Quotes on Country

My London constituency in Hackney has one of the highest levels of gun crime in the country. But the problem is no longer confined to inner city areas. Gun crime has spread to communities all over Britain.

Author: Diane Abbott

And internalization is used in this country as a very effective political tool.

Author: Kathy Acker

It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between.

Author: Diane Ackerman

The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities.

Author: John Acton

What this country needs is a good five-cent nickel.

Author: Frank Adams

There are plenty of good five cent cigars in the country. The trouble is they cost a quarter.

Author: Franklin Adams

New Jersey is the first state in the country to agree to treat gay and unmarried couples the same as married couples.

Author: Michael Adams

What pity is it That we can die, but once to serve our country.

Author: Joseph Addison

In the city a funeral is just an interruption of traffic; in the country it is a form of popular entertainment.

Author: George Ade

It is even more so when it comes to Iraq, which is a large Arab country with scientific, material, and human resources and is able to accomplish, at the least, what Lebanon accomplished, and more.

Author: Bashar al-Assad

When Lebanon started its resistance it was a small and divided country.

Author: Bashar al-Assad

Your message is stupid. Iraq is not afraid of you or anyone else when it has a right to claim. What you warned about is not on Iraq's agenda. Iraq is vital and powerful. It is not an opportunistic country. Your administration has not learned from the past.

Author: Mohammed Aldouri

September 11 is one of our worst days but it brought out the best in us. It unified us as a country and showed our charitable instincts and reminded us of what we stood for and stand for.

Author: Lamar Alexander

I really don't feel any strong allegiance to any country.

Author: Rick Allen

What our Republican friends are doing, if we look at what they do and not what they say, they have decided that the most important thing in this country is to increase payments for interest on the national debt.

Author: Tom Allen

The Republicans in the House and the Bush administration are bankrupting this country.

Author: Tom Allen

But like the rest of the country, Maine has reached an impasse, for most of the mercury that fouls our skies, waters and land comes from outside our borders.

Author: Tom Allen

For instance, why are we terrorizing this country, leading with murder and mayhem, when crime is actually on the decline, as somebody, as somebody mentioned?

Author: Christiane Amanpour

But to be self-obsessed is simply not o.k. for the most important country in the world, the United States, which affects every other country in the world.

Author: Christiane Amanpour

We are part of a country that outshines those that have gone before us and most of those in existence today.

Author: Stephen Ambrose

When Reagan was elected, I felt that the Agency had gone much more into the service of a political tendency in the country with which I had already felt very strong disagreement.

Author: Aldrich Ames

I was as repelled by the French as I was attracted by their country.

Author: Margaret Anderson

When I go to a country, I go to flea markets, antique stores. I am always looking for something.

Author: Ursula Andress

I am very proud to be British. I'm very conscious of carrying my country with me wherever I go. I feel I need to represent it well.

Author: Julie Andrews

In the rush for justice it is important not to lose sight of principles the country holds dear.

Author: Kofi Annan

My country has been very good to me; I must be good to my country.

Author: Walter Annenberg

I'm doing it, I took responsibility in my country and I've done it with my bare hands.

Author: Alexis Arguello

When we got married, nobody gave it more than two weeks. There were bets all over the country, with astronomical odds against us.

Author: Desi Arnaz

The foreign accent was a promise, and indeed, all over the country, European imports added spice to the sciences, the arts, and other areas. What one had to give was not considered inferior to what one received.

Author: Rudolf Arnheim

On my passage thither, I discovered nothing remarkable in the features of the country.

Author: William Ashley

The principal or highest part of the mountain having changed its direction to east and west, I ascended it in such manner as to leave its most elevated ranges to the south and travelled north west over a very rough and broken country generally covered with snow.

Author: William Ashley

It appears from Mr. Smith's account that there is no scarcity of buffalo as he penetrated the country.

Author: William Ashley

I mean, it is an extraordinary thing that a large proportion of your country and my country, of the citizens, never see a wild creature from dawn 'til dusk, unless it's a pigeon, which isn't really wild, which might come and settle near them.

Author: David Attenborough

A multi-purpose stadium is an absolute must in order to invigorate our downtown and, simultaneously, let the rest of the country witness that we can get things done.

Author: Alan Autry

It is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.

Author: James Baldwin

The country is provincial; it becomes ridiculous when it tries to ape Paris.

Author: Honore Balzac

No I don't think it was a myth at all, anymore than what the recession that the whole country was experiencing was a myth, which obviously seems like it's going to get worse and worse.

Author: Lester Bangs

The gun dealer is not only paying these two police officers, but more importantly, the gun dealer has said he will never again sell more than one gun to a customer. This is exactly what we're trying to get the gun industry across the country to do.

