300 Quotes on Countries

• For an event that was wholly created in the poisonous psychological warfare kitchens of the Second World War, run by the ministries of propaganda in many countries, not just by the British or the Americans, but also the Russians and undoubtedly the world Jewish organizations.

  Author: Ernst Zundel

• These interests of the workers, as the exploited and oppressed, class of society, are the same in all countries.

  Author: Clara Zetkin

• We have 2 million users in the U.S. and about 13 million worldwide in more than 200 countries.

  Author: Niklas Zennstrom

• Being an American is such a rich environment, because there's so many people from other countries and cultures, and through that you're able to see other people's experiences.

  Author: Rick Yune

• We are determined that our nation shall cease to be a burden on other countries but shall contribute positively to world prosperity, while observing fully the fair trade practices in international commerce.

  Author: Shigeru Yoshida

• The other are the strategic, so-called strategic stocks that the United States and the other Western industrial countries have, which could put in as much as four million barrels a day of oil into the market pretty quickly.

  Author: Daniel Yergin

• We are well aware from which countries and through which countries the terrorists are receiving support. In the immediate future I shall be calling upon the leaders of these states to put a stop to this kind of activity.

  Author: Boris Yeltsin

• History has proven that the PLO and its sectors suffered great damage when walking the way of harming Zionist interests in other countries around the world.

  Author: Ahmed Yassin

• However, the resources at our people's disposal are very few and we require assistance from the neighboring Arab countries, and for weapons in order to fight the enemy.

  Author: Ahmed Yassin

• We wish that all countries around the world honor our wishes and our Jihad, and we avoid interfering in their business.

  Author: Ahmed Yassin

• Sons of Islam everywhere, the jihad is a duty - to establish the rule of Allah on earth and to liberate your countries and yourselves from America's domination and its Zionist allies, it is your battle - either victory or martyrdom.

  Author: Ahmed Yassin

• In today's world, it is shortsighted to think that infectious diseases cannot cross borders. By allowing developing countries access to generic drugs, we not only help improve health in those nations, we also help ourselves control these debilitating and often deadly diseases.

  Author: Ron Wyden

• By the breaking in of enraged merciless armies, flourishing countries have been laid waste, great numbers of people have perished in a short time, and many more have been pressed with poverty and grief.

  Author: John Woolman

• When we came then to the 1967 negotiations we had the problem of one market between two countries fully under the control of the American companies that owned the facilities on both sides of the border.

  Author: Leonard Woodcock

• For more than 150 years free men in our countries have had the opportunities to educate themselves, choose their own religions, select their own occupations, accumulate capital and invent better ways of doing things.

  Author: Charles Wilson

• There may be some backward countries where the mass of the people are on a subsistence level and where, as an aftermath of wars or partial crop failures, the standard of living has to be drastically reduced, but this certainly is not the case in our prosperous nations.

  Author: Charles Wilson

• The Olympics are a wonderful metaphor for world cooperation, the kind of international competition that's wholesome and healthy, an interplay between countries that represents the best in all of us.

  Author: John Williams

• A global democracy works only when countries trust one another.

  Author: Armstrong Williams

• The Teen Challenge ministry was born out of those humble early days of ministry. It now includes over 500 drug and alcohol rehab centers around the world, even in Muslim countries. These include homes for girls and women addicts and alcoholics, all which are reaching many.

  Author: David Wilkerson

• Since other countries and terrorist organizations are working to secure information that could threaten national security, more funding is provided in the bill to increase counter-intelligence activities.

  Author: Roger Wicker

• Because if you don't have a great workforce, a great higher education system, you're not going to have the next eBay, the next AmGen, the next, you know, Miasole, and not only California but America is going to fall behind a whole new competitive context which is obviously China, India, and other countries.

  Author: Meg Whitman

• There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.

  Author: E. White

• In fact, it is amazing how much European films - Italian, French, German and English - have recovered a certain territory of the audience in their countries over the last few years.

  Author: Wim Wenders

• The bulk of mankind have indeed, in all countries in their turn, been made the prey of ambition.

  Author: Mercy Warren

• The United Nations has become a place where many countries seek to achieve a lynching of the United States by resolution.

  Author: Vernon Walters

• Admitting, however, for the sake of argument, that I am prime and sole minister in this country, am I, therefore, prime and sole minister of all Europe? Am I answerable for the conduct of other countries as well as for that of my own?

  Author: Robert Walpole

• The fascists in most Latin American countries tell the people that the reason their wages will not buy as much in the way of goods is because of Yankee imperialism. The fascists in Latin America learn to speak and act like natives.

  Author: Henry Wallace

• He didn't want to tell his son what to do, but told me to write the president a letter. I didn't name a country, but there are many countries we have a fragile relationship with.

  Author: George Walker

• Well, by the standards of a lot of countries, by Latin American standards, it wasn't so bad.

  Author: Paul Volcker

• Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith.

  Author: Gore Vidal

• There's no question that we need tougher drunk-driving laws for repeat offenders. We need to take a lesson from European countries where driving isn't a right but a privilege.

  Author: Jesse Ventura

• In short, the time has come for us as American and Iranian citizens to apply our mutual energy, intellect, and goodwill toward strengthening relations between our two countries, as their destinies are intertwined.

  Author: Cyrus Vance

• God gave us all exactly the same fingers, arms, legs, and feet, but in our different countries we divided them all a little differently as we feel it, do you understand?

  Author: Ninette Valois

• Unemployment is due to the large import of goods from Britain and other countries. The Government haven't used the powers which they have for the benefit of the country.

  Author: Eamon Valera

• Global interdependence today means that economic disasters in developing countries could create a backlash on developed countries.

  Author: Atal Vajpayee

• The UN's unique legitimacy flows from a universal perception that it pursues a larger purpose than the interests of one country or a small group of countries.

