Countries Quotes

• Although it has become longer, countries are now fully aware of each other's positions.

  

  Christiana Figueres
  • Aware
  • Each Other
  • Positions

• It will be put together without any doubt. I think the a good number of countries will participate.

  

  Javier Solana
  • Together
  • Countries
  • Participate

• What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations ... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Change
  • Joy
  • Generation

• When the Berlin Wall fell and suddenly all those countries had burgeoning democracies, women were still being left out. The big turning point, about ten years ago, was moving from a notion of empowering women to actually looking at where you can make the most difference, and it's in a girl's life.

  

  Kathy Calvin
  • Moving
  • Difference
  • Democracies

• We have made it possible, without gold and without foreign exchange, to maintain the value of the German mark. Behind the German mark stands the German capacity for work, while some foreign countries, suffocated by gold, have been compelled to devalue their currencies.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • Value
  • German
  • Exchange

• I don't like the current political system in the USA and some other countries. Increasingly democracy has been hijacked by corporate interests.

  

  Neil Young Buffalo Springfield
  • Political
  • Democracy
  • USA

• First of all, I think all countries in the world have agreed it is not in anyone's interest to test-fire a missile, or whatever its is.

  

  Lee Myung-bak
  • World
  • Fire
  • Interest

• We have so many opportunities in first world countries. Let's not squander them by focusing on obstacles-real or imaginary!

  

  Catherine DeVrye
  • Opportunities
  • Focusing
  • Squander

• We studied a mosque, and this is when we were at Notre Dame, and in this mosque they had people from a variety of countries, most of them immigrants. In some of the countries, when you go into a mosque you remove your shoes. To not do so could be punishable even by death in that nation. In other countries, it would be a great offense to remove their shoes when they come into the mosque, a sign of disrespect.

  

  Michael Emerson
  • Nation
  • Immigrants
  • Notre Dame

• In the East — in Greece and Syria and Egypt — the Romans had conquered countries which had ancient and splendid traditions, and were more civilized than their conquerors.

  

  George Hodges
  • Countries
  • Traditions
  • Conquerors

• Countries that will not tax their elite who expect us to come in and help them serve their people are just not going to get the kind of help from us that historically they may have.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Tax
  • Countries
  • Elite

• Africa does not have an uncle abroad who will come to bail it out of its political and economic woes. It is important that African countries wake up and pool whatever resources they have and jointly deal elements pulling our continent down a death blow

  

  Bernard Membe
  • Pool
  • Africa
  • Woes

• We Marxists believe that revolution will occur in other countries, as well. But it will occur at a time when it will be considered possible or necessary by revolutionaries of those countries.

  

  Joseph Stalin
  • Revolution
  • Countries
  • Marxists

• Peace between countries must rest on the solid foundation of love between individuals.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Love
  • Peace
  • Individuals

• German economic salvation has been brought about solely through the efforts of the German people and the experience they have gained. Countries abroad have contributed nothing to this.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • Salvation
  • Efforts
  • German People

• We in the West must bear in mind that the poor countries are poor primarily because we have exploited them through political or economic colonialism.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Mind
  • Countries
  • Colonialism

• I have found that many other countries will buy off on anything American. As much as they hate us, they want to be us more than anything.

  

  April Winchell
  • American
  • Hate
  • Countries

• Ninety countries still hold on to capital punishment, and, sadly, one of these is the United States, the only Western industrialized country to practice this barbaric punishment.

  

  Antoinette Bosco
  • Practice
  • Countries
  • Capital Punishment

• We can't possibly fight all the terrorists in all the countries where they exist because we don't have the money or manpower to do so.

  

  Michael Huffington
  • Money
  • Terrorists
  • Possibly

• People in the rich countries who have done very well, who are at the top of the income pyramid, try to steamroll over the opposition of the middle without changing anything in social programs, or any redistribution. And they take their votes for a given. They have rich people that bankroll them. And the globalization would continue, but it would continue with permanent dissatisfaction among large segments of the people.

  

  Branko Milanovic
  • Changing
  • Income
  • Votes

• We need to deport these criminals and negotiate agreements requiring that they do their time in their own countries.

  

  Kathleen Brown
  • Negotiate
  • Requiring
  • Deport

• Thankfully, the time where you buy and sell other countries and populations is over.

  

  Mette Frederiksen
  • Buy
  • Sell
  • Populations

• It is only in the backward countries of the world that increased production is still an important object.

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • Important
  • Countries
  • Production

• If our countries had war the one with the other, that was no cause that he should put us to death; with which they were out of heart that their cruel pretense failed them. For which God be forever-more praised.

  

  William Adams The Black Eyed Peas
  • War
  • Death
  • Countries

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