Country Quotes
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I hope that people know me well enough and realise that I would never do anything to harm the country or anything improper. I never have. I think most people who have dealt with me think I am a pretty straight sort of a guy.
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The most upsetting thing is that the US is a leader in the world, and if they don't sign, then how do you expect to convince Russian and China and Iran, Pakistan, all these other countries, to sign? They simply won't. (The US government) feels it's against their constitutional right to bear arms, or they've said that it's needed in North and South Korea, on the border. I don't think any of these are good enough excuses for the damage.
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We need to protect the sovereignty of our nation, and we need to protect the security of our people here in the country.
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Trying to predict the future is like trying to drive down a country road at night with no lights while looking out the back window.
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Let the country be small, and the inhabitants few.
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My homeland of Belarus is an unlikely place for an Internet revolution. The country, controlled by authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko since 1994, was once described by Condoleezza Rice as 'the last outpost of tyranny in Europe.'
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You've got to reach a hand of friendship across the aisle and across philosophies in this country.
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You have people around the country who are benefitting from the steps that we've taken [with Obamacare] and as long as they continue to get helped, then at least I'll know in my own mind that the work we did here had a lasting impact.
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I'd actually like to make a country album one day. One of my idols is Neil Young, because he's kept himself from being bored.
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The reality is that the founding fathers were land speculators. The fact was that you couldn't vote in this country if you did not own land, and that was basically you had to be a white man who owned land. Now how did they get that land? They basically had to steal it from someone, and that would be probably the Indians. And so most of the initial founding fathers were, while they may have had some really nice ideas about democracy, they had a lot of issues with people of color. They had a lot of issues with people who held things that they coveted.
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Alcohol and drug addiction are problems, and we should use outside agencies that know the business. They do business all over the country. Why don't we contract them to do it? See, we should be in certain businesses.
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Our country... invests a tiny fraction of 1 percent in NASA, and this is what's so amazing to me, is with that small investment, we do so much for the country.
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'Tis thought the king is dead; we will not stay. The bay trees in our country are all wither'd.
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Behind every political deal in this country, the first casualties are always the ordinary people, who are barely treated as human.
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I have tried my best to keep my country alive by writing about it.
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In many parts of the country, water is a precious resource which we can no longer simply take for granted.
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You know the only rule you need to know to get on in this country? ‘Never complain, never explain.
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The last fight for the white metal is to be made here in this country and in this House, my friends.
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In other parts of the country people tried to stay together for the sake of the children. In New York they tried to work things out for the sake of the apartment.
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Look at the conference as a whole, and I don't think it's any question it's the strongest conference in the country.
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I love pop music. I listen to it; I think you can hear it in my songwriting and my album. I'd definitely say it's country-pop music, but it's country first.
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I paid a visit to Yasukuni Shrine to pray for the souls of those who had fought for the country and made ultimate sacrifices. I have made a pledge never to wage war again, that we must build a world that is free from the sufferings of the devastation of war.
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I know of no pursuit in which more real and important services can be rendered to any country than by improving its agriculture, its breed of useful animals, and other branches of a husbandman's cares.
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May hard work, and justice, always cement our bonds of unity that we may get our country back to production.