  Author: Atal Vajpayee

• And it's very strange, but I think there is something very common - not only in Celtic music - but there is a factor or element in Celtic music that is similar in music that we find in Japan, the United States, Europe, and even China and other Asian countries.

  Author: Nobuo Uematsu

• However in countries outside of Japan I think game music is still a potential growth market that has not yet developed to the extent that we are seeing in Japan.

  Author: Nobuo Uematsu

• Niger is not an isolated island of desperation. It lies within a sea of problems across Africa - particularly the 'forgotten emergencies' in poor countries or regions with little strategic or material appeal.

  Author: Desmond Tutu

• My big focus is China and OPEC and all of these countries that are just absolutely destroying the United States.

  Author: Donald Trump

• The ability to mingle with so many countries and cultures is extremely valuable for men and women.

  Author: Bill Toomey

• I think the point about ActionAid is what it's asking people to do is engage with poor people in developing countries and understand what their lives are like and understand how the way we live our lives impacts on theirs.

  Author: Emma Thompson

• I think that my work is my attempt, I suppose, is to try and become a piece of connective tissue. I'm trying to communicate with people here and in America - in rich countries - about what I see on the ground in badly affected areas.

  Author: Emma Thompson

• Countries and states which have capital punishment have a much higher rate of murder and crime than countries that do not, so that makes sense to me, and the moral question - I struggle with it morally.

  Author: Charlize Theron

• It may be that apartheid brings such stupendous economic advantages to countries that they would sooner have apartheid than permit its destruction.

  Author: Oliver Tambo

• I am in favor of helping the prosperity of all countries because, when we are all prosperous, the trade with each becomes more valuable to the other.

  Author: William Taft

• In a novel, my feelings and sense of outrage can find a broader means of expression which would be more symbolic and applicable to many European countries.

  Author: Antonio Tabucchi

• It is necessary to expose the false propaganda of the imperialists and thoroughly dispel the illusion that the imperialists will give up their positions in the colonies and dependent countries with good will.

  Author: Kim Sung

• I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.

  Author: Lawrence Summers

• The United States basically accepted protection abroad as the price of post-war recovery. Now, that these countries have caught up to our level of prosperity, it is time for them to catch up to our level of openness.

  Author: Larry Summers

• Also, it is interesting that developing countries, with China and India perhaps in the lead, where the future of the global environment will be decided are now on board with the case for sustainable development.

  Author: Maurice Strong

• Heretofore there has always been in the history of the world a comparatively unoccupied land westward, into which the crowded countries of the East have poured their surplus populations.

  Author: Josiah Strong

• But after the spirit of conquest had changed the first governments, all the succeeding ones have, in general, proved one continued series of injustice, which has reigned in all countries for almost four thousand years.

  Author: Ezra Stiles

• We immigrants can sometimes sound a little hysterical about this because we come from places that have tried this and we know where it leads. Anybody who's lived in countries with socialized health care knows that it becomes the dominant political issue.

  Author: Mark Steyn

• Most countries are static, and they need to do is keep having babies. But America's like this big old clanking smoking machine that just lumbers across the landscape scooping up and eating everything in sight.

  Author: Neal Stephenson

• It is probable that for a long time to come the mass of mankind in civilized countries will find it both necessary and advantageous to labor for wages, and to accept the condition of hired laborers.

  Author: Leland Stanford

• In other countries, it's a common thing to have outcast children running around the streets in packs, and I don't think we're so far away from it here.

  Author: Penelope Spheeris

• Grossing Out dealt with the western nations selling arms to the Third World and exploiting these countries.

  Author: Terry Southern

• The criminalization of marijuana did not prevent marijuana from becoming the most widely used illegal substance in the United States and many other countries. But it did result in extensive costs and negative consequences.

  Author: George Soros

• Above all, we shall wage no more unilateral, ill-planned, ill-considered, and ill-prepared invasions of foreign countries that pose no actual threat to our security.

  Author: Theodore Sorensen

• Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.

  Author: Alexander Solzhenitsyn

• Some countries that are close to Europe that already hold Deutschemarks, clearly would automatically hold euros, those are countries in Eastern Europe mainly, a few countries in Africa.

  Author: Robert Solomon

• Back in those days, in the fifties and sixties, countries had balance of payment's deficits or surpluses, those were reflected much more than today in movements of reserves among countries.

  Author: Robert Solomon

• There's a stability and growth pact which was agreed for the eleven countries which tries to limit the size of budget deficits among the eleven countries.

  Author: Robert Solomon

• To the extent that the United States has, I don't like the word hegemony, the United States has influence around the world, I don't think that's based on to any significant degree on the fact that countries use the dollar as their major reserve.

  Author: Robert Solomon

• I found that there is very little interest in Washington for true election reform. That neither the White House nor either house of the Congress seems to be as committed to guaranteeing democratic participation in this country as we seem to be in other countries.

  Author: DeForest Soaries

• Indeed, we must foster cost-saving competition. And that means joining the marketplace of other industrialized countries - not just for the manufacturers who sell drugs, but for consumers as well.

  Author: Olympia Snowe

• There is here, as in all countries, advantages and disadvantages.

  Author: Nathaniel Smith

• There was a lot of protest after Bravo, from countries like India, for example. India was the first country which came forward and proposed at the United Nations that all of these nuclear tests should be stopped, that there should be a complete ban on nuclear testing.

  Author: Martha Smith

• Reality shows that, contrary to other countries in southern Africa, we have no basis for a classical guerilla struggle. We have never had a hinterland, and we do not expect to.

  Author: Joe Slovo

• The U.S. has the finest research scientists in the world, but we are falling far behind other countries, like South Korea and Singapore, that are moving forward with embryonic stem cell research.

  Author: Louise Slaughter

• But they were going to war anyway and they were going to bully and pressure countries to vote for it.

