Country Quotes

If anyone has a new idea in this country, there are twice as many people who keep putting a man with a red flag in front of it.

Is there something wrong with being a Muslim in this country? The answer is "no." That's not America.

All that is best in the great poets of all countries is not what is national in them, but what is universal.

A great way to learn about your country is to leave it.

Education is very political, because when you educate the people, then you have a country that you can't fool anymore.

Spending time with math people is a lot of fun. As a result of the play, I've had semi-drunken dinners with mathematicians all over the country. I recommend the experience.

I am curious about color as one would be visiting a new country, because I have never concentrated so closely on color expression. Up to now I have waited at the gates of the temple.

There's a great enthusiasm for good country music all over the world.

Out of the Roman States there is no country where I am Pope except the United States.

The country is governed for the richest, for the corporations, the bankers, the land speculators, and for the exploiters of labor.

There is a big confusion in this country over what we want verses what we need...you need food. You want a chocolate sundae.

Country music fans are extremely passionate and loyal. It seems that country artists have longer-lasting careers because the fans stick with the artists through thick and thin.

Children and dogs are as necessary to the welfare of the country as Wall Street and the railroads.

Who dare to love their country, and be poor.

I feel like if you turn on country radio, you will find something you'll love because it's so diverse.And that's a great thing.

From a very early age I had imbibed the opinion that it was every man's duty to do all that lay in his power to leave his country as good as he had found it.

Chile is a country that sells cheap and buys expensive, because we have to pay for manufactured goods from countries at much higher levels of development.

Obama sees America as another country on the UN role call. Somewhere between Albania and Zimbabwe.

We live in a country where voting rights get gutted but Sharknado gets a sequel.

Republicans are as capable of coming up with great ideas and moving this country along as anyone - they just don't do it.

The family is the country of the heart.

England is a fairly envious little country and it's embodied in the press. They don't like anyone being more distinguished than they are.

The beads around my neck [at Olympics in 1968] indicated that there were so many Blacks throughout the history of this country that have been maimed and killed by way of hangings.

There was nothing but land; not a country at all, but the material out of which countries are made.

The imbalance between developed and underdeveloped countries - caused by the relationships of dependence - becomes more acute if the cultural point of view is taken into consideration.

I travel to Jakarta, I see what an important country it is. I've been working with them for a year.

Trance had become a dirty word. Thanks to Ian Van Dahl, Lasgo, Flip 'N' Fill and DJ Sammy, a generation of kids has grown up thinking trance is the shittiest music since country and western.

The chaplain of the Senate does not pray for the Senate. He watches the Senate and prays for the country.

I look under the skin of countries' economies, and I help them make better decisions and be stronger, to prosper and create employment.

I will lobby tirelessly in cooperation with other mayors around the country to insure that federal funding for our recently added police officers continues.

It's easy to be a victim. Look how easy the Democrat Party has made almost half this country think they're victims of something.

There is a vast deal of make-believe in the carefully nurtured sentiment for country life, and the barefoot boy, and the mountain girl.

If living in France bothers some people, they should feel free to leave the country.

I don't need a Rolls-Royce, I don't need a house in the country, I don't need to live in the south of France. I'm quite happy as I am.

Whether love of friend, love of country, love of God, or even love of enemy—love reveals to us the truly miraculous nature of the human spirit.

Reagan is doing to the country what he can no longer do to his wife.

We want freedom for our country, but not at the expense or exploitation of others, not so as to degrade other countries.

The only thing we all agree on, virtually every poet in this country, is that this Administration is really frightening, and we want something done about it.

It's America's classical music ... this becomes our tradition ... the bottom line of any country in the world is what did we contribute to the world? ... we contributed Louis Armstrong

At a moment that comes rarely in the life of a country. It is a time when destiny is ours to hold.

We need to understand that we as citizens and as a government in any community throughout this country have no more important obligation than to educate those who are going to replace us.

We are a model country where gender equality is concerned.

I will go on my knees and ask the Liberian people to participate in bringing peace and stability to our country.

To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.

One person making a wrong decision affects the whole country.

A multitude of laws in a country is like a great number of physicians, a sign of weakness and malady.

Nowhere is it written that NATO had to accept certain countries. All that would have been required to refrain from doing so was the political will. But people didn't want to.

It is possible that, post-Kyoto, the developed countries will recognise the requirements of the developing world.

I am grateful that my one talent, flying, was useful to my country.

There are no two countries with the same style of economic mechanism, with the same capitalism.