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Nation Quotes
"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?"
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"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."
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"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."
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"New Zealand is not a small country but a large village."
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"Our nation is built on the bedrock principle that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed."
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"Developed countries and advanced developing countries must open their markets for products from the developing world, and support in developing their export and import capacity."
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"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."
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"It's nice to say let's be bipartisan. But we're a partisan nation. We were raised as a partisan nation."
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"Races and nations are thus ever ready to believe the worst of one another."
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"You can find your way across this country using burger joints the way a navigator uses stars."
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"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."
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"Those market researchers... are playing games with you and me and with this entire country. Their so-called samples of opinion are no more accurate or reliable than my grandmother's big toe was when it came to predicting the weather."
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"They have some pretty tough gun laws in Japan, as they do in any other civilized country in the world, and they're not killing each other off with firearms. You have very violent films in Europe, yet it's not causing the mayhem we see in our streets routinely here."
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"What I can do for my country, I am willing to do."
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"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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"Russia is an Eastern Orthodox country."
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"The interests of the Soviet Union are in controlling highly developed countries and having the benefit of their economies so that they can run their own inefficient empire."
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"It's with them that we have constituted a liberation front and brought our logistic support to armies to help their countries come out of colonialism and establish a national internal regime."
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"Texas will again lift it's head and stand among the nations. It ought to do so, for no country upon the globe can compare with it in natural advantages."
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"Every one of my positions cuts - out half the country. I'm pro-choice, I'm pro-gay rights, I'm pro-immigration, I'm against guns, I believe in Darwin."
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"I have seen this happen in recent years with regard to pharmaceuticals and vaccines, where, working together, we are improving access to medicines and vaccines for infectious diseases in the poorest countries."
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"Social Security is at last on the nation's front burner."
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"Now if there is one thing that we do worse than any other nation, it is try and manage somebody else's affairs."
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"Are wars anything but the means whereby a nation is nourished, whereby it is strengthened, whereby it is buttressed?"
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"Our soldiers have nobly fought to protect freedom since our country's birth, and have fought to protect those that could not protect themselves, even in foreign lands when called upon."
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"The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten."
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"Insurrection by means of guerrilla bands is the true method of warfare for all nations desirous of emancipating themselves from a foreign yoke. It is invincible, indestructible."
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"The country remains dependent on oil. But as we are now learning, oil is becoming increasingly scarce."
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