Country Quotes

• A well balanced, inclusive approach, according to certain standards and ideals, is essential for the proper governance of any country.

  

  Laisenia Qarase
  • Country
  • Governance

• My mother has always been open about all kinds of music and entertainment. She wanted us to see that it was not just country music and the Grand Ole Opry.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Music
  • She
  • Mother

• To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Country
  • Love
  • Lovely

• More than 180 countries around the world have ratified CEDAW, some with reservations. While the United States signed the treaty in 1981, it is one of the few countries that have not yet ratified it. As a global leader for human rights and equality, I believe our country should adopt this resolution and ratify the CEDAW treaty.

  

  Jan Schakowsky
  • World
  • Believe
  • Equality

• As I looked out on the crowd, I was witnessing things I had witnessed in the Plaza de Mayo in Argentina or in squares in Belgrade… it breaks my heart when I see it in my country.

  

  Chris Hedges
  • Country
  • Heart

• A small item but the point is Nixon came in, shut it down, there was the shooting at Kent State, and gosh, I know liberals don't like it and when you look on Nexis and oh, the whole country was embarrassed. Well, I'm not embarrassed. That's what you do with a mob. They were monstrous at Kent State. It was being led by Bill Ayers.

  

  Ann Coulter
  • Country
  • Small

• What’s going on in this country is insane. And we have people running our country that don’t know what they’re doing, they’re grossly incompetent, and it’s time. We have to make change, real change. Not Obama change, we have to make change.

  

  Donald Trump
  • People
  • Time
  • Real

• I've been a regular customer at CVS Pharmacy, the country's second-largest drugstore chain, for 20 years. I've spent a small fortune there over that span, visiting several times a week to pick up everything from milk to toothpaste to prescriptions.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Up
  • Small
  • Week

• I understood from a very young age that school was important and that my parents were making great sacrifices for me. Every morning I saw my father get up and go to a job that he didn't really like. They came to France for the same reasons all immigrants move to another country - so their kids could have a better way of life.

  

  Omar Sy
  • Life
  • Up
  • Great

• At the end of the day, I think my story is, we need black officers because African-Americans need a fair shot at good jobs in this country, but we cannot expect them and should not expect them to change the nature of policing.

  

  James Forman, Jr.
  • Good
  • Nature
  • Black

• If a terrorist group wanted to hit Britain, all they'd have to do is kill 100 random celebrities. The country would have a nervous breakown.

  

  Chris Morris
  • Country
  • Random

• And, I was really impressed with how beautiful our country was and how friendly the people were.

  

  Duane G. Carey
  • People
  • Country
  • Beautiful

• There is a difference between a military mission and the aspiration for the long-term plans for the country. What we want is a stable enough Afghanistan, able to look after its own security so we can leave without the fear of it imploding... But let's be clear - it's not going to be perfect.

  

  Liam Fox
  • Long
  • Fear
  • Perfect

• Getting a college degree used to be free or low cost because, as a society, we saw providing higher education to young people as an investment - in them and in the future of our own country.

  

  Pramila Jayapal
  • People
  • Future
  • Society

• I'd really love to play a real-life country and western singer.

  

  David Keith
  • Life
  • Country
  • Real

• Spacecraft sent to Mars, Saturn, Mercury, the moon, comets, and asteroids have been making incredible discoveries, with more to come from recent launches to Jupiter, the moon, and Mars. The country needs more of these robotic space exploration missions, not less.

  

  Bill Nye
  • Country
  • Space
  • Moon

• I consider myself lucky to have been born into a family that valued service to both one's country and one's community.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Family
  • Community
  • Myself

• If you go on TV and say there's no other country in the world where you can be born poor and become rich, you get a huge megaphone. If you tell the truth, which is that most of the studies show actually the United States is worse than anybody except Britain in upward mobility, there is no audience for you.

  

  David Frum
  • World
  • Country
  • Truth

• For the undocumented immigrants, the big priority is just to get out from the shadows, be able to get a driver's license, buy an airplane ticket and stop worrying about sudden deportation. But for the country as a whole, it's crucial that everybody have a citizen's stake in the nation's welfare.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Stop
  • Priority
  • Airplane

• I just want to believe that, as a citizen in this country, that I have equal protection under the law and that I can have a situation assessed fairly, that people can look at it, and that a court of law can determine what the outcome is.

  

  Danny K. Davis
  • People
  • Believe
  • Law

• The Vatican has to strike a difficult balance between running a country and running a religious institution.

  

  Ian Caldwell
  • Running
  • Religious
  • Balance

• I'd love to write a country album with Adele.

  

  Marcus Mumford Mumford & Sons
  • Country

• You know, America is - for me, it's the best country.

  

  Manny Pacquiao
  • America
  • Me
  • Best

• There's something troubling about a condition in which one country alone, which has roughly 5 percent of the world's population, spends more than 50 percent of the world's defense budgets. There's something weird about it.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • World
  • Alone
  • Weird

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