Country Quotes · Page 258

I don't want to be president, but I want to be free to decide whether or not I want to be president…

— Aung San Suu Kyi

Today, Arizona's sons and daughters, mothers and fathers are proudly serving their country.

— Jane D. Hull

There are huge challenges ahead for this country but also huge opportunities. We can make this country stronger and fairer.

— Michael Gove

I do hope President Trump's calls for bipartisanship are genuine, and I also hope he takes the actions needed to unify the…

— Jeff Van Drew

I would die for my country, but I could never let my country die for me.

— Neil Kinnock

If your country wants you to play, you really want to go and play as well.

— Kelechi Iheanacho

This is, I say, the time for all good men not to go to the aid of their party, but to come…

— Eugene McCarthy

Based on my experience, I can say that India country can be freed of corruption.

— Narendra Modi

All travellers agree that protestant are both richer and more populous than catholic countries;and the reason is, because the habits of the…

— Jean-Baptiste Say

We knowingly chose to protest in the Christ the Savior Cathedral, the most important church in the country, to denounce the connection…

— Yekaterina Samutsevich

The Republican Party is the Grand Old Party. It's made enormous contributions to the success of our country. And it is a…

— Nancy Pelosi

I've known from a very early age that singing was what I was supposed to do. There was this unmistaken, undeniable passion…

— Josh Turner

We must begin to tell black women's stories because, without them, we cannot tell the story of black men, white men, white…

— Kimberle Williams Crenshaw

Everybody in the world is talking about Canada…outside of the US, there is probably no country in the world that is producing…

— George Raveling

This president [Barack Obama] has had weak leadership, which has led to bad choices. We have got to stop worrying about being…

— Chris Christie

My culture comes from everywhere. I'm sick of this notion of nationality, that if you're brought up in the same city or…

— Marjane Satrapi

What's great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the…

— Andy Warhol

I believe in active citizenship, for men and women equally, as a simple matter of right and justice. I believe we will…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Our society is only as healthy as our most vulnerable citizens. It is unconscionable that the weakest links in our country are…

— Linda Gray

Germany will always do the minimum to preserve the euro. Doing the minimum, though, will perpetuate the situation where the debtor countries…

— George Soros

There is a truth in Schopenhauer’s view that philosophy is an organism, and that a book on philosophy, with a beginning and…

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

It's a false choice to say we either have job safety or job growth. It's a false choice to suggest that the…

— Tom Perez

In a modern digitalized world, it is possible to paralyze a country without attacking its defense forces: The country can be ruined…

— Toomas Hendrik Ilves

There is no tongue to speak his eulogy; Too brightly burned his splendor for our eyes; Far easier to condemn his injurers,…

— Michelangelo

The reality is that the people that we represent are no longer going to be second-class citizens in their own country.

— Martin McGuinness

You assume things, like whatever country has more firepower wins the wars, and that's actually not true at all.

— Max Brooks

India helped Bangladesh to achieve independence. The Bangladeshis should remain happy inside the territory of their own country.

— Atal Bihari Vajpayee

I think we do better as a country when we go step by step toward a goal, and the goal in this…

— Lamar Alexander

I had said that when the first Bush got elected that I would leave the country. And when the second Bush wasn't…

— Nan Goldin

I will say that the food in both Japan and Italy was immaculate. I don't remember having bad food in either country.

— Daniel Gillies

Better to be ordinary people in a superior country than to be president in a disreputable country

— Khem Veasna

“I hope to stand firm enough not to go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.”

— Abraham Lincoln

You can just assume that better law enforcement response is going to quell the epidemic of gun violence in this country.

— Chris Murphy

This country has been unconscious, and it's got to awake. That's my belief.

— Charles Olson

The native music of North America, the original-roots music of this country, is also the underworld music of this country.

— Robbie Robertson

I went to the Lake District to see what kind of a country it could be that would produce a Wordsworth.

— John Burroughs

Liberalism is a disease cured only by a lobotomy or 90 days in a third world country.

— Josh Bernstein

We have an immigration system in this country that not only doesn't work, in many cases it doesn't even make any sense.

— Kendrick Meek

Communism is Soviet power plus the electrification of the whole country.

— Vladimir Lenin

My country tis of thee, to take swings at each other on talk show TV.

— Ani DiFranco