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Countries Quotes by Stephen Kinzer
- As the United States shapes and carries out its policies toward Muslim countries, it should do so with Turkey at its side.
- In some countries that are darlings of the West, like Egypt, everyone knows the result of national elections years in advance: The man in power…
- The U.S. has intervened more often in more countries farther from its own shores than has any power in modern history.
- During the Cold War, America took sides not only in disputes between Arab countries, but also in debates within them.
- The two largest oil-producing countries in Latin America, Mexico and Venezuela, sold petroleum to Nicaragua at concessional rates for several years beginning in 1980. The…
- During the Reagan Administration, so much attention was devoted to fighting Marxism in Nicaragua and El Salvador that Washington lost sight of longer-term challenges in…
- As publishers focus on blockbusters, they steadily lose interest in little-known authors from other countries.
- Few if any countries understand the growing importance of water as fully as Turkey does.
- Countries that control water are likely to be the big winners of the future.
- The United States has means to wound Latin American countries deeply, chiefly by altering trade policies to cut imports in ways that would throw thousands…
- In the 1980s, the U.S. Army invaded two Caribbean countries, Grenada and Panama, to depose leaders who had defied Washington.
- It is truly vital for the United States to assure that it is not attacked with weapons of mass destruction; to prevent wars in other…
- Turkey and Brazil, though half a world apart geographically, have much in common. Both are large countries that spent long years under military dominance, but…
More Countries Quotes
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- Among the most inestimable of our blessings is that ... of liberty to worship our Creator in the way we think most… — Thomas Jefferson
- One might enumerate the items of high civilization, as it exists in other countries, which are absent from the texture of American… — Henry James
- In some places women have all the rights they deserve and in others there are big restrictions - in some countries they… — Michelle Bachelet
- Norway or Switzerland are two marvelous countries, I very much admire, the most advanced countries in the world in fact with great… — Jose Manuel Barroso
- Sport is how poor kids from poor countries pass through the eye of the needle to riches and recognition. — A. A. Gill
- The intelligent and good man holds in his affections the good and true of every land -- the boundaries of countries are… — Robert Green Ingersoll
- Those of you who have been there Haiti know it is one of the most beautiful countries in the world. It has… — Franklin D. Roosevelt