Country Quotes · Page 288

Success in war and preservation of a country's social framework as a purpose at least equal in importance to welfare of individuals.

— Simon Kuznets

The lives of immigrants living in our country today and those seeking asylum are urgent.

— Laphonza Butler

Every politician in the world is all for revolution, reason, and disarmament-but only in enemy countries, not in his own.

— Hermann Hesse

These acts of mass murder were intended to frighten our nation into chaos and retreat.But they have failed; our country is strong.

— George W. Bush

There are no countries in the world less known by the British than those selfsame British Islands.

— Anonymous

While supporting human rights in another country is important, fighting for our own safety is crucial.

— Richard Grenell

My move from Southampton to Chelsea was not easy and if I had moved country I don't know how I would have…

— Wayne Bridge

World peace is no longer some pie-in-the-sky thing, because no single person or country is going to solve it on their own.

— Herbie Hancock

We all know that men and women can be good without faith. And we also know that faith is an incredibly important…

— George W. Bush

If somebody takes masses of non-registered immigrants from the Middle East into a country, this also means importing terrorism, criminalism, anti-Semitism, and…

— Viktor Orban

Your developed countries are taking teachers from South Africa, they are taking nurses, because people are better paid where they are going.

— Thabo Mbeki

Franklin Delano Roosevelt eventually became the greatest liberal leader of 20th century United States, but he started as a fiscal conservative. His…

— Abhijit Banerjee

No one ever mentioned it, but thousands of men welcomed World War II as a way to escape their humdrum lives rather…

— Art Buchwald

My definition of country music is really pretty simple. It's when someone sings about their life and what they know, from an…

— Taylor Swift

The great powers have dominated the destiny of the Islamic countries for years and installed the Zionist cancerous tumor in the heart…

— Ali Khamenei

I think we forget that, for a really long time, this country has been a place that has welcomed many refugees who…

— Ilhan Omar

I hope what we can talk about is something that happened, you know, within the last 25 years, the things that are…

— Keith Ellison

The idea behind it did come out of my love for travel shows. I loved them as a little kid and I…

— Ellen Page

How we delight to build our recollections upon some basis of reality,--a place, a country, a local habitation! how the events of…

— Washington Irving

We welcome private investment, but any company or national firm will be a partner of a venture where the result will go…

— Evo Morales

All of which suggested literary translation, and Korean seemed a good bet - barely anything available in English, yet it was a…

— Deborah Smith

Conservatives are people who worship at the graves of dead radicals. Stop to think about that. The people who started this country,…

— Tony Campolo

The times in which we're currently living unfortunately, our great leader [George W. Bush] is such a disaster and the entire country…

— Lauren Bacall

The industry in Japan moving toward CGI is not as severe and extreme as in the U.S. The animation industry in the…

— Katsuhiro Otomo

I will try hard to win more medals for the country and make India proud.

— Dutee Chand

What's the matter with this country is the matter with the lot of us individually - our sense of personality is a…

— Elizabeth Bowen

I'm an Australian, and when I grew up much of my influences were American - blues music and country music, all that…

— Nick Cave

America is a very special place. In this country, you have the best and the worst at the same time. Whatever you…

— Marjane Satrapi

I always have been grateful for the opportunity being in this country and to develop my game and go to college.

— Al Horford

The gun issue is a big, unresolved issue in this country right now. I think it's out of control

— Nora Dunn

I have no regrets whatsoever that I have acted in a way to advance my country's interests

— Susan Rice

A man's first duty is to his own conscience and honor; the party and country come second to that, and never first.

— Mark Twain

I have grown up in a country where we are told that there is freedom of speech.

— Jwala Gutta

In this country, we believe in personal choice and individual liberty.

— Bill Hagerty

“It is a capital insult in this country not to make love to a naked woman, even if she is related to…

— Gary Shteyngart

In your own country, it's easy to make assumptions about people based on accents, about areas based on architecture.

— Rebecca Front

We have our roots in country, and that's our foundation, but we pull from a lot.

— Dave Haywood

America is a country of entrepreneurship and great business leaders.

— Nicky Oppenheimer

This Sarah Palin phenomenon is very curious. I think somebody watching us from Mars—they would think the country has gone insane.

— Noam Chomsky

We should be fingerprinting environmentalists... They are out to destroy the country.

— Ann Coulter