Country Quotes

• I'm a citizen of the U.S.A but I also travel around the world and love other countries like the UK as if it was my own. I love your tolerance and preservation of the arts.

  

  will.i.am
  • World
  • Art
  • Tolerance

• They say that a kingdom is like a pyramid: the king on top and the people below. But in this country, it's upside down.

  

  Bhumibol Adulyadej
  • People
  • Country
  • King

• I started caddying when I was nine years old at a very exclusive country club in Dayton, Ohio. And I saw how the other half lived, if you will.

  

  Martin Sheen
  • Country

• How can a country be home to sectarian militias and yet also to people who are educated, sophisticated, and pluralistic? This is not a simple matter. It's the kind of dialectical inquiry that's impossible to present in the world of Twitter feeds and newspapers where stories are shorter and shorter and more simplistic.

  

  Annia Ciezadlo
  • People
  • World
  • Home

• Movies in this country, its very complicated, and we could bang on about it forever, but the French movie industry is very different because its very obviously French.

  

  Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones
  • Different
  • Movie
  • Forever

• It is quite clear that history will record that Margaret Thatcher was the greatest Prime Minister this country has had since Churchill.

  

  Nigel Lawson
  • Records
  • Clear
  • Ministers

• The military might of a country represents its national strength. Only when it builds up its military might in every way can it develop into a thriving country.

  

  Kim Jong-un
  • Way
  • Military
  • Might

• Ours is not a poor country and even though we are now a poor people, there should be no room for the despondency that has settled on large sections of the population.

  

  John Agyekum Kufuor
  • People
  • Country

• The truth of the matter is the tone is toxic here in Washington, and we have been exporting it around the country.

  

  Emanuel Cleaver
  • Country
  • Truth

• What the French want is coherence, stability and justice. If I am in a favorable position today, it's because my fellow citizens want to make the effort to straighten out the country, and at the same time they want it to be just and equitable.

  

  Francois Hollande
  • Time
  • Today
  • Justice

• There must always be a balance between protecting privacy and security. In our country, one of the ways we have struck that balance is by requiring a court order before law enforcement can access certain communications of and data on suspects.

  

  Amy Klobuchar
  • Country
  • Law
  • Balance

• When you dig down, people are pretty progressive, by and large. I guess, I've said it many times - that a lot of people say we're a conservative country, that people are conservative. And my response to that is, yes, that's true, and you know what the people want to conserve most? The progressive traditions of our country - freedom of speech, and of the press and of assembly. Freedom to dissent. The freedom to practice your own religion or not practice religion as you see fit. Yes, we're conservative! We want to conserve those.

  

  Tom Harkin
  • Tradition
  • Fit
  • Conservative

• Along with that ongoing process Sinn Fein took a decision to establish a peace commission which had the responsibility to travel around the country to receive submissions from the general public, also our opponents.

  

  Martin McGuinness
  • Peace
  • Responsibility
  • Decision

• The history of racial violence in our country is both omnipresent and unspoken. It is a smog that surrounds us that few will admit is there.

  

  Clint Smith
  • Country
  • History
  • Violence

• NATO's deterrence has always been adequate, and I'm not worried about the physical security of my country. Not at all.

  

  Kersti Kaljulaid
  • Country

• We're lucky to live in a country where we have freedom of speech, and I don't know what the other Avengers are up to, personally, but I know they're all really good people.

  

  Cobie Smulders
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• When I was a younger man,Got lucky with a rock 'n' roll band,Struck gold in Hollywood,All the time I knew I wouldGet back to the country,Back where it all began.Get back to the country,Back in the barn again.

  

  Neil Young Buffalo Springfield
  • Time
  • Band
  • Rock

• There is, however, another subject on which the Queen feels most strongly, and that is this horrible, brutalizing, un-Christian-like vivisection…It must really not be permitted. It is a disgrace to a civilized country.

  

  Queen Victoria
  • Country
  • Christian

• I think we have enough trouble finding community in this country, and sport does provide that. It is a mediocrisy, the greatest mediocrisy. If you're the best, it shows in sports. Nobody can say, 'Well, he's only there because of his connections,' or whatever. In that sense, I suppose it upholds democracy and the best in us.

  

  Frank Deford
  • Community
  • Democracy
  • Sports

• The war against Iraq is as disastrous as it is unnecessary; perhaps in terms of its wisdom, purpose and motives, the worst war in American history... Our military men and women...were not called to defend America but rather to attack Iraq. They were not called to die for, but rather to kill for, their country. What more unpatriotic thing could we have asked of our sons and daughters...?

  

  William Sloane Coffin
  • War
  • Son
  • Military

• When Indians have loved and embraced Pakistani artistes, why can't the latter come out in their support when injustice has been meted out to the people? No one wants these artistes to wage a war against their government. People didn't demand that they condemn their own country. They just expected them to say something for the sake of humanity.

  

  Adnan Sami
  • People
  • Why
  • War

• When you come to Denmark, you have the chance to live in a free, peaceful country with access to free education, free medical aid and the opportunity to work. To benefit from that requires responsibility. If you don’t assume that responsibility, it is a breach in trust.

  

  Mette Frederiksen
  • Work
  • Free
  • Education

• There's a real question at stake now. Is President Obama creating a civil war in our own country?

  

  Jon Voight
  • Real
  • War
  • Question

• It's very hard to go out and make big investments to take advantage of the shale energy if we don't know if it's always going to be there, what price it's going to be there, whether the country's going to allow it to be exported, or whether it's going to go and affect subsidized U.S. manufacturing.

  

  Lloyd Blankfein
  • Country
  • Energy

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