Country Quotes
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A form of conservatism that makes clear we have problems in this country, it's not just about individualism, we have to help people who feel they're being failed by the system.
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It is not heroin or cocaine that makes one an addict, it is the need to escape from a harsh reality. There are more television addicts, more baseball and football addicts, more movie addicts, and certainly more alcohol addicts in this country than there are narcotics addicts.
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I grew up in Morocco. I was born a Muslim, and, every year, I celebrated Christmas in a big white house in the country, halfway between Meknes and Fez.
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I, for one, know of no sweeter sight for a man's eyes than his own country.
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I mean, the country was founded on free enterprise. There's good things about it, and there's obviously bad things about it.
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When someone's kind of a braggart to the bully... it makes me on edge just because I live that, and I don't think that's a model we want for our kids in this country.
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All the people in Korea are cheering me like I'm a gold medalist or something, so I have a responsibility to my country.
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The only road to the highest stations in this country is that of the law.
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The realization that he is white in a black country, and respected for it, is the turning point in the expatriate’s career. He can either forget it, or capitalize on it. Most choose the latter.
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My God! My God! What will the country say?
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My editor, Robin Robertson, is one of this country's finest poets, so I listen to him when he offers advice.
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If I saw and if I really sincerely thought that what Putin is doing is harmful for my country and for my people and it needs to be stopped, I wouldn't hesitate to do that.
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Whatever the skill of any country may be in the sciences, it is from its excellence in polite learning alone that it must expect a character from posterity.
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The worse we treat people in this country, the more delicately we talk about them.
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What pity is it That we can die, but once to serve our country.
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We need criminal justice reform. You have heard people talk about that all over the country. I was able to work on that specific issue at home.
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My friend created an iPhone app that locates Vienna Beef products across the country. Personally, I came hardwired with an internal GPS that instinctively points me toward coffee shops, cupcake stores and the perfect Chicago-style dog, so I find this technology redundant.
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You're beginning to hear the tale of the common man and woman rather than the traditional memoir about the generals who just finished the war or the politicians who just rendered glorious service to the country.
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The greatest reward of this constant interrogation, confrontation with the brutality of my country, is that it has freed me from hosts and myths.
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Sen. Akaka never forgot the cost of war on our country.
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Military spouses serve, too, and it's critical we work together to ensure our country's military spouses have the jobs they need and deserve.
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I believe the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction presents the greatest threat that the world has ever known. We are finding more and more countries who are acquiring technology - not only missile technology - and are developing chemical weapons and biological weapons capabilities to be used in theater and also on a long range basis. So I think that is perhaps the greatest threat that any of us will face in the coming years.
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The first thing I'd do in my first day as president is close up our borders so that illegal immigrants cannot come into our country.
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We are serving no one man, we are serving our country.
