Country Quotes
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Presidents do not go off on leave without telling the country.
Chinua Achebe
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I've always fought for my country, in my own way, showing that Filipinos are a strong people and can do anything that they put their minds to.
Manny Pacquiao
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Our community is like many around the country that have, as the gentleman from New York referenced, sophisticated planning and zoning regulations. These are elements that are developed as a result of local community pressure to balance interests.
Earl Blumenauer
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We borrowed money to fight the Revolutionary War, and so there was a debt owed. We paid it. If we have done that for 235 years, if we have done it ever since this country has existed, we can do it again.
Danny K. Davis
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If we had zero corporate tax in this country, tens of millions of jobs would get created in this country for no other reason.
Gary Johnson
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I take office during the most difficult moment in the country's recent history. The country can be saved - it's up to us. I think it is obvious for those who support this government to undertake the commitment and ensure that our country's euro membership is not endangered.
Lucas Papademos
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When Landon Carter, a Virginia plantation owner, read the Declaration of Independence two days after it was issued, he wondered whether its ringing affirmation of equality meant that slaves must be freed. If so, he confided to his diary, 'You must send them out of the country, or they must steal for their support.'
Edmund Morgan
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Aspects of life here civility, courtesy, coziness have always bound Britons to their country . . . They are part of the British myth, along with lovely countryside, dogs and horses, rose gardens, the Armada, the Battle of Britain.
R. W. Apple
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He uttered a coarse expression which I wouldn't have thought he would have known. It just shows that you can bury yourself in the country and still somehow acquire a vocabulary. No doubt one picks up things from the neighbours - the vicar, the local doctor, the man who brings the milk, and so on.
P. G. Wodehouse
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I am not a puppet. I was not made by the West to go to the West or to any other country.
Bashar al-Assad
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My lesson from history is that if there is a strong moderate centrist party which can lead the country, there is no room for extremists from the right or left.
Viktor Orban
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I am not discouraged. I really am not. I do not despair for our country. I never do. I believe tonight, as I always have, that the essential decency and compassion and common sense of the American people will prevail. And so I say to you and to others around the world, whether they wish us well or ill: Do not underestimate us Americans.
Jimmy Carter
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My one issue in this country is to get on a firm financial footing. There's not much you can do if you're bankrupt.
Ralph Norman
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The goal with a big piece of social legislation is to have a bipartisan result, so the country will accept it.
Lamar Alexander
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The world changes fast, and a lot of the old country folks have a hard time keeping up with it, and it makes them sad.
Jason Isbell
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There are parents who are really angry that I decided to portray people who have come into the country illegally as decent human beings.
Paolo Bacigalupi
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My husband and I were married in May 2007 on a sprawling rent-a-ranch in the Texas Hill Country. On the drive from Houston, we'd stopped off for our marriage license in the former produce aisle of a Winn Dixie-turned-courthouse in San Marcos and from there drove off the grid.
Laura Moser
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The bottom line is a record of ideas. The bottom line is a plan for how to get this country back on track. It's not about attendance - it's about goals and opportunity to move this nation forward.
Cory Gardner
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I love my country very dearly, and I greatly resent the implication that some of the places that I have sung and some of the people that I have known, and some of my opinions, whether they are religious or philosophical, make me less of an American.
Pete Seeger
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I'm proud I'm English and I'm passionate about my country.
Wayne Rooney
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Every country has the right to determine its own laws. And India can't afford monopolies.
Yusuf Hamied
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Poland is not a very large country, but it's also not a small country.
Donald Tusk
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In the late 1960s, I ended up in Telluride, Colorado. It wasn't like the country club that it is now. It was very raw. Skiing was there, but snowboarders have now entirely overrun it.
Lance Henriksen
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It's amazing to think how powerful of a force optimism and hope can be. It's the thing that saves me. I believed that I lived in the greatest country in the world. I still believe that, and consequently, I believed that I had a chance, even though things around me were absolutely crazy and difficult.
J. D. Vance