300 Quotes on Country

• I have nothing against diamonds, or rubies or emeralds or sapphires. I do object when their acquisition is complicit in the debasement of children or the destruction of a country.

  Author: Edward Zwick

• One out of six women are toxic with mercury. Mercury comes out of coal plants and chlorine plants. I am toxic, I deal with symptoms, children are born with, you know, autism - there is an epidemic in this country. This is like, the air that we breath.

  Author: Daphne Zuniga

• Those days if you drove cross country and you broke down on the side of the road, and the sign says 200 miles to the next gas station, you knew you were so screwed.

  Author: Rob Zombie

• Communists should be the first to be concerned about other people and country and the last to enjoy themselves.

  Author: Zhao Ziyang

• To be recognised by a whole country is incredible. This is massive.

  Author: Zinedine Zidane

• The only important thing I have to say is that my father never fought against his country.

  Author: Zinedine Zidane

• Does any one know the number of illegal arms in the country?

  Author: Khaleda Zia

• The bombers were enemies of Islam and enemies of the country. We will do everything and anything needed to stop them.

  Author: Khaleda Zia

• Russia is an Eastern Orthodox country.

  Author: Vladimir Zhirinovsky

• My mother did literally hitchhike barefoot to the country store.

  Author: Moon Zappa

• You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer.

  Author: Frank Zappa

• You know, it's not the people in Hollywood who go to see movies that will make a movie successful; it's the people all around the country; it's word-of-mouth.

  Author: Pia Zadora

• Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence.

  Author: Lin Yutang

• I was teaching in one of the universities while the country was suffering from a severe famine. People were dying of hunger, and I felt very helpless. As an economist, I had no tool in my tool box to fix that kind of situation.

  Author: Muhammad Yunus

• Jaws was still a handsome, big guy. He got the girl. He was my favorite villain. I tried to make this guy endearing somewhat because all he wanted to do was unite his country.

  Author: Rick Yune

• I can't understand why anyone would want nuclear warheads. If you shoot them off, it's not like you can take over that country-all you do is kill millions of people.

  Author: Rick Yune

• I think I'm going to be making country records for as long as I can see into the future. It's much more down-home and real.

  Author: Neil Young

• This thing called Patriot Act, through which we abdicated a lot of our civil rights to defend the country against terrorism, it's a four-year story.

  Author: Neil Young

• Of course you have to support the troops. They're just kids. They're doing for their country what's expected of them.

  Author: Neil Young

• You know the puritan ethic that started out four centuries ago in this country, needless to say - at least for the moment - a thing of the past - from what I can tell.

  Author: James Young

• We wonder why we have got the Freemen or the militants. We wonder why we have got unrest in this country. It is because our government, in fact, has got out of hand and out of line, with the Endangered Species Act.

  Author: Don Young

• I was brought up in Scotland and have always been a country person, although the town means a great deal to me, too.

  Author: Susannah York

• For years, I looked to Bruce Lee as a mentor as being a Chinese and Asian man living in this country.

  Author: Donnie Yen

• A total of 1,580 people, the civilian population, suffered as a result of the bloody wave of terrorist acts that swept over Moscow and other towns and villages of our country.

  Author: Boris Yeltsin

• After Lockerbie, everyone thought, now we've learned the lesson of how to be proactive instead of being reactive. Unfortunately, September 11 came and we know the result. Thousands of people lost their lives. Security totally failed, not at one airport, at three different airports around the country.

  Author: Isaac Yeffet

• Now we are using the body scanner to scan the pilots. They became the dangerous people of this country?

  Author: Isaac Yeffet

• Why is America such a great country. It is because we stand united.

  Author: Martin Yan

• Japanese architecture is very much copied in this country and in Europe.

  Author: Minoru Yamasaki

• If anybody doubts my loyalty to my country, I'll punch him in the nose, and I don't care how old he is.

  Author: William Wyler

• A mistress should be like a little country retreat near the town, not to dwell in constantly, but only for a night and away.

  Author: William Wycherley

• Revived in this country the long forgotten beauties of Gothic architecture.

  Author: James Wyatt

• Cross country skiing is great if you live in a small country.

  Author: Steven Wright

• An ambassador is an honest man sent abroad to lie and intrigue for the benefit of his country.

