Country Quotes · Page 140

There ain't nothing that breaks up homes, country and nations like somebody publishing their memoirs

— Will Rogers

You cannot force a country to do something that is against its own interests or against the democratic process.

— Marine Le Pen

I campaigned for the UK to stay in the European Union but the country chose a different path.

— Liz Truss

The Arab Spring reminds me a bit of the decolonisation process where one country gets independence, and everybody else wants it.

— Kofi Annan

Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to this country and to mankind is to bring up a…

— George Bernard Shaw

What better day to lay the cornerstone of the Freedom Tower than the day our country declared its independence.

— George Pataki

Departure beyond the borders of my country is for me equivalent to death.

— Boris Pasternak

We're the highest taxed in the world, we're the highest taxed country right now, and it's not even close.

— Donald Trump

One country ... one ideology, one system is not sufficient. It is helpful to have a variety of different approaches ... We…

— Dalai Lama

You watch the country-music awards that they show on the television, and you see country music has reached about 1985. It's all…

— Andy Partridge

Fifty percent of our country that we own, have all legal jurisdiction, have all rights to do whatever we want, lies beneath…

— Robert Ballard

I remember being in China and realising how irrelevant not even Britain is, but also Europe. We're just another remote country that…

— Clive Anderson

I think the country is very settled in a lot of ways, and we saw that after the Democratic Convention. I think…

— Harold Ford, Jr

Barry Goldwater once said ruefully, and I know how he feels. "It's a great country, where anybody can grow up to be…

— Bob Dole

I know of no severe depression, in any country or any time, that was not accompanied by a sharp decline in the…

— Milton Friedman

Every country possesses, it seems, the sort of cuisine it deserves, which is to say the sort of cuisine it is appreciative…

— Anonymous

WHO has a country office in nearly every developing country, usually located close to the Ministry of Health. Staff in these offices…

— Margaret Chan

I worked when I was Congress on a second chance act. We have got to do a better job recognizing and correcting…

— Mike Pence

We're looking at the dawn of a new arms race. For example, Germany technically opposes the US space militarization program, but is…

— Noam Chomsky

A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one…

— Oscar Wilde

Up until the rise of electronic music, if you were a musician in Portugal or Germany or Italy or Japan, and you…

— Moby

School feeding not only fills stomachs, but has a proven track record of boosting enrollment, attendance and academic performance. For just pennies…

— Drew Barrymore

Voting in this country has essentially been relegated to a very fledging group of election officials, who receive no training and operate…

— DeForest Soaries

Sanford is a little redneck town north of Orlando. It's right off Lake Jessup.Lake Jessup is the most alligator infested lake in…

— Larry the Cable Guy

Increasingly developing countries are asking for aid to help deal with the consequences of climate change, which we don't want to give.

— Elizabeth Kolbert

We need to have a more thoughtful, two-sided conversation about racial issues in this country.

— Megan Rapinoe

In this republican country, amid the fluctuating waves of our social life, somebody is always at the drowning-point.

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

War, I have always said, forces men to change their standards, regardless of whether their country has won or lost.

— Salvatore Quasimodo

I want the people of New York to be an example to the rest of the country, and the rest of the…

— Rudy Giuliani

People in this country should be able to find economic opportunity and meaningful jobs in the places they grew up.

— Ro Khanna

“...I'm not saying I needed my life to be a symphony - I just never thought it'd turn out to be a…

— Brad Meltzer

The country will also need 'new forms of social welfare' instead of its current system which is excessively centred on pensions.

— Giorgio Napolitano

We cannot suffer a person by his affidavit to arraign the whole justice of the country and its administration.

— Tony Abbott

As for New York City, it is a place apart. There is not its match in any other country in the world.

— Pearl S. Buck

I've done a lot of great things playing for this country and this national team in the youth stage.

— Ashlyn Harris

In my country (Belgium), if you sit beside the phone long enough, it will ring and you will be invited to play…

— Jacques Rogge

Eradicating violence of every kind in this country is a fight that requires a commitment from every single person.

— Cori Bush

Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president.

— Theodore Roosevelt

Children's reading and children's thinking are the rock-bottom base upon which this country will rise.

— Dr. Seuss

In Rome you long for the country. In the country you praise to the skies the distant town.

— Horace