  Author: Clare Short

• By and large, women in New Zealand are fortunate compared with some other countries, including many in our own region. But there is still progress to be made.

  Author: Jenny Shipley

• All the Baltic countries have been steadfast in support of allies of the United States since they gained their independence following the fall of the Soviet Union and have continued to be supportive in the ongoing war on terror.

  Author: John Shimkus

• U.S. corn exports to CAFTA countries will benefit from reduced tariffs and duty-free access for corn products.

  Author: John Shimkus

• I believe that with the help of foreign countries - and under that condition only, because they have no other source of financing - the new government may temporarily extricate Georgia from the current situation.

  Author: Eduard Shevardnadze

• True, other countries are helping us. Germany is determined to provide substantial help. So are the Netherlands and other states. But a day will come when we have to count on our own resources.

  Author: Eduard Shevardnadze

• I always spend time exploring the customs and attitudes of the countries I'm using for locations, and interviewing the people who live there. I've visited over 90 countries thus far.

  Author: Sidney Sheldon

• The unthinkable occurred: two communist countries went to war with each other.

  Author: Neil Sheehan

• We really need to stop the imperialist tendencies of countries like the United States and Great Britain.

  Author: Cindy Sheehan

• England and America are two countries separated by the same language.

  Author: George Shaw

• The three main sources of scepticism are first, that not every people desires freedom; second, that democracy in certain parts of the world would be dangerous; and third, that there is little the world's democracies can do to advance freedom outside their countries.

  Author: Natan Sharansky

• Most of the international community, most of the countries around the world, don't want any side, any party to take unilateral steps. They would like that all of us to stick to the road map.

  Author: Silvan Shalom

• It is all too evident that our nation, and the governments of other countries, require all the help they can get in order to fight the War on Terrorism against people who have no qualms about taking the lives of innocent men, women, and children.

  Author: Jim Sensenbrenner

• The elections that have taken place in these countries are a reflection of the lure of Democracy, and the resilience of our men and women in uniform who helped bring freedom to many who never knew what the word truly meant.

  Author: Jim Sensenbrenner

• For poetry there exists neither large countries nor small. Its domain is in the heart of all men.

  Author: Giorgos Seferis

• Saudi Arabia was, until just a few years ago, probably one of the most safe countries on earth. And now the paper is daily full of activities and shootouts between Islamists who supported Osama bin Laden and the government there.

  Author: Michael Scheuer

• Since our economy is closely allied with that of foreign countries, not one of us can be indifferent to what consequences these disturbances can have at home and abroad.

  Author: Hjalmar Schacht

• Through the Young Men's Christian Association and principally in Australia and North America, as well as in South America, I came into contact with families of these countries.

  Author: Fritz Sauckel

• I always ask two questions: How many countries have military bases in the United States? And in how many countries does the United States not have military bases?

  Author: Jose Saramago

• A firm, for instance, that does business in many countries of the world is driven to spend an enormous amount of time, labour, and money in providing for translation services.

  Author: Edward Sapir

• Americans pay up to 1000 percent more to fill their prescriptions than consumers in other countries - that is an alarming statistic.

  Author: Ken Salazar

• I have always said there is only one thing that can bring our nation down - our dependence on foreign countries for food and energy. Agriculture is the backbone of our economy.

  Author: John Salazar

• In Asia, a lot of successful economies that had been living on their own saving, decided to open up their financial markets to international capital in the early 1990s. So here were countries doing quite well, but they decided they'd borrow a bit more and do even better.

  Author: Jeffrey Sachs

• The Russian drama began at the end of 1991, when the Soviet Union mercifully ended. Russia and 14 other new countries emerged from the ruins of the Soviet Union. Every one of those 15 new states faced a profound historical, economic, financial, social and political challenge.

  Author: Jeffrey Sachs

• Georgia is not just a European country, but one of the most ancient European countries.

  Author: Mikhail Saakashvili

• In 12 or 15 years, there will be routine, affordable space tourism not just in the U.S. but in a lot of countries.

  Author: Burt Rutan

• The mean pattern of educational and economic achievement within multi-racial countries such as Canada and the United States has increasingly been found to prove valid internationally.

  Author: J. Rushton

• However, we still have the problem of free travel and movement, since the Travel Documents issued by UNMIK as the substitute to passports, are not fully recognized yet by all countries.

  Author: Ibrahim Rugova

• Kosovo today is closer to Europe than other countries in the region of South Eastern Europe.

  Author: Ibrahim Rugova

• If the militarily most powerful - and least threatened - states need nuclear weapons for their security, how can one deny such security to countries that are truly insecure? The present nuclear policy is a recipe for proliferation. It is a policy for disaster.

  Author: Joseph Rotblat

• We are told that the possession of nuclear weapons - in some cases even the testing of these weapons - is essential for national security. But this argument can be made by other countries as well.

  Author: Joseph Rotblat

• The popular tendency is to listen approvingly to the most extreme statements and claims of politicians and orators who seek popularity by declaring their own country right in everything and other countries wrong in everything.

  Author: Elihu Root

• The man who loves other countries as much as his own stands on a level with the man who loves other women as much as he loves his own wife.

  Author: Theodore Roosevelt

• If we want more trade in the world, we should establish bilateral trade agreements with other democratic countries. That way we can control the decision-making process. The major economic countries of the world will enter into those agreements.

  Author: Dana Rohrabacher

• Right now I own shares of companies in 28 countries.

  Author: Jim Rogers

• If the current birth rate, which is the lowest in the major developed countries, continues, there will be no Japanese. Who will pay the enormous debt?

  Author: Jim Rogers

• So seven new countries, three of them formerly part of the Soviet Union, and the others part of the Warsaw Pact, will become full members of NATO next year.

  Author: Lord Robertson

• And most countries are now reducing the number of conscripts and increasing the professionals that are available because they're available on short notice.

