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Country Quotes
"We are potentially the most dangerous agency in the country."
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"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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"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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"An intelligent and conscientious opposition is a part of loyalty to country."
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"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."
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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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"This country consumes more pornography than any other country in the world."
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"I've done gospel singing. I have a gospel album and country album."
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"We are guilty for sending teams into foreign countries to advise them how to be like us."
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"I never get the girl. I wind up with a country instead."
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"New Zealand is a country of thirty thousand million sheep, three million of whom think they are human."
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"Until and unless we could disband these militias, this country won't be able to function properly."
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"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."
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"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."
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"Fairfax was incredibly important to the shaping of the country."
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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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"I opened my own restaurant when I was 17. I went broke, then traveled around the country, learning about different kinds of foods, had three other restaurants that went broke. It didn't all start just a few years ago!"
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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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"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."
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"You can't stop what comes into a country, you can be influenced, but you can't stop it, you shouldn't, because it makes all the others interesting, we all get muddled up together, and produce something that belongs to everyone."
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"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."
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"The Covenant of the League of Nations had envisaged sponsoring only the protection of certain categories of men: national minorities and populations of territories controlled by other countries."
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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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"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."
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"The undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveler returns."
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"A multi-polar world can not exist without recognising the status and participation of developing countries."
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"The big companies and their short-term bottom line rule this country."
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"A true world outlook is incompatible with a foreign imperialism, no matter how high-minded the governing country."
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"I think I'm going to be making country records for as long as I can see into the future. It's much more down-home and real."
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"So I went into jazz and performed in jazz clubs all over the country."
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"As president of Iraq, I shall strive to represent the diversity of a country that has too often in the past denied difference."
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"'Do you pray for the senators, Dr. Hale?' No, I look at the senators and I pray for the country."
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"This country is undergoing great changes for the better."
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