Country Quotes · Page 223

Coal makes us sick. Oil makes us sick. It's global warming. It's ruining our country. It's ruining our world.

— Harry Reid

It may be argued that the past is a country from which we have all emigrated, that its loss is part of…

— Salman Rushdie

America is the only country in the world that classifies as Negro any person who has one drop of African blood in…

— Edward Brooke

People look up to me as somebody who is able to switch the image of our country from negative to positive.

— Novak Djokovic

I certainly couldn't run a big country house, nor could I organize the greatest show on earth.

— Hugh Bonneville

Australia is a country not so much of fulfillment as of theatrical expectation.

— Jan Morris

If ever again our nation stumbles upon unfunded paper, it shall surely be like death to our body politic. This country will…

— George Washington

Israel is a country that reacts vigorously when its citizens are fired upon, which is a good thing.

— Tzipi Livni

You know, the Constitution - there's nothing like it. But it doesn't necessarily give us the right to commit suicide as a…

— Donald Trump

And if we don't have a test, what we may end up doing is going back to what this country has done…

— Robert Sternberg

It is time Australian Muslims stop being treated as negotiable citizens in their own country. It is time people stop 'tolerating' us,…

— Randa Abdel-Fattah

I grew up in the 60s, and before the 60s, my father was into Elvis Presley and Johnny Cash, so I heard…

— Mike Campbell

I grew up in Manhattan. For Manhattanites, Brooklyn was the sticks, a second-rate civilization. My friends and I, we were so snobby.…

— William Klein

I know a lot of people say, 'You're an athlete or actor... and you shouldn't speak up.' I think that makes no…

— Brandon Victor Dixon

The truth is that the United States doesn't need, and shouldn't have, a debt ceiling. Every other democratic country, with the exception…

— James Surowiecki

I think the sensibilities of having grown up in Upstate New York and the concerns, the fears, the hopes of the people…

— David Muir

Since the beginning, the US presidents (all of European stock, of course), had been promoting slavery, extermination campaigns against the native population…

— Andre Vltchek

George W. Bush, another Republican who I probably didn't agree with on much, right after 9/11 went to a mosque and joined…

— Steve King

Publications by the World Health Organization show that diphtheria is steadily declining in most European countries, including those in which there has…

— Leon Chaitow

Look at all of the great strengths of America: entrepreneurialship, work ethic, natural resources, a democracy, a transparency, a willingness to be…

— Michael Bloomberg

There can be no real growth without healthy populations. No sustainable development without tackling disease and malnutrition. No international security without assisting…

— Anonymous

I understood from a very young age that school was important and that my parents were making great sacrifices for me. Every…

— Omar Sy

I believed Afghanistan was always going to be hard. It's the fifth poorest country in the world. And when you fly over…

— Condoleezza Rice

When you have weird policy decisions in the United States that then ripple out throughout the world, the rest of the world…

— Raj Patel

England is not a country of granite and marble, but of chalk, marl, and clay.

— John Burroughs

Of all the hokum with which this country [America] is riddled, the most odd is the common notion that it is free…

— W. Somerset Maugham

I'm a country girl. I have to be in nature, so my daughter is exposed to it a lot.

— Salma Hayek

There is no country in Europe which is so easy to over-run as Spain; there is no country which it is more…

— Thomas B. Macaulay

Beware of being too rational. In the country of the insane, the integrated man doesn't become king. He gets lynched.

— Aldous Huxley

The core of me is country. It's what I love. It's what I write. Even when I sing pop stuff, I'm still…

— Ashley Monroe

Equality means allowing people to achieve their full potential - for themselves and for their country.

— Penny Mordaunt

My dear and old country, here we are once again together faced with a heavy trial.

— Charles de Gaulle

There's bits of my heart in different countries around the world in which I travel.

— Michael Jackson

What I'm in favor of is making sure we have security for our country and we can control access to our country.

— Darryl Glenn

To the lover of pure wildness Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.

— John Muir

My parents were very protective of me and my brother, so they never talked to us about the situation in our country.

— Ana Ivanovic

I run in practically every single road race in my country, 5k, 10k just to promote the sport.

— Alberto Juantorena

When you drop bombs on the enemy, you drop those same bombs on yourself, your own country.

— Nhat Hanh

Most of the stuff that parades as drug education in this country is just rubbish with no foundation in evidence.

— Carl Hart

There is this sense of time when you're traveling, that the time is not how you know it, but how a country…

— Vendela Vida