Country Quotes · Page 216

Our country is losing so much in terms of energy, in terms of paying off our debt.

— Donald Trump

The spirit of the age is: Ask not what your country can do for you, demand it.

— Mark Steyn

We're in a situation now where weight and extreme weight and heart disease is the biggest killer in this country today.

— Jamie Oliver

An optimist is merely an ex-pessimist with his pockets full of money, his digestion in good condition, and his wife in the…

— Helen Rowland

We may not be the best conditioned team in the country, but our players think they are.

— John Wooden

I was a twenty-two-year-old single white female alone in a strange country where my sister had been killed.

— Karen Marie Moning

I love my country. I love my family. And I have dedicated my life to both of them.

— Edward Snowden

I do think that campaigns are about electing somebody, but they're also about a discussion of the future of our country.

— Nancy Pelosi

In all of human history no country or no people have suffered such terrible slavery, conquest and foreign oppression and no country…

— Karl Marx

In less than a year, the Bush administration will strut out of office, leaving the country in roughly the same condition a…

— Graydon Carter

It doesn't make sense to move to one of the biggest-growing cities in the nation to sit in a room with 12…

— Tyler Childers

I have no plans to seek asylum in the U.S. or elsewhere. I have not thought about citizenship. I love my country,…

— Feyisa Lilesa

People, when they first come to America, whether as travelers or settlers, become aware of a new and agreeable feeling: that the…

— Alistair Cooke

I will continue to show openly and inside me the total commitment to the Sharia movement that is sweeping all over Nigeria…

— Muhammadu Buhari

But will this attention to poverty be sustained or transient? That depends on our leaders - whether we step up and sustain…

— John Edward

Even if the CCP is willing to stick with 'one country, two systems' in principle, no one can say for certain whether…

— Joshua Wong

If America is the land of opportunity, a country where perseverance and hard work is rewarded by recognition, then an illegal harbors…

— Bella Pollen

If you do not learn English in this country, you cannot get anywhere. We are in America. We are not in Mexico,…

— Rafael Cruz

The inconsistency of the institution of domestic slavery with the principles of the Declaration of Independence was seen and lamented . .…

— John Quincy Adams

If you go to go to countries in Europe or Asia or even Canada, even with all the Internet and cable TV…

— Robert Waterman McChesney

There has come a time when we can no longer remain silent but must speak up for our country which is being…

— Di Morrissey

Marxists make it an objective to control education, that's how they control minds, countries, populations. We conservatives don't like to control anybody,…

— Rush Limbaugh

I can remember saying again and again and again, "A terrible thing has happened, but this should be a kind of wake-up…

— Paul Auster

The worst way of oppression involve exploitation of children, preying on vulnerability, denying others the right to live safely, and denying people…

— Alice Glass

Oh, Christ! it is a goodly sight to see What Heaven hath done for this delicious land!

— Lord Byron

Whatever culture, whatever country, girls are taught to please others as opposed to pleasing themselves.

— Eve Ensler

I think it's a big mistake for our party to write off Latino Americans. They're an important part of our country.

— Mitch McConnell

I grew up in a country where the environment was very social justice-oriented.

— Moshe Safdie

The country is split. There are - more people voting for Hillary Clinton than Donald Trump, but he's the president.

— John S. Dickerson

For me, jazz, R&B, jump swing, Chicago blues, country blues, early hillbilly music, and honky tonk all stem from the same source

— Duke Robillard

The Russian empire under czars and commissars has been hard to deal with for other countries.

— Henry A. Kissinger

Well, I have the same vision I think that the Founding Fathers of this country had.

— David Duke

When our country needed them most, the old, ideologically grounded political parties failed it.

— Heidi Allen

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

— Horace

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

— Dr. Seuss

You people of the South don't know what you are doing. This country will be drenched in blood, and God only knows…

— William Tecumseh Sherman

Horror in your country is something you take a dose of to remind yourself that you are not suffering from it.

— Chris Cleave

“...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

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

— Ro Khanna