Country Quotes

• The very wealthy have little need for state-provided education or health care... They have even less reason to support health insurance for everyone or to worry about the low quality of public schools that plagues much of the country.

  

  Angus Deaton
  • Education
  • Support
  • Health

• What I'm loving about Hilary Clinton is that she has the job that's been held mostly by men. She's made it her job, not only to be a very tactful diplomat, but she travels the world, spotlighting what's going on with girls and women, in every country that she goes to. That has been so unique.

  

  Marlo Thomas
  • World
  • Men
  • Women

• Further, the United States is moving ahead in the development of clean coal technology. There are vast coal reserves in our country, and when it is burned cleanly, coal can provide a resource to supply a large amount of our energy requirements.

  

  Virgil Goode
  • Energy
  • Technology
  • Moving

• The inducements of interest for observing [neutral] conduct . . . has been to endeavour to gain time to our country to settle and mature its yet recent institutions, and to progress without interruption, to that degree of strength and consistency, which is necessary to give it, humanly speaking, the command of its own fortunes.

  

  George Washington
  • Giving
  • Progress
  • Consistency

• The fact that the union of different nationalities and denominations resulted from the liberation, this is particularly symbolic and important for our multinational country, As long as we feel this unity inside us, Russia will be invincible.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Important
  • Long
  • Unity

• Nor, in our own country, must we fail to take notice of the establishment of School Boards.

  

  James Payn
  • Country
  • School

• I think it's much harder for anybody who voted Remain to have credibility amongst the voters who voted to leave in terms of leading the country. It's not impossible, but it's much harder.

  

  Liam Fox
  • Country
  • Leave
  • Credibility

• Now tell me, what does that mean to be noble? Your title gives you claim to the throne of our country, but men don't follow titles, they follow courage. Now our people know you. Noble, and common, they respect you. And if you would just lead them to freedom, they'd follow you. And so would I

  

  William Wallace
  • People
  • Men
  • Mean

• The United States has no socialist party, or no socialist party has been in power. That is the reason why it has always been the country of last resort for every currency.

  

  Margaret Thatcher
  • Why
  • Power
  • Party

• The kind of plan that Donald has put forth would be trickle-down economics all over again. In fact, it would be the most extreme version, the biggest tax cuts for the top percent of the people in this country than we've ever had. I call it trumped-up trickle-down, because that's exactly what it would be. That is not how we grow the economy.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • People
  • Up
  • Country

• It is a sound principle of finance, and a still sounder principle of government, that those who have the duty of expending the revenue of a country should also be saddled with the responsibility of levying and providing it.

  

  Wilfrid Laurier
  • Government
  • Responsibility
  • Principle

• I think these last 10 years have seen just a huge shift in the psyche of this country as regards gay people. I think AIDS had a lot to do with it. So many families who really believed they'd 'never met one' were suddenly confronted with their sons becoming ill, and friends of sons. I think that brought a lot of it into the open.

  

  Janis Ian
  • People
  • Friends
  • Gay

• We still have not been able to move into those positions in our country that are really directing traffic among that 1 percent, and that's where women have to break through.

  

  Claire McCaskill
  • Women
  • Country

• People don't realize what's really going on in this country. There are a lot things that are going on that are unjust. People aren't being held accountable for. And that's something that needs to change. That's something that this country stands for: freedom, liberty and justice for all.

  

  Colin Kaepernick
  • People
  • Freedom
  • Justice

• Running on the pledge to end two wars, President Obama has the country entangled in three: Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq, and that doesn't include the American's foray into Libya.

  

  Blake Farenthold
  • Country
  • American
  • Running

• Country music... doesn't bend notes in the same way, so I suppose it's very English, really. Even though it's been very Americanized, it feels very close to me, to my roots, so to speak.

  

  Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones
  • Music
  • English
  • Suppose

• It's wonderful that so many people want to contribute to fighting aids or malaria. But, if somebody isn't paying attention to the overall health system in the country, a whole lot of money can be wasted.

  

  Paul Wolfowitz
  • People
  • Money
  • Attention

• The relation between the white and colored people of this country is the great, paramount, imperative, and all-commanding question for this age and nation to solve.

  

  Frederick Douglass
  • People
  • Great
  • Age

• Big business is basic to the very life of this country; and yet many -perhaps most - Americans have a deep-seated fear and an emotional repugnance to it. Here is monumental contradiction.

  

  David Lilienthal
  • Emotional
  • Capitalism
  • Contradiction

• Immigration reform is for those thousands of people in my district and the millions of people across the country who want nothing more than to work hard, provide for their families, and reach for the American Dream.

  

  Jan Schakowsky
  • People
  • Work
  • American

• The United States is an illegitimate country, just like Israel. It has no right to exist. That country belongs to the Red man, the American Indian... It's actually a shame to be a so-called American, because everybody living there is a usurper, an invader taking part in this crime, which is to rob the land, rob the country and kill all the American Indians.

  

  Bobby Fischer
  • Country
  • American
  • Red

• When I reached adulthood, even now, I could afford to belong to a country club. But I could never belong to a private club because of my experience as a child, because it would isolate me from the whole of humanity.

  

  Martin Sheen
  • Country
  • Experience
  • Humanity

• We have got to go out there and deliver, go on the streets and find athletes, improve facilities around the country and find coaches. We have got to go out there and search for a star.

  

  Linford Christie
  • Country
  • Star
  • Search

• I was as repelled by the French as I was attracted by their country.

  

  Margaret Anderson
  • Country

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