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Nation Quotes
"As regards this country, in which protection has always to some extent existed, it is the best customer that England ever had, and our demands upon her grow most steadily and regularly under protection."
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"Yet, Puerto Rico's economic convergence and political integration with the rest of the nation is in a state of arrest - even though the island has been within the national borders, political system and customs territory of the U.S. for a century."
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"I was as repelled by the French as I was attracted by their country."
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"The interests of the Soviet Union are in controlling highly developed countries and having the benefit of their economies so that they can run their own inefficient empire."
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"Since the Pentagon underestimated the number of troops required after the end of hostilities, we were not prepared to prevent looting or to guard hundreds of weapons dumps spread throughout the country."
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"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."
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"There is here, as in all countries, advantages and disadvantages."
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"It's with them that we have constituted a liberation front and brought our logistic support to armies to help their countries come out of colonialism and establish a national internal regime."
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"The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes."
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"Every one of my positions cuts - out half the country. I'm pro-choice, I'm pro-gay rights, I'm pro-immigration, I'm against guns, I believe in Darwin."
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"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."
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"I think the country is very settled in a lot of ways, and we saw that after the Democratic Convention. I think a lot of the bump that we enjoyed came when John Kerry selected John Edwards as his running mate."
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"Although lynchings have steadily increased in number and barbarity during the last twenty years, there has been no single effort put forth by the many moral and philanthropic forces of the country to put a stop to this wholesale slaughter."
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"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."
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"When we talk about fighting for our country, we're talking about our vote, our vote is our arms."
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"I would die for my country but I could never let my country die for me."
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"I have seen this happen in recent years with regard to pharmaceuticals and vaccines, where, working together, we are improving access to medicines and vaccines for infectious diseases in the poorest countries."
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"The best party is but a kind of conspiracy against the rest of the nation."
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"You don't need to be straight to fight and die for your country. You just need to shoot straight."
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"Right now I own shares of companies in 28 countries."
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"I hate to say it but I think it has become very obvious that our system for devising trade agreements, so very important to this country's functioning around the world, has not only broken, but it has broken completely."
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"It's the only sport that's played in every country in the world. It's played and watched all over the world, it's the most popular sport in probably 90% of the countries, and then with the World Cup, you have the most viewed tournament of any sport in the world."
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"Hate is able to provoke disorders, to ruin a social organization, to cast a country into a period of bloody revolutions; but it produces nothing."
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"The achievements we forge in this place and in our nation will not be those of one person or one party."
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"No longer should we rely on oil from countries that are not necessarily friendly or democratic."
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"We inhabit a language rather than a country."
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"Everybody knows that the industrialized nations are the worst offenders."
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"In light of the attacks on mass transit systems in other countries, shouldn't we be beefing up?... Clearly more could be done."
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"Our country was hit on 9/11, 2001. Everybody in the world knows that. It hasn't been easy to deal with a different kind of enemy, but that is what we have, a different kind of enemy."
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"Hungary is very similar to Bulgaria. I know they're different countries."
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"No nation is so great as to be able to afford, in the long run, to remain outside an increasingly universal League of Nations."
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"It is clear our nation is reliant upon big foreign oil. More and more of our imports come from overseas."
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"In the South or in the mine country, wherever you point the camera there is a picture."
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"We will learn together how to solve the problems of the country."
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