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Nation Quotes
"Those entrusted with arms... should be persons of some substance and stake in the country."
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"There is no country on earth with a stronger tradition of protecting the public's right to know."
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"You have to understand that once an indictment has been signed, all countries that are signature to the U.N. charter will hand a person straight over. You don't have to go through the normal extradition process."
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"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."
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"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."
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"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."
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"Aside from the murders, DC has one of the lowest crime rates in the country."
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"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."
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"For 73 years a totalitarian regime ruled the country. Totalitarian regime."
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"It is not viable for one country to demand a right to increase and upgrade its nuclear weapons capabilities while asking others to eliminate theirs."
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"When the E.U. and the U.S. agree, other countries follow."
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"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."
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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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"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."
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"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."
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"In the end, I'll put my good acts up against those of anybody in this country. Anybody."
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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 way was long and weary, But gallantly they strode, A country lad and lassie, Along the heavy road."
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"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."
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"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."
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"There is here, as in all countries, advantages and disadvantages."
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"We need to face it, as a nation we have a reliance on petroleum."
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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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"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."
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"When under attack, no country is obligated to collect permission slips from allies to strike back."
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"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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"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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"There are lots of countries around that have weapons of mass destruction. We can't presumably attack them all."
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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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"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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"Today, we have a trade regime which has led to the largest trade deficits this country has ever experienced."
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"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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"What this country needs is a really good five cent cigar."
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"I've always wanted to serve my country in some capacity."
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"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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"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."
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"You carry your country with you, it's part of your baggage."
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"A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world."
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