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Nation Quotes


"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."


"Hopefully as a country, that we learn from our mistakes of the past."


"I expect an energy bill to increase and diversify supply and stabilize energy prices - not drive up energy costs in one part of the country to subsidize energy in another region."



"In wartime we identify ourselves with the nation, and its interests are the interests of our primal selves."


"From 8,000 miles away... I would not judge a fellow soldier from a friendly nation and how they are employing their resources."



"One of the regime's most important tactics is the creation of a third force in the country."


"To judge therefore of Shakespeare by Aristotle's rule is like trying a man by the Laws of one Country who acted under those of another."


"This nation is never finished. It has to be re-created in each generation."


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


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


"I guess you could say I'm what this country is all about."


"Bin Laden, who was in his country, attacked and damaged our Pentagon, and killed our soldiers right out here at the Pentagon. But his pentagon no longer exists. It is rubble."


"I am not someone who believes we should build a fence around our country but I do believe there ought to be some fairness with respect to the rules of this globalization."


"Sovereignty is a word that is used often but it has really no specific meaning. Sovereignty today is nominal. Any number of countries that are sovereign are sovereign only nominally and relatively."


"Why, so soon as French Canadians, who are in a minority in this House and in the country, were to organise as a political party, they would compel the majority to organise as a political party, and the result must be disastrous to themselves."


"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."


"I look forward to the day that a lot of the folks that you all talk about and cover on this network will begin to market products for these families and for these kids coming out of junior high school and high school all across the country."


"We're not trying to take back our country. We are our country."


"The level of discourse in this country is falling to a depth that cannot be sustained."


"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."


"But, finally, I just realized a few years ago that this is where I belonged. I mean everything I had was invested here, emotionally and every other way. And the country had invested enormously in me."


"Our country will not stand for any political plan that includes amnesty for insurgents."


"I want to say this about my state. When Strom Thurmond ran for president, we voted for him. We're proud of it. And if the rest of the country had followed our lead, we wouldn't have had all these problems over all these years either."


"Acts of anti-Semitism in countries throughout the world, including some of the world's strongest democracies, have increased significantly in frequency and scope over the last several years."


"I think it's clear to me that what - when I look at the tea party, it's about one-third Democrat, one-third Republican, one-third independents. But 100 percent of them are sure that the agenda that is taking place in Washington, D.C., is about extremism and is about bankrupting this country and every state within this country."


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


"I realized that in those nine seasons I started out at about 225 pounds and I felt, you know, full figured fabulous woman but in those seasons I gained 75 pounds up to over 300 pounds all in front of the nation."



"This is a basic requirement the meaning of globalization is that we should admit that the economy of each country is dependent on the economy of all the others."


"But I was, and still am, an avid reader and so when I first started I chose to photograph many of the great writers in this country to try and earn a living."


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



"When goods are exchanged between countries, they must be paid for by commodities or gold. They cannot be paid for by the notes, certificates, and checks of the purchaser's country, since these are of value only in the country of issue."


"If your kids attend school and grades are up that will make $1,000 contributions to some 10,000 kids across the country, are challenging kids to learn foreign languages or challenging kids to get summer jobs or seek summer enrichment opportunities?"


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


"Our country presents on every side the evidences of that continued favor under whose auspices it, has gradually risen from a few feeble and dependent colonies to a prosperous and powerful confederacy."



"America is the sum of all our journeys as we search for our national community and our national culture."
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