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Country Quotes
"Mathematics knows no races or geographic boundaries; for mathematics, the cultural world is one country."
104
"I regard the endorsement of both the objective and a method - which can differ from one country to another- of democratization by the parties in the region as a basic requisite of democratization in the Middle East."
89
"It is a sexy country. We are very free with our bodies."
86
"It's very certain that North Korea is developing nuclear weapons for offensive purposes. They don't need nuclear weapons to defend their own country."
84
"Everybody has to chip in, I think, and see how we can have a functioning system of collective security where we do not continue to face the threat of countries trying to acquire weapons of mass destruction or particularly nuclear weapons."
74
"I never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively."
73
"Iraq is a country that has been invaded. It's not a failing state that you want to help. It's a country that was functioning good or bad, with a horrible dictator, but you have invaded."
72
"If you see oppression of the poor, and justice and righteousness trampled in a country, do not be astounded."
72
"Japan is the only country in the world which suffered from the scourge of nuclear weapons."
69
"But I am not allowed to speak to foreigners and I am not allowed to leave the country. So I'm not so happy."
69
"This country, and the West Coast, especially, is bad at preserving any cultural legacy."
66
"England is very interested as well, and other countries if I could speak the languages!"
65
"Countries and states which have capital punishment have a much higher rate of murder and crime than countries that do not, so that makes sense to me, and the moral question - I struggle with it morally."
55
"It is necessary to expose the false propaganda of the imperialists and thoroughly dispel the illusion that the imperialists will give up their positions in the colonies and dependent countries with good will."
44
"Your message is stupid. Iraq is not afraid of you or anyone else when it has a right to claim. What you warned about is not on Iraq's agenda. Iraq is vital and powerful. It is not an opportunistic country. Your administration has not learned from the past."
41
"I'll get to the force field of this hostility, why it's there, why the rage is in any of us, why the trash takes place, whether or not it's between me and a couple of hecklers in the audience or between this country and another nation, the rage."
41
"We cannot build a viable state with a country that is disintegrating into small pieces."
39
"Sometimes I get the feeling the whole world is against me, but deep down I know that's not true. Some of the smaller countries are neutral."
38
"To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world."
37
"If you live in a squalid environment, then of course you are going to want to get out of it, you are probably going to want to get into the country, because that's what it does."
37
"Those days if you drove cross country and you broke down on the side of the road, and the sign says 200 miles to the next gas station, you knew you were so screwed."
37
"It is, and long has been my opinion, and I have heard honourable members in this House declare it to be theirs - that it is the duty of Parliament equally to protect all the different interests in the country."
34
"The reason why you were allowed to get away with that in the '60s and '70s is because this country's racist administrative policies were such that rich white kids were getting exemptions. I said no exemptions."
34
"For, behind the scenes, halfway around the world in Mexico, were two decades of aggressive research on wheat that not only enabled Mexico to become self-sufficient with respect to wheat production but also paved the way to rapid increase in its production in other countries."
32
"The courts of this country should not be the places where resolution of disputes begins. They should be the places where the disputes end after alternative methods of resolving disputes have been considered and tried."
31
"It is bitter to think of one's best years disappearing in this unpolished country."
31
"I think it is the responsibility of a citizen of any country to say what he thinks."
31
"We have repeatedly issued warnings, over a number of years. Following these warnings and these calls, anti-American explosions took place in a number of Islamic countries."
31
"In all my travels I never met with any one Scotchman but what was a man of sense: I believe everybody of that country that has any, leaves it as fast as they can."
30
"There are loads of countries that have nice written constitutions like ours. But there aren't loads of countries where they're followed."
30
"In this country, it doesn't make any difference where you were born. It doesn't make any difference who your parents were. It doesn't make any difference if, like me, you couldn't even speak English until you were in your twenties."
30
"International institutions ought to be, as the national ones in democratic countries, established by the peoples and for the peoples."
29
"The internal conditions in Iran are worsening in all aspects. Poverty and unemployment are becoming more severe, despite the fact that Iran has turned into a developed and industrialized country."
28
"Tyrone, I think they're taking to festivals. I don't know which festivals it will be at. It's like a buddy picture. It's a couple of guys driving across the country and they get to a small town and they hit a guy. The guy turns out to be a drug smuggler."
28
"The dumbing down of the country reflects itself on Broadway. The shows get dumber, and the public gets used to them."
28
"Our criteria for deciding what's good and what's bad is very fickle, especially in this country."
28
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