  Author: Henry Wotton

• The country experience was more of a departure. When you consider my education and my upbringing, you can see that was more of country rock outgrowth of my popular music aspirations.

  Author: Tom Wopat

• I am dying, but with a strong hope and persuasion that my country will gain her independence.

  Author: David Wooster

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

  Author: Virginia Woolf

• If you insist upon fighting to protect me, or 'our' country, let it be understood soberly and rationally between us that you are fighting to gratify a sex instinct which I cannot share; to procure benefits where I have not shared and probably will not share.

  Author: Virginia Woolf

• There can be no two opinions as to what a highbrow is. He is the man or woman of thoroughbred intelligence who rides his mind at a gallop across country in pursuit of an idea.

  Author: Virginia Woolf

• Nixon's grand mistake was his failure to understand that Americans are forgiving, and if he had admitted error early and apologized to the country, he would have escaped.

  Author: Bob Woodward

• Look, just go sit at the card table with the rest of the kids and let the adults run the country.

  Author: James Woods

• The women of the country have the power in their own hands, in spite of the law and the government being altogether of the male order.

  Author: Victoria Woodhull

• I might say that when the settlement was made the Nixon administration issued what they called a second inflation alert in which the General Motors settlement was branded as being inflationary and bad for the country.

  Author: Leonard Woodcock

• I don't sing country music because I'm not capable of singing other kinds of music; I sing it because I think it's the most beautiful kind of music there is.

  Author: Lee Womack

• When you really are country, and you don't just wear it like a piece of clothing or something, you really can't get away from it. It just is who you are.

  Author: Lee Womack

• And to me, I had come out of Texas, and during that time was when I realized that a lot of people in Nashville, their idea of what country music was was not the same as mine.

  Author: Lee Womack

• I came to town thinking that everybody had the same idea of what country music was that I did.

  Author: Lee Womack

• America - it is a fabulous country, the only fabulous country; it is the only place where miracles not only happen, but where they happen all the time.

  Author: Thomas Wolfe

• Thanks to the heroic sons and daughters of this country, who have paid sacrifices, we have been able to score a number of victories which are encouraging the nation-building process we are engaged in.

  Author: Girma Woldegiorgis

• I was a tried seaman when, for the first time, I set foot upon the soil of my country, and took up my residence where my people had lived for over two hundred years.

  Author: John Wise

• Our country - whether bounded by the St. John's and the Sabine, or however otherwise bounded or described, and be the measurements more or less; - still our country, to be cherished in all our hearts, and to be defended by all our hands.

  Author: Robert Winthrop

• Right now I belong to the wonderful organization called The Children's Action Network. The first thing we did was immunize 200,000 children across the country against childhood diseases.

  Author: Henry Winkler

• Those entrusted with arms... should be persons of some substance and stake in the country.

  Author: William Windham

• I always like to get local music when I'm in another country.

  Author: April Winchell

• If there are men in this country big enough to own the government of the United States, they are going to own it.

  Author: Woodrow Wilson

• Princeton is no longer a thing for Princeton men to please themselves with. Princeton is a thing with which Princeton men must satisfy the country.

  Author: Woodrow Wilson

• What this country needs is a credit card for charging things to experience.

  Author: Tom Wilson

• I got to where I couldn't listen to country radio. Country music is supposed to have steel and fiddle. When I hear country music, it should be country.

  Author: Gretchen Wilson

• Throughout the country, I see the same design problems and solutions over and over.

  Author: Douglas Wilson

• For years I thought what was good for our country was good for General Motors and vice versa. The difference did not exist. Our company is too big. It goes with the welfare of the country.

  Author: Charles Wilson

• I remember growing up always loving the guitar. I used to love to watch the people play on the Country Western shows on TV. My folks told me that when I was just a toddler, I used to pretend I was playing a guitar on a toothpick.

  Author: Carl Wilson

• Black people are inferior to Caucasians. Blacks constitute a totally distinct group; they overshadow the country with the germ... of evil.

  Author: David Wilmot

• This country is undergoing great changes for the better.

  Author: William Wills

• The country up here is beautiful; everything green and pleasant; and if you saw it now, you would not believe that in two months' time it could have such a parched and barren appearance as it will then assume.

