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Nation Quotes
"Yet since the 1950s, little has been done to prepare for our country's current or future energy needs."
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"For 73 years a totalitarian regime ruled the country. Totalitarian regime."
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"Just a few short years ago in the year 2000, the last full fiscal year of the Clinton administration, this country was running a surplus of $236 billion."
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"Our country, right or wrong. When right, to be kept right; when wrong, to be put right."
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"A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world."
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"Size is not grandeur, and territory does not make a nation."
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"I was born in 1940 in Minnesota and grew up in the country... dirt roads, swamps, lakes, woods."
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"And all this effort, all this loss of comradeship, all this prostitution of idealism and manhood, to assist the capitalists of this country to defeat the proletariat!"
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"I think the crux of the matter was that if we were going to become partners in, for example, the International Space Station, we had to gain the respect of a country like the United States and particularly its space organization, NASA."
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"The fact is that it is reasonable for us to say that there is going to be an emergency that happens in this country that we cannot budget for. Katrina is an example."
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"There's no question that we need tougher drunk-driving laws for repeat offenders. We need to take a lesson from European countries where driving isn't a right but a privilege."
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"Politicians in this country have always been for sale. That is nothing new."
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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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"As the treaty made with the United States was the first treaty entered into by your country with other countries, therefore the President regards Japan with peculiar friendliness."
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"Small businesses are the economic drivers of our country, providing the stimulus our communities need."
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"France was an occupied country, a country that surrendered and was left without the right to choose."
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"There is no country on earth with a stronger tradition of protecting the public's right to know."
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"The moon and other celestial bodies should be free for exploration and use by all countries. No country should be permitted to advance a claim of sovereignty."
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"I mean, it is an extraordinary thing that a large proportion of your country and my country, of the citizens, never see a wild creature from dawn 'til dusk, unless it's a pigeon, which isn't really wild, which might come and settle near them."
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"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."
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"You get weird and unsettling behaviour in the country."
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"Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same."
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"Well we had nine top forensic pathologists from across the country, who operated as a panel, who looked at all the ballistic evidence and they came out saying that those bullets did exactly what the Warren Commission said they did."
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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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"I think clearly the United States, as well as other western nations, should stand by their commitments to human rights and democracy and should try to influence other countries to move in that direction."
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"The greatest nations have all acted like gangsters and the smallest like prostitutes."
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"From watching the news one would think the Iraqis want us out of their country. But an overwhelming majority of Iraqis support our involvement there. Our freedom is contagious and we helped liberate them."
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"At the end of the day, there is no doubt that the unique spirit embodied by this country has worked, not just to make the world safer, but to make it better."
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"David Brinkley was an icon of modern broadcast journalism, a brilliant writer who could say in a few words what the country needed to hear during times of crisis, tragedy and triumph."
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"I actually defeated an incumbent Republican senator who was part of the Jesse Helm's political machine in North Carolina, the result of which is I'm now the senior senator from North Carolina instead of Jesse Helms, which is a very good thing for this country."
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"But obviously, we can't afford to make some bad long-term decisions with regard to basic commitments our country has - trade those away for some short-term assistance that may or may not be there a month from now."
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"These were big ones. Those companies would then go in and build an electrical system or ports or highways, and these would basically serve just a few of the very wealthiest families in those countries."
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"A country like France now does two-thirds of its trade within the euro zone."
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"The problem is, the Republican Party hasn't done anything to make this country better and I speak as a Republican."
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