Quotes on Countries

And the Marshall Plan, to us, meant a general who had turned into a secretary of state, and that the secretary of state saw the necessity of the reconstruction of these European countries that had suffered so heavily.

Author: Giovanni Agnelli

For this reason, the expansion of relations with all countries is on the agenda of the Islamic Republic of Iran. I mean balanced relationships, based on mutual respect and observation of each other's rights.

Author: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

The interests of the Soviet Union are in controlling highly developed countries and having the benefit of their economies so that they can run their own inefficient empire.

Author: Barbara Amiel

In 1990 we ran across Europe through 13 countries and covering 7,130 miles.

Author: Dennis Banks

And in the last sentence I would like also to mention that Poland is one of the countries with which the United States has run strategic dialogues since last year.

Author: Marek Belka

It's with them that we have constituted a liberation front and brought our logistic support to armies to help their countries come out of colonialism and establish a national internal regime.

Author: Ahmed Bella

These are the multinationals, like General Motors and Nestle; these are the big industrial groups that weigh, on the monetary scale, much more than big countries like Egypt.

Author: Ahmed Bella

There's been a deliberate and systematic effort to convey to countries around the world, friends and foes, that if they cross the United States there's a price to pay.

Author: Sandy Berger

Even on television, the wavelengths that you use, they have to be distributed between countries.

Author: Hans Blix

I produce for a low price and I sell it on my own to 80 countries.

Author: Uwe Boll

Washington should revive international efforts begun during the Clinton administration to pressure countries with dangerously loose banking regulations to adopt and enforce stricter rules.

Author: Kit Bond

Human dignity is independent of national borders. We must always defend the interests of the poor and the persecuted in other countries.

Author: Kjell Bondevik

The shock caused by the September 11 events has also lead to a thorough reflection on the existing disparity between rich and poor countries, on the misery of populations of the South.

Author: Omar Bongo

The resources of our continent attract, more than ever, the interests of rich countries.

Author: Omar Bongo

Do not forget that the Arab countries, starting with Algeria and Egypt, are the ones that have paid the heaviest toll because of Islamic terror.

Author: Omar Bongo

But the Western countries that link their partnership with the poorest countries with respect for democracy also have to consider that they have obligations towards these countries.

Author: Omar Bongo

For, behind the scenes, halfway around the world in Mexico, were two decades of aggressive research on wheat that not only enabled Mexico to become self-sufficient with respect to wheat production but also paved the way to rapid increase in its production in other countries.

Author: Norman Borlaug

There are no countries in the world less known by the British than those selfsame British Islands.

Author: George Borrow

There is nothing more exciting in sport when the top two countries in the world are battling for the Ashes.

Author: Ian Botham

President Bush in his inaugural address talked about bringing freedom to countries that don't have it. He didn't specify how.

Author: Barbara Boxer

There are loads of countries that have nice written constitutions like ours. But there aren't loads of countries where they're followed.

Author: Stephen Breyer

I began working with the John Muir Institute and then started helping found Friends of the Earth organizations here and there in other countries. That pretty well brings us up to the present.

Author: David Brower

You know, having been an election monitor in countries across the world, I can tell you that we would never certify another country's election if it had as many flaws in place as we had in Florida.

Author: Corrine Brown

I have seen this happen in recent years with regard to pharmaceuticals and vaccines, where, working together, we are improving access to medicines and vaccines for infectious diseases in the poorest countries.

Author: Gro Brundtland

When the E.U. and the U.S. agree, other countries follow.

Author: John Bruton

Sovereignty is a word that is used often but it has really no specific meaning. Sovereignty today is nominal. Any number of countries that are sovereign are sovereign only nominally and relatively.

Author: Zbigniew Brzezinski

To be able to detect the outbreak of avian flu anywhere in the world is going to require a partnership of several countries that will share information and samples, but it is important to remember a threat anywhere is a threat everywhere.

Author: Michael Burgess

In the United States, viewers don't get to see a lot of things we can show in other countries. We didn't get to show our naked Twister game from Wild On Jamaica, but we definitely filmed it.

Author: Brooke Burke

The Covenant of the League of Nations had envisaged sponsoring only the protection of certain categories of men: national minorities and populations of territories controlled by other countries.

Author: Rene Cassin

All countries should immediately now activate their pandemic preparedness plans. Countries should remain on high alert for unusual outbreaks of influenza-like illness and severe pneumonia.

Author: Margaret Chan

I think the Caribbean countries face rising oceans and they face increase in the severity of hurricanes. This is something that is very, very scary to all of us. The island states in the world represent - I remember this number - one-half of 1 percent of the carbon emissions in the world. And they will - some of them will disappear.

Author: Steven Chu

In light of the attacks on mass transit systems in other countries, shouldn't we be beefing up?... Clearly more could be done.

Author: Susan Collins

But thanks to the efforts, the initiative of the United States and of the several countries from the world, from Europe, including Turkey, it ended within a few weeks.

Author: Bulent Ecevit

It can be rebuilt if other countries with selfish interests will not meddle, as has been done in the past.

Author: Bulent Ecevit

Far less wealthy industrialized countries have committed to end child poverty, while the United States is sliding backwards. We can do better. We must demand that our leaders do better.

Author: Marian Edelman

Everybody has to chip in, I think, and see how we can have a functioning system of collective security where we do not continue to face the threat of countries trying to acquire weapons of mass destruction or particularly nuclear weapons.

Author: Mohamed ElBaradei

We are guilty for sending teams into foreign countries to advise them how to be like us.

Author: Arthur Erickson

Europe is a collection of free countries.

Author: Douglas Feith

Today, credit rating agencies rate companies, countries and bonds.

