Country Quotes

I happen to believe that we should move to a Medicare-for-all single-payer system, similar to what other countries around the world have.

It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them.

Kennedy was haunted by the Bay of Pigs invasion but carried the country through the Cuban Missile Crisis. He later increased the number of U.S. military advisers to South Vietnam to more than 16,000.

Through the ample open door of the peaceful country barn, A sun-lit pasture field, with cattle and horses feeding; And haze, and vista, and the far horizon, fading away.

Taiwan is an independent, sovereign country.

People have a tendency to see country life through rose-colored glasses.

Our country's national crime is lynching. It is not the creature of an hour, the sudden outburst of uncontrolled fury, or the unspeakable brutality of an insane mob.

You know, I've been around the ruling class all my life, and I've been quite aware of their total contempt for the people of the country.

The country life is to be preferred, for there we see the works of God; but in cities little else but the works of men. And the one makes a better subject for contemplation than the other.

A country without a border is like a person in a house without a front door. Anybody can enter and you cannot ask anybody to leave.

Fortifications, artillery, foreign aid - will be of no value, unless the ordinary soldier knows that it is HE guarding his country

For poetry there exists neither large countries nor small. Its domain is in the heart of all men.

But Italy is not an intellectual country. On the subway in Tokyo everybody reads. In Italy, they don't. Don't evaluate Italy from the fact that it produced Raphael and Michelangelo.

You, me...we own this country. Politicians are employees of ours....And when somebody does not do the job, we got to let them go.

I also believe that Hurricane Katrina did reveal a weakness in our energy supply systems, highlighting the reliance this country has on the gulf coast for our energy resources.

Finland, and all the other European countries, we are too dependent on imported energy. We should be using a broader variety of energy resources.

I think it would be really fun to film a drama in a foreign country. If the opportunity presents itself, I want to film a Chinese production.

For instance, why are we terrorizing this country, leading with murder and mayhem, when crime is actually on the decline, as somebody, as somebody mentioned?

Developing countries like Malaysia should have a say in changing the world financial system since we have faced the problems that it has caused.

If we really love and cherish Taiwan, we should hold our hands in unity to protect our country and our democratic values with the most humble and tolerant hearts.

Every post is honourable in which a man can serve his country.

If you can find a nice pretty country girl that can cook and carries her bible, now there's a woman.

I'm telling you, you can't compare Saudi Arabia to other countries.

Personal desire, age, and my health do not allow me to personally have a role in running the country [i.e. Iran] after the fall of the current system [of the Shah].

You can rise above it. This country gives you opportunity if you want to take it, so don't blame your environment. I look down on people who use their environment as a crutch.

The man who can look upon a crisis without being willing to offer himself upon the altar of his country is not for public trust.

I never get the girl. I wind up with a country instead. They said all I was good for was playing Indians.

There is no country in the world where it's as easy to find venture capital in the stock market as the United States.

And we have abundant natural energy resources in the country. We haven't been taking adequate advantage of them, and we can burn coal in a clean way; we could improve the grid.

I never wanted an independent Bosnia. I wanted Yugoslavia. That is my country.

Observe that anyone who dies for his country is a fortunate man, but death takes what it wants, indiscriminately, in peace-time as well as in war. It is better to die with freedom than without it.

I have tried my best to keep my country alive by writing about it.

Ronald Reagan gave our party a bowling alley image as opposed to a country club image. We were talking to people who go bowling on Thursday night, and they were understanding what we were saying.

America is the only country capable of producing national movies: its culture has become a global culture.

The country is full of good coaches. What it takes to win is a bunch of interested players.

Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.

Paper money is liable to be abused, has been, is, and forever will be abused, in every country in which it is permitted.

American people have the ability to laugh at themselves. It is one of the things that makes this country the great country that it is.

That man's the best cosmopolite Who loves his native country best.

The attainment of the present status of Thailand has to depend on the ability or the actions of all the inhabitants of the country.

It's quite difficult for me not to be able to return to my country, but in my country justice has been murdered.

The Socialist Party will no longer be running a candidate for president. The Democratic Party is leading this country to Socialism much faster than we could ever hope to.

This country is never going to move forward unless we end Republican rule in the House and Senate.

Freedom is partial to no race. Freedom has no religion. Freedom favors no ethnicity. Freedom discriminates not between rich and poor countries. Inevitably freedom will overwhelm Ethiopia.

I want Thailand to be a peaceful country.

You know, there are many people in the country today who, through no fault of their own, are sane. Some of them were born sane. Some of them became sane later in their lives.

The road goes on forever and the party never ends.

Any man who is a bear on the future of this country will go broke.

This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.

Some people say that we here have no freedom of religion, ... In reality, the people in that country are the ones who were forced to embrace a religion.