Countries Quotes

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

  

  Mette Frederiksen
  • Buy
  • Sell
  • Populations

• The name Muhammad is the most common name in the world. In all the countries around the world - Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Morocco, Turkey, Syria, Lebanon - there are more Muhammads than anything else.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • World
  • Countries
  • Common Name

• It is the entire euro zone system which is under threat at the moment, not just a few small countries anymore... Our euro is under threat. The changing situation needs a quick and immediate reaction.

  

  Iveta Radicova
  • Reaction
  • Euro
  • Changing Situation

• I have been an actor now for 40 years having worked in over 10 countries and three languages.

  

  Nick Mancuso
  • Actor
  • Countries
  • Languages

• The countries made themselves independent from Spain, but only changed owners, who stayed in positions of power were the criollos, the Spanish descendants who were the new administrators of power and wealth in the country. And those families for generations have maintained themselves in positions of power. Latin America founded itself on everyone being equal, but in reality we aren't.

  

  Bocafloja
  • Power
  • Independent
  • Generations

• Other countries care for their mentally ill. Making them debate on TV is just cruel.

  

  Andy Borowitz
  • Care
  • Countries
  • Mentally Ill

• We are three countries that emerged from the former Yugoslavia - countries that are now in transition and must cooperate with each other, because our economies depend on each other.

  

  Stjepan Mesic
  • Countries
  • Cooperate
  • Economies

• We need to stay in Iraq until the job is done. The President understands this and I'm glad that he is getting more countries to participate. We must change the chant of millions of young Muslims from 'Jihad Against the World' to 'Freedom and Democracy.'

  

  George Voinovich
  • Job
  • Countries
  • Participate

• In some countries we have had the right to vote for less than 100 years, so the entry of women into political leadership has caused a tsunami.

  

  Iveta Radicova
  • Women
  • Leadership
  • Vote

• On the whole, it seems to me that probably the American press is doing a better job of this mediation, so to speak, between the people and the administration than the press of any other country.

  

  Walter Millis
  • People
  • Jobs
  • Presses

• In low-income countries, getting to a health post is hard. It's very expensive.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Health
  • Countries
  • Low-Income

• In many countries, IT is a pillar of growth and attracts a lot more competitive talent.

  

  Renee James
  • Talent
  • Competitive
  • Pillar

• The thing that makes countries want to pursue some kind of nuclear deterrent is precisely the fact that they feel threatened.

  

  Stephen M. Walt
  • Countries
  • Nuclear
  • Threatened

• Diverse groups of countries can do a lot by trading amongst themselves, exploiting differences in costs, resources, and technologies.

  

  Daniel Altman
  • Themselves
  • Trading
  • Diverse

• A lot of countries have advanced capabilities. And given the vulnerabilities of our infrastructure and our economies to digital platforms, we have to be careful in making sure that this doesn't become a lawless, low-level battlefield.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Careful
  • Capabilities
  • Economies

• When the show first stopped back in the ‘80s, I and a lot of the other actors thought people would stop talking about it… [but] it began rerunning in all the other countries, it didn’t go away, it only escalated. I get recognized more now than I did when the show as running. There was a time in my 20s when I would say I didn’t want to be recognized as Nellie forever… but Nellie was a lot of fun to play… Indeed, I thought I’d be sick of it, but now, it just makes me smile.

  

  Alison Arngrim
  • Play
  • Show
  • Countries

• Anytime you bring a really powerful new technology to market there are multiple implications. You start changing the relative position of countries.

  

  Juan Enriquez
  • Technology
  • Position
  • Countries

• Nietzsche said that everyone tells themselves the story of their life. That's true about countries, too. We're constantly telling ourselves the American story.

  

  Ben Dreyfuss
  • Life
  • Neitzsche
  • American Story

• I’m born in Britain – but my family were born in Pakistan. When I fight, in the crowd you see Pakistani people and you see British people – they’re all mixed together and they support Amir Khan. On my shorts, when I fight, I have the Pakistani flag on one side and on the other side I have the Britain flag – to promote the two countries together.

  

  Amir Khan
  • Fight
  • Countries
  • Flag

• Many free countries have lost their liberty, and ours may lose hers; but, if she shall, be it my proudest plume, not that I was the last to desert, but that I never deserted her.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Free
  • Lost
  • Liberty

• We all know what we mean by fighting terrorism. In reality, there is total cooperation between the countries north and south of the Mediterranean against terrorism.

  

  Javier Solana
  • Terrorism
  • Countries
  • Cooperation

• Developing countries have much to gain from capital mobility: the ability to tap external sources of finance, greater financial efficiency from deeper stock and bond markets, and technology transfer and know-how from foreign direct investment.

  

  Zanny Minton Beddoes
  • Financial
  • Investment
  • Capital

• In establishment Indian and Pakistani thought, Kashmiris are defined as different from the nationals of the two countries.

  

  Nyla Ali Khan
  • Countries
  • Establishment
  • Nationals

• The Olympic Games are for 'the youth of the world,' but they're organized and scored by countries. It's no surprise that countries treat them as vehicles of national pride, and assume that their people will be most interested in their own athletes. So anybody who was saving up to write an angry letter, blog post, or op-ed about NBC's chauvinistic coverage: don't bother! They're actually more above-the-fray than most. Also, their coverage is not shown anywhere except America - I know, it's because I can't get it that I'm watching Women's Air Pistol - so can't ruffle feathers elsewhere.

  

  James Fallows
  • World
  • Countries
  • Olympic Games

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