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Country Quotes
"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."
50
"It is a sexy country. We are very free with our bodies."
47
"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."
46
"I never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively."
42
"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."
42
"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."
42
"England is very interested as well, and other countries if I could speak the languages!"
42
"If you see oppression of the poor, and justice and righteousness trampled in a country, do not be astounded."
40
"Japan is the only country in the world which suffered from the scourge of nuclear weapons."
39
"But I am not allowed to speak to foreigners and I am not allowed to leave the country. So I'm not so happy."
35
"This country, and the West Coast, especially, is bad at preserving any cultural legacy."
31
"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."
29
"Mathematics knows no races or geographic boundaries; for mathematics, the cultural world is one country."
29
"We cannot build a viable state with a country that is disintegrating into small pieces."
27
"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."
24
"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."
22
"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."
21
"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."
21
"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."
21
"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."
20
"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."
17
"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."
16
"To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world."
15
"The undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveler returns."
15
"What they're doing is, they're making the decisions for us. That's what this country is coming down to. They're going to make the decisions for us."
13
"We do have a problem in this country. You can either make a movie and ignore that, or you can acknowledge it and say, this is the water that we're living in. You know this - the movie lives in this - it's centered around this particular problem, and I chose to acknowledge it."
13
"This country has far more problems than it deserves and far more solutions than it applies."
13
"New Zealanders who emigrate to Australia raise the IQ of both countries."
13
"New Zealand is a country of thirty thousand million sheep, three million of whom think they are human."
13
"For this reason, the expansion of relations with all countries is on the agenda of the Islamic Republic of Iran. I mean balanced relationships, based on mutual respect and observation of each other's rights."
13
"We don't need a melting pot in this country, folks. We need a salad bowl. In a salad bowl, you put in the different things. You want the vegetables - the lettuce, the cucumbers, the onions, the green peppers - to maintain their identity. You appreciate differences."
12
"I never get the girl. I wind up with a country instead."
12
"There's no way to be able to tell what it's like to be a country singer until you're walking in the shoes."
12
"The dumbing down of the country reflects itself on Broadway. The shows get dumber, and the public gets used to them."
12
"So I'm going to tell you, it's going to be a good year. There are good players all over this country, and it is our job as a scouting department to find them, draft them, sign them, develop them, and help us to continue to win championships. So it's going to be a good year."
12
"The same things go on everywhere, whether you're from the city, the country or wherever."
11
"I opened my own restaurant when I was 17. I went broke, then traveled around the country, learning about different kinds of foods, had three other restaurants that went broke. It didn't all start just a few years ago!"
11
"I live sort of in the country and I like that. It's very quiet, it's beautiful."
11
"We are potentially the most dangerous agency in the country."
11
"What do I owe to my times, to my country, to my neighbors, to my friends? Such are the questions which a virtuous man ought often to ask himself."
11
"The aging and decreasing population is a serious problem in many developed countries today. In Japan's case, these demographic changes are taking place at a more rapid pace than any other country has ever experienced."
11
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