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Nation Quotes
"Moral cowardice that keeps us from speaking our minds is as dangerous to this country as irresponsible talk."
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"I have long felt that an investment by the Department of Energy of a million dollars a year for the next 30 years would pay a higher return than any other investment this country could ever make."
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"I don't consider myself qualified to do a movie about international intrigue - I seldom leave the country."
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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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"We were the first urban school system in the country to wire all of our schools for the Internet."
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"Not only is New York City the nation's melting pot, it is also the casserole, the chafing dish and the charcoal grill."
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"Preserving and protecting the state tobacco settlement funds is the nation's Governors highest priority."
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"We've only been wealthy in this country for 70 years. Who said we ought to have all this? Is it ordained?"
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"Hopefully as a country, that we learn from our mistakes of the past."
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"I am depressed rather at the wave of brutality sweeping over the country."
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"In wartime we identify ourselves with the nation, and its interests are the interests of our primal selves."
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"As we explore ways to bring price relief and bolster our country's energy independence, one significant energy source has emerged as a potential solution, hydrogen fuel cells."
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"The public lands are a public stock, which ought to be disposed of to the best advantage for the nation."
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"I was right to back Muhammad Ali, but it caused me major enmity in many areas of this nation."
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"This nation is never finished. It has to be re-created in each generation."
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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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"I take great pride in the fact that I have lived in a Spanish-speaking country."
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"The security of our country is not just a top priority, it's the top priority."
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"I cannot imagine any other country in the world where the opposition would seek, and the chief executive would allow, the dissemination of his most private and personal conversations with his staff, which, to be honest, do not exactly confer sainthood on anyone concerned."
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"I was as repelled by the French as I was attracted by their country."
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"Television has created a nation of news junkies who tune in every night to get their fix on the world."
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"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."
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"The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes."
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"By no means do I anticipate screening those who come on to campus... And I have no difficulty if a bishop across the country or some local pastor may say that's not Catholic teaching - that's fine."
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"There are plenty of good five cent cigars in the country. The trouble is they cost a quarter."
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"The UN Commission on Human Rights, whose membership in recent years has included countries - such as Libya and Sudan - which have deplorable human rights records, and the recent Oil-for-Food scandal, are just a few examples of why reform is so imperative."
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"I would die for my country but I could never let my country die for me."
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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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"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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"It's the only sport that's played in every country in the world. It's played and watched all over the world, it's the most popular sport in probably 90% of the countries, and then with the World Cup, you have the most viewed tournament of any sport in the world."
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"In the South or in the mine country, wherever you point the camera there is a picture."
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"In this ever-changing world, it's more important than ever that our top-notch military continues to receive the resources needed to serve and protect our country."
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"Our country - whether bounded by the St. John's and the Sabine, or however otherwise bounded or described, and be the measurements more or less; - still our country, to be cherished in all our hearts, and to be defended by all our hands."
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"As a result of the asthma I was sent to school in the country, and only visited Sydney for brief, violently asthmatic sojourns on my way to a house we owned in the Blue Mountains."
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"I'd come back after having served as ambassador to New Zealand and found that I had real concerns about the direction in which this country was headed."
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"I am always the 'good guy,' and I take on the idiotic jerks of the nation."
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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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