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Country Quotes


"They need to be re-supplied with energy, and that energy comes from asking not what your country can do for you, but from what you can do for your country."


"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."


"This country has far more problems than it deserves and far more solutions than it applies."


"When I started I'd fly across the country to do a gig for a hundred bucks."


"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."



"It's clear that the medium and long-run fiscal challenges facing the country have to do with the rise of entitlement spending, they have to do with the longer run imbalances that we've created in the structure of the system."


"What the country needs are a few labor-making inventions."


"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."


"Well all the big companies are really panicked by the internet thing and all that, and sales went down, although sales have gone up again in this country a bit and also the big companies, because they're so big, they need big sales really so they're not really interested."



"During the past two decades, inflation has fallen to a low level in major industrial countries."


"Our criteria for deciding what's good and what's bad is very fickle, especially in this country."


"I think it is wrong that we went against The U.N. and that we have alienated our allies and invaded a country that hasn't threatened us, that it is a pre-emptive strike."


"It's a free country and I can keep my mouth shut whenever I want."


"I know General Grant better than any other person in the country can know him. It was my duty to study him, and I did so day and night, when I saw him and when I did not see him, and now I tell you what I know, he cannot govern this country."


"'Do you pray for the senators, Dr. Hale?' No, I look at the senators and I pray for the country."


"I was brought up in Scotland and have always been a country person, although the town means a great deal to me, too."


"I do think the patriotic thing to do is to critique my country. How else do you make a country better but by pointing out its flaws?"


"We need to in this country begin again to raise civil discourse to another level. I mean, we shout and scream and yell and get very little accomplished, but you can disagree very much with the next guy and still be friends and acquaintances."


"A lot of bands were doing remotes from ballrooms around the country."


"If presidents can't do it to their wives, they do it to their country."


"We are potentially the most dangerous agency in the country."


"I like almost everything, even country twang, disco, blue grass and accordions."


"We are at last on the high lands of Mexico, the districts which at least three different races have chosen to settle in, neglecting the fertile country below."


"We are not at the same place we were in 1973. This country today is drifting, moving steadily towards the pro-life position because the data is with us."


"New Zealanders who emigrate to Australia raise the IQ of both countries."



"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."


"I have to go and say farewell to all the countries that I have been to, if I can. I am 73 now, it is taxing on me."


"My husband was a pilot. He flew Elvis when Elvis first started making appearances around the country."


"When I go to a country, I go to flea markets, antique stores. I am always looking for something."
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