Countries Quotes
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Scotland will not be a foreign country after independence, any more than Ireland, Northern Ireland, England or Wales could ever be “foreign countries” to Scotland.
Alex Salmond
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We are nothing: imitations, copies, phantoms: repeaters of what we understand badly, that is, hardly at all: the animated fossils of a prehistory that have lived neither here nor there, consequently anywhere, for we are aboriginal foreigners, transplanted from birth in our respective countries of origin.
Enrique Lihn
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Every politician in the world is all for revolution, reason, and disarmament-but only in enemy countries, not in his own.
Hermann Hesse
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It's my dream to sing onstage all around the world. France is the land of my birth, but I prefer other countries because the world is very, very big and I'd like to discover different countries - it's my first reason for travelling and singing.
Amaury Vassili
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Most of the people who are coming to Australia by boat have passed through several countries on the way, and if they simply wanted asylum they could have claimed that in any of the countries through which they'd passed.
Tony Abbott
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So the president set out the policy guidance and said it had to take place in a multilateral fashion so that other countries in the region could be invested in the success of this process.
Mitchell Reiss
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Go to foreign countries and you will get to know the good things one possesses at home.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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I believe democracy will succeed in Tunisia, but I also believe that it will succeed in the other Arab Spring countries.
Rashid al-Ghannushi
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This is something that concerns me because we had a kind of an eco-system, a balance between the different leagues and countries and now we have an intruder who might disrupt that balance.
Javier Tebas
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There are, I think, three countries left in the world where I can go and I'm not as well-known as I am here. I'm a pretty big star, folks - I don't have to tell you. Superstar, I guess you could say.
Bruce Willis
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...immigration today is a racial issue. It is one which sees masses of non-whites from around the globe immigrating to white countries.
Arthur Kemp
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Without freedom there will be no firearms among the people; without firearms among the people there will not long be freedom. Certainly there are examples of countries where the people remain relatively free after the people have been disarmed, but there are no examples of a totalitarian state being created or existing where the people have personal arms.
Neal Knox
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In this, of all the countries in the world, possession of inordinate wealth by individuals should be held as a crime against Indian humanity.
Mahatma Gandhi
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China believes that it has the rightful claim to a vast portion of the South China Sea, which is claimed by other countries.
Evan Osnos
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"All countries, big or small, strong or weak, are equal members of the United Nations"
Nông Đức Mạnh
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For some members of the radical Left, particularly in the West, people in developing countries are an ideological abstraction, on whom fantasies of liberation are projected from a comfortable distance.
Amitava Kumar
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I have twenty countries in my memory and trail in my soul the colors of one hundred cities.
Arthur Cravan
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I have to say that it's very few countries that are willing to look back at its past and apologize for its act, or make amends for its act, as the United States had one.
Bob Matsui
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I think we have a thriving economic engine between not only the U.S. and Mexico but the U.S. and many, many other countries.
Oscar Munoz
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In 1949, I believed that social progress, the triumph of the proletariat, socialism would lead to the emancipation of women. But I saw that nothing came of it: first of all, that socialism was not achieved anywhere, and that in certain countries which called themselves socialist, the situation of women was no better than it was in so-called capitalist countries.
Simone de Beauvoir
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Over time, yes, countries will need to look at specific GMO products like they look at drugs today, where they don't approve them all. They look hard at the safety and the testing. And they make sure that the benefits far outweigh any of the downsides.
Bill Gates
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I mean there are many, many people in all sorts of different countries who don't have a great life, who are subject to injustice. Are we obliged to take all of them who come here? I think the answer is 'Not necessarily.'
Tony Abbott
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I've always been interested in why countries appear and disappear. And the curious thing is how often it happens.
Juan Enriquez
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I do feel like once you know you are someone who is in the world and there are other countries and cultures, that stays with you and your decision-making forever.
Miriam Shor