Country Quotes
How can we scramble away like rats, without honor, without dignity, when everyone must help rebuild the country?
I am sympathetic to the fact that Turkey is doing everything it can to prevent the civil war in Syria from spilling over into its own country.
I grew up in a socialist country. And I have seen what that does to people. There is no hope, no freedom. No pride in achievement.
It appears that President Obama is making great progress on climate change, he is changing the political climate in the country back to Republican.
Looking at the high cost of occupation in Iraq and the needs we have in this country, would it not have been better to have smaller tax cuts in order to keep down the deficits.
The National Catholic Register's coverage of the Church universal, and the Church in our own country, is splendid.
America is a wonderful country! I mean it! No honest writer would challenge that statement! The human comedy never runs out of material! it never lets you down!
I really think in the Commonwealth of Europe you should have Russia. I listed a hundred countries that would be in it and it would then be a really European United Nations.
Everyone town of 100,000 in the United States should have a Classical Theater supported by the town, or the state of the county, or the Federal Government, as they have in every civilized country
Shoot, boy, the country's just fulla folks what knows everything, and don't understand nothing, just fullofem.
The reason literacy is important is that literature is the operating instructions. The best manual we have. The most useful guide to the country we're visiting, life.
If you decide to move to another country and to live within its laws you don't express your disregard for the essence of the culture. It's a form of aggression.
If a single writer in a country is in chains, then there are some links of that chain that binds us all.
Common foreign policy is completely unnecessary. The various European countries have widely differing priorities, goals and prejudices. It would be wrong to force them all to follow the same course.
It is impossible to divide the interest of a country and a company that works on its soil.
I would love to adopt a child from a Spanish speaking country, because I want to have Spanish in the home.
Way across the country where the hillside mountains glide, the dynamo of your smile caressed the barefoot virgin child.
No one in this country has any root anywhere; we don't live in America, we board here, we are like spiders that run over the surface of the water.
The stage is actor's country. You have to get your passport stamped every so often or they take away your citizenship.
If you are not able to provide security for your own country, how can you guarantee liberties?
It's my view that any conservative who loves his country has to be extremely concerned.
In a way players at the top should try to promote the game in their own countries as that is the legacy that makes you feel proud. If you have not done that you have failed as a sportsperson.
If you aspire to be a leader of your own country, you must speak your own language, for God's sake.
Problems between countries always exist, especially between such big countries as Russia and the United States. There have always been some issues, but I don't think we should go to extremes.
When the Soviet Union was dissolved, most of us didn't even have the feeling that the country was falling apart. We thought we would continue with our lives as in the past, but as good neighbors.
Poland, of course, was the key country. I remember Stalin telling me that the plains of Poland were the invasion route of Europe to Russia and always had been, and therefore he had to control Poland.
Money is the necessity that frees us from necessity. Of all novelists in any country, Trollope best understands the role of money. Compared with him even Balzac is a romantic.
All right. I'm corny. But I think there's just about a-hundred-and-forty-million people in this country that are just as corny as I am.
I never tried to make a cartoon for a certain age bracket. I just tried to make entertaining pictures. That's why they still play and why they play so well in foreign countries.
The real fortunes in this country have been made by people who have been right about the business they invested in, and not right about the timing of the stock market.
Film is not analysis, it is the agitation of mind; cinema comes from the country fair and the circus, not from art and academicism.
I believe that this country's policies should be heavily biased in favor of nondiscrimination.
No one who has lived through the second half of the 20th century could possibly be blind to the enormous impact of exchange programs on the future of countries.
Simply put, unsustainable debt is helping to keep too many poor countries and poor people in poverty.
But unlike European countries, America has never finished a map of the United States, only the eastern United States is covered and a few spots here and there.
The majority has no right to impose its religion on the rest. That's a tradition as sacred as the Constitution itself to this country.
In fact, it is amazing how much European films - Italian, French, German and English - have recovered a certain territory of the audience in their countries over the last few years.
An ambassador should study the welfare of his country, and not spend his time in feasting and riot.
Working with women survivors of war has taught me that we need to listen to women's perspectives on war in order to understand how to effectively rebuild a country, a community and a family.
Sovereignty is a word that is used often but it has really no specific meaning. Sovereignty today is nominal. Any number of countries that are sovereign are sovereign only nominally and relatively.