Country Quotes

Abortion politics have distracted all sides from what is really essential: a major aid campaign to improve midwifery, prenatal care and emergency obstetric services in poor countries.

The use of methamphetamines has become pervasive in our country, and especially in rural areas.

The reason you write [songs] is because there's something you want to say that is important to you - enough to go through all the torture of writing.

Americans ... have wrought a country that has after more than two centuries yet to evidence a single year during which it was not making war upon someone, somewhere, for some reason.

Nashville may be famed for its country music, but this may well be the capital of rock and roll music in the United States of America.

My Dad used to tell us: 'En este pais, ustedes van a poder lograr todas las cosas que nosotros no pudimos' 'In this country, you will be able to accomplish all the things we never could.'

The elegance is as physical, as moral quality that has nothing common with the clothing. You can see a countrywoman more elegant than one so called elegant woman.

I never saw, heard, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the religion of the country. Nothing can render them popular, but some degree of persecution.

It's east to start a war in any country

I must keep alive in myself the desire for my true country, which I shall not find till after death.

I love this country, I love the principles on which it's founded.

It would be a mistake to export western management to a friendly country.

I don't think things are getting more insane. I do know that the country is more divided than it's ever been. Tensions in America are at their peak.

We must regain our vision and hope and move our country forward on an agenda of peace and justice.

The most wretched people in the world are those who tell you they like every kind of music 'except country.' People who say that are boorish and pretentious at the same time.

There cannot be true democracy unless all citizens are able to participate fully in the lives of their country.

I hope to find my country in the right: however I will stand by her, right or wrong.

Liberalism is a disease cured only by a lobotomy or 90 days in a third world country.

I don't think it is wrong, racist, immoral or anything, for a country to say 'we will decide what the cultural identity and the cultural destiny of this country will be and nobody else'.

In Los Angeles all the loose objects in the country were collected, as if America had been tilted and everything that wasn't tightly screwed down had slid into Southern California.

Millions of people in nearly 80 countries still live in fear of landmines and explosive remnants of war, which take an unacceptable toll on lives and limbs, and people's livelihoods

In America the cohesion was a matter of choice and will. But in Europe it was organic.

You just don't invade another country on phony pretext in order to assert your interests!

Get to know the poor in your country. Love them. Serve them.

We are used to facing the United States as a fortress from the outside. Now we are finding a breach to penetrate the country (the U.S.) and confront it from within.

Our country is being radically altered, step by step, by Justices who are not following any law.

This country could use a president like Benjamin Franklin again.

Now is the time to move this country forward.

No country has ever closely scrutinized itself visually ... I know what we could make of it if people only thought we could dare look at ourselves.

Go and surprise the whole country by doing something right.

City life is no life for a country man; for such a man that life is a kind of damnation in itself.

The deeper I went into culture, the more confused I got. So I needed something more real. I said, "Okay, from now on, my country will be cinema."

For many years, at great cost, I traveled through many countries, saw the high mountains, the oceans. The only things I did not see were the sparkling dewdrops in the grass just outside my door.

I think people need to know what they're eating. That's why I support "country of origin" labeling. That's why I support labeling of GMO's.

Because you're mine, I walk the line.

India has two million gods, and worships them all. In religion all other countries are paupers; India is the only millionaire.

Peace, ... is crucial, because my government aims to hasten Mindanao's development by transforming it into the country's food basket.

The strength of this country lies in the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights and the freedom of speech and thought.

When I look into your eyes I still get weak And when Im this close to you I just cant speak And its hard to keep my hands to myself When I know I could never love anybody else

We are three countries that emerged from the former Yugoslavia - countries that are now in transition and must cooperate with each other, because our economies depend on each other.

Consider: if you incorporate those tropical countries with the Republic of the United States, you will have to incorporate their people too.

We don't think about pilgrimage in this country. We don't think about meditation. The idea of taking a six-week walk is totally foreign to most Americans. But it's probably exactly what we need.

... a country encapsulates our childhood and those lanes, byres, fields, flowers, insects, suns, moons and stars are forever reoccurring.

When I'd tell people I like country music they'd get this look on their faces. People were kind of ashamed of country.

America is the country where you can buy a lifetime supply of aspirin For one dollar and use it up in two weeks.

Our Scottish theory ... is that every country has need of Scotchmen, but that Scotland has no need of the citizens of any other country.

We establish no religion in this country. We command no worship. We mandate no belief, nor will we ever. Church and state are and must remain separate.

Our political debates today are corrosive and not reflective of the belief that Abe Lincoln espoused back in his day: that we are a great country because we are a good country.

Bosnia is a country of hatred and fear.

I'd rather hop freights around the country and cook my food out of tin cans over wood fires, than be rich and have a home or work.