Author: Michael Barnes

They have some pretty tough gun laws in Japan, as they do in any other civilized country in the world, and they're not killing each other off with firearms. You have very violent films in Europe, yet it's not causing the mayhem we see in our streets routinely here.

Author: Michael Barnes

Let me share some facts with you about the law in most of our country. California is in many ways a little different from the rest of the world, and California has better gun laws than many states, although California's need to be improved.

Author: Michael Barnes

There is no country on earth with a stronger tradition of protecting the public's right to know.

Author: Roy Barnes

It is a sexy country. We are very free with our bodies.

Author: Ana Barros

We operate under a jury system in this country, and as much as we complain about it, we have to admit that we know of no better system, except possibly flipping a coin.

Author: Dave Barry

Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.

Author: Marion Barry

Aside from the murders, DC has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.

Author: Marion Barry

I feel very connected to poets across the country.

Author: John Barton

In this ever-changing world, it's more important than ever that our top-notch military continues to receive the resources needed to serve and protect our country.

Author: Max Baucus

Small businesses are the economic drivers of our country, providing the stimulus our communities need.

Author: Melissa Bean

Today, we have a trade regime which has led to the largest trade deficits this country has ever experienced.

Author: Xavier Becerra

You could say that we are living in an internally globalized country.

Author: Ulrich Beck

We are the last remaining country to allow ourselves two breaks in the season. You just have to look at England, Italy and Spain, they play right through the season. We on the other hand take six weeks off in the winter until the end of January, and that is a luxury.

Author: Franz Beckenbauer

It's a free country and I can keep my mouth shut whenever I want.

Author: James Beek

Israel is still the only country in the world against which there is a written document to the effect that it must disappear.

Author: Menachem Begin

The Holocaust committed by the Nazis turned this country, where most of the European Jews used to live and where their culture used to flourish, into a massive grave. This is why initiatives to revive Jewish culture in Poland is so important.

Author: Marek Belka

When I was engaged in the struggle for my country, I was very young. My horizons were open.

Author: Ahmed Bella

California is like an artificial limb the rest of the country doesn't really need. You can quote me on that.

Author: Saul Bellow

Only I can turn this country around.

Author: Silvio Berlusconi

Well, I think I was always sort of reflecting where I was and my sense of surroundings and ecology, urban or country, or foreign, living in Europe, very affected by all of that.

Author: Daniel Berrigan

The problems of our country are very fast to recognize.

Author: Peter Bichsel

What is a democrat? One who believes that the republicans have ruined the country. What is a republican? One who believes that the democrats would ruin the country.

Author: Ambrose Bierce

Our country is the most generous, open, tolerant, and democratic in the world.

Author: Judy Biggert

I drive a lot. Just for pleasure. Sometimes I'll get in the Cadillac and drive around the city or the country, kind of trying to get lost basically. Y'know, just see where roads lead.

Author: Frank Black

High value information came from interrogations in which those methods were used and provided a deeper understanding of the al Qa'ida organization that was attacking this country.

Author: Dennis Blair

I feel like everyone else in this country today. I am utterly devastated.

Author: Tony Blair

The last fight for the white metal is to be made here in this country and in this House, my friends.

Author: Richard Bland

Every one of my positions cuts - out half the country. I'm pro-choice, I'm pro-gay rights, I'm pro-immigration, I'm against guns, I believe in Darwin.

Author: Michael Bloomberg

A lot of country pubs will receive Michelin stars.

Author: Heston Blumenthal

Country has been a wonderful outlet for me.

Author: Suzy Bogguss

Therefore, every country has to understand that fighting against international terrorism is not for the sake of the United States, but for the sake of themselves, and, to a larger extent, in the name of stability of international relations.

Author: Omar Bongo

In general, every country has the language it deserves.

Author: Jorge Borges

Research in this country is going down.

Author: Amar Bose

Afraid no, I wasn't afraid but it was an unusual thing, it was an unusual feeling. It was an unusual atmosphere for me having grown up in this country and, and, and never seeing anything like that.

Author: Ralph Boston

As the third anniversary of the September 11th attacks draws near we must ensure our nation is prepared to handle the continued threat of violence and terrorism on our country.

Author: Leonard Boswell

Barge traffic on the Mississippi River represents the most efficient, most cost-effective, most environmentally sound means of transporting commodity goods from this region of the country to market.

Author: Leonard Boswell

Ireland is a great country to die or be married in.

Author: Elizabeth Bowen

Iraq is a country that has been invaded. It's not a failing state that you want to help. It's a country that was functioning good or bad, with a horrible dictator, but you have invaded.

Author: Lakhdar Brahimi

It was jolly in the country. A cow and little pigs to play with and milk warm from the cow.

