Country Quotes
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It is a fact that the US defence budget is larger than the defence budgets of all other countries taken together. This is why I understand the US President when he says that his NATO allies should take over part of this burden. It is a pragmatic and understandable approach.
Vladimir Putin
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There's a certain advantage to living in a small country like Guatemala, I think. You don't feel so distant from political reality there. When things happen, they almost seem to happen on a Shakespearian stage with the audience so close they can become actors too. This is partly what Joseph Brodsky meant when he wrote that small countries have big politics.
Francisco Goldman
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Proper driving etiquette demands that you basically get close enough to a car in front of you at a busy intersection that it would mean that in certain third-world countries, or South Carolina, you would have to get married.
Celia Rivenbark
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As for my country, I don't live there, but obviously I'm very proud to be Canadian.
Mike Weir
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Australia came out victorious but I'm sure you'll agree we've got a good group of young players, very exciting players, and guys who want to represent their country.
Brian Lara
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Clearly it is better that, when someone is wanted by the international police, and this person travels, and a country knows about it, that country reports the fact.
Ricardo Lagos
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There are the lover and the beloved, but these two come from different countries.
Carson McCullers
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When I was asked if I wanted to perform on the Grand Ole Opry, I yelled, 'Are you kidding me?' I've been waiting for that my whole life. To be invited where so many of the greatest country artists have performed is an honor, and I still can't believe it has been bestowed on me. Just to stand in the circle where so many greats have stood-Hank Williams, Kitty Wells, I just couldn't believe it.
Darius Rucker
Hootie & the Blowfish
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As athletes, we want to represent our country to the best of our ability.
Mirai Nagasu
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The larger point is this: We've invested over half a billion dollars in New York since this department was stood up. We've given New York more money, by more than double, than any other city in the country.
Michael Chertoff
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The greatest movement for social justice our country has ever known is the civil rights movement and it was totally rooted in a love ethic.
bell hooks
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There is no reason for anyone in the country, for anyone except a police officer or a military person, to buy, to own, to have, to use, a handgun. The only way to control handguns use in this country is to prohibit the guns. And the only way to do that is to change the Constitution.
Michael Gartner
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Please know that my thoughts and prayers, as well as those of many, many others here in Alabama and around the country, are with each of you during this time.
Jo Bonner
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Love of one's country recognizes no frontiers... of other countries.
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
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We do not benefit from a relationship with China or any other country in which we put our values and our ideals aside.
Barack Obama
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My aim was to create armaments to protect the borders of my motherland. It is not my fault that the Kalashnikov became very well-known in the world; that it was used in many troubled places. I think the policies of these countries are to blame, not the designers. Man is born to protect his family, his children, his wife. But I want you to know that apart from armaments, I have written three books in which I try to educate our youth to show respect for their families, for old people, for history.
Mikhail Kalashnikov
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We still have an underclass in this country who are constantly ignored and vilified.
Maxine Peake
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Uranium mining in northern Canada has left over 120 million tons of radioactive waste. This amount represents enough material to cover the Trans-Canada Highway two meters deep across the country. Present production of uranium waste from Saskatchewan alone occurs at the rate of over 1 million tons annually. Since 1975, hospitalization for cancer, birth defects and circulatory illnesses in that area have increased dramatically - between 123 and 600 percent in that region.
Winona LaDuke
