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Nation Quotes
"In my judgment, if we had pursued this course, the zones would have been of short duration. England would have been compelled to take her mines out of the North Sea in order to get any supplies from our country."
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"I was as repelled by the French as I was attracted by their country."
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"The interests of the Soviet Union are in controlling highly developed countries and having the benefit of their economies so that they can run their own inefficient empire."
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"The United States is historically a nation of immigrants."
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"Nearly every country in the world is now becoming industrialized as rapidly as it can."
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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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"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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"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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"There are plenty of good five cent cigars in the country. The trouble is they cost a quarter."
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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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"We're not trying to take back our country. We are our country."
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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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"I have seen this happen in recent years with regard to pharmaceuticals and vaccines, where, working together, we are improving access to medicines and vaccines for infectious diseases in the poorest countries."
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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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"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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"On my passage thither, I discovered nothing remarkable in the features of the country."
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"I thank all of those who weren't born in this country for coming here and making a contribution to Australia. We are the least discriminatory country in the world, in my view."
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"My country right or wrong; when right, to keep her right; when wrong, to put her right."
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"We are regarded as a Third World country with First World living conditions."
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"It is clear our nation is reliant upon big foreign oil. More and more of our imports come from overseas."
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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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"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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"September 11 is one of our worst days but it brought out the best in us. It unified us as a country and showed our charitable instincts and reminded us of what we stood for and stand for."
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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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"It is important to remember that the Pacific Ocean covers a quarter of the world's surface and that each Pacific country has its own cultural, historical and ethnic identity."
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"This country needs to get a backbone and stand up for its economic interest."
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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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"But if we have been willing to give our lives to this enterprise, which is for the honour of our country, I appeal to our countrymen to see that those who depend on us are properly cared for."
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"A nation is formed by the willingness of each of us to share in the responsibility for upholding the common good."
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"Tony Blair - good thing there are not parliamentary elections in this country."
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"It can be rebuilt if other countries with selfish interests will not meddle, as has been done in the past."
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"Every perfect traveler always creates the country where he travels."
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"We're a nation of liars. But I mean that in the kindest sense."
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"Arizona now has one of the most innovative systems of financing school construction in the nation."
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"We send missionaries to China so the Chinese can get to heaven, but we won't let them into our country."
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"America is the sum of all our journeys as we search for our national community and our national culture."
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"Niger is not an isolated island of desperation. It lies within a sea of problems across Africa - particularly the 'forgotten emergencies' in poor countries or regions with little strategic or material appeal."
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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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