Country Quotes

I come from election, I come from the people. I owe gratitude to our people. I do everything for the good of the country and the people.

America has become amnesiac - a country in which forms of historical, political, and moral forgetting are not only willfully practiced but celebrated.

If a country is not worth protecting it is not worth claiming.

You know, having been an election monitor in countries across the world, I can tell you that we would never certify another country's election if it had as many flaws in place as we had in Florida.

People think I'm strong, but actually I wanted to crawl away. I thought, I'm going to live in the country with my horse and I'll get a nine-to-five; I don't need this.

So long as the majority of Canadians have two countries, one here and one in Europe, national unity will remain a myth and a constant source of internecine quarrels.

Some countries of Europe have to free themselves from the US Empire. They are not going to frighten us because we are a people with dignity and sovereignty.

I think the only music I didn't listen to was country and western, and that holds to this day.

Democracy is an internal subject of the developing society. There are fundamentals of democracy, and they should be understood universally in different countries.

The true test of civilization is not the census, nor the size of cities, nor the crops - no, but the kind of man the country turns out.

The true Christian is in all countries a pilgrim and a stranger.

America is a great country. I've been in the south, in the center and in the north. I like it. Americans are very good people. There's just too much air-conditioning.

The arts can enrich all of us in this nation as individuals. The arts can enrich all of our communities and the country. And the arts can connect us to each other like nothing else can.

Now it's just sharp elbows, and instead of having a caucus where you sit down and say, 'What are you doing for your country?' you sit figuring out how to screw the other side.

To be recognised by a whole country is incredible. This is massive.

The biggest threat to global stability is the potential for food crises in poor countries to cause government collapse.

All issues, therefore, must be resolved through dialogue and there can be no place for violence. Negativity and rejection cannot be the path for a vibrant country that is moving to seek its destiny.

The middle class is collapsing and we are moving toward an oligarchic form of society, where the billionaires will control the economy and the political life of the country.

I have two daughters that are the loves of my life and I want to leave them a better world, a better country, a better state and a better city.

We have two political parties in this country, the Stupid Party and the Evil Party. I belong to the Stupid Party.

If we wish to wash our hands of the Jews blasphemy and not share in their guilt, we have to part company with them. They must be driven from our country.

A hero would die for his country, but he'd much rather live for it.

I'm tired of liberals dividing this country up into little groups, setting them upon each other, breeding spite and envy, and then having the nerve to accuse conservatives of hatred.

The cowboy doesn't need an iron horse, but covers his country on one that eats grass and wears hair.

I think Tahoe is one of the hidden gems in the country, and I've played a lot of golf around the country. You can't beat the smells and the clean air and just the way it makes you feel.

Did the President order anyone to kill civilians, did he order the destruction, did he order supporting terrorism in his country? Of course not.

In any democratic country you have more than one view.

A country can truly call itself sporting when the majority of its people feel a personal need for sport.

The more I see of the country, the less I feel I know about it. There is a saying that after five years in the north every man is an expert; after ten years, a novice.

Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.

My perspective is if you're not willing to be called a few names to help out your country, you don't care enough.

Venture too far for love, she tells herself, and you renounce citizenship in the country you've made for yourself.

I'm the finance minister of a bankrupt country!

To kill a citizen of our own country is evil, but to kill a citizen of another country is 'good.'

Frontiersmen good and bad, gunmen as well as inspired prophets of the future, have been my camp companions. Thus, I know the country of which I am about to write as few men now living have known it.

I thought Europe was a country?

Let's get rid of all the economic (expletive) this country represents! Bring it on, I hope the Muslims win!

America, my friends, is the only country in the world actually founded on liberty - the only one. People went to America to be free.

It is my dearest wish to help young artists of our country....and to assist them in establishing themselves in the art world.

Now, we're Americans. Technically, who is from this country? Only the Indians, who we graciously let dwell on their native casinos.

Polls? Nah... they're for strippers and cross country skiers.

It seems hopeless, hopeless. Those who eat meat [at public expense] are a mean, selfish lot, and so the country is doomed. Our only hope lies in the grass-roots folk who eat our traditional food.

Generally in New York, people just walk over you with no problem about that. Other countries, people want to resuscitate you, like, after a bit.

New York City is a notoriously hard market to perform country music in.

We Germans are so good at penalties because we have had to rebuild our country twice.

A truly equal world would be one where women ran half our countries and companies and men ran half our homes.

Cross Country: No half times, no time outs, no substitutions. It must be the only true sport.

Topography is one of my chief themes in my poetry, about the country, the suburbs and the seaside. Then there comes love... and increasingly; the fear of death.

I couldn't say who I am, I haven't the remotest notion of myself; I am someone without antecedents, without a history, without a country, and on that I insist!

Thank you to Italy. That is a crazy country but beautiful.