  Author: Lord Robertson

• Well, if the NATO countries don't make more of their troops usable and don't get the equipment to get them fast where the action is, then the organisation will suffer and will increasingly become irrelevant.

  Author: Lord Robertson

• What I will remember most from my time in NATO is meeting children in the countries where I've gone to, to Moscow and to Kiev, I've met school children.

  Author: Lord Robertson

• I don't think anybody can take the word of Saddam Hussein and his regime, and certainly an American president and allies who are obligated to worry about the safety and security of our countries, cannot take the word of this dictator, who lies, pathologically lies.

  Author: Condoleezza Rice

• It's the only sport that's played in every country in the world. It's played and watched all over the world, it's the most popular sport in probably 90% of the countries, and then with the World Cup, you have the most viewed tournament of any sport in the world.

  Author: Claudio Reyna

• Over the last 10-15 years, you've seen soccer finally start to grow at a fast pace, start to get the recognition it deserves, and I think it has to do with all of the people who come to America from foreign countries.

  Author: Claudio Reyna

• The other countries did not share the same concern the United States had in the early '90's - that North Korea actually had an ongoing nuclear weapons program.

  Author: Mitchell Reiss

• So the president set out the policy guidance and said it had to take place in a multilateral fashion so that other countries in the region could be invested in the success of this process.

  Author: Mitchell Reiss

• It is the potential for economic growth that provides the basis for the development of countries, for bringing to people essential goods and services, such as water to drink and facilities for healthcare.

  Author: Lee Raymond

• I find it interesting that many of the people who want to restrict fossil fuels live in well-developed countries where abundant and affordable energy is readily available.

  Author: Lee Raymond

• In some of the countries where we operate, there is a tradition of corruption, in which the political elites work with business in the framework of unsavory relationships.

  Author: Lee Raymond

• The battleground has been moderates of all faith traditions in all the countries of the world against the radicals of all faith traditions in all parts of the world.

  Author: Feisal Rauf

• I mean, the world has already done a big, big effort to forget debt to countries heavily indebted and with low income. And that has given good chances to countries to get out of poverty.

  Author: Rodrigo Rato

• Most cases, I would say, in a huge amount of cases, countries that have worked with us and have used our financial facilities have come out quick... more quickly and in a better shape from a crisis than would have come out otherwise.

  Author: Rodrigo Rato

• Unless we repeal the illegal Byrd amendment, American exports will be vulnerable to retaliation, and the U.S. will continue to face a difficult task convincing other countries to make their laws comply with international rules.

  Author: Jim Ramstad

• My own perception is that there are two tiers of countries, one, the original ASEAN, and then the new members. The new members are in various stages of development.

  Author: Sellapan Ramanathan

• Europe started out with six countries; three small countries and three large countries.

  Author: Jean-Pierre Raffarin

• It's a different outlook, and one that I understand. When you are a former member of the Warsaw Pact, when you have lived behind the Berlin Wall, when you have experienced the communist systems that existed in these countries, for them, the West represents hope.

  Author: Jean-Pierre Raffarin

• What's very important is that we build a space that matters in the world, one that operates according to democratic rules, and that small and large countries enjoy a good relationship.

  Author: Jean-Pierre Raffarin

• I'm thrilled of the acceptance I get abroad. The people are so hearty, warm and grateful and I feel privileged having seen so many countries and some of the greatest monuments.

  Author: Daniel Radcliffe

• Only the change on the international scene, the crisis in the gulf, and the strong, firm position of the United States against aggression between two Arab countries created realities that led to the Madrid Peace Conference.

  Author: Yitzhak Rabin

• When goods are exchanged between countries, they must be paid for by commodities or gold. They cannot be paid for by the notes, certificates, and checks of the purchaser's country, since these are of value only in the country of issue.

  Author: Carroll Quigley

• Bolshevism presented itself as an economic threat to themselves at the same time that Nazism presented itself as a political threat to their countries.

  Author: Carroll Quigley

• The present level of armaments could be taken as the starting point. It could be stipulated in an international treaty that these armaments should be simultaneously and uniformly reduced by a certain proportion in all countries.

  Author: Ludwig Quidde

• Thus, if armaments were curtailed without a secure peace and all countries disarmed proportionately, military security would have been in no way affected.

  Author: Ludwig Quidde

• Japan is an important ally of ours. Japan and the United States of the Western industrialized capacity, 60 percent of the GNP, two countries. That's a statement in and of itself.

  Author: Dan Quayle

• I believe that the capital of the Republic of Albania is a suitable venue for discussing the dialogue among religions and civilizations, notably in the countries of South East Europe, because we are well familiar with this country's track record of religious tolerance.

  Author: Georgi Purvanov

• Ironically, Latin American countries, in their instability, give writers and intellectuals the hope that they are needed.

  Author: Manuel Puig

• The Italian economy is certainly the weakest of the big European countries.

  Author: Romano Prodi

• Compared to the United States and certainly a lot of other countries around the world... per year, Australians do see more films.

  Author: David Pratt

• Marble is not alike in all countries.

  Author: Marcus Pollio

• We were constantly moving to different countries and adjusting to new things. It was such a free feeling. I'm glad I didn't have a traditional upbringing.

  Author: River Phoenix

• The people who illegally cross into the country are from countries that have very close ties to al Qaeda, whether it's Yemen or Afghanistan, Pakistan, China. It is an absolute national disgrace.

  Author: Rick Perry

• These were big ones. Those companies would then go in and build an electrical system or ports or highways, and these would basically serve just a few of the very wealthiest families in those countries.

  Author: John Perkins

• At the beginning of the new century, it is the common aspiration of the peoples of the two countries to deepen mutual understanding, enhance trust, develop friendship and strengthen cooperation.

  Author: Li Peng

• China has always maintained that all countries, big or small, rich or poor, strong or weak, are equal members of the international community and they should stand and speak in the world as such.

