Country Quotes
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How does the richest country in the history of the world fail to pay its bills?
Rick Perry
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I think it is going to take another fifty years for the report to be in. If I were to give a preliminary report, I would say that Margaret Thatcher wrecked this country.
Hilary Mantel
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It may be true that you can't fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country.
Will Durant
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What is a country? A country is a piece of land surrounded on all sides by boundaries, usually unnatural. Englishmen are dying for England, Americans are dying for America, Germans are dying for Germany, Russians are dying for Russia. There are now fifty or sixty countries fighting in this war. Surely so many countries can't all be worth dying for.
Joseph Heller
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Families aren't easy to join. They're like an exclusive country club where membership makes impossible demands and the dues for an outsider are exorbitant.
Erma Bombeck
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America, my country, is almost a continent and hardly yet a nation.
Ezra Pound
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America is the greatest nation ever founded. The ideals are the greatest ever espoused in human history, and we just need the country to live up to them. But what I worry about are the 1 million black men in the prison system.
Henry Louis Gates
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You're not too fat; you're just in the wrong country.
Erica Jong
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I love my country more than anything. I spent 12 years in the United States Marine Corps. I know what it means to defend this country.
Scott Ritter
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I have a car that I like - an Aston Martin - for Sunday drives in the country.
Seth MacFarlane
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Unfortunately, cancer is the number one killer of children in this country today, and it destroys not only these innocent victims, but their families as well.
Michael McCaul
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As the evidence has shown, the cases of voter fraud across the country are statistically minimal if you go back decades.
Audie Cornish
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A foreign country can best be understood through its literature.
Simone de Beauvoir
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They say somebody's 'street smart.' I feel like, if I got intelligence, it's just a country smart.
Dolly Parton
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Let us all take more responsibility, not only for ourselves and our families but for our communities and our country.
Bill Clinton
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Kitty Wells was the first and only Queen of Country Music, no matter what they call the rest of us. She was a great inspiration to me as well as every other female singer in the country music business. In addition to being a wonderful asset to country music, she was a wonderful woman. We will always remember her fondly.
Dolly Parton
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Can we find nothing good to say about TV? Well, yes, it brings scattered solitaries into a sort of communion. TV allows your isolated American to think that he participates in the life of the entire country. It does not actually place him in a community, but his heart is warmed with the suggestion (on the whole false) that there is a community somewhere in the vicinity and that his atomized consciousness will be drawn back toward the whole.
Saul Bellow
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A lot of wonderful people love their country and hate the military.
Bill Clinton
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My country is nothing if not diverse.
Andrew Sean Greer
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We are living in the United States of Alzheimer's. A whole country has lost its memory. When it can't remember yesterday, a country forgets what it once wanted to be.
Studs Terkel