Country Quotes

Brazil has a lot of issues that are similar to a lot of countries in Latin America, but the dominant issue Brazil is dealing with is poverty and political corruption.

When you're in the middle of a storm, leaving your country just because you have to leave without any reasonable reason, it means you're quitting your country and this is treason.

But I am not allowed to speak to foreigners and I am not allowed to leave the country. So I'm not so happy.

Since I achieved something, running has exploded in my country. For me sometimes it is difficult even to know who the athletes are who are competing at the highest level. There are thousands.

The real threat to U.S. military power is nuclear proliferation, because if every little country has nuclear weapons it becomes very tricky for the United States to engage in military action.

Of course there are individual racists in America. Sadly that's true. And sadly that will always be true. It's true in this country, it will be true because it's human nature.

I cherished the dream of a country embracing all its people.

Everyone should own a piece of the wealth-producing capital of this country, but not everyone can be a manager. Or should be.

Tehran believes it's none of our business or anybody else's to decide the future of personalities in other countries.

It is my contention that civil disobediences are nothing but the latest form of voluntary association, and that they are thus quite in tune with the oldest traditions of the country.

In all, we investigated, I think, close to 50 rumors about offers to kill Dr. King around the country. But we found no evidence to support rumors of FBI involvement in the assassination.

I do feel like once you know you are someone who is in the world and there are other countries and cultures, that stays with you and your decision-making forever.

I have to go and say farewell to all the countries that I have been to, if I can. I am 73 now, it is taxing on me.

I think it is the responsibility of a citizen of any country to say what he thinks.

The Companion of Honour I regarded as an award from the country for 50 years of work - which I thought was okay.

You can't not have feelings about country clubs, whichever side you're on.

We in ancient countries have our past- we obsess over the past. They, the Americans, have a dream: they feel nostalgia about the promise of the future.

No matter what part of the country you come from, you can always come together to make groundbreaking hip-hop.

The AK-47 is not a device of aggression ... I devised this machine-gun for the security of my country.

I think art education, especially in this country, which government pretty much ignores, is so important for young people.

Many people leave the country to see beautiful places. I just look out the window and see some of the most gorgeous scenery ever, right here in the USA.

Nixon is one of the few in the history of this country to run for high office talking out of both sides of his mouth at the same time and lying out of both sides.

There is a certain amount of momentum that is achieved when one country after another reopens their borders.

The footing was really atrocious. I loved it. I really like Cross Country; you're one with the mud.

The Democratic Party, all the candidates from Washington, they all know each other, they all move in the same circles, and what I'm doing is breaking into the country club.

They tell us we are all citizens, that we were born in this country. Well, a cat can have kittens in the oven, but that doesn't make them biscuits!

[Negro] should realize that he is living in a war zone, and he is at war with an enemy that is as vicious and criminal and inhuman as any war-making country has ever been.

The Chinese in this country aren't asking for integration.

I have Muslim members of my family. I have lived in Muslim countries.

AIDS is the biggest challenge, the major disaster facing this country and we would have wished for something more specific and far-reaching.

France, like other countries, is facing a terror threat that is unprecedented in its nature and magnitude, ... Terrorists are targeting France to divide us.

I think that the government of [Nicolas] Maduro has argued to stage a coup in Venezuela, that this is obviously a coup against the country's democratic institutions.

I do take the threat of terrorism seriously. You cannot eliminate that threat or diminish that threat by bombing a country.

I'd love to write a country album with Adele.

Wealthy women have rights in every country. And poor women don't.

The world doesn't just revolve around you. There's a lot of talk in this country about the federal deficit. But I think we should talk more about our empathy deficit.

People in every country should be free to choose and live their faith based upon the persuasion of the mind, and the heart, and the soul. This tolerance is essential for religion to thrive.

This is the land of dreamings, a land of wide horizons and secret places. The first people, our ancestors, created this country in the culture that binds us to it.

The travel and tourism industry is the lifeblood of many states around the country - including Florida, California, New York and Nevada, to name a few.

Liberty is the only idea which circulates with the human blood, in all ages, in all countries, and in all literature - liberty that is, and what cannot be separated from liberty, a love of country.

France has neither winter nor summer nor morals. Apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country.

Ambassadors are honest men sent abroad to lie for their countries.

An Ambassadore is a man of virtue sent to lie abroad for his country, a news writer is a man of no virtue who lies at home for himself.

But now that the guerrilla fighting is over, the Spaniards are again men without a country or families or homes or work, though everyone appreciates very much what they did.

Let's not fall into the trap of thinking that all of our Muslim American neighbors in this country are somehow our enemies here. They are our first line of defense.

In times of adversity - for the country we love - Maryland always chooses to move forward. Progress is a choice. Job creation is a choice. Whether we move forward or back: this too is a choice.

I think all countries need to aim to cut the CO2 emissions per person, taking account of externalities like imports and exports.

It is difficult to find another branch of knowledge where a small amount of study produces such great results in increased efficiency in a country where the people rule, as in parliamentary law.

We find it difficult to comprehend, and we deeply regret the decision as it is discriminatory in the sense that it targeted certain countries without a clear reason.

I think developed countries - so-called developed countries - should reflect upon the way of living and the waste of energy.