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Nation Quotes
"In the South or in the mine country, wherever you point the camera there is a picture."
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"As the highest ranking American official in the United Nations organization, I came to understand thoroughly that the national constitutional processes of the member states define the status of territories under their sovereignty."
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"September 11 is one of our worst days but it brought out the best in us. It unified us as a country and showed our charitable instincts and reminded us of what we stood for and stand for."
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"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."
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"Because Katrina put it out there, no one can play the pretend game anymore that there isn't poverty and inequality in this country. The Millions More Movement - Katrina gives it added significance."
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"Developed countries and advanced developing countries must open their markets for products from the developing world, and support in developing their export and import capacity."
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"We had to depend on other institutions to do research on our behalf. We had to use the information that already existed to craft the best practices to distribute throughout the country. And we had to do all of that in ten months."
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"I've always wanted to serve my country in some capacity."
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"There must be no worse punishment to a totalitarian nation than the withdrawal of capital."
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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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"Races and nations are thus ever ready to believe the worst of one another."
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"My country has been very good to me; I must be good to my country."
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"Every perfect traveler always creates the country where he travels."
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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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"President Bush in his inaugural address talked about bringing freedom to countries that don't have it. He didn't specify how."
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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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"We send missionaries to China so the Chinese can get to heaven, but we won't let them into our country."
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"We were the first urban school system in the country to wire all of our schools for the Internet."
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"Compared to the United States and certainly a lot of other countries around the world... per year, Australians do see more films."
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"In this country protection has always, to some extent, existed; but at some times it has been efficient, and at others not; and our tendency toward freedom or slavery has always been in the direct ratio of its efficiency or inefficiency."
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"It is not by augmenting the capital of the country, but by rendering a greater part of that capital active and productive than would otherwise be so, that the most judicious operations of banking can increase the industry of the country."
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"It appears from Mr. Smith's account that there is no scarcity of buffalo as he penetrated the country."
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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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"These are the multinationals, like General Motors and Nestle; these are the big industrial groups that weigh, on the monetary scale, much more than big countries like Egypt."
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"Not only is New York City the nation's melting pot, it is also the casserole, the chafing dish and the charcoal grill."
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"But why shouldn't I speak out? Don't you speak out in this country?"
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"The recent riots in France demonstrate the problem European countries face where second and third generation immigrants still do not consider themselves French, German, or English."
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"Nobody in this country realizes that cap-and-trade is a tax - and it's a great big one."
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"Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country."
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"A country's adhering to the rule of law does not mean that its citizens will not do bad things."
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"The ambiguous orientation of Japan drove the country into the position of an invader in Asia."
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"I think some of the things I deal with Hopper probably has dealt with also, since it's somewhat the same environment and I have pretty strong reactions to what this country looks like. It looks pretty dull and spare, and you like this and dislike it and it's very complicated."
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"To the extent that the United States has, I don't like the word hegemony, the United States has influence around the world, I don't think that's based on to any significant degree on the fact that countries use the dollar as their major reserve."
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