Country Quotes · Page 300

Nigeria has no business with poverty. With our human and material resources, we shall strive to eradicate poverty from our country.

— Olusegun Obasanjo

To preserve the life of citizens, is the greatest virtue in the father of his country.

— Seneca the Younger

This is the only country in the world where you can be criticised for trying too hard. That's a put-down in London.

— Andrew Neil

But so far as countries are concerned, I don't go to a place to see what's there, but who is there.

— David McCallum

Our pre-9/11 gun laws allow our enemies in the War on Terror to arm themselves right here in our own country.

— Carolyn McCarthy

Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road…

— Lin Yutang

I am a gay, Christian, farm girl from Kansas who sang Country Music and I did the very best I could do…

— Chely Wright

It's no secret that I love the country, and Japan has always felt like a second home to me.

— Kenny Omega

I trust the political system to be what it is. It's a structure to keep the country running, a boat to get…

— Erykah Badu

We have huge national security issues in this country, and the United States Senate ought to be pushing President [Barack] Obama towards…

— Jeb Bush

I was teaching in one of the universities while the country was suffering from a severe famine. People were dying of hunger,…

— Muhammad Yunus

To pray to this God or that God or this religion and that religion or no religion at all, that's the reason…

— Gabourey Sidibe

In a foreign country people don't expect you to be just like them, but in Los Angeles, which is infiltrating the world,…

— Pauline Kael

It only says 'Leave' if you have no identification with yourself as a citizen of this country and you feel you have…

— Randy Cohen

I think one of the political problems we have in this country is the perspective that all soccer moms think alike, all…

— Anne Northup

I always wanted to go to Cuba growing up. It was this fascinating, forbidden country that seemed to have a lot of…

— Giovanni Ribisi

There's a certain level of vehemence, it seems to me, that's directed at me [and] directed at the president. You know, people…

— Eric Holder

I don't want to know what's good, or bad, or true. I let God worry about the truth. I just want to…

— James Garner

By the end of the 1960s, the United States owned more than half of the Indian rupee money supply, and that had…

— Raj Patel

The Constitutional Convention debated whether America should even have a standing army. ... They worried that a powerful military could rival civilian…

— Rachel Maddow

It is the prime responsibility of every citizen to feel that his country is free and to defend its freedom is his…

— Vallabhbhai Patel

I think one of the main differences between being an English actor and being an American actor is that we have things…

— Rafe Spall

He thought about science, about faith, about man. he thought about how every culture, in every country, in every time, had always…

— Dan Brown

Why must I cling to the customs and practices of a particular country forever, just because I happened to be born there?…

— Anonymous

It is lunacy to be bringing refugees into this country who may be terrorists trying to murder Americans.

— Lawrence O'Donnell

It's great to be British, really. If anything happens, I'm back to my country. At least I have a country.

— Mo Farah

But the freedom that they fought for, and the country grand they wrought for, Is their monument to-day, and for aye.

— Thomas Dunn English

My dad used to play drums in a country band, and my mom is an incredible singer.

— Jonny Lang

In the country, people are kind. In the city, people are hard an' cold, like the concrete and steel.

— Jimmy Cliff

Airports should all belong to the same country. The country of Crappacia. Or Bleakovania. Or Suckitan.

— Jennifer Donnelly

Crisis for others is a source of despair. For me, it's an opportunity to bring reform. I owe this country a debt…

— Ashraf Ghani

Sport is how poor kids from poor countries pass through the eye of the needle to riches and recognition.

— A. A. Gill

Japan is the place that made me in the MMA world, and I love the country and the Japanese people.

— Mauricio Rua

If you think about it: a big bank in any country, what is it? Really, as an investment, it's a warrant on…

— Wilbur Ross

I don't differentiate between country, rock, blues, jazz, it doesn't mean anything to me.

— Everlast

When we got married, nobody gave it more than two weeks. There were bets all over the country, with astronomical odds against…

— Desi Arnaz

I look under the skin of countries' economies, and I help them make better decisions and be stronger, to prosper and create…

— Christine Lagarde

Cameroon is a football country - children are born playing football.

— Roger Milla

I landed in this country with $2.50 in cash and $1 million in hopes, and those hopes never left me,

— Charles Ponzi

Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong.

— James Bryce