Country Quotes
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The art and culture that is New York, communications, finance, all these things help make up New York. The rest of the country should be happy that we are what we are.
David Dinkins
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Jazz has been the voice of freedom for so many countries over the past half century.
Herbie Hancock
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I think Charley Pride has been one of the best things to happen to country music, to prove it belongs to everybody.
Loretta Lynn
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That loyalty to the country comes ahead of all other loyalties. And this is an absolute loyalty, since one cannot weight it in terms of what one receives.
Lal Bahadur Shastri
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Might it not be that a great force that has always been thinking in terms of human needs, and that always will think in terms of human needs, has not been mobilized? Is it not possible that the women of the country have something of value to give the nation at this time?
Jeannette Rankin
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We work together. No one is more important than the other. We are all Zimbabweans. We want to grow our economy. We want peace in our country.
Emmerson Mnangagwa
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The AK-47 is not a device of aggression ... I devised this machine-gun for the security of my country.
Mikhail Kalashnikov
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There is absolutely no room for discrimination against anyone in our country or anywhere in world.
Dan Schulman
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I recognize there is a certain presumptuousness in this, a certain audacity, to this announcement. I know that I haven't spent a lot of time learning the ways of Washington, but I've been there long enough to know that the ways of Washington must change. People who love their country can change it.
Barack Obama
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It's a unique situation as well because England is a small country, so it makes it easy for the fans to travel. If we play down in London, they get buses and we'll get three or four thousand fans come down. They'll all sit in the same area and show their support for the team.
Claudio Reyna
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Well, India is a country of nonsense.
Mahatma Gandhi
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I have no private purpose to accomplish, no party objectives to build up, no enemies to punish-nothing to serve but my country.
Zachary Taylor
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I think we as a country have definitely got to do better when it comes to housing people of all backgrounds. Not only can the less fortunate afford housing but fewer people of all kinds can afford it.
CeCe Winans
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I think people are uncomfortable talking about the racist history of this country and what we need to do to undo the impact of racism.
DeRay Mckesson
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I am supporting many Republican candidates who embrace the principles and policies set forth in Speaker Ryan's vision and who are committed to moving our country forward on the right path.
Kenneth C. Griffin
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I know a lot of people say, 'You're an athlete or actor... and you shouldn't speak up.' I think that makes no sense. No matter who you are, no matter what you do in the country, you're a part of our democracy, and if you have a voice, you need to use it.
Brandon Victor Dixon
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Australia was great. I would advise anybody to go there. In fact, if you couldn't live here, Australia would be the place to live. It's the most Americanized country that I've ever seen in the world.
Jerry Lawler
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Every day, I wake up determined to deliver a better life for the people all across this nation that have been neglected, ignored, and abandoned. I have visited the laid-off factory workers and the communities crushed by our horrible and unfair trade deals. These are the forgotten men and women of our country.
Donald Trump
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The great common people of this country are slaves, and monopoly is the master. . . . The politicians said we suffered from overproduction. Overproduction, when 10,000 little children, so statistics tell us, starve to death every year in the United States. . . . We will stand by our homes and stay by our fireside by force if necessary, and we will not pay our debts to the loan-shark companies until the government pays its debts to us.
Mary Elizabeth Lease
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I think how veterans are treated in our country is an abomination. We don't have the draft any more, which is why so many soldiers come from working-class - rather than middle- or high-income families. Those wealthier families aren't affected, so they're not agitating for change.
Laurie Halse Anderson
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The country has been of better character since leaving the Buttes than E. of them, but has now a very fertile appearance. This may be said to begin about the 3rd crossing of Milk R of the line.
George Mercer Dawson
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I got married at 19 and graduated from a commuter college in Texas that cost $50 a semester. The way I see it, I'm a janitor's daughter who became a public school teacher, a professor, and a United States Senator. America is truly a country of opportunity!
Elizabeth Warren
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I will support a path to citizenship if it does not fall within the definition of amnesty, and we've got to define what amnesty is in this country.
Blake Farenthold
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Enter to grow in wisdom. / Depart to serve better thy country and thy kind.
Charles William Eliot