.

Brexit and Trump's election are forcing countries to come up with new radical ideas.

Patriotism is understood to be that virtue which consists in serving one's country; but in what way is this 'Patria' or country served by slaying its able bodied men in thousands?

We've been at this 56 years and ... we love saying that we are a country in revolution, trying to create socialism, and we form part of a single party called the Communist Party.

I never say Serbia. I always say I come from a country that no longer exists.

In my country we say that ignorance is the warm bath in which it is comfortable to sit but dangerous to lie down.

The United States is the only country where a driver can have a successful career - either in stock cars or IndyCar - and he won't need a passport.

You know, I think Marco Rubio would be a spectacular candidate for vice president. I think he would energize the country. I think he has a great story. He's bright. He's articulate.

Growth in any individual European country has to be the result of policies for growth pursued in that country consistent with budgetary discipline.

I think in a country like mine, violence is at the root of all human relations.

I couldn't live without music. I experienced things through music in different countries where you cannot speak the same language, but the music and the dance relates everything.

Once the Government Accountability Office did a review of food safety systems in other countries and found many things about those food safety systems that were better than ours [American].

America is a very special place. In this country, you have the best and the worst at the same time. Whatever you can imagine.

An annibaptist is a thing I am not a member of:I am a Pisplikan just now & a Prisbeteren at Kercaldy my native town which thugh dirty is clein in the country.

I live full-time in the world of omnivores, and I've never wanted to leave. But the Standard American Diet (yes, it's SAD) got to me as it gets to almost everyone in this country.

Younger Cuban Americans who have decided to go to the island always come back telling me "that isn't the country my grandparents have told me about."

Latin American countries are part of the West and that it is reasonable to expect a certain degree of openness in their societies that we do not demand of, say, China or Vietnam.

There's something with the physical size of America... American writers can write about America and it can still feel like a foreign country.

Every sovereign country has the right to control its borders, and should. The idea that anyone would sneak over our borders without proper documentation to me is absolutely abhorrent.

Music is in every country and every culture around the world. It's universal.