  Author: Li Peng

• In the new century, we should continue to work together to safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of the vast number of developing countries including China and India and promote the establishment of a just and equitable new international political and economic order.

  Author: Li Peng

• We have reiterated on many occasions that China wishes to establish and develop long-term, good-neighbourly and friendly relations with all countries in south Asia.

  Author: Li Peng

• Today, being the biggest developing countries in the world, China and India are both committed to developing their economy and raising their people's living standards.

  Author: Li Peng

• There are nearly 200 countries and a population of over 6 billion in today's world. International affairs should be addressed by all countries through consultations rather than monopolised by a few powers.

  Author: Li Peng

• People of all countries have the right to choose their own social system and road to development in the light of their national conditions and characteristics.

  Author: Li Peng

• A multi-polar world can not exist without recognising the status and participation of developing countries.

  Author: Li Peng

• We sincerely hope that south Asian countries will respect and live in amity with each other, and achieve common development, and that south Asia will enjoy peace, stability and prosperity.

  Author: Li Peng

• There is an Islamic population in France, most of which comes from the North African countries.

  Author: Jean-Marie Pen

• The impact of climate change is a tremendous risk to the security and well-being of our countries.

  Author: Nancy Pelosi

• Saddam Hussein has been engaged in the development of weapons of mass destruction technology which is a threat to countries in the region and he has made a mockery of the weapons inspection process.

  Author: Nancy Pelosi

• The historical experience of socialist countries has sadly demonstrated that collectivism does not do away with alienation but rather increases it, adding to it a lack of basic necessities and economic inefficiency.

  Author: Pope Paul II

• Undoubtedly, at the moment, the major cause of CO2 emission is what happens in developed countries.

  Author: Chris Patten

• Olympics is global competition in which eighty, ninety, hundred, hundred and ten countries participate.

  Author: George Pataki

• I see Turkey's future as being in Europe, as one of many prosperous, tolerant, democratic countries.

  Author: Orhan Pamuk

• England is very interested as well, and other countries if I could speak the languages!

  Author: Miranda Otto

• Sometimes I get the feeling the whole world is against me, but deep down I know that's not true. Some of the smaller countries are neutral.

  Author: Robert Orben

• I'm a Canadian citizen. But I always want to feel at home in Sri Lanka. I'm a member of both countries.

  Author: Michael Ondaatje

• The most extreme individuals and factions in Islamic countries are now more motivated than ever to kill Americans, and the number of potential terrorists has greatly expanded.

  Author: John Olver

• Paradoxically, the people and state of Japan living on such moral props were not innocent but had been stained by their own past history of invading other Asian countries.

  Author: Kenzaburo Oe

• Military officers from different countries, when they meet each other, tend to sort of fall in love, become mutual admiration societies, at the expense of realities.

  Author: William Odom

• Countries are either mothers or fathers, and engender the emotional bristle secretly reserved for either sire.

  Author: Edna O'Brien

• We can't drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times... and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK. That's not leadership. That's not going to happen.

  Author: Barack Obama

• And those are the Rich, who transmit what they have to their Posterity; whereby particular Families become rich; and of such are compounded Cities, Countries, Nations, etc.

  Author: Dudley North

• The United States and Turkey are the only two countries that don't have some kind of subsidy for the Arts. The whole culture in society has made certain films more acceptable. I turned down so many films in the '60s and '70s.

  Author: Alex North

• Italy and Spain really are not my countries.

  Author: Ruud Nistelrooy

• I have some friends, colleagues here at the Karolinska Institute and even in the United States and many other countries too, because we are working together as scientists.

  Author: Lennart Nilsson

• When you look at other countries that are developing the capabilities and the technology to deploy missiles of very significant destructive capability with nuclear, chemical, or biological warheads, then the MAD dogma makes even less sense.

  Author: Don Nickles

• Those of us who actually were working in the region at the time will point out how strongly committed we were to supporting the democratic process and encouraging elections, in spite of the fact that a war was going on in several of these countries.

  Author: John Negroponte

• Fundamentally, I believe that the U.S. can improve its international standing and its national security by expanding trade and strengthening its relationships with moderate Muslim countries.

  Author: Richard Neal

• Over the years, dozens of American companies have filed papers to trade in their U.S. corporate citizenship for citizenship in tax haven countries like Bermuda.

  Author: Richard Neal

• It is extremely important that mass media, having freed from the relics of the Cold War, served for peace and dialogue between nations and religions, the rich and the poor, countries and continents.

  Author: Nursultan Nazarbayev

• We're working on accession to the WTO very actively. We still have several countries with which we need to conclude agreements and possibly that will happen next year.

  Author: Nursultan Nazarbayev

• Many countries persecute their own citizens and intern them in prisons or concentration camps. Oppression is becoming more and more a part of the systems.

  Author: Alva Myrdal

• It is frightening that in recent years such an increase has occurred in acts of terrorism, which have even reached peaceful countries such as ours. And as a "remedy", more and more security forces are established to protect the lives of individual men and women.

  Author: Alva Myrdal

• It is of the greatest importance that people and governments in many more countries than ours should realize that it is more dangerous to have access to nuclear arms than not to possess them.

  Author: Alva Myrdal

• Let us work toward greater cooperation with all Caribbean Countries, whether we speak English, Dutch, French or Spanish, whether we are independent or not, and whether we be island or continental territories.

  Author: Said Musa

• We haven't been out in many of these countries helping them build infrastructure. How would they look at us today if we had been there helping them with some of that, rather than just being the people who are going to bomb in Iraq and go to Afghanistan?

  Author: Patty Murray

• I didn't want to be a writer, but I became one. And now I have many readers, in many countries. I think that's a miracle. So I think I have to be humble regarding this ability. I'm proud of it and I enjoy it, and it is strange to say it this way, but I respect it.

