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Nation Quotes
"What's very important is that we build a space that matters in the world, one that operates according to democratic rules, and that small and large countries enjoy a good relationship."
36
"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."
33
"Thus we have at least a national song that unites all Germans, and is the symbol of our sixty-million nation."
32
"Henceforth, we shall be happy to be a free citizen in an independent country."
28
"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."
27
"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."
27
"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."
26
"When Lebanon started its resistance it was a small and divided country."
26
"New Zealand is not a small country but a large village."
25
"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."
24
"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?"
24
"There's no bigger task than protecting the homeland of our country."
24
"It is a commonplace that the League of Nations is not yet-what its most enthusiastic protagonists intended it to be."
23
"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."
22
"The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten."
22
"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."
21
"Between richer and poorer classes in a free country a mutually respecting antagonism is much healthier than pity on the one hand and dependence on the other, as is, perhaps, the next best thing to fraternal feeling."
21
"It's nice to say let's be bipartisan. But we're a partisan nation. We were raised as a partisan nation."
21
"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."
21
"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."
20
"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?"
20
"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."
20
"And just as there was something of every Vietnamese in Ho Chi Minh so there is something of Ho Chi Minh in almost every present-day Vietnamese, so strong is his imprint on the Vietnamese nation."
19
"I'm not a politician. I'm not a lawyer. I'm just a country boy."
19
"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."
19
"Following the devastation of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, $3 per gallon gasoline became common and our nation has come under considerable strain."
19
"Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free."
19
"I have no country to fight for; my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world."
19
"Yes, the European model remains superior to that of America and Japan."
18
"The country remains dependent on oil. But as we are now learning, oil is becoming increasingly scarce."
18
"I would rather see the United States respected than loved by other nations."
18
"You were doing a sadistic little disservice to your country."
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