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Nation Quotes
"The price of crude oil accounts for 55 percent of the price of a gallon of gasoline, driven by global supply and demand. The United States depends on foreign sources of oil for 62 percent of our nation's supply. By 2010, this is projected to jump to 75 percent."
81
"True, other countries are helping us. Germany is determined to provide substantial help. So are the Netherlands and other states. But a day will come when we have to count on our own resources."
79
"The king must die so that the country can live."
79
"When Lebanon started its resistance it was a small and divided country."
73
"But to be self-obsessed is simply not o.k. for the most important country in the world, the United States, which affects every other country in the world."
70
"And the big question for the West, of course, and to the Europeans is, what other countries, which were formerly part of the Soviet bloc, should be incorporated into western institutions?"
70
"A collection of huts surrounded by a barbed wire fence, and in the huts lived 500 of the original inhabitants of our area. And so it went with many country towns around Australia."
64
"I mean, the world has already done a big, big effort to forget debt to countries heavily indebted and with low income. And that has given good chances to countries to get out of poverty."
62
"Henceforth, we shall be happy to be a free citizen in an independent country."
62
"It is a commonplace that the League of Nations is not yet-what its most enthusiastic protagonists intended it to be."
62
"Energy companies, such as Chevron and Shell, and oil producing countries, such as Kuwait and Venezuela, pump crude oil from their vast land holdings and sell it on the world market."
61
"My country is the world; my countrymen are mankind."
61
"Sovereignty is a word that is used often but it has really no specific meaning. Sovereignty today is nominal. Any number of countries that are sovereign are sovereign only nominally and relatively."
60
"Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same."
60
"Every man who repeats the dogma of Mill that one country is no fit to rule another country must admit that one class is not fit to rule another class."
60
"Be England what she will, with all her faults she is my country still."
59
"I think there are many times when it would be most efficient to use nuclear weapons. However, the public opinion in this country and throughout the world throw up their hands in horror when you mention nuclear weapons, just because of the propaganda that's been fed to them."
59
"One of the regime's most important tactics is the creation of a third force in the country."
58
"It is in times of great tragedy when the true spirit of our wonderful country unites as one."
58
"I did not feel 'evil' when I wrote advertisements for Puerto Rico. They helped attract industry and tourists to a country which had been living on the edge of starvation for 400 years."
58
"You were doing a sadistic little disservice to your country."
58
"Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free."
58
"Many countries persecute their own citizens and intern them in prisons or concentration camps. Oppression is becoming more and more a part of the systems."
58
"Is bankrupting this great country the top priority of this administration?"
58
"Trying to predict the future is like trying to drive down a country road at night with no lights while looking out the back window."
57
"I would rather see the United States respected than loved by other nations."
57
"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."
57
"The statesmen still say that we should not interfere in the internal affairs of other nations and yet it is not possible any longer not to interfere, even when we do not mean to do so."
56
"From 8,000 miles away... I would not judge a fellow soldier from a friendly nation and how they are employing their resources."
56
"I mean, it is an extraordinary thing that a large proportion of your country and my country, of the citizens, never see a wild creature from dawn 'til dusk, unless it's a pigeon, which isn't really wild, which might come and settle near them."
56
"Additionally, any Human Rights Council reform that allows countries with despicable human rights records to remain as members, such as China and Saudi Arabia, is not real reform."
56
"All countries, big or small, strong or weak, are equal members of the United Nations."
56
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