Country Quotes · Page 219

I am in favor, heartily in favor, of our Constitution and Bill of Rights and I owe my allegiance to my country…

— Anonymous

I did not come to Congress to impeach the President. But I took an oath to protect our country and defend the…

— Conor Lamb

Say what you like about my bloody murderous government,' I says, 'but don't insult me poor bleedin' country.

— Edward Abbey

I am worrying about my country. I feel I have a responsibility as a novelist to do something.

— Haruki Murakami

If I was an Arab leader I would never make [peace] with Israel. That is natural: we have taken their country.

— David Ben-Gurion

Absolutely committed to spending the rest of my life as a spokesman for the rights of European Americans.

— David Duke

Unless we know where we've been as a country, we don't know where we are or where we are going.

— Ron Chernow

I don't consider myself qualified to do a movie about international intrigue - I seldom leave the country.

— John Hughes

March is a month of considerable frustration - it is so near spring and yet across a great deal of the country…

— Thalassa Cruso

Social Security, which transformed life for the elderly in this country, was 'socialist.' The concept of the 'minimum wage' was seen as…

— Bernie Sanders

I got involved in the Surrey Country youth theatre which led me to go to drama school where I realised that this…

— Michael Ball

My country and me, we are part of this region, we're not separated. We cannot discuss it as Syria or as me…

— Bashar al-Assad

I don't understand why people in this country are so bent on doing the 'perfect,' when you have something that is good…

— George Voinovich

It's ginned up by the corporate plutocracy as a way of distracting the working-class people that it's screwing. We hamstring our own…

— Edward Norton

When I was in Portugal I hardly played six-or-seven matches. Although I would train daily to keep my shape. Even then it…

— Sunil Chhetri

The relations between countries in the coming decade are most likely to reflect their cultural commitments, their cultural ties and antagonism with…

— Samuel P. Huntington

We profess to be strangers and pilgrims, seeking after a country of our own, yet we settle down in the most un-stranger-like…

— Amy Carmichael

If you remove the English Army tomorrow and hoist the green flag over Dublin Castle., unless you set about the organization of…

— James Connolly

The Democrats have lost a thousand electoral seats in America in midterm elections, 2010, 2014. The people of this country are clearly…

— Rush Limbaugh

I have a profound admiration for Fellini. I met him lately and he's just fantastic. I feel very close to him even…

— David Lynch

There's such a wide variation in tax systems around the world, it's difficult to imagine a harmonized CO2 tax that every country…

— Al Gore

You are talking to a leftist. I believe in the redistribution of wealth and power in the world. I believe in universal…

— Abbie Hoffman

The EU Constitution is something new in human history. Though it is not as eloquent as the French and U.S. constitutions, it…

— Jeremy Rifkin

You know my girls are so funny. You're out in the country and there are critters everywhere and they get a little…

— Anna Gunn

I think we all [americans] think we're a special country. But the question is, what - what call does that give us?

— Chris Matthews

There is no more important institution in our country than the Department of Justice.

— William Barr

“Soon, the nonstop buzzing of the local insect life gives way to something equally annoying. Country music.”

— Pittacus Lore

Whether or not I considered myself a country singer, when I sang a country song, I was as good as anybody.

— Anne Murray

This country can have no more democracy than it accords and guarantees to the humblest and weakest citizen.

— James Weldon Johnson

Pakistan is not the torch-bearer of Islam, and if I change my country, it doesn't mean that I have to change my…

— Adnan Sami

People end up fleeing countries who adopt economic policies based on these flawed principles. And more often than not, they come here.

— Marco Rubio

This will never be a civilized country until we spend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.

— Elbert Hubbard

To rebuild this country will take a long time but we have the mandate and the people support us.

— Fatos Nano

Egypt is the oldest, largest and most important Arab country in the region. What happens there affects them all.

— Kathleen Troia McFarland

Sometimes you have to disclaim your country and inhabit another before you can return to your own.

— Terry Tempest Williams

The E.P.A. is too important to treat like a reality TV show. People's lives and our country's resources are at stake.

— Christine Todd Whitman

We owe everything to our veterans because their sacrifice and service have made the United States the greatest country on earth.

— Jim Justice

If I really want to be the best player in the country, all I have to do is work at it, and…

— Willie Cauley-Stein

When a country is at war we want Congressmen, regardless of party, to back up the government of the United States.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

The goal is to talk about the issues that are happening in this country with the ultimate goal of making change.

— Eric Reid