Country Quotes
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Let the country be small, and the inhabitants few.
Lao Tzu
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Across our country, social enterprise partnerships between the public and private sectors are providing millions of Americans - young and old - a second chance.
George R. Roberts
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Private equity investors are an integral part of the economy and should be celebrated for making our country wealthier.
Joe Lonsdale
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I think what we have in this country is a little more dangerous in a way because it can't be seen fully. It's sorta internal censorship. We censor each other.
Kathy Acker
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Love of country is nowhere the same as love of government.
James Cook
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If countries were people, England and France would be old men. Italy would be dead. Compared with them, America is in its 20s.
will.i.am
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The biggest misconception may be about my birth country, Lithuania, due to the lack of knowledge about it, but also probably because some strong lobbies work against European construction. There is a huge difference between what I hear from the French media, for example, and what I know about this country and its people.
Alante Kavaite
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Child Protective Services, all over the country, need to be revamped top to bottom.
Jane Velez-Mitchell
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I still believe we wasted a golden opportunity to make significant changes in our country. I think people in America would have been ready and willing to do it, but the Bush administration took a kind of simplistic, almost moronic approach to it, all because people were so afraid.
Paul Auster
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I lived in Alabama and Georgia, and the people in the south are wonderful. It's God, faith, family, country.
Sean Hannity
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I think people are too often misinformed and, in some cases, deceived. We don't have a full marketplace of ideas in this country that in any way reflects the broad, real range of ideas.
Katrina vanden Heuvel
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During the 1960s, and again in the 1970s, growth in manufacturing productivity in the United Kingdom was the lowest of all the seven major industrial countries in the world. During the 1980s, our annual rate of growth of output per head in manufacturing has been the highest of all the seven major industrial countries.
Nigel Lawson
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I find politics in almost every country I go to be incredibly different and incredibly similar and I'm never surprised by anything.
George Clooney
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Without being Communists, we believe that the analytical qualities of Marxism and the organization of the people are methods especially well-suited for our country.
Ahmed Sekou Toure
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We need to deal with the economy and the moral weakness of the country.
Emmanuel Macron
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Our poor country is fighting at an extraordinary hard conjuncture of an unparalleled war and internal problems such as we have never seen before, and only a strong Governmental power able to rely on the confidence of the nation can save it.
Alexander Guchkov
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Someone who thinks well of himself is said to have a healthy self-concept and is envied. Someone who thinks well of his country is called a patriot and is applauded. But someone who thinks well of his species is regarded as hopelessly naïve and is dismissed.
Alfie Kohn
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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.
Marsha Blackburn
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America may be the best country in the world, but that's kind of like being the valedictorian of summer school.
Dennis Miller
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The French fried potato has become an inescapable horror in almost every public eating place in the country. 'French fries', say the menus, but they are not French fries any longer. They are a furry-textured substance with the taste of plastic wood.
Russell Baker
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I love my country more than anything else.
Ehud Olmert
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Dear America, when you tell gay Americans that they can't serve their country openly or marry the person that they love, you're telling that to kids too. So don't be f**king shocked and wonder where all these bullies are coming from that are torturing young kids and driving them to kill themselves because they're different; they learned it from watching you.
Sarah Silverman
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It has been my pleasure to speak at many Federalist Society gatherings around the country, and I think one thing your organization has definitely done is to contribute to free speech, free debate, and most importantly public understanding of, awareness of, and appreciation of the Constitution. So that's a marvelous contribution, and in a way I must say I'm jealous at how the Federalist Society has thrived at law schools.
Nadine Strossen
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You've got the North Koreans building weapons; you got the Iranians building weapons. You've got - the Pakistanis already have at least 100 nuclear weapons. Do you think there's any serious effort in this country to come to grips with that?
Newt Gingrich