Country Quotes · Page 303

We're so overregulated as a country that we just crushed our productivity.

— Stephen A. Schwarzman

My dad took me to John Kennedy's inauguration when I was 8. We come every time, Republican and Democrat, because of this…

— John Barrasso

The measure of a country's greatness is its ability to retain compassion in times of crisis.

— Thurgood Marshall

The internal peace of every country depends upon the knowledge that force is available to uphold law.

— Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon

We can be a free and independent country and will prosper if given a proper chance.

— Priti Patel

[Bashar] Assad has made a series of choices ever since then that is literally destroying his country.

— John F. Kerry

You can gerrymander one district, but it's very difficult to gerrymander the whole country.

— Allard K. Lowenstein

I want to represent my country to the best of my abilities. I want to make Reese Witherspoon proud.

— Adam Rippon

Look at countries like China, they are determined to dominate all clean technology areas, putting lots of money into wind, solar, electric…

— Malcolm Turnbull

Coming from a Haitian-American home, I thought it was necessary to give back to the country in which my parents were raised.…

— Karen Civil

It is all too evident that our nation, and the governments of other countries, require all the help they can get in…

— Jim Sensenbrenner

But if the U.S. were to leave now and abandon Iraq without establishing the grounds for a united country, that would definitely…

— Vladimir Putin

I saw at once that I had only to rise in my machine, fix my eyes upon the castle, fly over it…

— Harriet Quimby

Obama/Romney, Romney/Obama - the most important election of our lifetime? Fact is they're all the same - bought and paid for with…

— Bill Gross

We will be a better country when each religious group can trust its members to obey the dictates of their own religious…

— Margaret Mead

On a scale of the United States, the Hollywood influence on what comes out, that's not the majority views of across the…

— Kid Rock

I think that we should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe and believe to…

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

My influences are jazz, blues, European classical music; they are rock music and pop music. So many kinds of music. World music…

— Rokia Traore

Before this country came on the scene, for thousands of years people did things the same way. Within 200 years of the…

— Benjamin Carson

Why should Congresspeople have to visit D.C.? Thanks to Skype, meetings are possible across the country. Thanks to email, communications are simple.…

— Ben Shapiro

And that John F. Kennedy uttered the first variation of "ask not what your country can do for you" in Detroit on…

— David Maraniss

A majority of Israelis want to give up the West Bank for peace, and obviously the same thing is desired by the…

— Reza Aslan

The country and culture commonly known as "America" had had a badly split personality all through its history. Its overt laws were…

— Robert A. Heinlein

Very powerless people [snickers] He's such a minority, I mean, you know Please, what are you kidding? I'm telling you that everybody…

— Rick Sanchez

On our Southern border, Joe Biden has allowed hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of illegal aliens into our country.

— Marjorie Taylor Greene

I don't want any country buying up Brazil, but we will do business with all countries, and China is an exceptional partner.

— Jair Bolsonaro

I grew up listening to my mother's collection of Hank Williams, George Jones and Marty Robbins records.

— Keith Whitley

“While we keep legislating for our own interests the country will not move forward.”

— Victor Bello Accioly

Where are our Men of abilities? Why do they not come forth to save their Country?

— George Washington

It was a bit difficult in England at first with the weather and the rain, but I love the football culture in…

— Sadio Mane

But our country's equivalent of gritty reality is more like "Look out Sarge, he's got a shooter!"

— Bill Bailey

My hope is that we will turn Greece into maybe the most transparent country in the world with everything on the web.

— George Papandreou

Listen carefully to what country people call mother wit. In those homely sayings are couched the collective wisdom of generations.

— Maya Angelou

Israel is still the only country in the world against which there is a written document to the effect that it must…

— Menachem Begin

I have what we call a 'symphony act.' I'm the only comedian, I think, in the country that does it.

— Robert Klein

The only politics in this country that's relevant to black people today is the politics of revolution... none other.

— H. Rap Brown

I'm very proud to be German. I've said that many times. Whenever I can represent my country, I'll do that with a…

— Leon Draisaitl

I know of no country in the world that has passed a law specifically denying a woman's right to choose where she…

— Ina May Gaskin

My nickname is 100 percent fan-based. It's not like one day I said, 'Hey, I want to be named Country Breakfast.'

— Billy Butler

I would rather sleep in the southern corner of a little country churchyard than in the tomb of the Capulets.

— Edmund Burke