Country Quotes · Page 213

Indeed, the test of orderliness in a country is not the number of millionaires it owns, but the absence of starvation among…

— Mahatma Gandhi

If we're going to address trafficking in our country we have to address poverty, racism & gender based violence.

— Rachel Lloyd

One of the things you learn when you go overseas is how much a lot of the countries overseas really just like…

— Chris Paul

Cajun is country food by farmers and fisherman that arrived in Louisiana from Acadiana, Canada.

— Paul Prudhomme

Comfort has its place, but it seems rude to visit another country dressed as if you’ve come to mow its lawns.

— David Sedaris

We are guilty for sending teams into foreign countries to advise them how to be like us.

— Arthur Erickson

Country music, like rock or blues, can move over into a lot of different areas.

— Dusty Hill

Me, I'm a rising star for American tennis. I'm really proud to represent my country and hopefully I can keep going higher.

— Sofia Kenin

In my own life, in my own small way, I have tried to give back to this country that has given me…

— Michel'le

I read nasheeds (Islamic songs) in English, in Arabic. I read nasheeds even in Bangla language. Now I don't just travel to…

— Junaid Jamshed

My mom wanted to be a country singer, too, so country was always being played. And my girlfriends and I used to…

— Jana Kramer

Well the war lasted for three months, from April of 1994 until the Tutsi army, the exiles as it were, gained control…

— Tony Greig

Nixon would like to consign us to to the level of the most backward countries in the whole Middle East. Why lower…

— Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

America is such a nation of suppressed emotion, and when you arrive in L.A., you can smell the fear. It's the most…

— Helen McCrory

One of the reasons why I agreed to do commercials is that they gave me complete freedom. I just had to have…

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

This is not a country that has had a tremendous sympathy for poor people, so I think that the notion that somehow…

— Faye Wattleton

What the Republicans have said is rather than touch one hair on the heads of the wealthiest people in our country, people…

— Nancy Pelosi

Because the left, George Bush won two elections, 2000 and 2004. So 2008, we didn't see. It was obviously there. We saw…

— Rush Limbaugh

No leader did more for his country than Winston Churchill. Brave, magnanimous, traditional, he was like a king-general from Britain's heroic past.…

— Gretchen Rubin

From the late 1940s, into and through the '50s, there developed a complex interaction between federal government, state and local government, real-estate…

— Noam Chomsky

The effect of metals speculation was to push up the prices that China had to pay to countries like Australia. This squeezed…

— Michael Hudson

What in the world had Grover Cleveland done? Will you tell me? You give it up? I have been looking for six…

— William McKinley

President Obama has said that our aspirations should be realistic. We are not going to turn one of the poorest countries in…

— David Petraeus

One of the sad things about this political season is that it allows [requires] us to get behind our big "Liberal" or…

— George Saunders

I'm a dirt road out in the country kind of person, but I remember thinking, I could live in Chicago.

— Maggie Stiefvater

No foreigner has a place asking another people, another country, to change their constitution.

— Hamid Karzai

We dominate the scene and we will continue to impose our will on this country.

— Paul Bremer

May the death penalty, an unworthy punishment still used in some countries, be abolished throughout the world.

— Pope John Paul II

I have no regrets and if I had nine lives I would have gladly given them all up for my country.

— Melchora Aquino

Military veterans and the sacrifices they have made for our country carry a status we all should appreciate and honor.

— Reggie Miller

I will do everything I can in future to help this great country succeed.

— David Cameron

The clouds of terror and dictatorship are gathering over the whole country. They must not be allowed to bring eternal night.

— Boris Yeltsin

If inflation-adjusted interest rates decline in a given country, its currency is likely to decline.

— Ray Dalio

The characters in 'Be Near Me' come from a genuine place, a Britain that is more than one country and more than…

— Andrew O'Hagan

“Uniform of a soldier and uniform of a student both are equally needed for the nation.”

— Amit Kalantri

My country right or wrong; when right, to keep her right; when wrong, to put her right.

— Carl Schurz

I don't believe Russia would attack a NATO country or NATO as such, no matter which country we are talking about.

— Kersti Kaljulaid

We are part of a country that outshines those that have gone before us and most of those in existence today.

— Stephen Ambrose

It's easy to get squashed down in this business, for sure. Nashville can definitely train you to not get too excited.

— Matthew Ramsey

I'm from New Jersey. But I went to school in Los Angeles and all across the country. So, I can totally connect…

— Shanice Williams