  Author: William Wills

• A true world outlook is incompatible with a foreign imperialism, no matter how high-minded the governing country.

  Author: Wendell Willkie

• Violence - look, we live in a violent world, man. This country was founded on violence. Who's kidding who?

  Author: Bruce Willis

• I believe Ronald Reagan can make this country what it once was... a large Arctic region covered with ice.

  Author: Robin Williams

• You've got a beautiful country with so many beautiful people and so many beautiful things happening and stuff like that lets it down. I feel sad for them.

  Author: Robbie Williams

• The reason why you were allowed to get away with that in the '60s and '70s is because this country's racist administrative policies were such that rich white kids were getting exemptions. I said no exemptions.

  Author: Montel Williams

• No one tells every white person in this country how to be. No one tells every Hispanic, or Asian or Jewish person in this country how to be. There is no single definition of whiteness or single definition of blackness.

  Author: Montel Williams

• The country remains dependent on oil. But as we are now learning, oil is becoming increasingly scarce.

  Author: Armstrong Williams

• We tend to admire the people in our society who have accumulated such wealth as to seem somehow great. But we shouldn't forget that it was the everyday working class man who made this country great.

  Author: Armstrong Williams

• For starters, this country embodies something utterly unique: History's first democratic empire. Beginning in the post war era, we have used free trade and democracy to create a series of interlocking relationships that end war.

  Author: Armstrong Williams

• At the end of the day, there is no doubt that the unique spirit embodied by this country has worked, not just to make the world safer, but to make it better.

  Author: Armstrong Williams

• Someone I've always admired is Catherine O'Hara... I think she's one of the best actresses in the country, not only comedy. I just think she's just a step aside from everybody, she's just wonderful.

  Author: Fred Willard

• In inquiring concerning the benefits of the plan proposed, I shall proceed upon the supposition that female seminaries will be patronized throughout our country.

  Author: Emma Willard

• If you seek Hamilton's monument, look around. You are living in it. We honor Jefferson, but live in Hamilton's country, a mighty industrial nation with a strong central government.

  Author: George Will

• Women have worked hard; starved in prison; given of their time and lives that we might sit in the House of Commons and take part in the legislating of this country.

  Author: Ellen Wilkinson

• In the long winter evenings he talked to Ma about the Western country. In the West the land was level, and there were no trees. The grass grew thick and high.

  Author: Laura Wilder

• Pa did not like a country so old and worn out that the hunting was poor. He wanted to go west. For two years he had wanted to go west and take a homestead, but Ma did not want to leave the settled country.

  Author: Laura Wilder

• Wild animals would not stay in a country where there were so many people. Pa did not like to stay, either. He liked a country where the wild animals lived without being afraid.

  Author: Laura Wilder

• France is the country where the money falls apart and you can't tear the toilet paper.

  Author: Billy Wilder

• America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.

  Author: Oscar Wilde

• Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.

  Author: Oscar Wilde

• It is no coincidence that our country has not been attacked since 9-11. Our initiatives to protect the homeland and aggressively take the fight to the terrorists have been factors in that success.

  Author: Roger Wicker

• Illegal immigration is not just a matter of interest in states along our border with Mexico. It is having an effect on local economies, schools, health care delivery, and public safety all across the country.

  Author: Roger Wicker

• There is no week nor day nor hour when tyranny may not enter upon this country, if the people lose their roughness and spirit of defiance.

  Author: Walt Whitman

• The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it.

  Author: Walt Whitman

• I think we can be the very best place to start a business, to grow a business, to invent a new technology, to change the world, to change the country. But we've got a lot of work to deliver a new California to the people of California.

  Author: Meg Whitman

• One good thing about California is we have quite a broad-based economy. We provide more fruits and vegetables and produce to the United States than any other state. So we have actually the single largest agricultural sector in the country.

  Author: Meg Whitman

• Harold Wilson is going around the country stirring up apathy.

  Author: William Whitelaw

• Sir Hugh Greene is the man I hold most responsible for the state of our country today. For 11 years hardly a week went by without a sniping reference to me. And he gave access to anyone who was prepared to say anything morally subversive.

  Author: Mary Whitehouse

• I don't like the idea of busing children all over the country. It's not safe. And there doesn't seem to be that much of an urgent need for it to be done.

