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Nation Quotes
"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."
19
"We were sent to this country by the President, who desires to promote the welfare of Japan, and are quite different from the ambassadors of other countries."
18
"Henceforth, we shall be happy to be a free citizen in an independent country."
17
"Thus we have at least a national song that unites all Germans, and is the symbol of our sixty-million nation."
17
"When Lebanon started its resistance it was a small and divided country."
16
"I'm not a politician. I'm not a lawyer. I'm just a country boy."
15
"We will liberate our country from the occupying forces and put an end to relations between Russia and the Chechen State, no matter how difficult the task may be."
14
"The king must die so that the country can live."
14
"If the current birth rate, which is the lowest in the major developed countries, continues, there will be no Japanese. Who will pay the enormous debt?"
14
"We typically hear numbers that there are 34 million households that are in stocks in some form. Well, I say that what's occurred is if you have a job in this country, you're in stocks."
13
"It is a commonplace that the League of Nations is not yet-what its most enthusiastic protagonists intended it to be."
13
"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."
12
"You were doing a sadistic little disservice to your country."
12
"My country is the world; my countrymen are mankind."
12
"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."
12
"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?"
11
"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."
11
"I have no country to fight for; my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world."
11
"What I can do for my country, I am willing to do."
10
"The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten."
10
"It's a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president... except me."
10
"It's nice to say let's be bipartisan. But we're a partisan nation. We were raised as a partisan nation."
10
"Other nations use 'force'; we Britons alone use 'Might'."
10
"If more politicians in this country were thinking about the next generation instead of the next election, it might be better for the United States and the world."
10
"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."
9
"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."
9
"Kyoto was a flawed process. There isn't one industrialized country around the world that has ratified that treaty, and so that is a non-starter."
9
"I would rather see the United States respected than loved by other nations."
8
"Our country is the world - our countrymen are all mankind."
8
"Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country."
8
"The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it."
8
"If Iran becomes a nuclear weapon state it is the end of non-proliferation as we know it. If Iran gets a nuclear weapon you are likely to see Saudi, Egypt and other countries follow suit and we will bequeath to the next generation a nuclear arms race in the world's most unstable region."
7
"A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself."
7
"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."
7
"The event of the landing of these brethren upon our shores is to be, not without its beneficial effect, as well to the colored population of this country, as it promises to be to ill-fated Africa."
7
"This debt crisis coming to our country. The wall and tidal wave of debt that is befalling our nation. Medicare and Social Security go bankrupt within ten years, we have a debt that is looming so high that in the last year of President Obama's budget just the interest payments on our debt is $916 billion dollars."
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