Country Quotes
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The fact that the immigration issue was the first thing Trump took aim at was a good thing for me, because it's what I spent my life working on. It became a place to see what we've become as a country, and how overreach can actually serve to bring those of us on the Left and Democrats together.
Pramila Jayapal
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I've been told to go back to my country so many times, I can't even count.
Pramila Jayapal
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Vietnam is unique of all the countries in the world, I believe, in having the longest continuous struggle against foreign aggression of any country that has retained its national identity.
Tom Hayden
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People have the right to defend their country from foreign occupiers, and people have the right to defend their country from invaders who are destroying their country.
Norman Finkelstein
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America offers the most amount of people the best opportunity to pursue happiness on the planet. That's why millions of illegal immigrants have poured into the country - most of them poor. They believe they have a shot to improve themselves economically.
Bill O'Reilly
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Of all tyrannies a country can suffer, the worst is the tyranny of the majority.
William Inge
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The American official was trying to talk about aid and development projects and finally a local tribal chief got up and said, "Even if you turn our country into heaven, we don't want it from you. Just leave us."
Yaroslav Trofimov
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We will be a better country when each religious group can trust its members to obey the dictates of their own religious faith without assistance from the legal structure of their country.
Margaret Mead
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It seems to me that if Mr. Obama wins the presidential election, then Messrs. Farrakhan, Wright, Ayers and Pfleger will gain power for their need to demoralize this country and help create a socialist America.
Jon Voight
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We [Americans] are a nation of immigrants. We all understand what this country has become because talent from all around the world wants to come here, people who are willing to take risks, people who want to build on their dreams and make sure their kids have an - even bigger dreams than they have.
Barack Obama
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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.
Paul Auster
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We knew it was going to be the biggest event scheduled in the history of women's sports, but we didn't ever fathom we would be playing before sold-out stadiums all over the country.
Lorrie Fair
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Victory is for them, not for us. We have not made profit out of our country's misfortune. Victory does not bring us luck.
Ba Jin
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President Roosevelt, the author of Social Security, was the first to suggest that, in order to provide for the country's retirement needs, Social Security would need to be supplemented by personal savings accounts.
John Doolittle
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One of the biggest things I understood in a program like that was that it allowed more young African American scholars to do field research in the Caribbean and in Africa than had ever happened before in the history of the country and since.
Bernice Johnson Reagon
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Because we lived only a mile outside the town of Mayfield, I was acutely conscious of being country. I felt inferior to people in town because we had to grow our food and make our clothes.
Bobbie Ann Mason
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I think technology can change every country regardless of political party.
John T. Chambers
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We ask that (other countries) do not interfere in our regulation.
Vladimir Putin
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It's probably listening to country music that got me to start playing a lot cleaner, not as distorted.
Joe Perry Aerosmith
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When under attack, no country is obligated to collect permission slips from allies to strike back.
Charles Krauthammer
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As long as one American is hungry... then we have unfinished business in this country.
William Lewis Safir
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Economists largely confine themselves to three key factors - capital, labor and productivity - when explaining how and why a country grows.
Ben Miles
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I go around the country and do a simple gag like, 'The property ladder is now a snake' and get a real laugh.
Jimmy Carr
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America's history is exemplified in the efforts of the men and women who died for our country. The one thing that they all have in common is their selfless love for our nation and their courage to stand up to protect and defend it. They raised their gaze in the face of conflict, believed in what America could be, and pushed forward.
Bill Flores