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Country Quotes


"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."


"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."


"A true world outlook is incompatible with a foreign imperialism, no matter how high-minded the governing country."


"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."


"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."


"This country cannot afford the deceptive luxury of waging defensive warfare."


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


"I have started that which the country will not willingly let die."


"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."


"My fake Japanese was smooth enough to earn me the title of 'The Emperor of Pleasing Graciousness' in that country."


"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."


"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."


"In the city a funeral is just an interruption of traffic; in the country it is a form of popular entertainment."


"But this country is a great country and will always rebound."


"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."


"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."


"'Easy Rider' was never a motorcycle movie to me. A lot of it was about politically what was going on in the country."


"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."


"High value information came from interrogations in which those methods were used and provided a deeper understanding of the al Qa'ida organization that was attacking this country."


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


"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?"


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


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


"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."


"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."


"Europe is a collection of free countries."
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