Country Quotes

READING, n. The general body of what one reads. In our country it consists, as a rule, of Indiana novels, short stories in "dialect" and humor in slang.

It made me feel good to know that we had such a great country like Canada where even a poor Indian from the Red Pheasant reserve could make it to the top.

America, we are better than these last eight years. We are a better country than this.

In many countries there are particular places to which devils more especially resort. In Prussia there is an infinite number of evil spirits.

What can I do to help? I am asking my senator to support political action to end hunger in the greatest country on this planet.

Globilization in its current form cannot deliver the benefits expected of it. Civil society, particularly in developing countries, must ensure that it does.

Loyalty must arise spontaneously from the hearts of people who love their country and respect their government.

As a Latin man, obviously immigration has been a part of my culture for decades. [I] grew up understanding what you go through in order to come to this country and searching for that American dream.

I've enjoyed, to a certain extent, any country I've been in, of course like Serbia and Croatia can be very restrictive and oppressive, and frustrating, but they're still very beautiful.

To God, thy country, and thy friend be true.

Canada is the only country in the world that knows how to live without an identity.

America is the only country ever founded on the printed word.

The Supreme Court raises the question, what kind of country will we be? The Supreme Court needs to stand on the side of the American people, not on the side of the powerful, wealthy.

I lived in Paris when I was 20 and 21, and actually knew people that worked for the government there, that talked about terrorism in the country 20 years ago.

A country that is governed by its national army can never be morally free and, therefore, its so-called weakest member can never rise to his full moral height.

Iran's strong logic and firm diplomacy is the guideline for all government officials in negotiations on country's peaceful nuclear program with foreigners, quite resolutely.

Our dear country, Iran, throughout history has been subject to threats.

Sweden is a small country, and a Swedish writer can barely make a living as an author. We were able to quit our jobs as journalists only after we had been translated into, among others, German.

I tend to prefer traveling in the Third World countries. Like Ethiopia. Or Eritrea.

When real independence comes to India, the Congress and the League will be nowhere unless they represent the real opinion of the country.

One of the strengths of this country has been our diversity. One of the strengths of this country has been the fact that we are a nation of immigrants.

It is a sweet and seemly thing to die for one's country.

It is sweet and honorable to die for your country.

The oldest continuously operated aquarium in the country features 630 species and more than 8,000 animals. The walruses are especially popular.

The notion of a neutral, mainstream national media gained dominance only in World War II and in its aftermath, when what turned out to be a temporary moderate consensus came to govern the country.

The country is provincial; it becomes ridiculous when it tries to ape Paris.

The long historian of my country's woes.

I know that man who forsakes Truth can forsake his country and his nearest and dearest ones.

I care more about telly because it made me an actor and there's a much more immediate response to TV. You can address the political or cultural fabric of your country.

China traditionally has been a tea-drinking country but we turned them into coffee drinkers.

If my acceptance of the office of Governor would serve my country, though my administration would be attended with the loss of personal credit and reputation, I would cheerfully undertake it.

Indeed, the test of orderliness in a country is not the number of millionaires it owns, but the absence of starvation among its masses.

This country (United States) has too many freedoms.

Ironically, Latin American countries, in their instability, give writers and intellectuals the hope that they are needed.

In a country like France, so ancient, their history is full of outstanding people, so they carry a heavy weight on their back. Who could write in French after Proust or Flaubert?

In transforming backward agricultural China into an advanced industrialized country, we are confronted with arduous tasks and our experience is far from adequate. So we must be good at learning.

...it is impossible for a genuine people's revolution in any country to win victory without various forms of help from the international revolutionary forces.

I've never seen anything like it since. Some of the Canada Cups came close, but by then a lot of European players came and played in our league so we were more familiar with them.

The United States is the only advanced country that permits the pharmaceutical industry to charge exactly what the market will bear, whatever it wants.

Latinos are a vital but underrepresented force in this country.

If what your country is doing seems to you practically and morally wrong, is dissent the highest form of patriotism?

Some write that I'm a genius, others say that I'm disrespectful towards their country... If you remember in 1993 I squatted to tie my shoe during the French national anthem.

I adore America. It's an extraordinary country. A new country.

The interesting thing about the African-American experience in this country is that we are sort of a mongrel of people. I mean we're all kind of mixed up.

Democracy is the common pursuit of mankind, and all countries must earnestly protect the democratic rights of the people.

No country on Earth would tolerate missiles raining down on its citizens from outside its borders.

I don't know of a single foreign product that enters this country untaxed, except the answer to prayer.

... the United States was not built by those who waited and rested and wished to look behind them. This country was conquered by those who moved forward, and so will space.

But in another world, another life, probably growing up in another country, I might have been more of a dancer.

Every politician in the world is all for revolution, reason, and disarmament-but only in enemy countries, not in his own.