Thomas R. Marshall Quotes

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• The treatment by some towards these young refugees is hideously racist and utterly heartless. What's happening to our country?

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Country
  • Young
  • Heartless

• The United States has been enriched by Muslim Americans. Many other Americans have Muslims in their families or have lived in a Muslim-majority country - I know, because I am one of them.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Country
  • United States
  • Muslim

• Despite all odds we have emerged as one people and one country.

  

  Yahya Jammeh
  • People
  • Country
  • Odds

• In terms of the principles of politics, I think I understand well. Thailand needs someone who has leadership, who has the management skills to help the country.

  

  Yingluck Shinawatra
  • Country
  • Help
  • Leadership

• Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Country
  • Love
  • Man

• I was elected to the Senate in 2010 by people worried about our country, worried about our kids and their future.

  

  Rand Paul
  • People
  • Country
  • Kids

• Zimbabweans are severely malnourished, and deaths from starvation occur even in the cities. The country has not yet suffered nationwide famine only because international donors have stepped in.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Country
  • Starvation
  • Famine

• I think I first realized I wanted to be in country music and be an artist when I was 10. And I started dragging my parents to festivals, and fairs, and karaoke contests, and I did that for about a year before I came to Nashville for the first time. I was 11 and I had this demo CD of me singing Dixie Chicks and Leanne Rimes songs.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Time
  • Music
  • Country

• If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Country
  • Family
  • Mother

• You don't know what the country is ready for unless you're pushing that envelope, and I was told that I couldn't develop 'Will and Grace'.

  

  Warren Littlefield
  • Country
  • Know
  • Grace

• But I was, and still am, an avid reader and so when I first started I chose to photograph many of the great writers in this country to try and earn a living.

  

  Fay Godwin
  • Great
  • Country
  • Try

• The country is too often assumed to be a backward place: The First World has trouble remembering that Haitians were two centuries ahead of us in abolishing slavery and in extending full rights of citizenship to everyone, regardless of race.

  

  Madison Smartt Bell
  • World
  • Country
  • Slavery

• Pakistan is a peace-loving, democratic country.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Country
  • Peace
  • Democratic

• Football's about the young players, bringing youth team players through to the first team and hopefully getting the best out of them so they can go on to play for their country.

  

  Wayne Rooney
  • Country
  • Team
  • Best

• Sometimes I have these fantasies of just moving to a foreign country and coming back with a full head of hair. Or not even come back! Make a new life there with hair... Change my name, just see what happens.

  

  Larry David
  • Life
  • Country
  • Change

• If we had zero corporate tax in this country, tens of millions of jobs would get created in this country for no other reason.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Country
  • Reason
  • Tax

• Right around the end of the fifties, college students and young people in general, began to realize that this music was almost like a history of our country - this music contained the real history of the people of this country.

  

  Jackson Browne
  • People
  • Music
  • Country

• You know, I go around the country a lot.

  

  Sally Ride
  • Country
  • You
  • Know

• Before Barack Obama took office, it looked like that pride could have vanished forever, but today, from the staggering depths of the Great Recession, the nation has had 29 straight months of job growth. Workers across my state and across the country are getting back the dignity of a good job and a good salary.

  

  Ted Strickland
  • Good
  • Great
  • Country

• How can great minds be produced in a country where the test of great minds is agreeing in the opinion of small minds?

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • Country
  • Opinion
  • Great Minds

• There's three parts to football: offense, defense, and special teams. You'd no more ignore special teams than you would offense or defense.

  

  Marv Levy
  • Football
  • Ignore

• In my experience, honesty is the best policy. And being a friend to somebody is not always the best way to help them.

  

  Jillian Michaels
  • Experience
  • Help
  • Friend

• I now myself live, in every detail, striving for wisdom, while I formerly merely worshipped and idolized the wise.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Live
  • Wisdom
  • Wise

• What this country needs is a really good 5-cent cigar

  

  Thomas R. Marshall
  • Country
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