Country Quotes · Page 351

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

— Joseph Dunford

It takes a long time to turn a big country around. Just be of good cheer and keep working on it.

— Anonymous

By focusing on the community, you can learn more about the whole country.

— Ellen Page

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

— Chris Lane

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

— Nadine Labaki

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

When you are president, being able to clearly articulate detailed plans to help the people of this country is a good thing.…

— Michelle Obama

The storytelling tradition that you bring from the South, I don't know where it arose, but it's still there. You can't go…

— Charles Kuralt

People who imagine and implement solutions to challenges in their own lives, in their communities, in our country and in our world…

— Chelsea Clinton

May our children and our children's children to a thousand generations, continue to enjoy the benefits conferred upon us by a united…

— Abraham Lincoln

We've got activists all across the country like the members of the Million Mom March organization, some of their leaders are here…

— Michael D. Barnes

We're talking about bilateral agreements with other countries in Asia, so that we can expand our influence and get countries to play…

— Paul Ryan

I like to sit and listen to conversations here in Nashville. Not in a weird, stalker-ish way. I wander around Tennessee and…

— Sam Palladio

It would be better for the country if the Pentagon and the military do not shut down at any point because the…

— Mac Thornberry

It must've been Albert's military background, because man, when he dropped a bomb the entire country shook. I was still jittery as…

— Jennifer Rardin

They [people of Afghanistan] didn't want Al-Qaeda in their country. They didn't appreciate the Taliban taking control. But they really have an…

— Immortal Technique

Neither numbers nor powers nor wealth nor learning nor eloquence nor anything else will prevail, but purity, living the life, in one…

— Swami Vivekananda

I'm not much of a correspondent. My letters are not only uninteresting but sparse. I'm glad I don?t have to write for…

— Groucho Marx

My biggest disappointment was, of course, the coup attempts, ... The economy was proceeding very well, but in 1989 we had the…

— Corazon Aquino

I think religious freedom is part of the U.S.'s policy and Congress mandated the creation of the U.S. Commission on International Religious…

— Shahbaz Bhatti

It has been hard to muster the resources to support fledgling democracies and to intervene on behalf of the most desperate. The…

— Condoleezza Rice

The reason I vote Democrat is because I think it's better to pay billions for oil to people who hate us, but…

— David Letterman

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

— Martin Garrix

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

— David Bowie

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

— Anonymous

I hate when country songs are converted into hip hop. It sounds awful.

— Anonymous

It's quite an honor to be selected to represent my country in the Olympics.

— John Stockton

If people are interested in changing the direction of the country, Iowa is the battleground.

— Eric Swalwell

If two New Hampshiremen aren't a match for the devil, we might as well give the country back to the Indians.

— Stephen Vincent Benet

As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.

— Virginia Woolf

To me, the media in New York and LA have always missed the essence of this country.

— Jeff Foxworthy

As of essential importance in town churches which are not at all equally necessary in the country.

— George Edmund Street

The wise man belongs to all countries, for the home of a great soul is the whole world

— Anonymous

Every country has an aspect to it that rubs up people the wrong way.

— John Bolton

If countries were people, England and France would be old men. Italy would be dead. Compared with them, America is in its…

— will.i.am

To be picked for your country at any stage is a massive honour, and to be at a huge tournament likes the…

— Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain

When I go to a foreign country I want to explore and get lost, discover the real place.

— Brook Lopez

I get very excited when I see Govinda on-screen. I love him. What a great actor, there is no better actor than…

— Chunky Pandey