Country Quotes · Page 217

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

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

— Rudy Giuliani

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

— Salvatore Quasimodo

Where Reagan channeled disenchantment with overweening government, Obama symbolized America's transformation into a multiracial country.

— Jacob Weisberg

I believe that this country succeeds when everyone gets a fair shot, when everyone does their fair share, when everyone plays by…

— Barack Obama

I want people to hear what I think about these foundational American values of personal responsibility, resilience, family and faith, there are…

— John Kasich

There are over 400 parks in all 50 states that represent our country and that are enriched with stories that tell about…

— Jordan Fisher

The country is in the worst conditions ever in its history. It's unjustifiable that in a country with the largest petroleum reserves…

— Henrique Capriles Radonski

In this, of all the countries in the world, possession of inordinate wealth by individuals should be held as a crime against…

— Mahatma Gandhi

I do think that the Trump presidency, even for the resistance, there is pre-Charlottesville and a post-Charlottesville moment, and Donald Trump's response…

— Neera Tanden

The transfer of three shillings and sixpence a day to every labourer would not increase the quantity of meat in the country.…

— Thomas Malthus

This is the ancient land, where wisdom made its home before it went into any other country... Here is the same India…

— Swami Vivekananda

It pleased God to make one nation the medium of all His communications with mankind: This the nation of the Jews has…

— Joseph Priestley

God forbid that Americans earning, say, more than $1 million a year be asked to pony up a little more in taxes…

— E. J. Dionne

Perhaps all of our anxiety is not caused by broken brains but by working nonstop, missing out on time with our friends…

— Kirsten Powers

By the way on economics, South Carolina is an example to the country of what we should be doing as Americans. This…

— Marco Rubio

To say that most recent elections are rigged and all these votes are stolen, that's like saying we never landed on the…

— John Kasich

That means we get other countries to play by our rules. You add up all the countries that we have trade agreements…

— Paul Ryan

When you're going to try and have people talk in a room and actually reflect life as we know it and have…

— Tom Hanks

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

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

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

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

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

— Marine Le Pen

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

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

Don't take guilt trips. Take a trip to the mall, to the next county, to a foreign country, but NOT to where…

— George Carlin

Entering the country illegally is bad enough, but to then commit crimes against innocent Americans is completely unacceptable.

— Cindy Hyde-Smith

I'm a very lucky guy to play for my country, and I'm very happy and lucky to have this country.

— Son Heung-min

Every man loves and admires his own country because it produced him.

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

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

— Will Rogers

I'm done with industrial. Seriously, my iPod collection at home has no industrial music on it; it's strictly jazz, blues and country.

— Al Jourgensen