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Country Quotes
"Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there."
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"I do think the patriotic thing to do is to critique my country. How else do you make a country better but by pointing out its flaws?"
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"So, we're saying, if we can give developers and builders incentives to cut down on the regulatory barriers that are faced in this country, then we might be able to address the needs of affordable housing."
6
"We need to in this country begin again to raise civil discourse to another level. I mean, we shout and scream and yell and get very little accomplished, but you can disagree very much with the next guy and still be friends and acquaintances."
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"I believe that Ronald Reagan will someday make this country what it once was... an arctic wilderness."
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"A lot of bands were doing remotes from ballrooms around the country."
6
"If presidents can't do it to their wives, they do it to their country."
6
"A true world outlook is incompatible with a foreign imperialism, no matter how high-minded the governing country."
6
"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."
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"I had been raised on country and western in Missouri. But gospel was great."
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"I've done gospel singing. I have a gospel album and country album."
6
"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."
6
"Most of the doctors in the Tunisian administration, especially those in country districts, contracted typhus and approximately one third of them died of it."
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"This country cannot afford the deceptive luxury of waging defensive warfare."
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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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"And for far too long, the Democrats have had a monopoly on black votes in this country."
6
"In my district back in Texas, significant because we have a big solar panel production plant in Keller, Texas, we have a wind turbine plant in Gainesville, Texas, up in Cook Country."
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"An intelligent and conscientious opposition is a part of loyalty to country."
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"Thus, only in a hopeful and confident temper, in a proud and constructive spirit, will we rescue the present and safeguard the future of our beloved country."
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"But this country is a great country and will always rebound."
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"I believe Ronald Reagan can make this country what it once was... a large Arctic region covered with ice."
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"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."
6
"If I remember rightly Holland for instance has something like 45, and it's a much smaller country. In comparison we have very few and they are very badly financed."
6
"I feel it's a person's duty to participate in the governing of the country in which he lives."
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"One of the things I'm most proud of about my country is the fact that we did lick McCarthyism back in the fifties."
6
"Who is more in touch with the problems of this country? One of those guys who goes off to Oxford or to University of Yale, or someone who has lived in buses, in the Metro, in the street?"
6
"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."
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"Whether it s the country or city, I never liked the bad guy."
6
"No politician has ever yet been able to rule his country, nor has any country ever yet been able to face the world, upon the principles of the Sermon on the Mount."
6
"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."
6
"In general, I do not agree with spying against one's country."
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"But so far as countries are concerned, I don't go to a place to see what's there, but who is there."
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