Country Quotes
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The wort terrorist attack in American history also brought out the best in our country...We are United as Americans.
Barack Obama
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I had a whole bunch of bad country songs, so I put 'em all on an album.
Leon Russell
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Government should exist in order to help fortify the country and make those who are in need better able to meet their own.
Maya Soetoro-Ng
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There are a number of steps that we can take to reinvigorate and rebuild the economic and the physical infrastructure of our country and then to rebuild us, frankly, on a spiritual level.
Carol Moseley Braun
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I'll tell you - what I can tell you is that I know when I saw 'Zodiac' and then again when I saw 'No Country For Old Men,' there was a moment in each of my viewing experiences where I went, 'Dammit, this is scarier than 'Silence Of The Lambs.''
Jonathan Demme
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I had a simple goal in life: to be true to my parents and our country as an honorable son, a caring brother, and a good citizen.
Benigno Aquino III
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Al Qaeda's vision of global jihad doesn't resonate in the rugged highlands and windswept deserts of southern Afghanistan. Instead, the major concern throughout much of the country is intensely local: personal safety.
Anand Gopal
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After September 11, I got to understand a little bit of his deep love for this country.
Patti Davis
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Every now and then, you get people who tend to forget what this country is about, which is a melting pot of races and cultures and freedom of speech.
Maynard James Keenan
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The minute you become a leader of a country, you go into a very small club. You join that sort of pantheon of other world leaders.
Peter Morgan
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There's something odd about working 24/7, being consumed with everything that's happening in Iraq, and then coming back to the country that ordered you over there only to realize that a lot of Americans are not really paying attention.
Phil Klay
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In the next ten years we will have to continue to make changes which will make the whole of this country a genuinely classless society.
John Major
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I would never do anything that makes the perception of country music worse.
Joe Nichols
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What our country deserves from everyone who enjoys its fruits and freedoms is a little more gratitude - and a lot less greed.
Michelle Malkin
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We have now reached the point where you can wander down Queen Street in Auckland and wonder if you are still in New Zealand or some other country.
Winston Peters
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A connoisseur of gastronomy was congratulated on his appointment as a director of indirect contributions at Periguex: and, above all, in the pleasure there would be in living in the midst of good cheer, in the country of truffles, partridges, truffled turkeys, and so forth. "Alas!" replied with a sigh the sad gastronomer, "can one really live at all in a country where there is no fresh sea-fish?"
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
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Soldiers join the military to serve their country, but when bullets are flying, it's hard to fight for an abstract notion like patriotism. They're fighting for the people standing next to them, and it doesn't matter who's a Republican or a Democrat, or who's black or white or Christian or Muslim or gay or straight. If Congress and all Americans could manage to ignore those differences, we would have a perfect country, but somehow we cannot rise to that level of nobility.
Sebastian Junger
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I don't know, it's very difficult if you're in a strange country to just barge in and say, "Hello, I'm Warren MacKenzie, and aren't you happy to have me as a guest," you know? But artists did accept us and we remained friends for many, many years, many of them as long as they lived; like Lucie Rie and Hans Coper were very good friends, and it was wonderful.
Warren MacKenzie
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Winning HOYS set me up for the future and prepared me for riding in front of lots of people, but the real highlight was the London 2012 Olympics. Being able to go out in front of thousands of people, on your home ground, representing your country and winning gold medals is something I'll never be able to beat.
Charlotte Dujardin
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Just about every Latin American country has sent players to the big leagues, from the Dominican Republic to Costa Rica.
Cheech Marin
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Palestinians want a state of their own. They want to live in freedom. They want to get rid of the terrible misery in which they are living. They are ready after fifty years to accept a state of their own in 22 percent of what used to be the country of Palestine. I think it is the height of stupidity on our part if we don't grasp this opportunity.
Uri Avnery
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There are countries that send us garbage. There are countries that send us their outdated technology as their cooperation. With Fidel Castro it is totally different. Fidel is the first and the best one to stand for peace in the world denouncing the interventionist policies of the U.S.
Evo Morales
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The strongest human emotion is probably love. I think it's universal. I think that across language and country and time and everything else, probably love.
Mark Hoppus Blink-182
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This country is built on free speech.
John Hickenlooper