Country Quotes · Page 269

We're a country that owes $20 trillion. They [Japan, Germany, South Korea, Saudi Arabia] have to help us out.

— Donald Trump

Tax policy should reflect a country's values and address its problems.

— Joseph Stiglitz

America is a remarkable country, but I have a feeling that it's a different country after 9/11.

— Svetlana Alexievich

I go for Mao Tse-tung much more than, than Nehru because I think that Nehru brought his country up in a beggar's…

— Malcolm X

Our belief is that aspirations, meritocracy, and a world class institution are the three ingredients our country needs.

— Shiv Nadar

If you eat a chicken wing or a chicken tender in some parts of the country, I probably supplied it.

— Herschel Walker

New Zealand is the only country I know well enough to write about. It can sometimes lead to complications.

— Margaret Mahy

No country which has cricket as one of its national games has yet gone communist.

— Woodrow Wyatt

The countries that have risen and separated out as a result of the collapse of the Soviet Union are, on the whole,…

— Milton Friedman

If we're going to kill our own people without even charging them with a crime, well, then we should just say we…

— Jeremy Scahill

We always see shifts in employment. If you think about it, if you go back to 1800, it took 80 percent of…

— Warren Buffett

I always thought it would have been fun to spend an evening with Patsy Cline - just because I think she was…

— Martina McBride

Life, lift the full goblet--away with all sorrow-- The circle of friendship what freedom would sever? To-day is our own, and a…

— Franklin P. Adams

I miss being in my home country; here, I'm always a foreigner. America is, of course, built of people who are not…

— Bill Skarsgard

I think it is a very natural tendency for the nations to increase their influence in the international space, as they pursue…

— Narendra Modi

I'm a farm boy. I would rather live in that time when you had to provide for your family. I don't know.…

— Travis Fimmel

When I lived in Nashville, Tanya Tucker and people like that were coming up, and I'm sure that Loretta Lynn and Tammy…

— Callie Khouri

This Civil Rights Act is a challenge to all of us to go to work in our communities and our states, in…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

I was only to see Mr. Chaplin once after 'The Kid.' A great artist, one of the greatest, but I'm afraid I…

— Jackie Coogan

In the past, there has been a stigma surrounding community colleges, where they were seen as a less viable option because they…

— Jill Biden

It is quite affecting to observe how much the olive tree is to the country people. Its fruit supplies them with food,…

— Fredrika Bremer

Look at Germany where 20 percent of the labor force is in manufacturing compared to about 8 percent in the United States.…

— Edward Alden

Maybe it's just a personal thing, but I get so much grounding from Iceland because I know it's always going to be…

— Bjork

People think first love is sweet, and never sweeter than when that first bond snaps. You've heard a thousand pop and country…

— Stephen King

The president can't change the country on his own. But what can he do? He can give an example.

— Volodymyr Zelensky

Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.

— George Burns

Nobody gets a nervous breakdown or a heart attack from selling kerosene to gentle country folk from the back of a tanker…

— Roald Dahl

What I consider country music doesn't make it the end all be all, but if you ask me my opinion, that's what…

— Tyler Childers

'Secularism' is the most misused word in the country. Its misuse should come to an end.

— Rajnath Singh

The word matters in country music, and it always has. And everybody had lived those words in country songs.

— Brenda Lee

Take what women say seriously. That hasn't always happened in this country.

— Tina Smith

Unfortunatelymost westerners form their opinions of Africa based on the reporting and news in their own countries

— Louise Mushikiwabo

The English country-gentleman galloping after a fox — the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable.

— Oscar Wilde

When people move from poor countries to America, they quickly adapt in at least one way - their consumption habits.

— Gary Bauer

It is my dearest wish to help young artists of our country…and to assist them in establishing themselves in the art world.

— Louis Comfort Tiffany

A country without a patent office and good patent laws is just a crab, and can't travel any way but sideways and…

— Mark Twain

The best way to see a country is from the footplate of a locomotive.

— George Dow

The biggest superstar of our country is Mr. Amitabh Bachchan, who I feel is the most gifted comedian of all times.

— Sajid Khan

There was a vacuum in investigation, and the press began to try men in the most effective court in the country.

— Daniel Schorr

You know the one thing that's wrong with this country? Everyone gets a chance to have their fair say.

— William J. Clinton