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Nation Quotes
"Just a few short years ago in the year 2000, the last full fiscal year of the Clinton administration, this country was running a surplus of $236 billion."
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"We have indeed been fortunate in this country. Over the last 200 some odd years since our Nation was founded, rarely have there been attacks upon our homeland."
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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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"Let us all take more responsibility, not only for ourselves and our families but for our communities and our country."
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"We are a communicating nation which needs access to space, access to the seas."
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"We must send a very clear message that if you enter our country illegally and then you commit one of these offenses, you will be dealt with harshly and you will pay a heavy price for your conduct."
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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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"But I am sure also that from a political point of view, and from a social point of view the federal link, without infringing the sovereignty of any of the nations which might take part in such as association, could be beneficial."
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"Today, we have a trade regime which has led to the largest trade deficits this country has ever experienced."
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"To be recognised by a whole country is incredible. This is massive."
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"Our nation's anti-hunger programs need to be strengthened."
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"There's no question that we need tougher drunk-driving laws for repeat offenders. We need to take a lesson from European countries where driving isn't a right but a privilege."
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"Every single country that has an auto industry is stepping forward to help that auto industry. Why wouldn't we help this industry too, because it needs 3.5 million jobs."
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"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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"The United States have no possessions in the east and do not desire to have any, as other countries do."
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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'm not a politician. I'm not a lawyer. I'm just a country boy."
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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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"Hungary is very similar to Bulgaria. I know they're different countries."
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"This is just the United States. All the rest of the countries, all over the world, are proud of Michael. It's here we have the most trouble out of them."
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"Every country possesses, it seems, the sort of cuisine it deserves, which is to say the sort of cuisine it is appreciative enough to want."
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"The fact is that we cannot drill our way to independence. We cannot drill our way to freedom, and we cannot drill our way to create jobs in this country."
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"In 75 foreign countries, we have a presence in the USDA."
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"This is the only country in the world where today's employee, is tomorrow's employer."
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"The problem is that in our country, they make it almost impossible for politicians to win anything. In England it's easier to win a libel suit."
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"You get weird and unsettling behaviour in the country."
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"The struggle you see in the Republican Party today is the country club Republican versus the bowling alley Republican. Colin Powell brings us back to the country club image. He's an insider. He's a moderate."
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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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"There has been a strong tradition in this country that it is not the function of the military to educate the public on political issues."
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"I think it's clear to me that what - when I look at the tea party, it's about one-third Democrat, one-third Republican, one-third independents. But 100 percent of them are sure that the agenda that is taking place in Washington, D.C., is about extremism and is about bankrupting this country and every state within this country."
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"This is a basic requirement the meaning of globalization is that we should admit that the economy of each country is dependent on the economy of all the others."
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"But if we have been willing to give our lives to this enterprise, which is for the honour of our country, I appeal to our countrymen to see that those who depend on us are properly cared for."
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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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"But why shouldn't I speak out? Don't you speak out in this country?"
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"The Democratic Party, all the candidates from Washington, they all know each other, they all move in the same circles, and what I'm doing is breaking into the country club."
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"If Iran becomes a nuclear weapon state it is the end of non-proliferation as we know it. If Iran gets a nuclear weapon you are likely to see Saudi, Egypt and other countries follow suit and we will bequeath to the next generation a nuclear arms race in the world's most unstable region."
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"I lived with them in my studio in New York. And of course if I were doing that book today or even ten years, fifteen years later, I would have gone to where the wild ducks were and where I could study them - I would have gone to the country somewhere."
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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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