  Author: Haruki Murakami

• New Zealanders who emigrate to Australia raise the IQ of both countries.

  Author: Robert Muldoon

• To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.

  Author: John Muir

• Countries such as the U.S. and Britain have taken it upon themselves to decide for us in the developing world, even to interfere in our domestic affairs and to bring about what they call regime change.

  Author: Robert Mugabe

• As Brian Urquhart has said quite correctly, I don't think that individual countries in the international community can stand aside and let all of these slaughters continue without doing anything.

  Author: Alex Morrison

• Intellectual honesty is the quality that the public in free countries always has expected of historians; much more than that it does not expect, nor often get.

  Author: Samuel Morison

• It is my strong hope that an environment will be created in which both of our countries can cooperate for the realization of a world without nuclear weapons.

  Author: Yoshiro Mori

• The motivation for war is simple. The U.S. government started the war with Iraq in order to make it easy for U.S. corporations to do business in other countries. They intend to use cheap labor in those countries, which will make Americans rich.

  Author: Michael Moore

• If all our comrades of Europe, America and other countries, who do not understand what we are doing to Spanish Anarchism, would come to Spain, we could then see how they would react.

  Author: Frederica Montseny

• Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.

  Author: Charles Montesquieu

• There is also poetry written to be shouted in a square in front of an enthusiastic crowd. This occurs especially in countries where authoritarian regimes are in power.

  Author: Eugenio Montale

• Everybody in all countries tries to play jazz.

  Author: Thelonious Monk

• I've always traveled, as a kid my parents moved me around, a different place in Germany every four years. But I got the travel bug when I was a kid, living in different countries.

  Author: Dominic Monaghan

• Countries under foreign command quickly forget their history, their past, their tradition, their national symbols, their way of living, often their own literary language.

  Author: Slobodan Milosevic

• I will be talking with gymnasts from some of the other countries. I will be getting a feel for what they're thinking and what they're doing. It should be a really great meet.

  Author: Shannon Miller

• Energy companies, such as Chevron and Shell, and oil producing countries, such as Kuwait and Venezuela, pump crude oil from their vast land holdings and sell it on the world market.

  Author: Gary Miller

• I consider that 9/11 was the day when war was started against my own work and against myself. Even though we are not sure of the links, Iraq was one of the countries that did not lower its flags in mourning on 9/11.

  Author: Adam Michnik

• Other countries, such as Israel, successfully employ behavior detection techniques at their airports, but the bloated, ineffective bureaucracy of TSA has produced another security failure for U.S. transportation systems.

  Author: John Mica

• We are three countries that emerged from the former Yugoslavia - countries that are now in transition and must cooperate with each other, because our economies depend on each other.

  Author: Stjepan Mesic

• One of the issues facing us today is that there are countries where there is a serious lack of resources, the standards of living are very low, and this creates a fundamental unease and discomfort in entire populations.

  Author: Ralph Merkle

• No longer should we rely on oil from countries that are not necessarily friendly or democratic.

  Author: Cathy McMorris

• Syria and Iran have always had a pretty tight relationship, and it looks to me like they just cooked up a press release to put out to sort of restate the obvious. They're both problem countries; we know that. And this doesn't change anything.

  Author: Mitch McConnell

• Any Human Rights Council reform that allows countries that sponsor terrorism to remain as members, such as Cuba, is not real reform. And in the past, countries such as Libya, Iran and Syria have participated on this council.

  Author: Michael McCaul

• Additionally, any Human Rights Council reform that allows countries with despicable human rights records to remain as members, such as China and Saudi Arabia, is not real reform.

  Author: Michael McCaul

• We modern Marxists regard socialism as a historically brief transitional stage between feudalism and capitalism, necessary only in backward countries.

  Author: John McCarthy

• Of course, Third World leaders love you. By ascribing third world ills to First World sins, you absolve them of blame for their countries' failure to advance.

  Author: John McCarthy

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

  Author: David McCallum

• So, it, of course, makes one wonder how many other people there might be who are completely innocent, who have been sent by the U.S. to countries where they've been interrogated, and in some instances it seems tortured.

  Author: Jane Mayer

• I have to say that it's very few countries that are willing to look back at its past and apologize for its act, or make amends for its act, as the United States had one.

  Author: Robert Matsui

• Let the ruling classes tremble at a communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Workingmen of all countries, unite!

  Author: Karl Marx

• I have been a victim of stereotypes. I come from Latin America and to some countries, we are considered 'losers,' drug traffickers, and that is not fair because that is generalizing.

  Author: Ricky Martin

• Economically, unfair trade will benefit nobody in the long run, as poorer countries will be bled totally dry and will become unable to produce anything.

  Author: Chris Martin

• Civilized countries generally adopt gold or silver or both as money.

  Author: Alfred Marshall

• We are in a time when the Peace Corps mission is more vital than ever, and the organization is at a 30-year high in the number of volunteers in the field. The Peace Corps is currently in 69 posts and serving 75 countries across the globe.

  Author: Kenny Marchant

• All countries, big or small, strong or weak, are equal members of the United Nations.

  Author: Nong Manh

• Communists have always played an active role in the fight by colonial countries for their freedom, because the short-term objects of Communism would always correspond with the long-term objects of freedom movements.

  Author: Nelson Mandela

• Socialist democracy is not, a luxury and its need is not limited to the most advanced industrial countries.

  Author: Ernest Mandel

• I have been an actor now for 40 years having worked in over 10 countries and three languages.

  Author: Nick Mancuso

• And why is our music called world music? I think people are being polite. What they want to say is that it's third world music. Like they use to call us under developed countries, now it has changed to developing countries, it's much more polite.

  Author: Miriam Makeba

• I have to go and say farewell to all the countries that I have been to, if I can. I am 73 now, it is taxing on me.

  Author: Miriam Makeba

• When you want to make it clear to the rest of the world that you are not an imperialist, the best countries to have with you are Britain and Spain.

