Country Quotes
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The truth of the matter is the tone is toxic here in Washington, and we have been exporting it around the country.
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There is not a country on earth that could get its fiscal house in order by shrinking opportunity and depressing growth.
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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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Our family's fortune is growing faster than ever. We're a part of a small number of American families that own most of the country's wealth. But having so much in the hands of so few can't be good for America.
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A politician is a fellow who will lay down your life for his country.
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Given that, and assuming that we begin to adjust to issues like climate change and the greenhouse effect, Denver's location in the center of the country becomes a tremendous advantage.
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The prosperity of a country can be seen simply in how it treats its old people.
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My music comes from country music. Merle Haggard is God, and I do believe that. I'm not too tuned in to country music. I don't know who Brooks and Dunn are. I like Shania Twain, though!
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City people try to buy time as a rule, when they can, whereas country people are prepared to kill time, although both try to cherish in their mind's eye the notion of a better life ahead.
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I do smoke, but I don't go through all this trouble just because I want to make my drug of choice legal. It's about personal freedom. We should have the right in this country to do what we want, if we don't hurt anybody. Seventy-two million people in this country have smoked pot. Eighteen to 20 million in the last year. These people should not be treated as criminals.
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When I was growing up, my mum was doing illegal smuggling with China. Sometimes she would see a fortune teller for advice. One time I went with her: 'In your future, you'll be living in foreign country and eating the foreign country rice,' she said.
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I'm always amazed at how much people 'get' when I'm performing overseas. I've never had to change my act on my international shows; I just make sure that I've taken some time to get to know the people in those countries before I perform. That's been really useful.
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Wyoming, home to Yellowstone National Park and the Grand Tetons, is also the country's largest coal producer and one of its largest gas drillers. Two-thirds of the state's gas-drilling rigs are on public lands in the increasingly industrialized Greater Green River Basin.
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We need more people speaking out. This country is not overrun with rebels and free thinkers. It's overrun with sheep and conformists.
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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 stand united, facing the big responsibility to change our country into a nation of justice, solidarity, humanity and green development.
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I felt that America's duty was not to try to do everything itself, but to foster a sense of commitment that would bring out the best in every country.
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I'm more interested in politicians who deal with human rights in their own country rather than lecture the rest of the world.
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Priest organizations around the country, both local and national, should realize that their membership has a serious image problem and undertake programs to improve it.
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I think the biggest problem in our country is mass incarceration and the prison-industrial complex. From the Rockefeller drug laws to stand your ground to stop and frisk, all these are pointing people, especially and disproportionately black and brown people, towards the criminal-justice system. It's depleting whole generations of people.
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Sen. Akaka never forgot the cost of war on our country.
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My fans, country radio, friends, family, you name it - they know I love to perform.
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My country is in the toilet. And when my country is in the toilet, the world is in the toilet.
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Crime takes place in every country. But it becomes abuse when the state is unwilling and unable to protect the life and honour of its citizens.
