Country Quotes · Page 174

When it comes to giving tax breaks to the wealthy of this country, the President has a heart of gold.

— Tip O'Neill

As long as we have a poor country bordering California, it's going to be very difficult to win strikes.

— Cesar Chavez

I'd love to retire somewhere like Winchester, where you have one foot on the pavement but a sense of being in the…

— Hugh Bonneville

I have been to Pakistan many times and enjoyed every visit and it breaks my heart to see teams not playing in…

— Viv Richards

We have to return to the ideals that made our country great and to the idea that every person is worthy of…

— Mike Johnson

To what better purpose can a man's energy be devoted, and his talents, than the resuscitation of his country's language?

— George A. Moore

I started out in Hollywood and I owe a certain amount of loyalty to both the American movie industry and this country.

— Van Heflin

I think of a song in terms of lyrics and stories, and that's what keeps it country for me.

— Sam Hunt

Temperance puts wood on the fire, meal in the barrel, flour in the tub, money in the purse, credit in the country,…

— Benjamin Franklin

You must get engaged with people who are far less privileged than you. I think you must devote your time if not…

— Azim Premji

You want to be a country that creates food stamps? In which case, frankly, Obama is an enormous success the most successful…

— Newt Gingrich

My Country's trying to save the World, stop the wars, relieve the poor, feed the hungry, heal the sick and liberate the…

— David Berg

If you take my own life, the longer you stay in a country, you almost lose your former self and become this…

— Greg Poehler

... far more people make a living as professional chess players today than ever before. Thanks partly to the availability of computer…

— Kenneth Rogoff

Had Calhoun been advised by me, he would have been the Candidate in opposition to General Jackson, and elected and the country…

— Duff Green

With every issue, the coverage of [Barack] Obama is: "Will he get? How will he look? Does this help or does this…

— Rush Limbaugh

Observe that the body of man is confined to a small place; it covers only two spans of earth. But the spirit…

— Abdu'l-Bahá

Of the seven million Americans living abroad, one million are military, and not all of them are Republicans. The other six million…

— Robert F. Kennedy, Jr

These acts of terrorism are being committed by American citizens in this particular instance at a Planned Parenthood site, certain with a…

— Hakeem Jeffries

There will always be frictions when you have a foreign worker population or immigrant population in the country, and we have to…

— Lee Hsien Loong

If you're talking about competing with countries in the industrialized, developed world, they don't have healthcare costs. Their societies have that as…

— Nancy Pelosi

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

— Jill Biden

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

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

I don't know if a country (America) where the people are so ignorant of reality and of history, if you can call…

— Jane Fonda

I've wrestled on every continent but Antarctica and in every country in the world except for China and the U.S.S.R.

— Harley Race

... in free countries the law ought to be King; and there ought to be no other.

— Thomas Paine

The existence of such an [international Islamic] army rules out the superpowers' interference in disputes among Muslim countries.

— Mohsen Rezaee

Country music came from Black people - it all started with the blues and bluegrass.

— Jimmie Allen

Most country songs, certainly all the stuff I've written, are stories driven by characters.

— Dolly Parton

Around it are those countries which, according to History, constitute the civilised world ie, a world that can support historians

— Terry Pratchett

In France, like in most countries, the respect you receive depends on your class.

— Gaspar Noe

Science cannot stop while ethics catches up ... and nobody should expect scientists to do all the thinking for the country.

— Elvin C. Stakman

In my view, as a country we need to rediscover some of that skepticism about government and revisit that libertarian agenda.

— Charles Kennedy

If we can't stamp out literature in the country, we can at least stop its being brought in from outside.

— Evelyn Waugh

As I view the Republicans in Congress, I don't see them as a real reflection of many Republicans in our country.

— Nancy Pelosi

I'm not a lukewarm European. I know that the German-French friendship is indispensable, no matter who the countries' leaders are.

— Francois Hollande

The virtue of the country is that it makes you thirsty for the city.

— Sam Waterston

I have always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.

— Lawrence Summers

A true world outlook is incompatible with a foreign imperialism, no matter how high-minded the governing country.

— Wendell Willkie