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Nation Quotes


"Well, you know, I think in conversations with members of the Senate and others, they all recognize that the issue of immigration is important. It's important to our nation, it's important to our public safety, it's important to our security, it's important to our economic well-being moving forward. And it's not something that's going to go away."


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



"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."



"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."


"I would prefer to be a citizen of an independent country rather than Emperor of an enslaved one."


"You cannot speak on behalf of a nation when you have no mandate to do so."



"When I was 2, we moved into an imposing country mansion 8 miles west of Cardiff, Wales."


"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."



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


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



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


"Israel is a country that respects freedom - freedom of assembly, freedom of speech and freedom of worship."


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



"You could say that we are living in an internally globalized country."



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



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


"Pope John Paul II not only visited Nigeria twice but stood by the country in its fight against dictatorship and injustice."


"There's no bigger task than protecting the homeland of our country."


"I think in every country that there is at least one executive who is scared of going crazy."



"The gun dealer is not only paying these two police officers, but more importantly, the gun dealer has said he will never again sell more than one gun to a customer. This is exactly what we're trying to get the gun industry across the country to do."


"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."


"In many ways when Jerry Ford pardoned Nixon, in a certain way, he did speak for the country."


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



"Politicians in this country have always been for sale. That is nothing new."


"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."


"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."
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