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Nation Quotes
"Mr. Speaker, in seeking to return to the United Nations, the Republic of China on Taiwan will once again ask diplomatic allies to present its case before the United Nations this fall."
7
"The security of our country is not just a top priority, it's the top priority."
7
"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."
7
"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."
7
"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."
7
"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."
7
"The best party is but a kind of conspiracy against the rest of the nation."
7
"I believe that Clinton is the most wicked and vile President that this nation has ever had."
7
"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."
7
"Well my briefing was that Honduras was a small and vulnerable country just back on the path towards democracy it was about to have just before I arrived, the first elections for a civilian president in more than 9 years."
7
"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."
7
"What this country needs is a really good five cent cigar."
7
"Some of us claim that New York City is the capital of the country, indeed the capital of the world. Now, that may be a bit much for those who don't come from New York, but clearly we are an important city for reasons of our cultural advantages."
7
"In the end, I'll put my good acts up against those of anybody in this country. Anybody."
7
"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."
7
"President Bush in his inaugural address talked about bringing freedom to countries that don't have it. He didn't specify how."
7
"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."
7
"I am in favor of helping the prosperity of all countries because, when we are all prosperous, the trade with each becomes more valuable to the other."
7
"With 3 percent of the world's resources and 25 percent of the world's demand, it is pretty obvious this country cannot drill its way to energy security."
7
"It's not like I'm anti-China. I just think it's ridiculous that we allow them to do what they're doing to this country, with the manipulation of the currency, that you write about and understand, and all of the other things that they do."
6
"When the E.U. and the U.S. agree, other countries follow."
6
"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."
6
"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."
6
"There is here, as in all countries, advantages and disadvantages."
6
"There is no country on earth with a stronger tradition of protecting the public's right to know."
6
"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."
6
"As I think through the issue of funding the rebuilding of Iraq, I think about the analogy of a bankruptcy proceeding. There is no doubt that Iraq as a country is bankrupt."
6
"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."
6
"You carry your country with you, it's part of your baggage."
6
"The way was long and weary, But gallantly they strode, A country lad and lassie, Along the heavy road."
6
"In 75 foreign countries, we have a presence in the USDA."
6
"To be recognised by a whole country is incredible. This is massive."
5
"The U.S. has the finest research scientists in the world, but we are falling far behind other countries, like South Korea and Singapore, that are moving forward with embryonic stem cell research."
5
"New Zealand is the only country I know well enough to write about. It can sometimes lead to complications."
5
"I've always wanted to serve my country in some capacity."
5
"Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right."
4
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