Country Quotes

How long is this endless groveling before every cry of 'racism' going to continue before the whole country collectively throws up?

There is nothing wrong with us sitting down and arguing that issue, that we are a European country.

America cannot commit to go to war on behalf of 50 countries around the world because that is the formula that is one day going to break down and break out into war.

I think back to some of the things Harry said and some of the things I said trying to be funny. If I said them now, it would be on the front page of every newspaper in the country.

If a country forgets where it came from, how will its people know who they are?

Japan is an important ally of ours. Japan and the United States of the Western industrialized capacity, 60 percent of the GNP, two countries. That's a statement in and of itself.

The individual who refuses to defend his rights when called by his government deserves to be a slave, and must be punished as an enemy of his country and a friend to her foe

We feel that there is a necessity to strengthen unity and that it will be strengthened and the bloc, the monolithic bloc of socialist countries will be formed again.

Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and illiterate sport fishermen.

The Arts and Sciences, essential to the prosperity of the State and to the ornament of human life, have a primary claim to the encouragement of every lover of his country and mankind.

I have no other view than to promote the public good, and am unambitious of honors not founded in the approbation of my Country.

The General hopes and trusts that every officer and man will endeavor to live and act as becomes a Christian soldier defending the dearest rights and liberties of his country.

Gentlemen, you will permit me to put on my spectacles, for, I have grown not only gray, but almost blind in the service of my country. - March 15, 1783

I've never felt like this in any other country. I feel at home, I feel wonderful

We have got to go out there and deliver, go on the streets and find athletes, improve facilities around the country and find coaches. We have got to go out there and search for a star.

When the E.U. and the U.S. agree, other countries follow.

Everybody in America has to be part of a shared sacrifice to create opportunity for greatness again for our people and our country.

The socialist countries have the moral duty of liquidating their tacit complicity with the exploiting countries of the West.

The mean pattern of educational and economic achievement within multi-racial countries such as Canada and the United States has increasingly been found to prove valid internationally.

We must remain steadfast in our commitment to our troops, and to those fighting for a free and democratic Iraq because freedom makes our country and the world a safer place.

The national unity government is a necessity in this country and I am happy to serve it. We have negotiated for months to create a government, but Belgium also went for a year without one.

By growing up in Alabama, I had a melting pot of the whole pie: R&B, gospel, country.

Revolutions are not exportable: revolutions are created by oppressive conditions which Latin American countries exercise against their peoples.

We have in my country (Russia) a quotation: "It is impossible to make out of apology a fur coat.

We did not know there were other people besides the Indian until about one hundred winters ago, when some men with white faces came to our country.

The gun issue is a big, unresolved issue in this country right now. I think it's out of control

All countries, big or small, strong or weak, are equal members of the United Nations.

The only way we come back as a country is to build the domestic economy.

Radical Islamist extremists surely hope that an attack on Iraq will kill many people and destroy much of the country, providing recruits for terrorist actions.

The rest of the people know the condition of the country, for they live in it, but Congress has no idea what is going on in America, so the President has to tell 'em.

Israel should have exploited the repression of the demonstrations in China, when world attention focused on that country, to carry out mass expulsions among the Arabs of the territories.

This is a sleaze bag murdering dog and he [O.J. Simpson] has played us for fools. And the worst thing he did was exacerbate the racial divide in this country. He divided black and white America.

Mexico is a pretty poor country, but they are maintaining a free, high quality public education system, not for everyone of course but pretty substantial.

The two countries [Pakistan and India] have already come close to nuclear confrontation twice and this could get worse. So dealing with the relationship with India is extremely important.

I traveled a good deal all over the world, and I got along pretty good in all these foreign countries, for I have a theory that it's their country and they got a right to run it like they want to.

There are so many kids in this world, and in this country, that need homes. And so we're perfectly content to look into adoption one day, if for some reason we aren't able to have a biological child.

We believe Slobodan Milosevic must be buried in his country, in Belgrade, at the Alley of Great Men.

Outside of traffic, there is nothing that has held this country back as much as committees.

In the years of the Reagan-Bush administration alone, about 1.5 million people were killed by South Africa just in the surrounding countries. Forget what was happening in South Africa and Namibia.

I think this country and the world would be far better off if the US is not an outlaw state.

The rich are the scum of the earth in every country.

Did not strong connections draw me elsewhere, I believe Scotland would be the country I would choose to end my days in.

No other health disparity is so stark; virtually every woman who dies giving birth lives in a poor country.

Tina Fey could run this country before Sarah Palin could!

It is difficult to violently suppress people in the long run, as the example of the Soviet Union and the Eastern European countries has shown.

Franchement, quand je survole certains pays européens (les éoliennes) ne donne pas envie. (Frankly, when I fly over some European countries, their turbines don't fill me with envy.)

I don't think generally politician come from democratic country. I think not that thinking. But sometimes little bit short-sighted. They are mainly looking for their next vote.

I concern myself with Venezuela. However, some rightwing movements are transforming me into a pawn in the domestic politics of their countries, by making statements that are groundless.

Gravity is the best cloak for sin in all countries.

Many people today in the developed countries are so far removed from poverty and suffering and starvation that they lack empathy for the sufferings of others.