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Country Quotes
"To wait for hours to buy a train ticket or to see a doctor is accepted as a normal way of doing things. Privacy is not a great preoccupation, and this is a very crowded country."
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"I believed in Bobby Kennedy. Campaigning for him was an attempt to give back something to this country that has given me so much."
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"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."
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"This country is undergoing great changes for the better."
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"Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch."
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"Influenza pandemics must be taken seriously, precisely because of their capacity to spread rapidly to every country in the world."
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"What the country needs are a few labor-making inventions."
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"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."
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"All countries should immediately now activate their pandemic preparedness plans. Countries should remain on high alert for unusual outbreaks of influenza-like illness and severe pneumonia."
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"International institutions ought to be, as the national ones in democratic countries, established by the peoples and for the peoples."
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"There was a lot of protest after Bravo, from countries like India, for example. India was the first country which came forward and proposed at the United Nations that all of these nuclear tests should be stopped, that there should be a complete ban on nuclear testing."
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"Watergate showed more strengths in our system than weaknesses... The whole country did take part in quite a genuine sense in passing judgment on Richard Nixon."
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"The opposition may have the right to doubt every thing, but for myself, I call on opposition to practice its role within limits of objectively, responsibility and country interests."
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"Our little house was way back in the country. We had one house close to us, and hell the next one would've been a mile. If you got sick, you could holler and wouldn't nobody hear you."
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"I mean, y'know, platinum is different in every country, which can be confusing."
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"This country would be a better place to live in if all the resources we currently put toward criminalizing marijuana were instead spent by law enforcement on protection from real crime, as opposed to victimless crime."
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"I don't want to feel I'm responsible for anorexia across the country."
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"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."
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"We do, and there is a law in the United States - the Torture Convention - that prohibits the United States from deporting an individual to a country where there is a reasonable expectation that he will be subjected to torture - physical, mental or otherwise."
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"I am very proud to be British. I'm very conscious of carrying my country with me wherever I go. I feel I need to represent it well."
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"The glory of the old Irish nation, which in our hour will grow young and strong again. Should we fail, the country will not be worth more than it is now. The sword of famine is less sparing than the bayonet of the soldier."
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"My husband was a pilot. He flew Elvis when Elvis first started making appearances around the country."
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"I was just a bumpkin. Just a country bumpkin. I had just come to New York from Virginia. Or was it Baltimore?"
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"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."
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"During the past two decades, inflation has fallen to a low level in major industrial countries."
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"The whole country is one vast insane asylum and they're letting the worst patients run the place."
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"There were a number of referendums in '98 that most of the things I voted for passed. That's very satisfying when you feel that most of the country is in step with your views."
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"Our criteria for deciding what's good and what's bad is very fickle, especially in this country."
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"It is bitter to think of one's best years disappearing in this unpolished country."
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"There's been a deliberate and systematic effort to convey to countries around the world, friends and foes, that if they cross the United States there's a price to pay."
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"There are loads of countries that have nice written constitutions like ours. But there aren't loads of countries where they're followed."
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"The attack and our response show just how vital Arizona's military bases are to the defense of our country. We need to do everything we can to protect them."
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