Country Quotes · Page 291

Ironically, Latin American countries, in their instability, give writers and intellectuals the hope that they are needed.

— Manuel Puig

It was and still is the greatest highlight of my career, being a member of the Opry.

— Lorrie Morgan

Rick Santorum has so much potential and so much eagerness to serve our country.

— Foster Friess

I'm not a monarchist. But I'm English. And I have an irrational emotion for my country.

— Damon Albarn

The city does not take away, neither does the country give, solitude; solitude is within us.

— Philibert Joseph Roux

Sadly, the system in this country is rigged in favor of wealthy elites who have purchased tremendous influence in our government.

— Tulsi Gabbard

Never could I advocate nonviolence in this country and not advocate nonviolence for the whole world.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

I'm still in touch with a lot people who continue to serve our country well.

— Oliver North

It's ginned up by the corporate plutocracy as a way of distracting the working-class people that it's screwing. We hamstring our own…

— Edward Norton

I don't understand why people in this country are so bent on doing the 'perfect,' when you have something that is good…

— George Voinovich

March is a month of considerable frustration - it is so near spring and yet across a great deal of the country…

— Thalassa Cruso

Social Security, which transformed life for the elderly in this country, was 'socialist.' The concept of the 'minimum wage' was seen as…

— Bernie Sanders

I got involved in the Surrey Country youth theatre which led me to go to drama school where I realised that this…

— Michael Ball

My country and me, we are part of this region, we're not separated. We cannot discuss it as Syria or as me…

— Bashar al-Assad

In my judgment, if we had pursued this course, the zones would have been of short duration. England would have been compelled…

— George William Norris

The only way to solve the traffic problems of the country is to pass a law that only paid-for cars are allowed…

— Will Rogers

The primary cause of disorder and lawlessness today, as throughout history, is the poverty of the many in contrast to the affluence…

— Louis O. Kelso

But a good patriot, and a true politician, always considers how he shall make the most of the existing materials of his…

— Edmund Burke

If we stuck to the Constitution as written, we would have: no federal meddling in our schools; no Federal Reserve; no U.S.…

— Ron Paul

“To be shelterless and alone in the open country, hearing the wind moan and watching for day through the whole long weary…

— Charles Dickens

The park lies directly downwind from a slew of coal plants. Virtually all of the major contaminants in the local air and…

— Wil S. Hylton

I love coming to D.C. I think it's a very unusual city. It's so fascinating that it's this weird place that everything…

— Joe Rogan

Freedom and diversity guard each other, and if a country could form the whole of one's character, Napoleon III and Victor Hugo…

— Clive James

I weep when I see these videos that are sent to me from all over the country. Whole groups of bodies jerking…

— David Wilkerson

My only aim is the welfare of the poor of my country and the poor of states like Uttar Pradesh.

— Narendra Modi

India is known to be a peace-loving country, we try to keep our peace treaties intact with other countries.

— Mohit Raina

Reveling in our opponents' missteps and losses drags us down as a country and diminishes our potential as people.

— Cathy McMorris Rodgers

There is no place, no country, more compassionate more generous more accepting and more welcoming than the United States of America.

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

It's wonderful to learn about new cultures and to be able to travel easily to so many countries.

— Stephen A. Schwarzman

Clean water is not an expenditure of Federal funds; clean water is an investment in the future of our country.

— Bud Shuster

The United States was built on the idea that we could create a free country that would serve as a haven for…

— Ted Lieu

I want to keep talking about my people and my country in my own language.

— Nadine Labaki

Last year we drove across the country...We had one cassette tape to listen to on the entire trip... I don't remember what…

— Steven Wright

I don't want to just be an artist for one country, I want to produce for the world.

— Martin Garrix

The human cost of austerity goes far beyond the period in which a country's economy endures those methods.

— Dawn Foster

I would like to travel to my country again, to a country without a dictatorship, to a post-Putin Russia.

— Garry Kasparov

In giving rights to others which belong to them, we give rights to ourselves and to our country

— Anonymous

I think the only music I didn't listen to was country and western, and that holds to this day.

— David Bowie

Growing up, I always considered the Grand Ole Opry to be hallowed ground.

— Chris Lane

We have a strong tradition in our country of senior leaders being apolitical, nonpartisan.

— Joseph Dunford