Country Quotes
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It's the role of us to run our government, the government by the people, for the people, and I don't think our government is listening to the people. It's our role as patriots to question them, because we elected them. And if they're not fairly and accurately representing us, it's the job of the people, the patriots, to take their country back.
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The first thing that Black Lives Matter had to do was remind people that racism existed in this country because when we had Obama, people thought we were post-racial. That was the debate. Is racism over? And very quickly, we understood that it was not over.
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I think Chicago is the best city in the country, hands down, but I don't like the winter there anymore.
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We will be a country of generosity and warmth. But we will also be a country of law and order.
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I love India. I love to visit the country.
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France, they're the world champion at soaking the rich on taxes. And at one point, they had what they called a hyper tax, 75 percent, and Gérard Depardieu and many others left the country.
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I'm going to make up my own mind as to what I think is in the best interest of our country and Florida.
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Lincoln was an American messiah, seemingly sent by God to save our country, our union, and our soul. He prioritized unity above all. Perhaps we should do the same.
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America may not realize it yet, but Latin prototypes are being created right now, and not just by me. They are these mambo kings and salsa queens, Aztec lords and Inca princesses, every Hernandez and Fernandez, whom this country will one day come to understand and respect.
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Highway spending, which I think most everybody says is badly needed in this country, creates American jobs, and also makes America more competitive.
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I'll be working every day to help elect voting rights champions in Missouri and around the country.
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Congo has vast stands of biologically important forests as well as remote areas still waiting to be explored, yet we have very few botanists. I'm working to expand training for young students and inspire a new generation to make discoveries, spread the word about conservation, and increase protected areas throughout our country.
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India does not encourage - India has forbidden - child labour. We are a rule-based and rule-governed country.
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My heart does sometimes bleed for those who are hurting in my own country and abroad.
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For three years now, our brave men and women in uniform have done everything their country has asked of them, yet President Bush still does not have a plan to win the peace in Iraq and bring our troops home.
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At the dawn of the 19th century, the country was awakening to its enormous scope and variety.
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In the 1970s, what I, as a young foreign student studying in the United States, found most dynamic, exciting and impressive about this country is what much of the world continues to value most about the U.S. today: its open intellectual culture, its great universities, its capacity for discovery and innovation.
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I live in Brooklyn and work in Manhattan, two of the most liberal places in the country.
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Things have not changed as much as we would like to think they have. Or maybe we're just in another one of the divided moments in the country. The late '60s certainly was one of them, the Civil War being another, but I'm hard-pressed to think of too many.
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What ultimately happened is that my country had a war. I think it would be extraordinary, as a writer, not to want to write about that.
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Somerset is the first proper country county you come to in the West, which isn't dependent on London and isn't full of commuters. Somerset is full of the most fantastically interesting people.
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Patriots always talk of dying for their country, and never of killing for their country.
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Giving people what they want isn't just good radio; it's also the right way to run a country.
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This war is being played in the realm of public opinion and has dire consequences for our soldiers in Iraq, the future of our country, and freedom around the world.