  Author: Wayne White

• The thing you've got to watch for is going broke when you're old. Look at all the people that go down and out at the finish. The man who built my country place is blind now and penniless. That's terrible!

  Author: Pearl White

• As a result of the asthma I was sent to school in the country, and only visited Sydney for brief, violently asthmatic sojourns on my way to a house we owned in the Blue Mountains.

  Author: Patrick White

• General Howe turned out some German wild boars and sows in his forests, to the great terror of the neighbourhood; and, at one time, a wild bull or buffalo: but the country rose upon them and destroyed them.

  Author: Gilbert White

• The parish I live in is a very abrupt, uneven country, full of hills and woods, and therefore full of birds.

  Author: Gilbert White

• You may depend on it that the bunting, emberiza miliaria, does not leave this country in the winter.

  Author: Gilbert White

• What is nice about country music today is that most artists are not trying to do something everybody else is doing. They really are trying to develop their own uniqueness.

  Author: Bryan White

• I grew up with all kinds ofmusic, but my heart was particularly drawn to Country Music because of the guitar playing, the lyrics and of artists like Steve Warner and Vince Gill.

  Author: Bryan White

• If I ever did cross over I would like to do it tactfully. I don't want to offend anyone in country. Can you have the best of both worlds? I sure like the idea of it!

  Author: Bryan White

• We moved in to help the Vietnamese defend their country and confront the Viet Cong.

  Author: William Westmoreland

• It's the first war we've ever fought on the television screen and the first war that our country ever fought where the media had full reign.

  Author: William Westmoreland

• Television is an instrument which can paralyze this country.

  Author: William Westmoreland

• A big iron needle stitching the country together.

  Author: Jessamyn West

• This is what America is about when it comes to understanding that it is equal opportunity versus equal achievement. Each and every one of us has the opportunity for greatness in this country.

  Author: Allen West

• It was pretty awful for us children because we never really knew the local children. Mother was keen for us to learn languages, so our travels took us to France and Italy, as well as the West Country.

  Author: Mary Wesley

• Politics is about the improvement of people's lives. It's about advancing the cause of peace and justice in our country and the world. Politics is about doing well for the people.

  Author: Paul Wellstone

• The future will belong to those who have passion and are willing to work hard to make our country better.

  Author: Paul Wellstone

• The people of this country, not special interest big money, should be the source of all political power.

  Author: Paul Wellstone

• Our country's national crime is lynching. It is not the creature of an hour, the sudden outburst of uncontrolled fury, or the unspeakable brutality of an insane mob.

  Author: Ida Wells

• I came home every Friday afternoon, riding the six miles on the back of a big mule. I spent Saturday and Sunday washing and ironing and cooking for the children and went back to my country school on Sunday afternoon.

  Author: Ida Wells

• Although lynchings have steadily increased in number and barbarity during the last twenty years, there has been no single effort put forth by the many moral and philanthropic forces of the country to put a stop to this wholesale slaughter.

  Author: Ida Wells

• Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.

  Author: Orson Welles

• I think people are just really disappointed, disappointed with Blair as well, who's just like Bush's lapdog. I think everyone's just disillusioned with politics in our country, and it must be the same in your country.

  Author: Paul Weller

• When my parents first arrived there, North Dakota had just been admitted to the Union, and the country was still wild and harsh.

  Author: Lawrence Welk

• I suggest to you that increasing the size of America's economic pie - which can be achieved only if everybody has a seat at the table - is the most important challenge facing our country today.

  Author: William Weld

• I don't understand the Democrats' approach to Social Security in this country, and I'm not alone.

  Author: William Weld

• The whole country is one vast insane asylum and they're letting the worst patients run the place.

  Author: Robert Welch

• In a lot of Indian societies, spirituality has been lost, I think it's still the best way of looking at the world for Indians - better than any organized religion in this country.

  Author: James Welch

• We've only been wealthy in this country for 70 years. Who said we ought to have all this? Is it ordained?

  Author: Jack Welch

• We have a country that is in a very delicate situation.

  Author: Ezer Weizman

• As for my country, I don't live there, but obviously I'm very proud to be Canadian.

