Country Quotes · Page 270

When I grew up in Pittsburgh in my parents' restaurant, I was almost like a country bumpkin.

— Ming-Na Wen

I am not going to tolerate players turning up unfit. They are professional athletes representing a country.

— Mickey Arthur

The skills gap is a reflection of what we value. To close the gap, we need to change the way the country…

— Mike Rowe

I don't think that Chinese ownership of U.S. assets is so large as to put our country at risk economically.

— Ben Bernanke

We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we…

— Louis D. Brandeis

If a man can say 'My life is more important than my country,' that man has succeeded in freeing himself from the…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

I think you have an enormous amount of fear and uncertainty in this country. And it's not just from San Bernardino or…

— Bernie Sanders

The vast majority of students in this country will continue to attend public schools.

— Betsy DeVos

The Greek debt issue, for example, is such a threat because if that country ever defaulted, it might cause some bank that's…

— Jerry A. Webman

A city man is a home anywhere, for all big cities are much alike. But a country man has a place where…

— Edward Abbey

For an artist to go and play in a country that occupies other people's land and oppresses them, the way Israel does,…

— Roger Waters

There are lots of conflicts going on in the Middle East. It is unclear as to which country will emerge, if any,…

— Samuel P. Huntington

We had periodic crises in this country when the technical intelligence didn't support the policy. We had the bomber gap, the missile…

— Aldrich Ames

Great tragedy has come to us, and we are meeting it with the best that is in our country, with courage and…

— George W. Bush

I'm from West Virginia. If you didn't know what was happening in NASCAR, you were on the outside. NASCAR is a big…

— Randy Moss

The only position when violence is threatened in response to a novel or a cartoon or a crappy YouTube video is a…

— Salman Rushdie

And, moreover, when it happens that both are sincere and good, nothing will mix and amalgamate more easily than an old priest…

— Victor Hugo

Most people just aren't clear-eyed about the rural South. We think that the urban centers are the problem, and the rural areas…

— Jesmyn Ward

Even if we were to sign peace today, the economic conditions in our country would not improve automatically because it will take…

— Salva Kiir Mayardit

Mortgage is one of the most popular deductions. It costs the Treasury about $103 billion a year. Now that's money we could…

— T.R. Reid

We were all illegal at one point and we were all unwanted at one point. Somebody in our family, if not us,…

— Rush Limbaugh

Fantastically, Australia is still the lucky country. We have the flawed but necessary gift of democracy. Currently there is a debate about…

— Martin Flanagan

While the Western society gives total freedom to the individuals to do whatever "consenting adults" please, which admittedly is better than having…

— Ali Sina

The decision-making process in the White House does not let most issues get up to the President. The Council thought opening up…

— Joseph Stiglitz

I think our country is the best country in the world, you know, but there's just obviously a lot of things that…

— Breanna Stewart

“My mind mends my motives and my notion navigates my natives,for we all are made of soil-our corrupted soil.”

— Munia Khan

I think the prom is very serious also. It's an American ritual, it's a rite of passage, and it's very much a…

— Mary Ellen Mark

America became great through immigrants... I hope that this great country will recall what has made it great.

— Joe Kaeser

In this country, you never pull the emergency brake, even when there is an emergency. It is imperative that the trains run…

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

There's a lot of anxiety about terrorism among the country at large. There's also a feeling the country has stagnated.

— Mara Liasson

[on Queen Mother] Our country is the richer for her life and the poorer at her death.

— John Major

Once George Washington said, "I have to step down the so the country can move on."

— Lin-Manuel Miranda

Sometimes I'd say what's bad for the country is good for my business, unfortunately.

— Larry Wilmore

Winning or losing of the election is less important than strengthening the country.

— Indira Gandhi

Racial segregation in the South not only separated the races, but it separated the South from the rest of the country.

— Robert Dallek

There's no greater service to this country than the defense of its freedom.

— Barry Goldwater

“On the radio, turned low, Reba sang of hard times with the full authority of a cross-eyed redheaded millionaire.”

— Christopher Moore

A free man will ask neither what his country can do for him nor what he can do for his country.

— Milton Friedman

I can't complain about my life. I have a really nice life. I have a great family and I live in a…

— Mary Decker

I could grow my own patch, make some apple pies and start selling them at the local country fair.

— Gemma Collins