Country Quotes · Page 120

Our President has declared that the only privileged person in our country are the children.

— Evita Peron

Foreign aid is taking money from the poor people of a rich country and giving it to the rich people of a…

— Ron Paul

The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it.

— Walt Whitman

I actually had to leave the country for infractions to fall off my record.

— Paul Provenza

How dismal it is to see present day Americans yearning for the very orthodoxy that their country was founded to escape.

— Christopher Hitchens

We put people at the centre of securing the country. You can't secure your country with only a security apparatus and missiles.

— Hailemariam Desalegn

As America, we aren't the country that we should be with Donald Trump as president.

— Ansel Elgort

Literacy in Tunisia is almost 100%. It's amazing - no country in the region or even in Asia can match Tunisia in education.

— Mo Ibrahim

I don't know about the rest of the country but in New York more people have learned anonymity from rent control than…

— Lawrence Block

Others say that that's not good for the country [to resist Donald's Trump ] and that they should work with this new…

— Maxine Waters

Every injustice that has ever been fastened upon women in a Christian country has been “authorized by the Bible” and riveted and…

— Helen H. Gardener

If an asteroid is coming toward you, you don't have to blow it up. You just have to slow it down long…

— Emo Philips

“CONFIDENCE is not showing off your VANITY, it’s about to be HUMBLED and KIND to others what are you truly SKILLED and…

— Rashedur Ryan Rahman

Benedict Arnold was a war hero, wounded in battle--before he turned against his country. Hitler was likewise a decorated and wounded veteran…

— Thomas Sowell

I believe that with the help of foreign countries - and under that condition only, because they have no other source of…

— Eduard Shevardnadze

I don't understand why any country is given a chance to make its point of view seen and heard by the world,…

— Margarita Simonyan

Something is fundamentally amiss when you refer to a person as illegal. Bottom line. That's why we so easily talk about this…

— Jose Antonio Vargas

We believe in traditional values because without them, without the belief in an all-powerful God, then the very founding of our country…

— Marco Rubio

You live in a country that's marked by celebrity culture, you know, that basically infantilizes people, paralyzes them, eliminates all notions of…

— Henry Giroux

The United States in many ways resembles a Third World country - far more elevated, but it has many of those structural…

— Noam Chomsky

George Jones and I happen to share the same birthday. The first and only time I met him (which I believe was…

— Jennifer Nettles

It seems like we're getting fewer stops in California every year. It's good because we're exposing the sport to other parts of…

— Karch Kiraly

When it comes to the war in Iraq, the time for promises and assurances for waiting and for patience is over. Too…

— Barack Obama

When external and internal forces hostile to the development of socialism try to turn the development of a given socialist country in…

— Leonid Brezhnev

Without a sign, his sword the brave man draws, and asks no omen, but his country's cause.

— Homer

There's a real question at stake now. Is President Obama creating a civil war in our own country?

— Jon Voight

Moral restrictions tend to become lax in a foreign country, since the fear of social opinion disappears.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The future of any leader or political systems is to be determined by the people of the country.

— Ban Ki-moon

Why do three-quarters of NATO [countries] get away with not paying anything? They have to pay their bills.

— Michael T. Flynn

Since my childhood I always knew that India was a land of scarcity but this has changed ever since the BJP started…

— Sudha Chandran

Countries like Canada, Korea, China, Germany can and should use fiscal space. Some of them are doing it, not all.

— Christine Lagarde

I have 100 percent Bronx pride, like it's a country, like I am the Bronx.

— Cardi B

We want to serve the country. We want to help the country get stronger.

— Doug McMillon

I'm not allowed to leave the country because I am under what you call DACA.

— David Dobrik

I commend #AIESEC's continuing efforts to develop the #future #business #leadership of our countries.

— Nelson Mandela

I feel there is so much of talent in our country which needs to be exploited.

— Dharmendra

Honestly, I don't think I ever really was a sweet country girl. I think that was a misconception about me. I was…

— Grace Potter

Government leaders need to ask themselves if they are positioning their country to reap the full potential of the digital economy.

— John T. Chambers

Wearing a Democratic label no longer matches what I know about my country and its possibilities,

— Artur Davis

Whoever is managing you, you want to play your best and do your best for your country.

— Dele Alli