Country Quotes · Page 299

The biggest fight in my life is not in boxing. The biggest fight in my life is how to end poverty in…

— Manny Pacquiao

We have room in this country for but one flag, the Stars and Stripes!

— Theodore Roosevelt

Lots of people in aggregate might know who I am, but they are spread around across the country and the world.

— Randall Munroe

How can great minds be produced in a country where the test of great minds is agreeing in the opinion of small…

— John Stuart Mill

The black community has been the foundation of the progressive community in this country for a long time.

— Benjamin Todd Jealous

Bush is a nice fellow who gives very good parties. I just wish someone would find him a better job than running…

— Murray Gell-Mann

Terrorism should be seen in the light of the country's security and not from the narrow perspective of caste, creed and religion.

— Oscar Fernandes

Protests [against Donald Trump] four nights running.Thousands marching across the country.

— George Stephanopoulos

Nixon's grand mistake was his failure to understand that Americans are forgiving, and if he had admitted error early and apologized to…

— Bob Woodward

I'm the descendant of enslaved black people in this country. You could've been born in 1820 if you were black and looked…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

It's amazing how much people talk about colonics here. That's not a thing anywhere else in the country. But I totally did…

— Kurt Braunohler

I disagree with the concept that somehow or another we're going to pack up 10, to 12, to 15 million people and…

— Rick Perry

One of the things I found is that no matter where in the country - poor communities, rich communities - everybody deals…

— Jay Asher

Miles Davis, his parents migrated from Arkansas to Illinois, where he had the luxury of being able to practice for hours upon…

— Isabel Wilkerson

I always wanted to do a baseball book; I love baseball. The problem is that a very large part of my following…

— Bill Bryson

Well I actually do have a country house in Connecticut with a population of 3,000. Like, how small is that? I spend…

— Candace Bushnell

Right now we have millions of people in our country who are suffering in isolation, thinking that they are the only ones…

— Vivek Murthy

We want to lead a country where people will be less greedy. Where people will know that the commonwealth of Nigeria belongs…

— Goodluck Jonathan

The musical culture in the United States has no doubt suffered severe setbacks, especially in funding, since the early 2000's. However, I've…

— Michael Hersch

The Western world doesn't really give enough credit to the importance in history of the Soviet invasion and the subsequent war in…

— Michael Scheuer

Being American is to eat a lot of beef steak, and boy, we've got a lot more beef steak than any other…

— Kurt Vonnegut

The manufacturing industry is starting to press for some kind of national healthcare. Now it's beginning to put it on the agenda.…

— Noam Chomsky

Becoming carbon neutral is only the beginning. The climate problem will not be solved by one company reducing its emissions to zero,…

— Rupert Murdoch

You have to be strong; you have to trust yourself that you can bring down the dictatorship regime and build a new…

— Tawakkol Karman

The biggest review of taxation ever undertaken in this country, is now dead in the water.

— Malcolm Turnbull

If this country can demand justice for someone like George Floyd, then we can certainly demand justice for Ashli Babbitt.

— Marjorie Taylor Greene

In the city a funeral is just an interruption of traffic; in the country it is a form of popular entertainment.

— George Ade

My parents didn't get to have a dream. Their dream was to live in a country where their kids would have choice.

— Kelly Marie Tran

In politics, you have to balance these things: what is good for the country, what is available, and what is possible.

— Subramanian Swamy

I live out in the country now and it's quiet and it's a place where I can think a lot.

— Krist Novoselic

We just want government to be a smart, supportive, reliable partner to the forces that are working for good in this country.

— Van Jones

Markets can do many wonderful things, which is why I'm glad to live in a capitalist country.

— Timothy Noah

Nashville has pushed me to improve constantly as few other places could, and I'm grateful for that.

— Natalie Prass

“In our country religion is not different from philosophy and religion & philosophy don’t differ from science.”

— Virchand Raghavji Gandhi

I think any celebrity that adopts a child from a third world country is a fool.

— Joan Rivers

Medicare will usher in federal programs that will invade every area of freedom as we have know it in this country.

— Ronald Reagan

I don't have ladylike clothes, because I live in the country in England.

— Jean Marsh

I don't want to feel I'm responsible for anorexia across the country.

— Courteney Cox

It is impossible to tell whether prohibition is a good thing or a bad thing. It has never been enforced in this…

— Fiorello H. La Guardia

Many other countries have already banned human cloning, and there are efforts at the UN to make such a ban universal.

— Leon Kass