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Country Quotes



"But if I were to sum up who Barack Obama is and how he plans to meet this moment with one word, that word would be 'responsibility.' Responsibility to each other, our families, our communities, our country, and our world."


"We were surprised that the television series had the kind of longevity that it had after only four years of filming it and the reception in 6 countries around the world was quite extraordinary."


"I mean, y'know, platinum is different in every country, which can be confusing."


"Sometimes I wonder if I got lulled into not wanting things because I grew up black in this country."



"I began working with the John Muir Institute and then started helping found Friends of the Earth organizations here and there in other countries. That pretty well brings us up to the present."


"The whole country is one vast insane asylum and they're letting the worst patients run the place."


"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."


"For one country is different from another; its earth is different, as are its stones, wines, bread, meat, and everything that grows and thrives in a specific region."


"I've done gospel singing. I have a gospel album and country album."


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


"One of the things I'm most proud of about my country is the fact that we did lick McCarthyism back in the fifties."



"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."


"There is a serious, immediate and extraordinarily grave threat to the continued existence of this country."


"Until and unless we could disband these militias, this country won't be able to function properly."


"Singing is not indulged in by Rotary clubs of some countries and all clubs are given full privilege to do as they please about including it in their programs."


"Fairfax was incredibly important to the shaping of the country."


"This country consumes more pornography than any other country in the world."


"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."


"We are very anxious to bring the Jews of Morocco over and we are doing all we can to achieve this. But we cannot count on the Jews of Morocco alone to build the country, because they have not been educated for this."


"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."



"Historically courts in this country have been insulated. We do not look beyond our borders for precedents."


"I feel it's a person's duty to participate in the governing of the country in which he lives."


"The popular tendency is to listen approvingly to the most extreme statements and claims of politicians and orators who seek popularity by declaring their own country right in everything and other countries wrong in everything."


"As president of Iraq, I shall strive to represent the diversity of a country that has too often in the past denied difference."


"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."



"This country is undergoing great changes for the better."


"Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there."



"The direct investment of Japanese businesses to East Asian economies accelerates the reallocation of their production bases. Consequently, between Japan and the other East Asian countries, both exports and imports are growing substantially."


"Whenever anything disagreeable is happening in the country, Vera Cruz is sure to get its full share."


"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."
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