Country Quotes · Page 173

I have no private purpose to accomplish, no party objectives to build up, no enemies to punish-nothing to serve but my country.

— Zachary Taylor

I know what motivated you was not just a political campaign. It was your love of our country.

— Alan Nunnelee

You can gauge a country's wealth, its real wealth, by its tree cover.

— Richard St. Barbe Baker

Profitability is where the country grows and everybody rises up with it.

— Rush Limbaugh

I loved making Pure Country. It was a great learning experience for me, seeing another part of the entertainment industry.

— George Strait

The wealth of the country must eventually be enjoyed by people of the country

— Steven Biko

When under attack, no country is obligated to collect permission slips from allies to strike back.

— Charles Krauthammer

The government is not doing anything to help the country to heal. The government is just making cosmetic changes.

— Zainab al-Khawaja

Russia is the biggest country in the world. It would be very difficult to surround it, and the world is changing so…

— Vladimir Putin

For too long have many of us in India imagined a future in which the country would rise, leaving the rest of…

— Sanjaya Baru

Hopefully, America will really get a sense of how justice can be served in this country. And hopefully, they'll forget the Simpson…

— Andrew Cohen

This stupid celebrity thing is just a consequence of being good at what you do. I mean, no one would photograph David…

— Nick Moran

I think what he [Donald Trump] has said is that people are not going to be eligible for legalization or citizenship unless…

— Chris Christie

Yeah, that's what kind of, we get the idea a little bit yeah, because other people from different countries also try as…

— Inge de Bruijn

I don't know where I see myself next month let alone five years. My whole life is last minute. I enjoy the…

— Amber Le Bon

[Mike Flynn] didn't just call Russia, he called and spoke to, both ways, I think there were 30-some-odd countries. He was just…

— Donald Trump

Had you or I been born at the Bay of Soldania, possibly our Thoughts, and Notions, had not exceeded those brutish ones…

— John Locke

No sovereign, no court, no personal loyalty, no aristocracy, no church, no clergy, no army, no diplomatic service, no country gentlemen, no…

— Henry James

For centuries, our country has welcomed people fleeing religious persecution, war and humanitarian crises to create a better future for themselves and…

— Jaime Harrison

Not only is patriotism disdained, the very basis for pride in one's country and culture is systematically undermined in our educational institutions…

— Thomas Sowell

Somebodys paying the corporations that destroyed Iraq and the corporations that are rebuilding it. Theyre getting paid by the American taxpayer in…

— Noam Chomsky

It started with Ronald Reagan, when he took away the financing to the California universities. It used to be cheap to send…

— Tim Matheson

Sure I wave the American flag. Do you know a better flag to wave? Sure I love my country with all her…

— John Wayne

An American professor complained that a crypto-Marxist like me was invited in the USA, and I was denounced by the press in…

— Michel Foucault

I'm not here to joke around or waste time. I want to put my city and country on the map, and I…

— Timothy Weah

It has seemed to me that most people are generally good, in every race and in every country where I have been.

— Langston Hughes

National Action Network, the group I founded, has affiliates or chapters in over 40 cities around the country.

— Al Sharpton

It's the tradition of American writers getting away in order to see the country - to get a better view.

— Laurie Anderson

Go figure a crazy, mixed-up country where ballet outsells boxing. I wouldn't be surprised if their wrestling was on the level.

— Bob Hope

When I decided to go to a country that subsidized music, I went to the Soviet Union for two years.

— Alex North

If you want me in the Hall of Fame put me in because of some contributions that I have made to country…

— Buck Owens

We'll let our friends be the peacekeepers and the great country called America will be the pacemakers.

— George W. Bush

No government in any country can run on static definitions of economic thinking.

— Amit Shah

I listen to country music. I listen to jazz. I listen to R&B. I listen to Jimi Hendrix a lot.

— Patty Smyth

“When did a free country start to mean free enterprise? Who sold Democracy out for a golden calf we got to idolize?”

— Trevor D. Richardson

Leading from a place of hate only fuels hateful and violent acts across our country.

— Cori Bush

In the rush for justice it is important not to lose sight of principles the country holds dear.

— Kofi Annan

90% of the work in this country is done by people who don't feel good".

— Theodore Roosevelt

What I loved about country music when I was a kid was the Grand Ole Opry, was 'Hee Haw,' was 360 degrees…

— Laura Bell Bundy

It's really an optimistic show. I think most of the people in this country are optimistic, too.

— Charles Osgood