Author: Georg Brandes

There are a number of steps that we can take to reinvigorate and rebuild the economic and the physical infrastructure of our country and then to rebuild us, frankly, on a spiritual level.

Author: Carol Braun

I'd come back after having served as ambassador to New Zealand and found that I had real concerns about the direction in which this country was headed.

Author: Carol Braun

We're like a Third World country when it comes to some of our election practices.

Author: Donna Brazile

I object to you using words like squander and pork. What is pork in one part of the country is an essential project in another part.

Author: John Breaux

There are 40,000 Iraqi police on duty around the country. If they detect an attack about to happen, the police are the ones who are supposed to stop it.

Author: Paul Bremer

You know, the country is basically peaceful.

Author: Paul Bremer

It would be enough for me to have the system of a jury of twelve versus the system of one judge as a basis for preferring the U.S. to the Soviet Union. I would prefer the country you can leave to the country you cannot.

Author: Joseph Brodsky

David Brinkley was an icon of modern broadcast journalism, a brilliant writer who could say in a few words what the country needed to hear during times of crisis, tragedy and triumph.

Author: Tom Brokaw

You're looking for players whose name on the front of the sweater is more important than the one on the back. I look for these players to play hard, to play smart and to represent their country.

Author: Herb Brooks

I come from a district where the veterans are not the richest in the country.

Author: Corrine Brown

Is bankrupting this great country the top priority of this administration?

Author: Corrine Brown

See, justice is a joke in this country, and it stinks of its hypocricy.

Author: H. Brown

Well all the big companies are really panicked by the internet thing and all that, and sales went down, although sales have gone up again in this country a bit and also the big companies, because they're so big, they need big sales really so they're not really interested.

Author: Jack Bruce

It is not viable for one country to demand a right to increase and upgrade its nuclear weapons capabilities while asking others to eliminate theirs.

Author: John Bruton

Our country is not the only thing to which we owe our allegiance. It is also owed to justice and to humanity.

Author: James Bryce

Saying the Washington Post is just a newspaper is like saying Rasputin was just a country priest.

Author: Pat Buchanan

We send missionaries to China so the Chinese can get to heaven, but we won't let them into our country.

Author: Pearl Buck

I can only say the first thing that pops into my mind is I remember, years ago, seeing kind of a has-been country singer working - when I first moved to Nashville - in a bar in a Holiday Inn.

Author: Jimmy Buffett

I am a huge bull on this country. We will not have a double-dip recession at all. I see our businesses coming back almost across the board.

Author: Warren Buffett

The votes of 60,000 Floridians were not counted. The Court threw out all 60,00 votes. And that's what the newspapers around the country are counting now.

Author: Vincent Bugliosi

Only seven years ago we made a treaty by which we were assured that the buffalo country should be left to us forever. Now they threaten to take that from us also.

Author: Sitting Bull

I want to tell you that if the Great Spirit had chosen anyone to be the chief of this country, it is myself.

Author: Sitting Bull

We must fight as a race for everything that makes for a better country and a better world. We are dreaming idiots and trusting fools to do anything less.

Author: Ralph Bunche

From watching the news one would think the Iraqis want us out of their country. But an overwhelming majority of Iraqis support our involvement there. Our freedom is contagious and we helped liberate them.

Author: Jim Bunning

Our country presents on every side the evidences of that continued favor under whose auspices it, has gradually risen from a few feeble and dependent colonies to a prosperous and powerful confederacy.

Author: Martin Buren

In my district back in Texas, significant because we have a big solar panel production plant in Keller, Texas, we have a wind turbine plant in Gainesville, Texas, up in Cook Country.

Author: Michael Burgess

I am depressed rather at the wave of brutality sweeping over the country.

Author: John Burns

I'm not a politician. I'm not a lawyer. I'm just a country boy.

Author: Max Burns

There's no bigger task than protecting the homeland of our country.

Author: George Bush

I also believe that Hurricane Katrina did reveal a weakness in our energy supply systems, highlighting the reliance this country has on the gulf coast for our energy resources.

Author: Steve Buyer

Our universities and museums are respected around the country.

Author: Jane Byrne

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

Author: George Byron

If you can sell green toothpaste in this country, you can sell opera.

Author: Sarah Caldwell

Our first Prime Minister saw a country that would be known for its generosity of spirit. And so it is.

Author: Kim Campbell

I only did my duty to my country when I tried to oppose the criminal folly of Hitler.

Author: Wilhelm Canaris

We have a moral responsibility to save wild places like the arctic refuge for future generations, and that is why our country has remained committed to its protection for nearly 50 years.

Author: Lois Capps

With 3 percent of the world's resources and 25 percent of the world's demand, it is pretty obvious this country cannot drill its way to energy security.