Author: Mike Fitzpatrick

International institutions ought to be, as the national ones in democratic countries, established by the peoples and for the peoples.

Author: Henri Fontaine

The dwarfed trees of the Chinese and Japanese have been noticed by every author who has written upon these countries, and all have attempted to give some description of the method by which the effect is produced.

Author: Robert Fortune

If Iran becomes a nuclear weapon state it is the end of non-proliferation as we know it. If Iran gets a nuclear weapon you are likely to see Saudi, Egypt and other countries follow suit and we will bequeath to the next generation a nuclear arms race in the world's most unstable region.

Author: Liam Fox

We must put together countries that produce drugs, countries that traffic, and countries that consume, and through this multilateral effort really stop the growing of crime.

Author: Vicente Fox

The direct investment of Japanese businesses to East Asian economies accelerates the reallocation of their production bases. Consequently, between Japan and the other East Asian countries, both exports and imports are growing substantially.

Author: Toshihiko Fukui

The aging and decreasing population is a serious problem in many developed countries today. In Japan's case, these demographic changes are taking place at a more rapid pace than any other country has ever experienced.

Author: Toshihiko Fukui

During the past two decades, inflation has fallen to a low level in major industrial countries.

Author: Toshihiko Fukui

The current total of countries in the world with First Amendments is one. You have guaranteed freedom of speech. Other countries don't have that.

Author: Neil Gaiman

Horsemeat in many European and Asian countries is consumed as a delicacy.

Author: Elton Gallegly

Thousand got away to other countries; thousands returned to Spain tempted by false promises of kindness. By the tens of thousands, these Spaniards died of neglect in the concentration camps.

Author: Martha Gellhorn

We need to focus on green jobs: solar, wind, geothermal, biomass.There's so many opportunities. But other countries like China are getting ahead of the curve.

Author: Alexi Giannoulias

I feel like there is just as much violent programming in other countries and there is not the same incidence of factors. I think there are other factors contributing to violence in this country and not the media.

Author: Sara Gilbert

We were surprised that the television series had the kind of longevity that it had after only four years of filming it and the reception in 6 countries around the world was quite extraordinary.

Author: Paul Glaser

A single tree in the tropical forest in the south of Mexico has more different species than some European countries.

Author: Carlos Gortari

There are lots of countries around that have weapons of mass destruction. We can't presumably attack them all.

Author: Bill Graham

You have to understand that once an indictment has been signed, all countries that are signature to the U.N. charter will hand a person straight over. You don't have to go through the normal extradition process.

Author: Tony Greig

We must look after our own before lining the pockets of overseas countries and investors.

Author: Pauline Hanson

Singing is not indulged in by Rotary clubs of some countries and all clubs are given full privilege to do as they please about including it in their programs.

Author: Paul Harris

The President is of opinion that if Japan makes a treaty with the United States, all other foreign countries will make the same kind of a treaty, and Japan will be safe thereafter.

Author: Townsend Harris

The United States have no possessions in the east and do not desire to have any, as other countries do.

Author: Townsend Harris

We were sent to this country by the President, who desires to promote the welfare of Japan, and are quite different from the ambassadors of other countries.

Author: Townsend Harris

When the ambassadors of other foreign countries come to Japan to make treaties, they can be told that such and such a treaty has been made with the ambassador of the United States, and they will rest satisfied with this.

Author: Townsend Harris

Japan and China are isolated and without intercourse with other countries; hence the President directed me to attend to or watch the state of affairs in China also.

Author: Townsend Harris

Since the invention of steamships distant countries have become like those that are near at hand.

Author: Townsend Harris

As the treaty made with the United States was the first treaty entered into by your country with other countries, therefore the President regards Japan with peculiar friendliness.

Author: Townsend Harris

If I write in my name to the agents of England and France residing in Asia and inform them that Japan is ready to make a commercial treaty with their countries, the number of steamers will be reduced from fifty to two or three.

Author: Townsend Harris

Acts of anti-Semitism in countries throughout the world, including some of the world's strongest democracies, have increased significantly in frequency and scope over the last several years.

Author: Tim Holden

Of all the important relationships that Australia has with other countries, none has been more greatly transformed over the last 10 years than our relationship with China.

Author: John Howard

Now, what produces a want of demand? A refusal to take from other countries the commodities which they produce.

Author: Joseph Hume

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

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

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

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

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

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

Author: Michael Ignatieff

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

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

Author: Tahar Jelloun

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

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

Author: Mike Johanns

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

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

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

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

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

Author: Leon Kass

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

Author: Kevin Keegan

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

Author: Junichiro Koizumi

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

Author: Nicholas Kristof

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

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

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'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

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

Author: Laurel Lee

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Author: Ernest Mandel

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

Author: Nong Manh

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

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

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

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

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

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

Author: Cathy McMorris

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

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

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 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

Everybody in all countries tries to play jazz.

Author: Thelonious Monk

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

Author: Charles Montesquieu

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

Author: John Muir

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

Author: Robert Muldoon

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

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

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

Italy and Spain really are not my countries.

Author: Ruud Nistelrooy

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

Author: Edna O'Brien

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

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

Author: Miranda Otto

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

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

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

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

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

Marble is not alike in all countries.

Author: Marcus Pollio

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

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

Author: Romano Prodi

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

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

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

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

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

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

Author: Jean-Pierre Raffarin

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

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

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

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

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

Right now I own shares of companies in 28 countries.

Author: Jim Rogers

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

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

Author: Ibrahim Rugova

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

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

Author: Mikhail Saakashvili

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

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

Author: Cindy Sheehan

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

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

Author: John Shimkus

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

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