  Author: Bill Maher

• Americans have the right and advantage of being armed - unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.

  Author: James Madison

• We had to be very careful on our best behaviour when we went to these other countries. And then I made a living, I had a chance to support my wife and my kids. It was a wonderful, wonderful, wonderful program from that point of view.

  Author: Gavin MacLeod

• I wish we didn't have to own up to a policy deliberately designed to inflict suffering on people who have already been traumatised in the countries from which they've fled.

  Author: Hugh Mackay

• Under the process of ongoing globalization, advantages are, in the main, created for a minority of countries and development centres as well as powerful transnational companies.

  Author: Tran Luong

• Internationalism, illustrated by the Bolshevik and by the men to whom all countries are alike provided they can make money out of them, is to me repulsive.

  Author: Henry Lodge

• Right now too much American time and resources are spent dealing with situations caused by our dependence on oil that we import from unstable countries.

  Author: Dan Lipinski

• The developing countries must be able to take a more active part in trade negotiations, through technical assistance and support from the developed countries.

  Author: Anna Lindh

• Nonetheless, the developing countries must be able to reap the benefits of international trade.

  Author: Anna Lindh

• To properly reflect the changes of the world and of the UN, with its growing number of member states, we would like to see an enlargement of the SC that gives room for new members, not least developing countries.

  Author: Anna Lindh

• We must focus much more on developing countries' own policies and priorities, and increase policy and operational coherence between national, regional and multilateral actors.

  Author: Anna Lindh

• Firstly, economic globalisation has brought prosperity and development to many countries, but also financial crises to Asia, Latin America and Russia, and increasing poverty and marginalisation.

  Author: Anna Lindh

• Developed countries and advanced developing countries must open their markets for products from the developing world, and support in developing their export and import capacity.

  Author: Anna Lindh

• The UN Commission on Human Rights, whose membership in recent years has included countries - such as Libya and Sudan - which have deplorable human rights records, and the recent Oil-for-Food scandal, are just a few examples of why reform is so imperative.

  Author: John Linder

• Long live the liberation of the workers off all countries from the infernal chasm of war, exploitation and slavery!

  Author: Karl Liebknecht

• In the democratic western countries so-called capitalism leads a saturnalia of "freedom," like a bastard brother of reform.

  Author: Wyndham Lewis

• Liberals like using government to solve problems in OUR country and conservatives are using our government to solve problems in OTHER countries.

  Author: Matthew Lesko

• When we got back to the U.S., I wanted to kiss the ground after seeing what people in other countries are denied or don't have.

  Author: Sugar Leonard

• The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.

  Author: Vladimir Lenin

• I've traveled to 50 countries, but I've never been to heaven.

  Author: Laurel Lee

• Like Afghanistan before it, Iraq is only one theater in a regional war. We were attacked by a network of terrorist organizations supported by several countries, of whom the most important were Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Saudi Arabia.

  Author: Michael Ledeen

• The President should spend his time going after the terrorists rather than sharing sensitive counter terrorism information with countries that sponsor terrorism.

  Author: Frank Lautenberg

• We're not necessarily the ski boat, we're the skier. There are countries like Japan and Korea and others who are the ski boat at this point, but we're getting pulled right behind them.

  Author: Steve Largent

• Our resolution urges all Latin American and Caribbean countries to designate al Qaeda, Hezbollah, Hamas, and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad as terrorist organizations.

  Author: Tom Lantos

• We have repeatedly issued warnings, over a number of years. Following these warnings and these calls, anti-American explosions took place in a number of Islamic countries.

  Author: Osama Laden

• We did not find it difficult to deal with Bush and his administration, because it is similar to regimes in our countries - both types include many who are full of arrogance and greed.

  Author: Osama Laden

• But unlike European countries, America has never finished a map of the United States, only the eastern United States is covered and a few spots here and there.

  Author: William Labov

• After the 1954 Geneva international conference, Vietnam was divided into two parts. On paper, North and South Vietnam were twin countries born at the same moment.

  Author: Nguyen Ky

• And I think to be in NATO for the countries of our region, it means more guarantees for us, it means more responsibility for our common security, but it means fulfillment of all standards of civilized world, like protection of human rights and democratic mechanisms.

  Author: Aleksander Kwasniewski

• But on the other hand government takes away a certain amount of liberty and in some countries it takes away all of liberty. And it will, everywhere, if people who fight government do not fight government any longer.

  Author: William Kunstler

• Neither Western donor countries like the U.S. nor poor recipients like Cameroon care much about Africans who are poor, rural and female.

  Author: Nicholas Kristof

• Abortion politics have distracted all sides from what is really essential: a major aid campaign to improve midwifery, prenatal care and emergency obstetric services in poor countries.

  Author: Nicholas Kristof

• A few countries like Sri Lanka and Honduras have led the way in slashing maternal mortality.

  Author: Nicholas Kristof

• In my opinion, the form of Government may be different in different countries, according to their circumstances, their wishes, their wants. England loves her Queen, and has full motive to do so.

  Author: Lajos Kossuth

• I can create countries just as I can create the actions of my characters. That is why a lot of travel seems to me a waste of time.

  Author: Jerzy Kosinski

• More humane societies are usually smaller, like the Scandinavian countries and Holland, where it is much easier to reach consensus and cooperation.

  Author: David Korten

• The pains felt by Asian countries are our own pains. Disaster in Asia is nothing but ours as well.

  Author: Junichiro Koizumi

• That is simply that Marxism has been tremendously fashionable in our time, so it has infected a very large number of major institutions in many countries of the world. So I suppose that we shouldn't be too surprised that it should infect the church as well.

  Author: Jeane Kirkpatrick

• If some countries have too much history, we have too much geography.

  Author: Mackenzie King

• What most people didn't realize in the Western countries is that here its not a question of having supporters, its a question of getting these votes to the polling stations.

