Country Quotes

• My argument is focused on the fact that a relatively small percentage of the world's Muslim countries are impacted by this order. Stated differently, this executive order is a singularly ineffective - in legal parlance, it would be called under-inclusive - form of a Muslim ban.

  

  David B. Rivkin
  • World
  • Argument
  • Focused

• I think in this country we're committed to developing plays, and many plays I've seen have been rewritten too much. The scenes are tight, the play ends at the right time, you know exactly what the scene is about, but it seems flat; you can almost see that too many hands have been on the play. The individual voice is gone.

  

  Albert Ramsdell Gurney Jr.
  • Time
  • Country

• This perpetual round of constrained civilities to persons quite indifferent to us, is the most provoking and tiresome thing in theworld, but it is unavoidable in a country town, where everybody is known.... 'Tis a most shocking and unworthy way of spending our precious irrecoverable time, to those who know not its value.

  

  Fanny Burney
  • Time
  • Way
  • Value

• will help activate the political mediation of the situation in that country with an active role of the United Nations.

  

  Igor Ivanov
  • Help
  • Political
  • Situation

• Living in a state of terror was new to many white people in America, but black people have been living in a state of terror in this country for more than 400 years.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • People
  • America
  • Black

• Operation Iraqi Freedom is over, and the Iraqi people now have lead responsibility for the security of their country

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Freedom
  • Responsibility

• I hope for my children, and for all Mexicans, that they can be proud to be Mexican, proud of their heritage, and proud that they have a peaceful, inclusive, vibrant country that is playing a role in the world.

  

  Enrique Pena Nieto
  • World
  • Children
  • Hope

• A privilege may not be a right, but, under the constitution of the country, I do not gather that any broad distinction is drawn between the rights and the privileges that were enjoyed and that were taken away.

  

  Charles Tupper
  • Country
  • May
  • Taken

• It has always struck me that one of the readiest ways of estimating a country's regard for law is to notice what arms the officers of the law are carrying: in England it is little batons, in France swords, in many countries revolvers, and in Russia the police used to have artillery.

  

  Lord Dunsany
  • Law
  • Police
  • Arms

• Wherever I have gone in this country, I have found Americans.

  

  Alf Landon
  • Country

• This country can ill afford to continue to function using less than half of its human resources, less than half its kinetic energy, less than half its brain power.

  

  Barbara Jordan
  • Power
  • Energy
  • Brain

• Being a white South African, I enjoyed the better things that that country gave to a small percentage of its population.

  

  Dave Matthews Dave Matthews Band
  • Country
  • Small

• Presidents always want to do nice, noble, long-run things, and Congress is less keen to do so. We've seen that throughout the history of this country.

  

  Tyler Cowen
  • Long
  • History
  • Nice

• I think we typically, as Northerners, stereotype what the South is in so many negative ways. We kind of forget all the beautiful things that they contribute to make this country a country.

  

  Genevieve Gorder
  • Country
  • Beautiful

• The glory of saving a country is not for him who has contributed to its ruin.

  

  Jose Rizal
  • Glory
  • Ruins
  • Saving

• I've got to tell you, 25 years ago, I believe that in this country, we should not be selling automatic weapons which are designed to kill people. We have got to do everything that we can on top of that to make sure that guns do not fall into the hands of people who should not have them, criminals, people who are mentally ill. So that struggles continues.

  

  Bernie Sanders
  • People
  • Believe
  • Fall

• My pitch is very simple. I'm Theresa May and I think I'm the best person to be prime minister of this country.

  

  Theresa May
  • Country
  • Pitch
  • Prime Minister

• The Millennium Stadium thing was for the Tsunami concert. It was a thing that I think every band in the country would have liked to be a part of at the time that it happened.

  

  Kelly Jones
  • Time
  • Country
  • Band

• In most of Pakistan it is a feudal country. People are very scared and oppressed by authority. But when you move to these wilder areas, they are not so easily suppressed.

  

  Imran Khan
  • People
  • Country
  • Authority

• America is the noisiest country that ever existed. One is waked up in the morning, not by the singing of the nightingale, but by the steam whistle.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Morning
  • Singing
  • Existed

• There is no more beautiful scenery or climate for summer travel than Switzerland presents. The people are industrious and honest, simple and frugal in their habits, and would be very poor with all this, if it were not from the travel through their country. I wish their surplus population would emigrate to the United States.

  

  Ulysses S. Grant
  • People
  • Beautiful
  • Wish

• Only two to three per cent of an audience is interested in words and pays attention to lyrics; most of the rest of it is about image or the beat or the sound, or else it's a tribal thing - country & western, rap, heavy metal, with historical folk rock off in some kind of cult.

  

  Al Stewart
  • Words
  • Attention
  • Rest

• Rwanda was considered a second-class operation; because it was a small country, we had been able to maintain a kind of status quo. They were negotiating, they'd accepted the new peace project, so we were under the impression that everything would be solved easily.

  

  Boutros Boutros-Ghali
  • Country
  • Small
  • Peace

• People want the United States Congress focused on creating jobs in this country.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • People
  • Country
  • Want

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