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Nation Quotes


"The country remains dependent on oil. But as we are now learning, oil is becoming increasingly scarce."


"And they will tell you unequivocally that if we have a chemical or biological attack or a nuclear attack anywhere in this country, they are unprepared to deal with it today, and that is of high urgency."


"You were doing a sadistic little disservice to your country."


"The day Dick Cheney is going to run for president, I'll kill myself. All we need is another liar... I think he'd like to run, but it would be a sad day for the country if he does."


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


"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."


"My country is the world; my countrymen are mankind."


"You can find your way across this country using burger joints the way a navigator uses stars."


"By far the greatest part of those goods which are the objects of desire, are procured by labour; and they may be multiplied, not in one country alone, but in many, almost without any assignable limit, if we are disposed to bestow the labour necessary to obtain them."


"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."


"Russia is an Eastern Orthodox country."


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


"France was an occupied country, a country that surrendered and was left without the right to choose."


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


"Canada has two emblems - the beaver and the maple."


"Our country is the world - our countrymen are all mankind."


"Unfortunately, my district like many others across the country has a problem with gangs, which is why I introduced this amendment."


"A great emigration necessarily implies unhappiness of some kind or other in the country that is deserted."


"I'm doing it, I took responsibility in my country and I've done it with my bare hands."


"The nation can no longer afford to continue policies that hasten the flight of persons to the distant suburbs."


"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."


"A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself."


"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."


"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."


"Be England what she will, with all her faults she is my country still."


"The country is in an extraordinary ferment."


"If you think the system - not you - but if your viewers think that the current political system is working well and serving the interest of our country, then what we're doing will not be attractive."


"We would not have our country's vigour exhausted or her moral force abated, by everlasting meddling and muddling in every quarrel, great and small, which afflicts the world."


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


"All countries, big or small, strong or weak, are equal members of the United Nations."


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