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Country Quotes


"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."


"A mistress should be like a little country retreat near the town, not to dwell in constantly, but only for a night and away."


"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."


"The big companies and their short-term bottom line rule this country."


"We are a country of excess. So it's not the violence, per se, but the exacerbation and constant repetition."


"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."


"Each had defended his own country; the Germans Germany, the Frenchmen France; they had done their duty."


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


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



"If you can sell green toothpaste in this country, you can sell opera."


"So I went into jazz and performed in jazz clubs all over the country."


"We are not at the same place we were in 1973. This country today is drifting, moving steadily towards the pro-life position because the data is with us."


"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."


"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."


"My first occupation was to map the country."


"Worse there cannot be; a better, I believe, there may be, by giving energy to the capital and skill of the country to produce exports, by increasing which, alone, can we flatter ourselves with the prospect of finding employment for that part of our population now unemployed."


"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."


"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."


"There are nearly 200 countries and a population of over 6 billion in today's world. International affairs should be addressed by all countries through consultations rather than monopolised by a few powers."


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


"No one country has a team that hold a monopoly on the league like Maccabi does in Israel."


"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."


"Cross country skiing is great if you live in a small country."


"A day away from Tallulah is like a month in the country."


"It's a free country and I can keep my mouth shut whenever I want."


"I know General Grant better than any other person in the country can know him. It was my duty to study him, and I did so day and night, when I saw him and when I did not see him, and now I tell you what I know, he cannot govern this country."


"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."


"I do that in whatever language of the country I'm in, because the audience appreciate it."


"You all know the reasons which have impelled me to renounce the throne. But I want you to understand that in making up my mind I did not forget the country or the empire, which, as Prince of Wales and lately as King, I have for twenty-five years tried to serve."


"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."


"In the wintertime, in the snow country, citrus fruit was so rare, and if you got one, it was better than ambrosia."


"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."
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