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Nation Quotes
"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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"The principles upon which a safety lamp might be constructed I stated to several persons long before Sir Humphrey Davy came into this part of the country."
30
"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."
30
"President Bush in his inaugural address talked about bringing freedom to countries that don't have it. He didn't specify how."
30
"If our country is serious about reducing our dependency on foreign oil, we need to get serious about mobilizing the infrastructure necessary to distribute and dispense the next generation of fuels."
29
"All my roots are still in the prarie country of the Middle West."
29
"Basically I am a private individual who has concerns about his country and who has resources that give me the privilege - and responsibility - to do something to help my country if I can."
29
"France cannot be destroyed. She is an old country who, despite her misfortunes, has, and always will have, thanks to her past, a tremendous prestige in the world, whatever the fate inflicted upon her."
29
"Saying the Washington Post is just a newspaper is like saying Rasputin was just a country priest."
29
"Let's start to have a grown up debate in this country about who we are and where we want to go and what kind of country we want to build."
29
"Aside from the murders, DC has one of the lowest crime rates in the country."
28
"For 73 years a totalitarian regime ruled the country. Totalitarian regime."
28
"When the E.U. and the U.S. agree, other countries follow."
28
"There is here, as in all countries, advantages and disadvantages."
28
"There is no country on earth with a stronger tradition of protecting the public's right to know."
28
"One year after the United States led the invasion of Iraq, the country remains extremely dangerous not only to our troops, but also to the stability of the world."
28
"The country's top chefs, designers, media personalities and businesses are part of this dynamic city. We know that Chicagoans are used to the highest standards."
27
"Those entrusted with arms... should be persons of some substance and stake in the country."
27
"We need to face it, as a nation we have a reliance on petroleum."
27
"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."
27
"We are aware that many national farm organizations are putting forth various plans to provide both short- and long-term relief to our nation's agricultural producers. While we believe long-term solutions are essential, the current situation demands a more immediate response."
26
"In the end, I'll put my good acts up against those of anybody in this country. Anybody."
26
"The way was long and weary, But gallantly they strode, A country lad and lassie, Along the heavy road."
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"There are lots of countries around that have weapons of mass destruction. We can't presumably attack them all."
26
"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."
25
"My London constituency in Hackney has one of the highest levels of gun crime in the country. But the problem is no longer confined to inner city areas. Gun crime has spread to communities all over Britain."
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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."
25
"Rather than hearing from the city council president, you'd hear from sources all across the country."
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"The best party is but a kind of conspiracy against the rest of the nation."
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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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"When under attack, no country is obligated to collect permission slips from allies to strike back."
24
"If a foreign country doesn't look like a middle-class suburb of Dallas or Detroit, then obviously the natives must be dangerous as well as badly dressed."
23
"What this country needs is a really good five cent cigar."
23
"The whole basis of the United Nations is the right of all nations - great or small - to have weight, to have a vote, to be attended to, to be a part of the twentieth century."
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"The nation that destroys its soil destroys itself."
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"I've always wanted to serve my country in some capacity."
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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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