Country Quotes

If the security forces continue to be dominated as they are now by political groups or sects, then the people won't trust in them - and the result will be civil war or fragmentation of the country.

Throughout history, it took centuries for the habits of one culture to materially affect another. Now, that which becomes popular in one country can sweep through others within months.

Going to another country doesn’t make any difference. I’ve tried all that. You can’t get away from yourself by moving from one place to another. There’s nothing to that.

That’s what religion does. It points a finger. It causes wars. It breaks apart countries. It’s a petri dish for stereotypes to grow in. Religion’s not about being holy...Just holier-than-thous.

Socialist democracy is not, a luxury and its need is not limited to the most advanced industrial countries.

Until and unless we could disband these militias, this country won't be able to function properly.

In the rush for justice it is important not to lose sight of principles the country holds dear.

The reality is, the United States has global interests. Our defense budget is about the same as the defense budgets or military budgets of every other country in the world put together.

This country, and the West Coast, especially, is bad at preserving any cultural legacy.

Statistically, the United States rates number 39 in maternal mortality. This means that it is safer to be pregnant and to give birth in 38 other countries than the USA... and less expensive too.

Country things are the necessary root of our life - and that remains true even of a rootless and tragically urban civilization. To live permanently away from the country is a form of slow death.

Public television goes dark only in two circumstances: when a country is occupied by foreign forces or when there is a coup.

We send missionaries to China so the Chinese can get to heaven, but we won't let them into our country.

I do the protest stuff. I do country and western. I play both acoustic and electric guitar in a lot of different styles, from loud, psychedelic stuff to quiet finger-picking.

Happy the country that lives on nothing but its wits; cursed be the one that thinks it can get rich by planting or digging or drilling for wealth.

Every country I've had different hit records, so we have to change the set to fit the country.

There have existed, in every age and every country, two distinct orders of men - the lovers of freedom and the devoted advocates of power.

The President, the Administration and the campaign need a theme. I am concerned that the President is seen as a tactician without an overall strategy of his plan for the country.

Also the fact that anything he does is seen and heard by the entire country, not just his actual audience or those who live in the region he happens to be in.

Otherwise, I spend a lot of time at my boyfriend's home in the country, in New Jersey.

In our country we ask no toleration for religion and its free exercise, but we claim it as an inalienable right.

Today women in many countries are taking part in various types of movements of protest, some of which are serious struggles for economic and social emancipation .

Workers of France, it is for the freedom of the prisoners that you will go to work in Germany! It is for our country that you will go in large numbers!

ROTC programs at Ivy League campuses would liberalize the military. That can only be good for this country.

Our youth and manhood are due to our country, but our declining years are due to ourselves.

I do think I am a country boy at heart. I love the buzz of towns and going out with friends and sitting with them drinking and whatever - it's fun - but, at the same time, I like space and freedom.

Two things are desired in order that intercourse may be had: First, that a minister or agent be allowed to reside at the capital. Second, that commerce between different countries be freely allowed.

Greece is not the country which has occupied and illegally invaded and illegally occupied Cyprus.

The world is my country, the human race is my race. The spirit of man is my god, the future of man is my heaven.

If we can't stamp out literature in the country, we can at least stop its being brought in from outside.

The recent riots in France demonstrate the problem European countries face where second and third generation immigrants still do not consider themselves French, German, or English.

I have to say that it's very few countries that are willing to look back at its past and apologize for its act, or make amends for its act, as the United States had one.

If you go to most third world countries, the older woman dispenses advice to the arguing couple while other members of the family, or even the village, sit around and listen. It is no big deal.

The problem is that in our country, they make it almost impossible for politicians to win anything. In England it's easier to win a libel suit.

What we call barbecuing in this country is actually direct grilling. In many countries, it also means cooking in an enclosed box with a heat source, ideally wood, all year round.

All around the world there are 230 countries, and among those people I can speak 5 languages. Nevertheless, I can't find the exact word to define our relationship.

There's only two kinds of music I don't like....Country and Western.

The men--the undergraduates of Yale and Princeton are cleaner, healthier, better-looking, better dressed, wealthier and more attractive than any undergraduate body in the country.

Afghanistan is a land-locked country.

I thought that a man can be an enemy of other men, of the moments of other men, but not of a country: not of fireflies, words, gardens, streams of water, sunsets.

I have said, with respect to authorization bills, that I do not want the Congress or the country to commit fiscal suicide on the installment plan.

Just because I'm country music don't mean I don't have a little bit a' soul down in there somewhere.

Chavez's oil is unimportant for Bolivia... We are not dependent on Venezuela. We complement each other. Venezuela shares its wealth with other countries, but that doesn't make us subordinate.

Any time the country is split 50/50, the leader is wrong.

Country music fans are extremely supportive. Once they're with you, they're with you for life.

Shania Twain brought a whole other fan base to country music with her sound, the way the videos were produced.

If only 50 or more people were doing for the country what I have been doing, there would not be a pay freeze or a balance of payments problem.

I was doing judo before anybody knew it existed in this country.

I'm a member of a country club, country music is what I love.

Until you're grown-up they send you to reform school. After you're grown-up they send you to the penitentiary.