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Country Quotes


"I live sort of in the country and I like that. It's very quiet, it's beautiful."


"I didn't say I wasn't gonna do rockabilly. I just said I ain't gonna sing no song that ain't a country song. I won't be known as anything but a country singer."


"I had been raised on country and western in Missouri. But gospel was great."


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


"It is, and long has been my opinion, and I have heard honourable members in this House declare it to be theirs - that it is the duty of Parliament equally to protect all the different interests in the country."


"Most of the doctors in the Tunisian administration, especially those in country districts, contracted typhus and approximately one third of them died of it."


"A playwright lives in an occupied country. And if you can't live that way you don't stay."


"We are guilty for sending teams into foreign countries to advise them how to be like us."


"We have 2 million users in the U.S. and about 13 million worldwide in more than 200 countries."


"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."


"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."


"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."


"An intelligent and conscientious opposition is a part of loyalty to country."


"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."


"Now the master paid a number of visits to England and, as a Cambridge man, it is a source of pride that he taught there for a longer period than elsewhere in my country."


"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."


"I believe Ronald Reagan can make this country what it once was... a large Arctic region covered with ice."


"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."


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


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


"New Jersey is the first state in the country to agree to treat gay and unmarried couples the same as married couples."


"If the invaders reach Iran, the country will turn into a burning hell for them."


"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."


"I mean, we are facing so many very, very important issues and those are the issues that you heard talked about last night from the Republican convention, and that you'll hear my husband talk about. And those are the really important issues facing our country right now."


"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."


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


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


"Many Sunnis, who are still stuck in the Saddam era mindset and believe Iraq belongs to them, are trying to prevent a new country from developing at all."


"What's bad for the country is always good for The Nation."


"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."


"The current prohibition laws are forcing drug disputes to be played out with guns in our streets. We need to put a stop to this criminal drug element in our country."


"I feel like there is just as much violent programming in other countries and there is not the same incidence of factors. I think there are other factors contributing to violence in this country and not the media."


"The way we've been neglecting to support our libraries throughout the country is a shame."


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


"Australia was great. I would advise anybody to go there. In fact, if you couldn't live here, Australia would be the place to live. It's the most Americanized country that I've ever seen in the world."


"Commuting from New York to Hollywood to do this show gets more interesting every week. Before I used to think the country was just New York on one end and Los Angeles on the other, with sand and mountains in the middle."


"I believe that Ronald Reagan will someday make this country what it once was... an arctic wilderness."


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