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Country Quotes
"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."
53
"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."
52
"I think the Caribbean countries face rising oceans and they face increase in the severity of hurricanes. This is something that is very, very scary to all of us. The island states in the world represent - I remember this number - one-half of 1 percent of the carbon emissions in the world. And they will - some of them will disappear."
52
"Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch."
51
"But so far as countries are concerned, I don't go to a place to see what's there, but who is there."
50
"What the country needs are a few labor-making inventions."
49
"Each had defended his own country; the Germans Germany, the Frenchmen France; they had done their duty."
48
"But this country is a great country and will always rebound."
47
"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."
47
"Our criteria for deciding what's good and what's bad is very fickle, especially in this country."
47
"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."
47
"In the wintertime, in the snow country, citrus fruit was so rare, and if you got one, it was better than ambrosia."
47
"I live sort of in the country and I like that. It's very quiet, it's beautiful."
46
"This country has far more problems than it deserves and far more solutions than it applies."
46
"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."
46
"My husband was a pilot. He flew Elvis when Elvis first started making appearances around the country."
46
"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."
46
"You know the puritan ethic that started out four centuries ago in this country, needless to say - at least for the moment - a thing of the past - from what I can tell."
46
"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."
46
"To be able to detect the outbreak of avian flu anywhere in the world is going to require a partnership of several countries that will share information and samples, but it is important to remember a threat anywhere is a threat everywhere."
46
"A mistress should be like a little country retreat near the town, not to dwell in constantly, but only for a night and away."
45
"If presidents can't do it to their wives, they do it to their country."
45
"A true world outlook is incompatible with a foreign imperialism, no matter how high-minded the governing country."
45
"We are guilty for sending teams into foreign countries to advise them how to be like us."
45
"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."
45
"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."
45
"The weaker the country, the stronger the smile."
45
"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."
45
"No one tells every white person in this country how to be. No one tells every Hispanic, or Asian or Jewish person in this country how to be. There is no single definition of whiteness or single definition of blackness."
45
"Priest organizations around the country, both local and national, should realize that their membership has a serious image problem and undertake programs to improve it."
44
"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."
44
"A playwright lives in an occupied country. And if you can't live that way you don't stay."
44
"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."
44
"During the past two decades, inflation has fallen to a low level in major industrial countries."
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