Country Quotes · Page 229

I mean, the country was founded on free enterprise. There's good things about it, and there's obviously bad things about it.

— Joan Cusack

The fundamental business of the country, that is production and distribution of commodities, is on a sound and prosperous basis.

— Herbert Hoover

Sometimes there are historical moments when a country's course could be turned one way or the other, when fate can be escaped.

— Vladimir Voinovich

The nature of our constitution makes eloquence more useful and more necessary in this country than in any other in Europe.

— Bill Vaughan

Brexit and Trump's election are forcing countries to come up with new radical ideas.

— Mariana Mazzucato

Everyone wants to represent their country and my dream is to one day play in the Olympics.

— Jrue Holiday

We pay billions - hundreds of billions of dollars to supporting other countries that are in theory wealthier than we are.

— Donald Trump

I do not think that we have a systemic racism problem with law enforcement officers across this country.

— Chad Wolf

Such a divine profession is art! When everything else looks so stale and disgustingly vacuous, so enthralls even the littlest real effort…

— Felix Mendelssohn

This is where I started life. This is where I went to uni. This is where the people I know are. This…

— Mo Farah

It's not easy to carry forward the national team because you have a whole country behind you. But I would be willing…

— Mario Kempes

Thousands of people marched in cities around the country to demand that Donald Trump release his taxes. He dismissed them with a…

— John Yang

Colombians are sick of 'Narcos' stories because Colombia is a country that has changed so much. It's a country that's completely different…

— Wagner Moura

Truly 1 percent of this country serves and protects the freedoms of the other 99 percent of us, so many of us…

— Michelle Obama

New York City in particular is the economic engine of not just our state, but arguably the nation. If that engine stalls,…

— Eric Adams

When we ask American men and women in uniform to fight for this country and to defend this country's interest and then…

— Byron Dorgan

My hope is that we would begin to have a dialogue in this country about the importance of civility. We can have…

— Tom Brokaw

Next came the Patent laws. These began in England in 1624; and, in this country, with the adoption of our constitution. Before…

— Abraham Lincoln

I was invited to give the Freshmen Convocation at Florida Gulf Coast University on October 24, 2004. My book The Open Space…

— Terry Tempest Williams

There's an effort on the part of many people to attack women's rights, women's health, and the ability to control our own…

— Barbara Boxer

Anything would be better in the US than what you have. As a government it's really very low quality, given the fact…

— Carlos Fuentes

Old Marley was as dead as a doornail. Mind! I don't mean to say that, of my own knowledge, what there is…

— Charles Dickens

I believe that our world needs an instrument of global action as never before in history. I believe that the United Nations…

— Kofi Annan

It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the…

— Ernest Hemingway

I have drunk ale from the Country of the Young / And weep because I know all things now.

— William Butler Yeats

As long as countries like China keep going all in on clean energy, so must we.

— Barack Obama

I need both to feel good: the energy of the city and the quietness of the country.

— Charlotte Casiraghi

I always feel depressed when I go into a country under dictatorial rule.

— Arthur Frommer

Each country, if it so desires, will make its own revolution. And if no such desire exists, no revolution will occur.

— Joseph Stalin

Country is based on folk music, which has been around for centuries—” “So has the plague.

— Karen Chance

There is no country on earth with a stronger tradition of protecting the public's right to know.

— Roy Barnes

I only did my duty to my country when I tried to oppose the criminal folly of Hitler

— Wilhelm Canaris

Everyone in this country loves me I will not to do any role which will demean my name.

— Rajpal Yadav

Even the biggest superstars of the country have to struggle to sustain their position and power.

— Divya Khosla Kumar

When the sun sets, life gets darker in the country; when a bad leader sinks, life gets brighter in the country!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

I'm moderately optimistic. We Americans are an enormous country with more than 300 million people so there's reason for optimism.

— Newt Gingrich

Outside of the Moscow elite and a very small urban elite, Russia is one great big blue-collar country.

— Fiona Hill

With vision, every person, organization and country can flourish. The Bible says, 'Without vision we perish.’

— Mark Victor Hansen

Scotland really is a spectacularly beautiful country with so much history. I always go to Culzean Castle in Ayrshire.

— Susan Eisenhower

I believe the United States is the greatest country on Earth. I really do.

— Samantha Power