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Nation Quotes
"Our country, right or wrong. When right, to be kept right; when wrong, to be put right."
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"It is not viable for one country to demand a right to increase and upgrade its nuclear weapons capabilities while asking others to eliminate theirs."
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"I think the crux of the matter was that if we were going to become partners in, for example, the International Space Station, we had to gain the respect of a country like the United States and particularly its space organization, NASA."
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"Bin Laden, who was in his country, attacked and damaged our Pentagon, and killed our soldiers right out here at the Pentagon. But his pentagon no longer exists. It is rubble."
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"I cannot imagine any other country in the world where the opposition would seek, and the chief executive would allow, the dissemination of his most private and personal conversations with his staff, which, to be honest, do not exactly confer sainthood on anyone concerned."
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"Small businesses are the economic drivers of our country, providing the stimulus our communities need."
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"I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her."
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"You get weird and unsettling behaviour in the country."
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"The reality, sitting ten thousand miles away, is that we remain the country that inspires. We remain that shining city on a hill."
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"Moral cowardice that keeps us from speaking our minds is as dangerous to this country as irresponsible talk."
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"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."
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"I want to say this about my state. When Strom Thurmond ran for president, we voted for him. We're proud of it. And if the rest of the country had followed our lead, we wouldn't have had all these problems over all these years either."
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"Everybody knows that the industrialized nations are the worst offenders."
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"I object to you using words like squander and pork. What is pork in one part of the country is an essential project in another part."
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"Since the invention of steamships distant countries have become like those that are near at hand."
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"I respect a system that says we're going to put every bit of pressure on anybody we have to put it on to get to the drug dealer who is bringing his poison into the country."
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"Television is an instrument which can paralyze this country."
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"I am always the 'good guy,' and I take on the idiotic jerks of the nation."
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"We need to focus on green jobs: solar, wind, geothermal, biomass.There's so many opportunities. But other countries like China are getting ahead of the curve."
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"Reality shows that, contrary to other countries in southern Africa, we have no basis for a classical guerilla struggle. We have never had a hinterland, and we do not expect to."
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"If I write in my name to the agents of England and France residing in Asia and inform them that Japan is ready to make a commercial treaty with their countries, the number of steamers will be reduced from fifty to two or three."
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"American literature has never been content to be just one among the many literatures of the Western World. It has always aspired to be the literature not only of a new continent but of a New World."
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"Our country presents on every side the evidences of that continued favor under whose auspices it, has gradually risen from a few feeble and dependent colonies to a prosperous and powerful confederacy."
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"A nation without dregs and malcontents is orderly, peaceful and pleasant, but perhaps without the seed of things to come."
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"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."
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"There are lots of countries around that have weapons of mass destruction. We can't presumably attack them all."
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"When under attack, no country is obligated to collect permission slips from allies to strike back."
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"But why shouldn't I speak out? Don't you speak out in this country?"
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"Whether you are a Democrat or a Republican, our nation is stronger when we are respected throughout the world."
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"We have a moral responsibility to save wild places like the arctic refuge for future generations, and that is why our country has remained committed to its protection for nearly 50 years."
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"The nation that destroys its soil destroys itself."
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"Japan and China are isolated and without intercourse with other countries; hence the President directed me to attend to or watch the state of affairs in China also."
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"I'm surprised that we've gotten to a point where we don't put our country first and put our party first."
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"Here's a little newsflash for those reporters and commentators: I'm not going to Washington to seek their good opinion. I'm going to Washington to serve this great country."
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"Despite the negativity coming from the President's opponents, the United States remains fully committed to assisting the Iraqis in restoring security and rebuilding their nation."
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