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Nation Quotes
"Races and nations are thus ever ready to believe the worst of one another."
40
"Now if there is one thing that we do worse than any other nation, it is try and manage somebody else's affairs."
40
"You can find your way across this country using burger joints the way a navigator uses stars."
40
"We will liberate our country from the occupying forces and put an end to relations between Russia and the Chechen State, no matter how difficult the task may be."
39
"We have a moral responsibility to save wild places like the arctic refuge for future generations, and that is why our country has remained committed to its protection for nearly 50 years."
39
"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."
39
"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."
39
"A country like France now does two-thirds of its trade within the euro zone."
39
"Social Security is at last on the nation's front burner."
39
"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."
39
"We need to address our Nation's mounting garbage problem by generating less garbage, particularly paper waste."
39
"I also believe that Hurricane Katrina did reveal a weakness in our energy supply systems, highlighting the reliance this country has on the gulf coast for our energy resources."
38
"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."
38
"Are wars anything but the means whereby a nation is nourished, whereby it is strengthened, whereby it is buttressed?"
38
"The U.S. is, so far as I know, the only nation which places such extensive reliance on the polygraph. It has gotten us into a lot of trouble."
38
"In the wake of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, our nation has been put under considerable fiscal pressure."
38
"The Republicans in the House and the Bush administration are bankrupting this country."
38
"Russia is an Eastern Orthodox country."
38
"The nation... doesn't simply need what we have. It needs what we are."
38
"The President is of opinion that if Japan makes a treaty with the United States, all other foreign countries will make the same kind of a treaty, and Japan will be safe thereafter."
38
"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."
38
"The doom of a nation can be averted only by a storm of flowing passion, but only those who are passionate themselves can arouse passion in others."
38
"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."
38
"There has never been any country at every moment so virtuous and so wise that it has not sometimes needed to be saved from itself."
38
"Illinois corn farmers are the Nation's number two exporter of feed grains."
38
"Unfortunately, my district like many others across the country has a problem with gangs, which is why I introduced this amendment."
38
"I have no country to fight for; my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world."
38
"America is the sum of all our journeys as we search for our national community and our national culture."
38
"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."
37
"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."
37
"My big focus is China and OPEC and all of these countries that are just absolutely destroying the United States."
37
"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."
37
"This country is becoming increasingly authoritarian. It's based on capital punishment."
37
"A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself."
37
"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."
37
"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."
37
"I don't understand the Democrats' approach to Social Security in this country, and I'm not alone."
37
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