Country Quotes
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Nowhere in this country should we have laws that permit drinking and driving or drinking in vehicles that are on American highways. This is not rocket science. We know how to prevent this, and 36 states do.
Byron Dorgan
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If you want to go around saying that giving women the vote wrecked the country and still be taken seriously, it helps to be handing out $100 bills.
Jacob Weisberg
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Because what it turns out is, is that if a - the best way for a country to reduce its debt is to grow really fast, and to generate more income.
Barack Obama
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Now, I do come from a part of the country where the people say that the only thing in the middle of the road is a yellow line or roadkill.
Blanche Lincoln
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A man who sells his conscience for his interest will sell it for his pleasure. A man who will betray his country will betray his friend.
Maria Edgeworth
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In my country, though it is very patriarchal and male-dominated, the public enjoys women-directed movies.
Jasmila Zbanic
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Obama/Romney, Romney/Obama - the most important election of our lifetime? Fact is they're all the same - bought and paid for with the same money. Ours is a country of the SuperPAC, by the SuperPAC, and for the SuperPAC.
Bill Gross
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The late Indira Gandhi always used to warn about the dangers that the country was facing. She used to keep saying that the country was going through a very dangerous time. This danger is now many times more than what it was at that time. We should all be cautious now.
Rajiv Gandhi
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I've never been an artist that really got into fluff songs. I like songs that have substance to them. I think sometimes that may hurt me commercially a little bit. But I like to cut things that have the power to speak to people on an emotional level. That's the power of country music to me.
Tracy Lawrence
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Legislation is the only lasting solution for the men and women brought to this country through no fault of their own who want to perform the ultimate act of patriotism in defending America.
Jeff Denham
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I trust politicians will continue to examine ways in which we can prevent potential future terrorist attacks and protect the security of our country.
Jan Berry
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The best thing about Las Vegas is that no one pretends to be responsible for your behavior like they do in the rest of the country. There's no meddling self-righteous liberals or right-wing Christian demagogues telling you that you can't do something fun with your own time and money. If you can afford it, it's yours.
Drew Carey
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You have to build a culture of philanthropy. In a country like India, we need to be sensitive and caring about the poorer, more disadvantaged section of our country.
Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
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All things are inconstant except the faith in the soul, which changes all things and fills their inconstancy with light, but though I seem to be driven out of my country as a misbeliever I have found no man yet with a faith like mine.
James Joyce
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Germany has always stood for an E.U. of the 27 countries. But in light of Britain's continued resistance to further integration steps, as we saw with the fiscal pact, there are limits to my optimism in this regard. It's quite possible that we will have to create the new institutions for the euro zone first.
Wolfgang Schauble
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The way I work: I pick a country. I learn the political history - I mean I really learn it; I read until it sinks in. Once I read the political history, I can project and find the clandestine history. And then I people it with the characters.
Alan Furst
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We're not really for anything but a better America, a stronger country. And we do support our soldiers.
Gary Rossington Lynyrd Skynyrd
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it does not obviate the responsibility for dealing with terrorism in their country.
Jack Straw
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My observation is that after one hundred and twenty years of modernisation since the opening of the country, present-day Japan is split between two opposite poles of ambiguity.
Kenzaburo Oe
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The countless number of influential figures in American history who are of Caribbean heritage indicates the need to set aside a designated time to celebrate their contribution to our country.
Eliot Engel
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We can bear that. for the sake of our country, are you blaming us for loving our country or what?
Abdel Fattah el-Sisi
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Dublin dwindles so beautifully; there is no harsh separation between it and the country. It fades away, whereas London seems to devour the country; an army of buildings come and take away a beautiful park, and you never seem to get quite out of sight of a row of houses.
George A. Moore
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I'm doing it, I took responsibility in my country and I've done it with my bare hands.
Alexis Arguello
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Right now I would rank Norway as the largest country in the world, I have never seen anything like it
Barack Obama