Country Quotes · Page 121

I'm a Brit, so I come from a country where in the run-up to a general election, no one talks about abortion.

— Zoe Buckman

I want my daughters to be respected as human beings; that's the country I'm fighting for.

— Fawzia Koofi

I grew up in cattle country-that's why I became a vegetarian. Meat stinks, for the animals, the environment, and your health.

— K. D. Lang

The United States was a big country where everybody wore funny t-shirts and ate too much.

— Adam Rex

As far as the country is concerned, we have tremendous potential, but we're not using it.

— Donald Trump

A universal voucher program would change the face of poverty in this country.

— Matthew Desmond

Peace, so elusive in the past many decades, now finally prevails all over the country.

— Hun Sen

Unions have been the only powerful and effective voice working people have ever had in the history of this country.

— Bruce Springsteen

And at five o'clock in the morning we left to drive to Old Tucson, and I sat with my mouth open in…

— Erika Slezak

President Roosevelt proved that a President could serve for life. Truman proved that anyone could be elected. Eisenhower proved that your country…

— Nikita Khrushchev

We're trying to build a platform utilizing the Internet that allows the good American people to speak out about their frustration about…

— Hamilton Jordan

At the time of independence in 1975, Mozambique was extremely poor. Many Portuguese residents abandoned the country, leaving only a handful of…

— Henning Mankell

People who are talking about banning IPL, they should think about many other things that are troubling the country. People who want…

— Gautam Gambhir

Every country should realize that its turn at world domination, domination because its rights coincided more or less with the character or…

— Juan Ramon Jimenez

I believe no one can read the history of our country without realizing that the Good Book and the spirit of the…

— Earl Warren

I have been for some time in Retirement, and shall not probably return again to public Life; yet my Anxiety for my…

— George Mason

The children of America are not rebelling for no reason. They are not hippies for no reason at all. We don’t have…

— Eartha Kitt

Internationalism means that we can see into the dark corners of the world, and hold those companies to account when they are…

— Anita Roddick

I think that idealism is always there in America. It's a spirit that's been subverted lately, and sold down the river to…

— Tim Matheson

A new danger now beset him [Grotius], the danger of becoming simply a venal pleader, a creature who grinds out arguments on…

— Andrew Dickson White

I think it's the same thing for a country. We are lucky then that we can get some financing from the government,…

— Philippe Falardeau

Iraq is fragile and may fall back into a devastating setting. We're not making the kind of progress in Afghanistan that had…

— Mitt Romney

“Long ago the country bore the country-town and nourished it with her best blood. Now the giant city sucks the country dry,…

— Oswald Spengler

There is no doubt where the founding fathers stood on this issue. They believed that people of faith should be permitted to…

— John Cornyn

Africa is not a country, but it is a continent like none other. It has that which is elegantly vast or awfully…

— Douglas Wilder

In the middle of Mississippi, so many kinds of music came, but it was Nashville and country music that pulled my heart.

— Marty Stuart

Per capita availability of good, potable water is diminishing in all developed and developing countries.

— Marq de Villiers

The biggest blunder in the history of this country was when President Truman pulled General MacArthur out of China.

— Tiny Tim

Of the Shaker society, it was formerly a sort of proverb in the country, that they always sent the devil to market.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Like all idolatries, democratism substitutes a false god for the real, a love of process for a love of country.

— Pat Buchanan

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

Country banks are more flexible in their lending policies than their city brethren are.

— Bert Lance

If I am fit to rule the largest state of India, why can't I run the whole country?

— Mayawati

A brave man's country is wherever he chooses his abode. [Lat., Patria est ubicumque vir fortis sedem elegerit.]

— Quintus Curtius Rufus

Cyberespionage and cyberattack is exploding from our adversaries inside our country. We don't seem capable of stopping it.

— Jack Keane

I am hopeful about any future for whites in this country, but not entirely optimistic.

— Helen Suzman

What can I do to help? I am asking my senator to support political action to end hunger in the greatest country…

— Martin Landau

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

— Narendra Modi

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

— Graham Greene