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Nation Quotes
"I look askance at any movement which assists in making the peacemaker among nations merely a national warrior."
38
"I come from a district where the veterans are not the richest in the country."
38
"There are plenty of good five cent cigars in the country. The trouble is they cost a quarter."
38
"The UN Commission on Human Rights, whose membership in recent years has included countries - such as Libya and Sudan - which have deplorable human rights records, and the recent Oil-for-Food scandal, are just a few examples of why reform is so imperative."
38
"I look forward to the day that a lot of the folks that you all talk about and cover on this network will begin to market products for these families and for these kids coming out of junior high school and high school all across the country."
38
"But obviously, we can't afford to make some bad long-term decisions with regard to basic commitments our country has - trade those away for some short-term assistance that may or may not be there a month from now."
38
"Right now I own shares of companies in 28 countries."
38
"New Zealand is the only country I know well enough to write about. It can sometimes lead to complications."
38
"In this ever-changing world, it's more important than ever that our top-notch military continues to receive the resources needed to serve and protect our country."
38
"I'd come back after having served as ambassador to New Zealand and found that I had real concerns about the direction in which this country was headed."
38
"Do we want in this nation to lose the backbone of manufacturing in this country? Do we want to be a nation that doesn't want to manufacture anything?"
38
"You may keep Turkey on the map of Europe, you may call the country by the name of Turkey if you like, but do not think you can keep up the Mahommedan rule in the country."
38
"Preserving and protecting the state tobacco settlement funds is the nation's Governors highest priority."
38
"It is impossible that the whisper of a faction should prevail against the voice of a nation."
37
"We are now physically, politically, and economically one world and nations so interdependent that the absolute national sovereignty of nations is no longer possible."
37
"I expect an energy bill to increase and diversify supply and stabilize energy prices - not drive up energy costs in one part of the country to subsidize energy in another region."
37
"A country's adhering to the rule of law does not mean that its citizens will not do bad things."
37
"A chief called Lawyer, because he was a great talker, took the lead in the council, and sold nearly all the Nez Perce country."
37
"I strongly believe that we as a nation can be both secure and free."
37
"Creating a nation requires the will of the people!"
37
"The security of our country is not just a top priority, it's the top priority."
37
"As the treaty made with the United States was the first treaty entered into by your country with other countries, therefore the President regards Japan with peculiar friendliness."
37
"In my judgment, if we had pursued this course, the zones would have been of short duration. England would have been compelled to take her mines out of the North Sea in order to get any supplies from our country."
37
"But it's just that the whole country is making generally lousy films these days and has been for quite a while. That's the big problem that we all have to think about."
37
"By no means do I anticipate screening those who come on to campus... And I have no difficulty if a bishop across the country or some local pastor may say that's not Catholic teaching - that's fine."
37
"No other date on the calendar more potently symbolizes all that our nation stands for than the Fourth of July."
37
"President Roosevelt, the author of Social Security, was the first to suggest that, in order to provide for the country's retirement needs, Social Security would need to be supplemented by personal savings accounts."
37
"Everybody knows that the industrialized nations are the worst offenders."
37
"Acts of anti-Semitism in countries throughout the world, including some of the world's strongest democracies, have increased significantly in frequency and scope over the last several years."
37
"Swaziland is a small part of south-east Africa, the last country in the continent to gain its independence."
37
"The votes of 60,000 Floridians were not counted. The Court threw out all 60,00 votes. And that's what the newspapers around the country are counting now."
37
"I am always the 'good guy,' and I take on the idiotic jerks of the nation."
37
"Arizona now has one of the most innovative systems of financing school construction in the nation."
37
"The country has undergone a profound social upheaval, the greatest the proletariat has ever known."
37
"Niger is not an isolated island of desperation. It lies within a sea of problems across Africa - particularly the 'forgotten emergencies' in poor countries or regions with little strategic or material appeal."
37
"With 3 percent of the world's resources and 25 percent of the world's demand, it is pretty obvious this country cannot drill its way to energy security."
37
"When the ambassadors of other foreign countries come to Japan to make treaties, they can be told that such and such a treaty has been made with the ambassador of the United States, and they will rest satisfied with this."
36
"It may be that apartheid brings such stupendous economic advantages to countries that they would sooner have apartheid than permit its destruction."
36
"Thus the whole country was broken into many shreds and patches of sovereignty."
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