Country Quotes · Page 249

Britain has always had more art schools per capita than any other country.

— Mary Quant

Greatness consists in deciding only what is necessary for the welfare of the country and making straight for the goal.

— Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

An emerging market is a country where politics matters at least as much as economics to the market.

— Ian Bremmer

In developing countries, lack of infrastructure is a far more serious barrier to trade than tariffs.

— Joseph Stiglitz

Labour can no longer impose a future on the country, instead it must negotiate one.

— Clive Lewis

Almost every truly creative being alienated & expatriated in his own country

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Cosmopolitan critics, men who are the friends of every country save their own.

— Benjamin Disraeli

France is the country with the highest taxes in Europe along with Sweden...something of which I am not proud.

— Nicolas Sarkozy

I was a kid, and I would watch standup comics do the 'Tonight Show,' and if Johnny Carson liked you, he'd wave…

— Jo Koy

This country is rich with awful things to say about everybody. There's a slur for you and a slur for me -…

— Wesley Morris

If a terrorist group wanted to hit Britain, all they'd have to do is kill 100 random celebrities. The country would have…

— Chris Morris

If I want people to be empathetic to my struggle - they don't see hate crimes at the mosque, they don't see…

— Hasan Minhaj

My Botswana books are positive, and I've never really sought to deny that. They are positive. They present a very positive picture…

— Alexander McCall Smith

I don't think things are getting more insane. I do know that the country is more divided than it's ever been. Tensions…

— Trevor Noah

But then Iraq happened after September 2001 and America claimed that Al Qaeda was there, and we all know that was a…

— Clare Short

I like garish things: I like the 1970s and 1960s, and country music - that big-hair look. I don't go for nudes…

— Roisin Conaty

Once the Eastern Bloc collapsed, what I call 'historical spontaneity' prevailed and the countries that were subject to Soviet control naturally gravitated…

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

The fact is I look at what's happening to this country, I look at the way China is just ripping us off,…

— Donald Trump

I wonder, what's in a book while it's closed. Oh, I know it's full of letters printed on paper, but all the…

— Michael Ende

The Brer Rabbit ploy has been quite effective for me. When a country is talking about prosecuting me, I demand to be…

— Paul Watson

The relationship between the United States and Mexico goes over and beyond the relationship between two governments. This is a relationship that…

— Enrique Pena Nieto

While budgets are tight right now, there are schools across the country that are showing that it doesn't take a whole lot…

— Michelle Obama

The cars of the migrant people crawled out of the side roads onto the great cross-country highway, and they took the migrant…

— John Steinbeck

The food system is not a free market. In this country, we impose reasonably high standards of animal welfare - but we…

— Zac Goldsmith

It is in the country's best interest that Tony Blair rather than Michael Howard should form the next government.

— Robert Jackson

My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its office-holders.

— Mark Twain

Race in this country is still the elephant in the room that no one wants to discuss.

— Lenny Kravitz

Citizen service is a repudiation of the principles upon which our country was based. We are all here for ourselves.

— Rush Limbaugh

Those who devote their lives to serving our country, children, and neighborhoods are giving back. They have answered the call to serve.

— Jennifer Granholm

Listen, the word 'party' has taken on a negative connotation in our country these days. It's really bumming me out.

— Joe Maddon

This country was fine in my opinion before Brexit, so let's all settle down.

— Chris Kamara

Being out here in the country and having acres of land, you can go outside naked if you want.

— Matt Hardy

If you don't hate Clinton and the people who labored to keep him in office, you don't love your country.

— Ann Coulter

I dream of a free, democratic, peaceful Tunisia, a country that can protect its developing identity.

— Rashid al-Ghannushi

I did what any American could and should do: serve his country in its time of need.

— Bob Feller

A lot of people don't realise I came out of the Smoky Mountains with a load of songs.

— Dolly Parton

If you have a weakness, everyone sees it all over the country and the other team is going to exploit it.

— Jonny Gomes

The Philippines, it might be said, is a country in search of an identity.

— Raymond Bonner

The United States Navy is of critical importance to the defense of this country and to maintaining freedom of the seas internationally.

— Robert C. O'Brien

England is a paradise for women and hell for horses; Italy is a paradise for horses, hell for women, as the diverb…

— Robert Burton