  Author: Imran Khan

• This project would not only open up venues of cooperation in the oil and gas sector between the member countries but also help bring the people of regional countries together.

  Author: Amanullah Khan

• Those who have been outspoken in advocating human rights during these last forty years, have themselves grabbed the most fundamental of human rights from the people of the Third-World countries.

  Author: Ali Khamenei

• I really wish we could stay longer in the countries we visit, but I've been lucky to have visited most of them before, because I've done a tremendous amount of travel.

  Author: Phil Keoghan

• Just last week, I was successful in passing two bi-partisan amendments through the House of Representatives that aim to address the even larger problem of cracking down on countries who export the materials to create meth into the United States.

  Author: Mark Kennedy

• Asian countries produce eight times as many engineering bachelors as the United States, and the number of U.S. students graduating at the masters and PhD levels in these areas is declining.

  Author: Mark Kennedy

• There has not been a war in South America for fifty years, and I have every confidence that the countries of Central and South America are deeply in earnest in the maintenance of peace.

  Author: Frank Kellogg

• Hungary is very similar to Bulgaria. I know they're different countries.

  Author: Kevin Keegan

• There's a long record here of being wrong. There's a good reason for it. There are probably multiple reasons. Certainly proliferation is a hard thing to track, particularly in countries that deny easy and free access and don't have free and open societies.

  Author: David Kay

• Many other countries have already banned human cloning, and there are efforts at the UN to make such a ban universal.

  Author: Leon Kass

• Even if certain rogue countries do things we wish nobody did, it doesn't necessarily mean that their foolishness should justify our following suit.

  Author: Leon Kass

• The most important thing I learned as a foreign correspondent in about 80 countries is that it takes a very shallow knowledge of history to think that there are solutions to most problems.

  Author: Robert Kaplan

• The fact is, that with the creation of the Jewish state in 1948, hundreds of thousands of Jews fled Arab countries, almost all of whom left behind all their property for which compensation was never paid.

  Author: Meir Kahane

• Criminals were coming to Chechnya from all over the world - they did not have a place in their own countries. But they could live perfectly well in Chechnya.

  Author: Akhmad Kadyrov

• So in Asia I want to make - I want to succeed to make a model of what success, practicing democracy, and market economy. Then that will give a good influence over Asian countries.

  Author: Kim Jung

• Expressing the thoughts of my comrades, I suggested, among other means, the organization of an international information service on inventories, on production, and on the needs of the various countries for raw materials.

  Author: Leon Jouhaux

• All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.

  Author: Samuel Johnson

• The moon and other celestial bodies should be free for exploration and use by all countries. No country should be permitted to advance a claim of sovereignty.

  Author: Lyndon Johnson

• Our first phase was inviting all the women Ambassadors who were here from other countries and trying to get in touch with all the peace centers around the country in order to focus on increasing the volume and activity toward peace.

  Author: Eddie Johnson

• In 75 foreign countries, we have a presence in the USDA.

  Author: Mike Johanns

• Science is the international language, so when we are able to convince countries that good decision-making for human health and animal health is based upon science, that's a real success story for us.

  Author: Mike Johanns

• The recent riots in France demonstrate the problem European countries face where second and third generation immigrants still do not consider themselves French, German, or English.

  Author: Bobby Jindal

• India, in particular, is looking to develop nuclear power for domestic, commercial use, and we should work with them. This is a good deal for both countries.

  Author: Bobby Jindal

• Egypt has suffered more ordeals than the other countries to get where it is.

  Author: Tahar Jelloun

• It is through accepting other people in our own countries that we shall come to respect our neighbours and be respected in our turn.

  Author: Tahar Jelloun

• My hope is that countries like Morocco will have investment to create work, so people don't have to leave.

  Author: Tahar Jelloun

• In most of the European countries - France stands out in its resistance to this particular form of American cultural imperialism - the national film industries were forced onto the defensive after the war by such binding agreements.

  Author: Fredric Jameson

• People in so many countries look up to the United States as a model of democracy, but I doubt if that can continue. It leaves me with a great sense of loss.

  Author: Bianca Jagger

• This is just the United States. All the rest of the countries, all over the world, are proud of Michael. It's here we have the most trouble out of them.

  Author: Joseph Jackson

• We need to get our sons and daughters home and their responsibility for the security of Iraq needs to be assumed by Iraqis who will stand up and toe the line for their countries.

  Author: Jay Inslee

• There's a civic nationalism in Britain and dozens of other countries.

  Author: Michael Ignatieff

• To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.

  Author: Aldous Huxley

• It is normal for politicians in all countries to profess themselves the pupils of history, anxious to draw the right lessons from her teaching.

  Author: Douglas Hurd

• If I go to Germany, I learn something in addition. The German television is very precise and respectable. One has never stress. In Italy it is more dynamic. But I amuse myself madly in both countries.

  Author: Michelle Hunziker

• I find it very beautiful to work in different countries because I see the mentality differences there. It is so rich, one always carries forward something.

  Author: Michelle Hunziker

• And the big question for the West, of course, and to the Europeans is, what other countries, which were formerly part of the Soviet bloc, should be incorporated into western institutions?

  Author: Samuel Huntington

• I think clearly the United States, as well as other western nations, should stand by their commitments to human rights and democracy and should try to influence other countries to move in that direction.

  Author: Samuel Huntington

• It was one thing to contain the Soviet Union in Europe because Britain, France, and Germany were all willing to join in. But will Japan and other Asian countries be willing to join in the containment of China?

  Author: Samuel Huntington

• The great problem there is we have to have the cooperation of those other Asian countries.

  Author: Samuel Huntington

• Destroy or take away the employment and wages of those artisans - which the corn laws in a great measure do - and you will, ere long, render the land in Great Britain of as little value as it is in other countries.

  Author: Joseph Hume

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