Country Quotes

Nothing would please the Kremlin more than to have the people of this country choose a second rate president.

I was born in 1940 in Minnesota and grew up in the country... dirt roads, swamps, lakes, woods.

You may think I'm brave. But in the eyes of many people back in my country I am a coward. They think, this man gave so much freedom to his daughter, he broke all the traditions of our society.

Racism is so universal in this country, so widespread and deepseated, that it is invisible because it is so normal.

I have a neighbor who knows 200 types of wine. ... I only know two types of wine - red and white. But my neighbor only knows two types of countries - industrialized and developing. And I know 200.

I have lived in countries that were coming out of conflict: Ireland, South Africa, the Czech republic. People there are overflowing with energy.

I wanted the world to know that my country Ethiopia has always won with determination and heroism.

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.

There is no such thing as a Palestinian people... It is not as if we came and threw them out and took their country. They didn't exist.

My hope is that countries like Morocco will have investment to create work, so people don't have to leave.

Saying the Washington Post is just a newspaper is like saying Rasputin was just a country priest.

Stay with us, please remain in this country and constitute a nation based on national unity.

I've always felt that blues, rock 'n' roll and country are just about a beat apart.

It is not great wealth in a few individuals that proves a country is prosperous, but great general wealth evenly distributed among the people. . .

The Baltic Sea is becoming more and more polluted. Not everybody living near the shore of the Baltic Sea is protecting it. It is the water of life for countries like Finland and Sweden.

Our first Prime Minister saw a country that would be known for its generosity of spirit. And so it is.

Would you bet your paycheck on a weather forecast for tomorrow? If not, then why should this country bet billions on global warming predictions that have even less foundation?

Whether you come from a council estate or a country estate, your success will be determined by your own confidence and fortitude.

I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country.

We obviously need the truth. We're living in a country of lies.

A country where a man is afraid to criticise another one is no socialist country.

We'll all be equal under the grass, and God's got a heaven for country trash.

Citizenship consists in the service of the country.

Never before in our country's history has a generation been so empowered, so wealthy, so privileged - and yet so empty.

The U.S. has the finest research scientists in the world, but we are falling far behind other countries, like South Korea and Singapore, that are moving forward with embryonic stem cell research.

There are too many people who imagine that there is something sophisticated about always believing the best of those who hate your country, and the worst of those who defend it.

Is it not enough that we are torn from our country and friends, to toil for your luxury and lust of gain? Must every tender feeling be likewise sacrificed to your avarice?

We favor putting Congress on a commission basis. Pay them for results. If they do a good job and the country prospers, they get 10% of the extra take.

You're the only one and only My heart's beating for I love you, need I say more

If the invaders reach Iran, the country will turn into a burning hell for them.

The military might of a country represents its national strength. Only when it builds up its military might in every way can it develop into a thriving country.

Everything gets hotter when the sun goes down.

The nation needs men who think in terms of service to their country and not in terms of their country's debt to them.

Belgium is a country invented by the British to annoy the French.

All governments lie, but disaster lies in wait for countries whose officials smoke the same hashish they give out.

I have no regrets and if I had nine lives I would have gladly given them all up for my country.

A country that does not know how to read and write is easy to deceive.

America is my country and Paris is my hometown.

In the world over, the very name of our country is immediately associated with the Parthenon.

This is a very unforgiving country when you show this country its warts, when you hold the mirror up. If you happen not to share their beliefs, they'll kill you.

Of all the bewildering things about a new country, the absence of human landmarks is one of the most depressing and disheartening.

I drive a lot. Just for pleasure. Sometimes I'll get in the Cadillac and drive around the city or the country, kind of trying to get lost basically. Y'know, just see where roads lead.

There are millions of children today who don't attend school. However, education is the only way to get ahead in this country.

You people of the South don't know what you are doing. This country will be drenched in blood, and God only knows how it will end.

Go West, young man, go West. There is health in the country, and room away from our crowds of idlers and imbeciles.

The vote has been costly. Prize it...understand what it means and what it can do for your country.

What you see is kinda what you get with me. I'm a very real person, or I hope to be, anyway. I don't have nothing to hide

America - it is a fabulous country, the only fabulous country; it is the only place where miracles not only happen, but where they happen all the time.

I missed my home - like the physicality of my home, I missed my friends and my family mostly and just hanging out and being in your home country - culturally it feels right and that is what I miss.

Christ was born in the first century, yet he belongs to all centuries. He was born a Jew, yet He belongs to all races. He was born in Bethlehem, yet He belongs to all countries.