Author: Lois Capps

Kyoto was a flawed process. There isn't one industrialized country around the world that has ratified that treaty, and so that is a non-starter.

Author: Andrew Card

In this country protection has always, to some extent, existed; but at some times it has been efficient, and at others not; and our tendency toward freedom or slavery has always been in the direct ratio of its efficiency or inefficiency.

Author: Henry Carey

As regards this country, in which protection has always to some extent existed, it is the best customer that England ever had, and our demands upon her grow most steadily and regularly under protection.

Author: Henry Carey

Seems to me that the institutions that function in this country are clearly racist, and that they're built upon racism.

Author: Stokely Carmichael

I was trying to learn about Lyndon Johnson when he was young and creating his first political machine in the Texas hill country. I moved there for three years. You had to learn that world.

Author: Robert Caro

Any album that I ever put out I'm going to send it to country radio first.

Author: Deana Carter

The news of the discovery spread fast all over the country, and inquisitive enquiries mingled with congratulations from this moment became the daily programme.

Author: Howard Carter

I think it is wrong that we went against The U.N. and that we have alienated our allies and invaded a country that hasn't threatened us, that it is a pre-emptive strike.

Author: Rosanne Cash

We do have a problem in this country. You can either make a movie and ignore that, or you can acknowledge it and say, this is the water that we're living in. You know this - the movie lives in this - it's centered around this particular problem, and I chose to acknowledge it.

Author: Nick Cassavetes

Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.

Author: Willa Cather

Their Internet usage is growing very rapidly, and even they can do the math: If everyone in China needed an IPv4 address - just one - this country would use up one third of the entire public IP address space.

Author: Vinton Cerf

There is an underlying, fundamental reliance on the Internet, which continues to grow in the number of users, country penetration and both fixed and wireless broadband access.

Author: Vinton Cerf

Influenza pandemics must be taken seriously, precisely because of their capacity to spread rapidly to every country in the world.

Author: Margaret Chan

Now, most of the new immigrants coming to this country are from Asia as opposed to Europe.

Author: Iris Chang

The reason is that for many years I have avoided reading anything whatsoever that approaches my own line of country, out of a somewhat fanatical desire to avoid the risk of unconscious imitation.

Author: Leslie Charteris

The thing I can say about Japan is they were progressive for a country that is very male dominant.

Author: Brandi Chastain

If you're black in this country, if you're a woman in this country, if you are any minority in this country at all, what could possibly possess you to vote Republican?

Author: Cher

There is no country in the world where it's as easy to find venture capital in the stock market as the United States.

Author: Ron Chernow

I spent a few years here in Memphis, in the late '70s and early '80s, where I was studying a lot of country blues players and their styles. So it seems like every record I'll do, I will appropriate these blues styles that I remember.

Author: Alex Chilton

If our language, our programs, our creations are not strongly present in the new media, the young generation of our country will be economically and culturally marginalized.

Author: Jacques Chirac

Deficit reduction is not an end in itself. It is the means to an end. Canadians must now decide what kind of country they want to build with the hard-won dividend.

Author: Jean Chretien

We've worked with President Yeltsin. He is the President of the country. He's been a reformer. We've been able to accomplish a number of things together.

Author: Warren Christopher

This is a very important relationship we have with Russia, the relationship over the nuclear arsenal that they have obviously is important. They're a very powerful country.

Author: Warren Christopher

It's very important to always put things in their historical contexts. It teaches important lessons about the country in question.

Author: Warren Christopher

You're never able to please everybody, especially when you're transforming a country like Russia.

Author: Anatoly Chubais

Be England what she will, with all her faults she is my country still.

Author: Charles Churchill

Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.

Author: Winston Churchill

I was only the servant of my country and had I, at any moment, failed to express her unflinching resolve to fight and conquer, I should at once have been rightly cast aside.

Author: Winston Churchill

These are not dark days: these are great days - the greatest days our country has ever lived.

Author: Winston Churchill

We inhabit a language rather than a country.

Author: Emile Cioran

One does not inhabit a country; one inhabits a language. That is our country, our fatherland - and no other.

Author: Emile Cioran

Now the master paid a number of visits to England and, as a Cambridge man, it is a source of pride that he taught there for a longer period than elsewhere in my country.

Author: John Clark

So I'm going to tell you, it's going to be a good year. There are good players all over this country, and it is our job as a scouting department to find them, draft them, sign them, develop them, and help us to continue to win championships. So it's going to be a good year.

Author: Roy Clark

In Georgia it's a little different because of the East Cobb program. It's such a strong program that we see a lot of kids that come through here on a lot of different teams from across the country that come here to play in tournaments.

Author: Roy Clark