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Country Quotes
"Mathematics knows no races or geographic boundaries; for mathematics, the cultural world is one country."
74
"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."
67
"It is a sexy country. We are very free with our bodies."
64
"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."
63
"But I am not allowed to speak to foreigners and I am not allowed to leave the country. So I'm not so happy."
60
"I never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively."
56
"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."
56
"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."
55
"If you see oppression of the poor, and justice and righteousness trampled in a country, do not be astounded."
55
"England is very interested as well, and other countries if I could speak the languages!"
53
"Japan is the only country in the world which suffered from the scourge of nuclear weapons."
50
"This country, and the West Coast, especially, is bad at preserving any cultural legacy."
47
"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."
33
"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."
33
"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."
33
"We cannot build a viable state with a country that is disintegrating into small pieces."
32
"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."
31
"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."
29
"To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world."
28
"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."
26
"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."
26
"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."
24
"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."
24
"New Zealanders who emigrate to Australia raise the IQ of both countries."
22
"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."
22
"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."
21
"I never get the girl. I wind up with a country instead."
21
"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."
21
"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."
21
"It is bitter to think of one's best years disappearing in this unpolished country."
21
"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."
20
"The dumbing down of the country reflects itself on Broadway. The shows get dumber, and the public gets used to them."
20
"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."
19
"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."
19
"The undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveler returns."
19
"I live sort of in the country and I like that. It's very quiet, it's beautiful."
19
"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."
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