Country Quotes · Page 236

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

— Martin Landau

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

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

My aim has always been to defend the secular foundation of our nation and the poor of our country - the creed…

— Sonia Gandhi

I suppose more than anything, it's the way of life in this part of the country that influences my writing. In Eastern…

— Nicholas Sparks

Flaws and all, I believe the free press is our country's most important institution - one I am more than happy to…

— William H. McRaven

We don't have good leadership. We don't have the right people. Everything's politically correct. We have a country that's lost its way.…

— Donald Trump

Colombia is potentially a very wealthy country. It has tremendous resources, but its wealth is highly concentrated. Most of the population lives…

— Noam Chomsky

In fact, in Indiana we suspended the Syrian refugee program in the wake of the terrorist attack. We have no higher priority…

— Mike Pence

America has become the most unequal society among advanced countries, and rich people are now free to spend as much money on…

— Robert Reich

My father has been serious with me because he wanted me to have the best opportunities to do well. I think that…

— Casper Ruud

I do not believe that it can be too often repeated that the freedoms of speech, press, petition and assembly guaranteed by…

— Hugo Black

On the BSkyB bid, Rupert Murdoch is now in town in London seeking to sort things out. I would simply say to…

— Nick Clegg

The decay of the late, great country of South Africa is beginning to become apparent. The name of the Transvaal has been…

— Jeff Cooper

Men by their constitutions are naturally divided into two parties: 1. Those who fear and distrust the people, and wish to draw…

— Thomas Jefferson

I remember how, back in the 1980s, the Scottish Flow Country became an object of bemused controversy as rich celebrities and businessmen…

— John Burnside

I would like to see Russia develop as democratically as possible. But when we judge Russia we must also consider where the…

— Angela Merkel

Everyone talks about freedom. All around the world different people, different races, different countries are fighting for freedom. But what is freedom?…

— Miguel Angel Ruiz

The Tories had the legal right to demand extra meetings of the council but I could decide when they would be held…

— Ken Livingstone

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

— Pat Buchanan

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

— Marty Stuart

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

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

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

— Fawzia Koofi

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

— Bruce Springsteen

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

— Douglas Wilder

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

If I'm writing songs for a country-Western picture, I have to know about country music.

— Henry Mancini

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

Hispanics who get on government programs are doing only a little better than they were in the old country.

— Roger Ailes

America, my friends, is the only country in the world actually founded on liberty - the only one. People went to America…

— Margaret Thatcher

If everyone can say, looking at Obama, that is he is one of us, is that not befitting for the leading country…

— Recep Tayyip Erdogan