Countries Quotes

• My greatest contribution to hip-hop was allowing the United States of America to know and understand exactly how far they reach, and how influential they are to children in completely different countries because I am the import.

  

  Monie Love
  • Children
  • Contribution
  • Influential

• 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

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

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • Important
  • Countries
  • Production

• 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

• 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 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

• 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

• You know, I agree with President Obama that in Iraq and Afghanistan, at some point in time, we have to take the training wheels off and we have to allow those countries to stand on their own two feet.

  

  Josh Mandel
  • Stand
  • Countries
  • Allow

• 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

• 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

• I do a lot of reading, a lot of studying. I ask questions, I'll go out, travel these countries, I'll watch how their people live, and I learn.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • Reading
  • Questions
  • Countries

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

  

  Kathleen Brown
  • Negotiate
  • Requiring
  • Deport

• 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

• I never count countries. Travel is not a contest.

  

  Andrew Evans
  • Travel
  • Countries
  • Contest

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

  

  Renee James
  • Talent
  • Competitive
  • Pillar

• It is a law of nature that fainthearted men should be the fruit of luxurious countries, for we never find that the same soil produces delicacies and heroes.

  

  Herodotus
  • Countries
  • Heroes
  • Law Of Nature

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

  

  Andy Borowitz
  • Care
  • Countries
  • Mentally Ill

• Experts now talk about the ‘nutrition transition’, in which populations in developing countries move straight from malnourishment to obesity.

  

  Damian Thompson
  • Experts
  • Developing
  • Malnourishment

• 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

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

  

  Nyla Ali Khan
  • Countries
  • Establishment
  • Nationals

• 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

• We were surprised that the television series had the kind of longevity that it had after only four years of filming it and the reception in 6 countries around the world was quite extraordinary.

  

  Paul Michael Glaser
  • Countries
  • Series
  • Filming

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

  

  Daniel Altman
  • Themselves
  • Trading
  • Diverse

• 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

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