Country Quotes · Page 267

All I've ever wanted to do is sing country music and tell stories that people connect to.

— Lainey Wilson

In a country of children where the option is Santa Claus or work, what wins?

— Rush Limbaugh

In any country, corruption tends to increase when more respectable means of social advancement break down.

— Katherine Boo

The patriot volunteer, fighting for country and his rights, makes the most reliable soldier on earth.

— Stonewall Jackson

We haven't had a good energy policy in this country for decades and we're trying to get one.

— Paul Gillmor

Whoever is running the country should not be in the pay of a foreign interest. The best way is to see tax…

— Bill Foster

I love Nashville. It's such a great town, and I'm a huge country music fan. That's what I listen to on the…

— Joanna Garcia

America, my friends, is the only country in the world actually founded on liberty - the only one. People went to America…

— Margaret Thatcher

You always want to play for your country and when you're in good form, you feel that maybe you will be in…

— Darren Bent

Only the desert has a fascination--to ride alone--in the sun in the forever unpossessed country--away from man. That is a great temptation.

— D. H. Lawrence

Russia's most precious resource is the brain power of this country. And you've got a lot of it. It's going to take…

— George W. Bush

We want people to come into our country, but they have to come into our country legally and properly vetted, and in…

— Donald Trump

I love a sunburnt country, a land of sweeping plains, Of rugged mountain ranges, of droughts and flooding rains. I love her…

— Dorothea Mackellar

If an asteroid is coming toward you, you don't have to blow it up. You just have to slow it down long…

— Emo Philips

Every injustice that has ever been fastened upon women in a Christian country has been “authorized by the Bible” and riveted and…

— Helen H. Gardener

My heart aches for less divisiveness, less polarization Less mindless partisanship, which at times sounds almost hateful to the ear of Americans.…

— Tom Coburn

I think an appeal to American idealism and willingness to sacrifice would be an important contribution, because what is happening now in…

— Henry A. Kissinger

I think people forget that when people lose Medicaid coverage, they still show up at the hospital when they have a chronic…

— Claire McCaskill

I don't think that the flesh is necessarily treacherous, evil, bad. It is cantankerous, and it is independent. The idea of independence…

— David Cronenberg

All these cries of having "abolished slavery," of having "saved the country," of having "preserved the union," of establishing a "government of…

— Lysander Spooner

I do have a plan for the country [the USA]. It needs education. And there should be drug education - only people…

— Tommy Chong

Nixon has the audacity to tell me to do nothing in the interest of my country until he dictactes where that interest…

— Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

We hear from time to time about horrible human rights atrocities happening around the globe. Our government claims that it stands in…

— Lundy Bancroft

The American Dream means being part of a society that allows you to be or do whatever you want, and to have…

— Madeleine Albright

As a child you dream of playing for your country, but when it really happens you do not know how to react.

— Ajinkya Rahane

If everyone can say, looking at Obama, that is he is one of us, is that not befitting for the leading country…

— Recep Tayyip Erdogan

I always want to have the traditional country soul while meeting the new standards of country music.

— Jon Pardi

Only one thing can save this country, and that's to get a handle on this deficit and debt issue.

— Mitch McConnell

A sad figure (Bush) ' not too well educated, who doesn't get out of America much. He's leading the country towards Fascism.

— Larry Hagman

I've always wanted to make records that rock like hell. But also, I've never wanted to compromise that Country place deep inside.

— Carlene Carter

Would the world be in the mess it is if we were loyal to love and not to countries?

— Graham Greene

I have been a firm believer in the federal structure of our country as enshrined in the Constitution.

— Narendra Modi

Well, we play Country music; we're just not sure what country it is.

— Jerry Jeff Walker

Just because I'm country music don't mean I don't have a little bit a' soul down in there somewhere.

— Travis Tritt

There's no reason someone who has fought for their country should be homeless of jobless.

— Chris Kyle

We need to stop spending money on death, the war in Iraq and on enhancing the lives of the people in our…

— Dick Morris

Quiet time is the key. We have hundreds of thousands of kids around the country meditating through the David Lynch Foundation.

— Russell Simmons

But in this country it is necessary, now and then, to put one admiral to death in order to inspire the others…

— Voltaire

We no longer live in a world that is neatly divided between rich and well-educated countries, and poor and badly-educated ones.

— Andreas Schleicher

The farmers may be the backbone of the country, but who wants to be a backbone?

— F. Scott Fitzgerald