Country Quotes · Page 225

I don't know what our government does except put us into debt and blow up other countries.

— Madonna Ciccone

President Obama wants to raise taxes on the country's richest people. And you thought Donald Trump hated him before.

— Jay Leno

I'd love to travel around the country to clubs and hear my song playing and get on the mic.

— Scheana Shay

He came to this country like a torch on fire and he swallowed air as he walked forward and he gave out…

— Michael Ondaatje

It is absolutely impossible to settle the debts to pensioners, teachers, and others. The country hasn't got enough money to do so.

— Eduard Shevardnadze

France is a country where thinking is supposed to be furtive, invisible, almost clandestine. France is a country of cliques and sects.

— Bernard-Henri Levy

Florida was a hotbed of professional wrestling, one of the hottest in the country.

— Eric Bischoff

We don't want to become like country artists where there's a formula.

— M. Shadows

Nothing distinguishes more clearly conditions in a free country from those in a country under arbitrary government than the observance in the…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

In America they like my spicy TV alter ego, probably because there were a lot of Italians and Hispanics in the country,…

— Bruno Tonioli

Anytime you see somebody get hurt in this country and it's on television, and it seems unfair... I hope every human being…

— Cris Collinsworth

I wanna show that gospel, country, blues, rhythm and blues, jazz, rock 'n' roll are all just really one thing. Those are…

— Etta James

Politically I don't believe anymore that we can only have one voice to a story, it's like having one radio station to…

— Michael Ondaatje

There are many people abroad who want to help, who want to invest. We will give them the red-carpet treatment. We want…

— Antonis Samaras

We do not choose to be born. We do not choose our parents, or the country of our birth. We do not,…

— Joseph Epstein

What is a country without rabbits and partridges? They are among the most simple and indigenous animal products; ancient and venerable families…

— Henry David Thoreau

Foreignness is all around. Only in the heart of the heart of the country, namely the heart of the United States, can…

— Margaret Atwood

Conservative statesmen from Alexander Hamilton to Ronald Reagan sometimes supported protectionism, and at other times, they leaned toward lowering barriers. But they…

— Robert Lighthizer

We, as Americans, at least - I mean, I love my country - but we're so self-righteous sometimes, in terms of, like,…

— Peter Dinklage

A little righteous anger really brings out the best in the American personality. Our nation was born when 56 patriots got mad…

— Lee Iacocca

A person who does not enter the new [Rastakhiz] party is either an individual who belongs to an illegal organization, or is…

— Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

Neither your life nor my life, nor the future of this country, will be affected in the slightest by whether Linda Tripp…

— Thomas Sowell

With hurricanes, tornados, fires out of control, mud slides, flooding, severe thunderstorms tearing up the country from one end to another, and…

— Jay Leno

We oppress people, we make our victims small wherever they are, whether they are a black girl in a rural community in,…

— Roma Tearne

Families, like countries, take their prophets unkindly, but a verse-speaker in the house is dishonor to be hooted.

— Dylan Thomas

One reason people are turning to country music is because of that non-music called rap.

— Eddie Rabbitt

Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to time.

— George W. Bush

I am pleased for Poland as a country, that new motorways are being constructed, new businesses, new stadiums.

— Lukas Podolski

The two systems slave and free-labor are incompatible. They have never permanently existed together in one country, and they never can.

— William H. Seward

I don't think Metallica sits around all day wondering why country music fans don't embrace them.

— Anthony Jeselnik

Taxi drivers up and down the country are at the vanguard of the electric vehicle revolution.

— Grant Shapps

I love India. I've always been drawn to it, and I hope that I get to visit the country soon.

— Matt Bomer

We have a lot of Brazilians in the United States. It doesn't mean we're traitors to our country.

— Rafael dos Anjos

We will reflect the country we aspire to govern, and the sound of modern Britain's is a complex harmony, not a male…

— David Cameron

If we added up the killed and wounded from the Democrat wars in this country, it would be about 1.6 million Americans.

— Bob Dole

Everyone's dream is to first play for the country. Whenever you step in, you are wearing the Indian jersey and it is…

— Vijay Shankar

It's so important to try to find solutions that can move our country forward.

— Laphonza Butler

Argentina will become a model for how to transform a country into a prosperous nation. I have no doubt.

— Javier Milei

I was born in the Bronx, and then my father moved us to the country at an early age.

— Abel Ferrara

A lot of people like mainstream country because they're not given another option of country music to like that's modern.

— Margo Price