Country Quotes · Page 331

The elite footballers of one country meet at the national team and it's an honour for me to be among them.

— Ilkay Gundogan

For what were all these country patriots born? To hunt, and vote, and raise the price of corn?

— Lord Byron

We can make Tamil Nadu the best state in the country if we get a full financial allocation.

— M. K. Stalin

Ronald Reagan was able to accomplish extraordinary purposes for our country without having to put our military forces into conflict.

— Mitt Romney

So the search for a father in Central Station is also a search for a country.

— Walter Salles

There are certain regions in the country where the indigenous people eat dogs.

— Jessica Hagedorn

I never wanted to change countries; it's something that is part of me.

— Novak Djokovic

It's time to wipe the slate clean, recriminalize gambling, just like we did in this country 100 years ago

— John Warren Kindt

Becoming a member of the Opry in 1957 is probably the highlight of my whole career. To me that is the most…

— Porter Wagoner

You've got to walk on to that football pitch so positive, 'we're the best team in the country, we're going to prove…

— Tony Adams

Britain is characterised not just by its independence but, above all, by its openness. We have always been a country that reaches…

— David Cameron

Russia, as well as any other country, does not need dictators, but it needs equitable principles of organizing the state and society:…

— Vladimir Putin

What most people didn't realize in the Western countries is that here its not a question of having supporters, its a question…

— Imran Khan

I don't think you fully understand the public, my friend; in this country, when something is out of order, then the quickest…

— Ken Kesey

Every three weeks before an election the TV ads expressing great concern about our trade policy and the loss of jobs to…

— Bernie Sanders

'The Hunger Games' takes place in Panem, a country which is part of America. It's post-apocalyptic. There's been a global war. The…

— Liam Hemsworth

Socialism's failure in the former Soviet Union and in the other socialist countries stands as a clean and unquestionable warning as to…

— Richard Ebeling

A primary object should be the education of our youth in the science of government. In a republic, what species of knowledge…

— George Washington

Ultimately, success is going to be up to the reformers, just like in Iraq. It's going to require Iraqis, the will of…

— George W. Bush

Access to books and the encouragement of the habit of reading: these two things are the first and most necessary steps in…

— Michael Morpurgo

Is it not High Time for the People of this Country explicitly to declare, whether they will be Freemen or Slaves? It…

— Samuel Adams

If one really wishes to know how justice is administered in a country, one does not question the policemen, the lawyers, the…

— James A. Baldwin

"Don't you want to abolish state power?" Yes, we do, but not right now. We cannot do it yet. Why? Because imperialism…

— Mao Zedong

I lived in Meadowbrook. I went to church at Meadowbrook United Methodist Church. I went to school at Meadowbrook Elementary School and…

— Kay Granger

Seven out of 10 Americans don't like the direction the country's going.

— Paul Ryan

The Ryman and the Grand Ole Opry, if you're a Southern boy, is just a way of life.

— Marty Stuart

When I was a teenager there was no video in my country. Betamax came to Mexico very slowly

— Guillermo del Toro

My mom was always playing Elvis around the house or ZZ Top, so there was always rock-n-roll and country being played.

— Hank Williams III

President Bush spent the day calling names he couldn't pronounce in countries he never knew existed.

— Jay Leno

Much of the conversation in the country consisted of lines from television shows, both past and present.

— Kurt Vonnegut

Anytime you're in West Virginia or near it, and you sing, 'Take Me Home, Country Roads,' it's a sight to behold.

— Brad Paisley

It seems to me that a kind of thinking which is not technocratic has an opportunity for a renaissance in this country.

— Leon Kass

Purity of morals [is] the only sure foundation of public happiness in any country.

— George Washington

There isn't much discussion of ruling class in America even in Boston, probably one of the most class-conscious cities in the country?

— Iris Chang

It will be very foolhardy and suicidal for a country like India to forgo food security.

— M. S. Swaminathan

They didn't give their lives for their country! their lives were taken from them by their government.

— Howard Zinn

We can say that Japan is the only country that calls into question the outcome of the Second World War; no one…

— Sergei Lavrov

When you're not born in this country, you kind of study how people talk and how they act, and you try and…

— John Cho

Much evil must befall a country before it ever really forgets the Elves, if once they lived there.

— J. R. R. Tolkien

We never believed that we'd just tumble over weapons of mass destruction in that country.

— Donald Rumsfeld