National Quotes

A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.

When I wear the national team shirt, its sole contact with my skin makes it stand on an end.

Early on, New York already had a national and even international identity.

I spent my first twenty years in Morocco, where I coached the national team.

AIDS and malaria and TB are national security issues. A worldwide program to get a start on dealing with these issues would cost about $25 billion... It's, what, a few months in Iraq.

The only thing I can cheer for in Philadelphia is the national anthem.

History offers no evidence for the proposition that the assignment of women to military combat jobs is the way to win wars, improve combat readiness, or promote national security.

Due process and judicial process are not one and the same, particularly when it comes to national security.

In the days when hyenas of hate suckle the babes of men, and jackals of hypocrisy pimp their mothers’ broken hearts, may children not look to demons of ignorance for hope.

I dream of a Digital India where cyber security becomes an integral part of our National Security.

If there's a golf course in heaven, I hope it's like Augusta National. I just don't want an early tee time.

I like traditions, and the national anthem is important.

You will be pleased to know I stand obediently for the national anthem, though of course I would defend your right to remain seated should you so decide.

The symphonic orchestras have sponsors, people who give them endowments, and I think it should be the same way with jazz - because this is a national treasure.

The jelly-bean eating thug says that national defense is important. But national defense starts at home.

Some national parks have long waiting lists for camping reservations. When you have to wait a year to sleep next to a tree, something is wrong.

Two increasing themes which appear to dominate our listening, reading and watching lives are propaganda and 'national security', or manufactured war.

Our flag is not just one of many political points of view. Rather, the flag is a symbol of our national unity.

However useful may be the National Parks and Forests of the West for those affording the Pullman fare to reach them, what is needed by the bulk of the American population is something nearer home.

I think anybody in our - in the, in the national security apparatus has, has got to take full cognizance of their responsibility for the safeguarding of classified information.

The white cracker who wrote the National Anthem knew what he was doing. He set the word "free" to a note so high nobody could reach it. That was deliberate.

It is my experience that most claims of national security are part of a campaign to avoid telling the truth.

National security - the military is the first thing we should spend money on. You have to fully fund that first. And then you should be paying for everything else.

War is a blessing compared with national degradation.

The US Airforce assures me that UFO's pose no threat to National Security.

If a team lives up to its role as favorite, it will have earned the World Cup. By the way, Adidas grew by about 30 percent in Brazil even without sponsoring the national team.

I had lots of breaks. I guess the one that got my foot in the door was singing the National Anthem at the National Finals Rodeo in Oklahoma City in '74.

...Skyscraper National Park

FC Barcelona is the national team of Catalonia

I think Noam Chomsky is a national treasure - make that an international treasure.

I've never been more nervous in my life than singing the national anthem at the Super Bowl.

The only way you can check Gretzky is to hit him when he is standing still singing the national anthem.

The front line with ISIS isn't just in Iraq and Syria, it's in Kennedy Airport and the Rio Grande. Border security is national security.

The National Park Service today exemplifies one of the highest traditions of public service.

We could form a government of national unity fighting corruption. The ordinary Afghan is sick and tired of it, because it's she or he that pays the price.

When you get the economy growing, that's when you can deal with the national debt.

Philanthropic colonization is a failure. National colonization will succeed.

Architecture is not merely national but clearly has local ties in that it is rooted in the earth.

Baseball is not a conventional industry. It belongs neither to the players nor management, but to all of us. It is our national pastime, our national symbol, and our national treasure.

Our biggest national security crisis is Barack Obama.

The National defense is one of the cardinal duties of a statesman.

There's nothing wrong with being a large mammal.

Yes, I hate it when people call me a 'national treasure'. It takes away your bite and makes you feel like a harmless old golden Labrador.

The truth is that I oppose the Iraq war, just as I opposed the Vietnam War, because these two conflicts have weakened the U.S. and diminished our standing in the world and our national security.

The current tax code is a daily mugging.

I was in the De Witt Clinton Hight School marching band. One of the worst bands ever formed. When we played the national anthem, people from every country stood - except Americans.

Other than sports, only war and catastrophe can create this sort of national unity.

The dancing vortex of a sacred metaphor clashes horns and halos to make wounded music set to the tempo of a new era in brilliant labor.

Wilderness, like the national park system, was an American idea.

The Sun in London ran a front page declaring my bum a national treasure. I really did laugh at that. Its not like it can actually do anything, except wiggle.