Country Quotes

America, for me, is the country where, if you have something great to offer, you'll be valued highly.

To lead a country, you must periodically hold a national consultation in which people representing different programmes can make a bid for power.

Buy a house in a foreign country and, it seems, that anything which can go wrong usually does.

I was very politicized always. I was very conservative politically, because I'd seen what the communists did to my country.

Intellectual capital is the main determining factor and the base for economic and social development to any country.

Jihadists are acting against the interests of every single country.

Very often we talk about India and China, but not really Malaysia and Indonesia. The potential in the shift to the East is going to be great and very important for this country.

Now no one can deny the fact that whatever is the state of the affairs in the country, you did not have the army controlling the country and you have a pluralistic society anyway.

Populism is everywhere. We have religious populism in the Muslim-majority countries as much as we have populism in the United States of America.

Islam, as a religion, has been established in France for a long time, and the religious question has been resolved in this country. Islam does not threaten France's future in any way.

I own nothing; I just stay with friends all over the country.

You can't generalise about an entire country, but I like the energy of British men.

My definition of country music is really pretty simple. It's when someone sings about their life and what they know, from an authentic place.

I love being a part of the country-music community.

Country radio is much more like a family than any other group of people that I've met.

My parents moved across the country so I could pursue a dream.

In the history of humanity, there's never been a country like America.

I think we need to be fighting for the working men and women of this country, not the moneyed New York interests.

You look across this country people are fed up with Washington. This [2016] election was the American people saying, enough already with the corruption in Washington and it's both parties.

I do believe, in the long term, we will either get back to the principles that built America or we lose this country. And I'm an optimist.

President [Barack] Obama and Hillary Clinton are proposing bringing tens of thousands of Syrian refugees to this country when the head of the FBI has told Congress they cannot vet those refugees.

Any country that makes U.S. service members get on their knees will feel the full force and fury of the United States of America.

This country is always changing. But my point about the Supreme Court is the Supreme Court didn't wait for the country to change. Five unelected lawyers overruled 320 million Americans.

You can't get to a balanced budget and begin to pay down debt and thus create jobs in this country if you don't have specific plans to make it work.

Free enterprise system was born the second year the pilgrims were here. And of course, it has made America the most prosperous country in the world.

We need a consistent conservative, someone who has stood for free market principles, who has stood for the Constitution and, critically, who stood for the working men and women of this country.

Mao Tse Tung lives and his name is Barack Hussein Obama. This country should be ashamed. I wanna throw up.

If enough Americans determine I could do a better job in public office, and Mrs. Nugent and my beloved family agree, there is no limit what I am willing to do for my country.

The U.N. had such lofty goals to eliminate poverty and stop war and cure diseases and help refugees - things that no one country could do.

Country music was the music I was brought up on. It's the music that's closest to my heart and the music that speaks to me the most, and it's always been a big influence on my own songwriting.

I do think it's probably true to a certain extent that you tend to sing music that fits your voice. If you're Lou Reed, you're unlikely to become a country singer.

The schools of the country are its future in miniature.

There are films that can only be made in a specific country but that have a wider meaning. I think that's true of any art form.

I have worked enough and I am happy to be touring the country speaking about living with MS to give people inspiration and motivation to help themselves.

Old age is a strange country, and most of us enter it unwillingly.

Well, I think that as a country, we've drifted away from appreciating the importance of imagination.

Around it are those countries which, according to History, constitute the civilised world ie, a world that can support historians

It is always useful to face an enemy who is prepared to die for his country," he read. "This means that both you and he have exactly the same aim in mind.

We have no target for the number of medals we hope to win in 2012 - yet. But we want every kid in the country to have the chance to have the best opportunities.

The matter of people being attracted to other countries is a permanent problem in my view, it doesn't only face South Africa. A whole lot of countries in the world are faced with this problem.

The matter of social security and these grants is to help to address the levels of poverty in the country.

Your developed countries are taking teachers from South Africa, they are taking nurses, because people are better paid where they are going.

[...] [E]very citizen has to avoid any activities and speeches that harm the image of the country and interests of the people.

Everybody in all countries tries to play jazz.

In Anglo-Saxon countries the prostitutes look as if they purveyed, along with sin, the attendant pains of hell.

Having come to live in this age is as though one were to have entered another country. Learn its language or risk being left out.

This broken country extends back from the river for many miles and has been called always be Indian, French voyager and American trappers alike, the Bad Lands.

A revolution is sometimes necessary, but if revolutions become habitual the country in which they take place is going down-hill

The country's honor must be upheld at home and abroad.

The country is the place for children, and if not the country, a city small enough so that one can get out into the country.