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Nation Quotes


"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."


"Can a nation be free if it oppresses other nations? It cannot."


"There is more than enough room in the world for Germany and Britain."


"Our nation is built on the bedrock principle that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed."


"We are the biggest donor to the United Nations, contributing 22 percent of the regular operating budget and nearly 27 percent of the peacekeeping budget."


"Anyone who doesn't feel the crosses simply doesn't get that country."


"I am hopeful about any future for whites in this country, but not entirely optimistic."


"However, in recent years our nation has seen a sizable influx of illegal immigration that at best highlights some alarming inadequacies and at worst indicates a broken system."


"I'd come back after having served as ambassador to New Zealand and found that I had real concerns about the direction in which this country was headed."


"Do we want in this nation to lose the backbone of manufacturing in this country? Do we want to be a nation that doesn't want to manufacture anything?"


"There are lots of countries around that have weapons of mass destruction. We can't presumably attack them all."


"The main thing that endears the United Nations to member governments, and so enables it to survive, is its proven capacity to fail, and to be seen to fail."


"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."


"It may be that apartheid brings such stupendous economic advantages to countries that they would sooner have apartheid than permit its destruction."


"Farmers in Missouri and across the country must comply with a variety of federal, state, and local regulations as they grow the crops and raise the livestock that we depend on to feed the nation and the world."


"The nation that destroys its soil destroys itself."


"There is no instance of a nation benefitting from prolonged warfare."


"As we explore ways to bring price relief and bolster our country's energy independence, one significant energy source has emerged as a potential solution, hydrogen fuel cells."


"Our country is the most generous, open, tolerant, and democratic in the world."


"It affords me sincere pleasure to be able to apprise you of the entire removal of the Cherokee Nation of Indians to their new homes west of the Mississippi."


"Every single country that has an auto industry is stepping forward to help that auto industry. Why wouldn't we help this industry too, because it needs 3.5 million jobs."


"I don't understand the Democrats' approach to Social Security in this country, and I'm not alone."


"Nations, like individuals, are punished for their transgressions."


"Hurricane Katrina exposed the harsh reality that we have been skating on thin ice when it comes to this country's energy concentrations on the Gulf Coast."


"Even today with the problems that we face, who would you rather be? Which country would you trade places with?"


"Following the devastation of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, $3 per gallon gasoline became common and our nation has come under considerable strain."


"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."


"Europe started out with six countries; three small countries and three large countries."


"Would you bet your paycheck on a weather forecast for tomorrow? If not, then why should this country bet billions on global warming predictions that have even less foundation?"


"Our universities and museums are respected around the country."


"Preserving and protecting the state tobacco settlement funds is the nation's Governors highest priority."


"What this country needs is more unemployed politicians."


"This is the only country in the world where today's employee, is tomorrow's employer."



"Our nation's infrastructure needs are tremendous, and they're growing."


"We must send a very clear message that if you enter our country illegally and then you commit one of these offenses, you will be dealt with harshly and you will pay a heavy price for your conduct."



"Let me share some facts with you about the law in most of our country. California is in many ways a little different from the rest of the world, and California has better gun laws than many states, although California's need to be improved."


"Let a nation's fervent thanks make some amends for the toils and sufferings of those who survive."


"In the wake of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, our nation has been put under considerable fiscal pressure."


"It simply isn't fair for senators to cut to the front of the line when seniors around the country have been forced to wait for hours to get a flu shot."
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