Nation Quotes
-
For a nation, I'm not sure why we value equity over excellence, ... All kids are entitled to an appropriate education for their ability, not just those we're teaching to a minimum standard.
Nancy Greene
-
All Australians understand that high-quality, reliable and affordable broadband is a critical part of the infrastructure our nation needs to prosper in coming years.
Malcolm Turnbull
-
We don't need a nation that has national identity cards.
Malcolm Wallop
-
People like me, who care about printing, constitute the tiniest lunatic fringe in the nation.
Leonard Baskin
-
When a nation is filled with strife, then do patriots flourish.
Lao Tzu
-
While The United States is the most powerful nation the world has ever seen, it is also the most detested nation that the world has ever known.
Harold Pinter
-
Persecution on racial and religious grounds has absolutely no place in a nation given over to liberty.
Nicholas Murray Butler
-
Our nation is today a powerful nation.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
-
We must not allow the Iranian regime to use the nation's vast energy resource as a financial pipeline for its nuclear ambitions.
Ted Deutch
-
In the months ahead, I will leave the Department of Justice, but I will never -- I will never -- leave the work. I will continue to serve and try to find ways to make our nation even more true to its founding ideals.
Eric Holder
-
I myself have been particularly careful never to say a civil word to the United States. I have scoffed at their inhabitants as a nation of villagers. I have defined the 100 % American as 99 % an idiot. And they adore me.
George Bernard Shaw
-
Now we are proud that the government has moved from the class of the exploiters to the class of the people who were being exploited. And in the great name of the same class, I raise this nation's flag which is a strong symbol of this transfer.
Nur Muhammad Taraki
-
The founding document of the United States of America acknowledges the Lordship of Jesus Christ because we are a Christian nation.
Pat Robertson
-
Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio? A nation turns its lonely eyes to you.
Paul Simon Simon & Garfunkel
-
We Irish are too poetical to be poets; we are a nation of brilliant failures, but we are the greatest talkers since the Greeks.
Oscar Wilde
-
Armenia was always a minority nation. The Armenians were annihilated by the Russians and then by the Turks.
Ernst Kaltenbrunner
-
Patriots don't let their nation default.
Gary Ackerman
-
A nation is not a budget, no matter how much ideologues want it to be so.
Steven Weber
-
Even in its third century, America is still the most meritocratic nation in the world.
Victor Davis Hanson
-
We must secure our borders and restore the rule of law, and more than anyone running, Ted Cruz has fought to make this nation secure while protecting our constitutional rights.
Sam Graves
-
Federal waste is a grave disservice to hardworking taxpayers across our great nation, and yet our governmental bureaucracies are riddled with it - whether through unnecessary, duplicative, inefficient, outdated, or failed agencies and programs.
Sam Brownback
-
We must be an inclusive nation that respects and supports all of its citizens: a nation that doesn't give up on anyone who hasn't given up on themselves.
Tammy Duckworth
-
How I wished during those sleepless hours that I belonged to a different nation, or better still, to none at all.
W. G. Sebald
-
As we enter our centennial year we are still a young nation, very much in the formative stages. Our national condition is still flexible enough that we can make almost anything we wish of our nation. No other country is in a better position than Canada to go ahead with the evolution of a national purpose devoted to all that is good and noble and excellent in the human spirit.
Lester B. Pearson