Country Quotes
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To go back to a 1950s voice mentality with Title II and net neutrality would be a tremendous mistake for our country.
John T. Chambers
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What little return documentary filmmakers get often comes in the form of recognition by their peers and the critics who influence doc audiences around the country.
Yance Ford
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A universal voucher program would change the face of poverty in this country.
Matthew Desmond
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It's hard to come across a true country fan in L.A., but it's true that the fans are so loyal, once you're in their circle, you're in for your entire career. It just really speaks to me. Country music has so much soul and is so heartfelt. I think it's a perfect fit for me.
Lucy Hale
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Year after year, an ideological and economic barrier hardened between our two countries, meanwhile, the Cuban exile community in the United States made enormous contributions to our country, in politics, in business, culture and sports.
Barack Obama
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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
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Burn down your cities and leave our farms, and your cities will spring up again as if by magic; but destroy our farms and the grass will grow in the streets of every city in the country.
William Jennings Bryan
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When we retreat to the country, we are hiding not from people, but from our pride, which, in the city and among people, operates unfairly and immoderately.
Anton Chekhov
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Every day, we hear of civilians being killed and wounded in violation of the basic rules of international humanitarian law and with total impunity. Instability is spreading. Suffering is growing. No country can remain untouched.
Peter Maurer
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The close relationship between railroad expansion and the genera development and prosperity of the country is nowhere brought more distinctly into relief than in connection with the construction of the Pacific railroads.
John Moody -
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
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I don't really care where I work, actually, because you know making a movie is like living in movie world. There's such a secluded world, and the director is the king ruling the country, and everybody's building this little town to speak in symbolism.
Franka Potente
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America's the one country in the world where anybody who comes here does better than where they came from.
Chris Matthews
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There are parts of the country in America, in the Midwest, where wind is a big resource, and we should absolutely use it. But to try and apply it nationally doesn't make sense. There are technologies that will work that are appropriate to certain regions.
Vinod Khosla
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We are Republicans. But we are Americans first. It is as Americans that we express our concern with the growing confusion that threatens the security and stability of our country.
Margaret Chase Smith
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The principal role of the President of the United States is the security of the country and participating in trying to stabilize the world.
John Sununu
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I stand before you today heart broken, I know history and I love this country ...God blessed this country and it took sacrifice because even though they were endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, that's an inheritance. And if you are not willing to fight for you inheritance, even when you leave your children, if they won't fight for it, they don't keep it. Mean greedy evil people will take it away.
Louie Gohmert
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We need to have a discussion on race, but we also need to have a discussion on how we are treating poor and minority people in this country.
Marcia Fudge
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I've enjoyed every minute of travelling and playing for my country. What an honour that is.
Frank Lampard
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The government is not doing anything to help the country to heal. The government is just making cosmetic changes.
Zainab al-Khawaja
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We're like, 'Woah, are we even in that league where we get nominated for a VMA?' And yet our name is right down there among the other nominees. It's very, very strange coming from a country of five and a half million people.
Lukas Forchhammer Lukas Graham
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America has been the country of my fond election from the age of thirteen, when I first saw it. I had the honour to hoist with my own hands the flag of freedom, the first time it was displayed, on the Delaware; and I have attended it with veneration ever since on the ocean.
John Paul Jones
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I understand the sacrifices American servicemen and women have made to protect freedom and democracy in my country and around the world.
Psy
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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