Country Quotes · Page 209

My father followed, during most of his life, the precarious occupation of a country school teacher.

— Simon Newcomb

I would be flattered and honored to be considered for any position where I could serve my country.

— Kimberly Guilfoyle

Our long-term objective is clear: to replace the Labour Party as the progressive wing of politics in this country.

— Jo Grimond

I love being a part of country music. I love going out and... doing things for the first time for country music.…

— Garth Brooks

The NBA is the single most progressive, inclusive, open-minded sports league in the country.

— Doris Burke

If you can get in trouble for supporting a friend you've known for almost 50 years, I don't want to live in…

— Jim Boeheim

When we went to Brazil and fought a Brazilian there, it was crazy how much the entire country has their athletes' back.

— Chad Mendes

For too many years, we, as a country, have suffered from a poverty of aspiration.

— Anand Mahindra

We stand with women by fighting for economic security, protecting access to health care and supporting women's leadership across the country

— Barack Obama

I am very proud to be an American. This country has so much potential, I'd just like to see things better, or…

— Hank Aaron

I think it's important to maintain this momentum and especially when you are representing your country, you have a lot of pressure…

— Harnaaz Sandhu

Thank god I'm in England, because if I lived in any other country, it'd probably be the Philippines. Because with Rodrigo Duterte…

— David Sedaris

The thing about our country, Americans, and New Yorkers in particular, we all want to help. There's real folks who want to…

— Hill Harper

I have some friends, colleagues here at the Karolinska Institute and even in the United States and many other countries too, because…

— Lennart Nilsson

If you withdraw the incredible focus on polio, it will spread back, and in poor countries you'll get something like 100,000 cases…

— Bill Gates

When I'm in Senegal, I can't just sit in isolation making music. People need my help. And the Senegalese people helped create…

— Youssou N'Dour

I've always viewed the Paris Agreement as a starting point. If you look at all the commitments that have been made by…

— Barack Obama

What we need to do is pull the rug out so billionaires in our country wake up one morning and say, wow,…

— Dar Williams

We are, if territory and population be looked at together, one of the great countries of the world - a monster country,…

— George F. Kennan

We doubt not the destiny of our country that she is to accomplish great things for human nature, and be the mother…

— Margaret Fuller

Even strong as they are today, rich countries should have no illusion: nobody is safe in aworld of injustices.War will never bring…

— Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

Well I'm not making predictions. But the point I can - what I can say to you to contribute to your thinking…

— George Brandis

I wonder what it means when Americans say I'm an American. In Britain the culture is basically the same from one end…

— Helen Mirren

Drafting of the constitutions is interesting and the discussions around them revealing in many ways. I take it as a discussion of…

— Tariq Ramadan

The environment of hate needs to be tackled with peace. We are the country that won its freedom through peace, after all.

— Richa Chadha

America has an ability to try to make some things happen that other countries don't necessarily have.

— John F. Kerry

Diplomats make it their business to conceal the facts, and politicians violently denounce the politicians of other countries.

— Margaret Sanger

Every person in this country is suffering because of bad governance.

— Arvind Kejriwal

Too many schools across the country have cut back heavily on their music curricula.

— Henry Mancini

If the spirit of business adventure is dulled, this country will cease to hold the foremost position in the world.

— Andrew Mellon

That's the American way. If little kids don't aspire to make money like I did, what the hell good is this country?

— Lee Iacocca

Canada's extraordinary success is that we have bound together a vast country with a set of shared ideas and beliefs.

— Justin Trudeau

Getting countries working together was my job every day as your secretary of state.

— Hillary Clinton

While we are guarding the country, we must accept being the guardian of the finest ethics. The country needs it and we…

— Anonymous

The country will survive Obama, but it cannot survive the abject ignorance that elected him.

— Rush Limbaugh

I hate it when they say, �He gave his life for his country.� They don�t die for the honor and glory of…

— Gene La Rocque

The only way we come back as a country is to build the domestic economy.

— Gerald Celente

Andrew Johnson was a Southerner generally who proclaimed that his native state of Tennessee was a country for white men.

— Stephen Ambrose

There are at least two retrospectives of my work each year in some country.

— Abbas Kiarostami

Organizing the working class in England or the U.S. or any other advanced capitalist country has been a daunting challenge.

— Bill Ayers