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Nation Quotes
"The United Nations has a lot of capacity on the ground."
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"Television is an instrument which can paralyze this country."
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"Illinois corn farmers are the Nation's number two exporter of feed grains."
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"Unfortunately, my district like many others across the country has a problem with gangs, which is why I introduced this amendment."
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"The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it."
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"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."
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"You know, having been an election monitor in countries across the world, I can tell you that we would never certify another country's election if it had as many flaws in place as we had in Florida."
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"Horsemeat in many European and Asian countries is consumed as a delicacy."
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"And I think to be in NATO for the countries of our region, it means more guarantees for us, it means more responsibility for our common security, but it means fulfillment of all standards of civilized world, like protection of human rights and democratic mechanisms."
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"The principal or highest part of the mountain having changed its direction to east and west, I ascended it in such manner as to leave its most elevated ranges to the south and travelled north west over a very rough and broken country generally covered with snow."
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"I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her."
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"I think the country is very settled in a lot of ways, and we saw that after the Democratic Convention. I think a lot of the bump that we enjoyed came when John Kerry selected John Edwards as his running mate."
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"The reality, sitting ten thousand miles away, is that we remain the country that inspires. We remain that shining city on a hill."
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"When we talk about fighting for our country, we're talking about our vote, our vote is our arms."
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"A great poet is the most precious jewel of a nation."
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"Our country will not stand for any political plan that includes amnesty for insurgents."
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"Anyone who doesn't feel the crosses simply doesn't get that country."
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"We inhabit a language rather than a country."
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"No nation is so great as to be able to afford, in the long run, to remain outside an increasingly universal League of Nations."
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"However, in recent years our nation has seen a sizable influx of illegal immigration that at best highlights some alarming inadequacies and at worst indicates a broken system."
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"There are lots of nations in the world or national peoples who don't yet have states. They're inside someone else's state and they want a state of their own."
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"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."
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"Reality shows that, contrary to other countries in southern Africa, we have no basis for a classical guerilla struggle. We have never had a hinterland, and we do not expect to."
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"And most countries are now reducing the number of conscripts and increasing the professionals that are available because they're available on short notice."
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"A great emigration necessarily implies unhappiness of some kind or other in the country that is deserted."
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"A nation without dregs and malcontents is orderly, peaceful and pleasant, but perhaps without the seed of things to come."
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"The citizen who criticizes his country is paying it an implied tribute."
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"Of course, I grew up in Communist Romania, but I am happy to say that now our country is democratic, and prospering, since the revolution in 1989."
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"The recent riots in France demonstrate the problem European countries face where second and third generation immigrants still do not consider themselves French, German, or English."
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"Nobody in this country realizes that cap-and-trade is a tax - and it's a great big one."
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