Country Quotes

• The problem is that in our country, they make it almost impossible for politicians to win anything. In England it's easier to win a libel suit.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Problem
  • Win
  • Impossible

• Instituting equal pay is especially important because families in our country increasingly rely on women's wages to make ends meet. When women bring home less money each day, it means they have less for the everyday needs of their families - groceries, rent, child care, and doctors' visits.

  

  Jan Schakowsky
  • Important
  • Women
  • Money

• John F. Kennedy brought style and charisma to the White House and a first family that captivated the country: a handsome, witty president, an elegant first lady, and two adorable young children.

  

  Kitty Kelley
  • Children
  • Family
  • House

• I tell my wife she is only the third most important thing after my country and my parents, in that order.

  

  Mahendra Singh Dhoni
  • Important
  • She
  • Parents

• Lives that are so conspicuous have a claustrophobic feeling. Once you're in charge of running a country, you're under scrutiny all the time. That's a trap.

  

  Kathryn Harrison
  • Time
  • Feeling
  • Running

• My first job out of CalArts was performing monologues at the Women of Faith conferences across the country.

  

  Deborah Joy Winans
  • Women
  • Job
  • Faith

• I have a real sense of optimism that we are revolutionizing the way we do politics in this country.

  

  Joan Blades
  • Country
  • Real

• The country crowd just has fun.

  

  Charles Kelley Lady Antebellum
  • Country
  • Fun

• We need to inspire and give each other confidence so that the work we do will be fruitful for the well-being of the people and the stability and security of the country.

  

  Bhumibol Adulyadej
  • People
  • Work
  • Confidence

• I really like Alan Jackson, in Country Music. I think he's really very, very talented along with George Jones, and Merle Haggard, the same old favorites.

  

  Tanya Tucker
  • Music
  • Country
  • Think

• At the dawn of the 19th century, the country was awakening to its enormous scope and variety.

  

  David Lavender
  • Century
  • Enormous
  • Awakening

• The present danger which this country faces is at least as great as the danger which we faced during the war with Germany and Japan. Briefly stated, it is the very real danger that this country, as we know it, may cease to exist.

  

  James Forrestal
  • Great
  • Real
  • May

• I don't know anybody who doesn't hate being called alt.country. It just sounds like a website. I don't mind being called Americana, I don't mind being called country noir, or independent country is fine, but the words alt.country make me insane.

  

  Neko Case
  • Mind
  • Words
  • Hate

• It wasn't the Mayflower. It wasn't the Love Boat. But it brought us to this magical country and reunited our family, so it was beautiful to me, ... Faith, hard work and the kindness of new friends carried my family forward and made it possible for me to become the first Asian-Pacific-American woman to serve in the Cabinet of a president of the United States.

  

  Elaine Chao
  • Work
  • Family
  • Friends

• We are trying to create a nation that has never before existed, of all the races, tribes, cultures and creeds of Earth, where all are equal. In this utopian drive for the perfect society of our dreams we are killing the real country we inherited - the best and greatest country on earth.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Real
  • Trying
  • Society

• This old aristocracy and Church-ridden, and tradition-ridden country will never grow wiser. Whilst we are fighting for supremacy in Europe the United States are working, and not fighting for it, but winning it all over the world.

  

  John Bright
  • World
  • Church
  • Fighting

• What Mexico City cannot do and my country cannot do is to allow us to be intimidated, the authorities to be intimidated, by organized crime.

  

  Enrique Pena Nieto
  • Country
  • City

• The natural instinct is to join in the chorus of conflict, to make your voice louder, your point bigger, and your position stronger. But we will not solve the significant and real problems our country faces if we cannot bring ourselves to embrace a mindset of grace.

  

  Betsy DeVos
  • Country
  • Real
  • Mindset

• You want to balance the budget in this country? We change the salary structure for Congress and the President. Every year they don't balance the budget, we don't pay them.

  

  Daniel Keys Moran
  • Country
  • Balance

• I'm not curing cancer or running a small county. I haven't developed a greener car. I just play act. And if I can bring people a moment of fun and relief in their lives, well, that's the win.

  

  Jane Elliot
  • Country
  • Running
  • Cancer

• When I think about protest, I worry so much that people think about it only as standing in the streets. And I say that as someone who has been standing in the streets of cities across the country - but at the root of it is this idea of telling the truth in public.

  

  DeRay Mckesson
  • People
  • Truth
  • Worry

• Now, a fancy ball is bad enough in London, where milliners are many, and where theatres have costumes that may be borrowed or copied ; but in the country, where people are left to their own devices-truly to them may be applied the old poet's account of murderers, 'their fancies are all frightful.'

  

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon
  • People
  • May
  • Bad

• Saying the Washington Post is just a newspaper is like saying Rasputin was just a country priest.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Country
  • Saying
  • Newspaper

• I was a folk singer who became totally over the edge with country music. I found my voice and style working with Gram Parsons. I learned how to listen to George Jones records and the Louvin Brothers.

  

  Emmylou Harris
  • Music
  • Country
  • Style

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