  Author: Mike Weir

• It took the Gulf War to demonstrate that America did want more than one friend in the Mideast, and also was willing to take and make major risks to prevent a small Muslim country, Kuwait, from being overrun and in effect stolen by Iraq.

  Author: Caspar Weinberger

• What a country calls its vital... interests are not things that help its people live, but things that help it make war.

  Author: Simone Weil

• I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.

  Author: Simone Weil

• When a citizen gives his suffrage to a man of known immorality he abuses his trust; he sacrifices not only his own interest, but that of his neighbor; he betrays the interest of his country.

  Author: Noah Webster

• Let it be borne on the flag under which we rally in every exigency, that we have one country, one constitution, one destiny.

  Author: Daniel Webster

• A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.

  Author: Daniel Webster

• One country, one constitution, one destiny.

  Author: Daniel Webster

• Everything officers go through in any chase anywhere in the country, but amped up 100 times! I'm right in the thick of things in a car going like 80 miles an hour, and doing 360s in the middle of the road. It was a wild ride.

  Author: Amy Weber

• Here's the truth. The proposed top rate of income tax is not 50 per cent. It is 50 per cent plus 1.5 per cent national insurance paid by employees plus 13.3 per cent paid by employers. That's not 50 per cent. Two years from now, Britain will have the highest tax rate on earned income of any developed country.

  Author: Andrew Webber

• I don't think I'll ever escape the fact that I don't belong anywhere in particular. I've often dreamed about going back to Nigeria, but that's a very romantic notion. It's a hideous country to go to in reality.

  Author: Hugo Weaving

• I will go on my knees and ask the Liberian people to participate in bringing peace and stability to our country.

  Author: George Weah

• I don't feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them. There were great numbers of people who needed new land, and the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves.

  Author: John Wayne

• If we can't stamp out literature in the country, we can at least stop its being brought in from outside.

  Author: Evelyn Waugh

• Our little house was way back in the country. We had one house close to us, and hell the next one would've been a mile. If you got sick, you could holler and wouldn't nobody hear you.

  Author: Muddy Waters

• I have no other view than to promote the public good, and am unambitious of honors not founded in the approbation of my Country.

  Author: George Washington

• There's a clear example of resolve in this country to fight back.

  Author: John Warner

• What's great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest.

  Author: Andy Warhol

• For example, when my mother died, the people who showed up just to put an apron on to cook, people who really do the right thing, so to speak, as my momma would always say to show that they care, a sense of community that we've lost so much in our country.

  Author: Sela Ward

• I think things like food, the food of the south is sort of the common tie that binds us all, Black and White, the sense memories. It's a very particular part of the country.

  Author: Sela Ward

• A modern girls' school, equipped as scores are now equipped throughout the country, was of course not to be found in 1858, when I first became a school boarder, or in 1867, when I ceased to be one.

  Author: Mary Ward

• I make personal appearances around the country. I'm starting a book tour now, and I may be coming to Toronto with the Learning Annex, which I'm doing all through the United States, so that may come up just before Christmas.

  Author: Burt Ward

• And I am a conservative. Sometimes conservatives forget we are supposed to conserve, to save, to be efficient. Plus our dependence on other sources of energy is causing our country to not be independent and to really be vulnerable. So this is a security issue.

  Author: Zach Wamp

• It is very rewarding to serve the country by helping President Bush work to reduce the drug problem.

  Author: John Walters

• Certainly, we need to support the communities around the country, and we do.

  Author: Jim Walsh

• 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

• I am now the target of the most powerful man in this country, with an army of aides whose major responsibility today seems to be to attack me and get rid of me.

  Author: Gerald Walpin

• This country has a complex about age. It's unbelievable. If you're over thirty, you've had it in this country.

  Author: Eli Wallach

• It's really true in this country that more and more Americans think that underneath the economic crisis there's a values crisis, and we won't get to an economic recovery without a moral recovery as well. So a citizen's movement about values and economics I'm finding all over the country on main street, and Wall Street needs to pay attention to that.

  Author: Jim Wallace

• It may be shocking to some people in this country to realize that, without meaning to do so, they hold views in common with Hitler when they preach discrimination against other religious, racial or economic groups.

  Author: Henry Wallace

• Well, we play Country music; we're just not sure what country it is.

  Author: Jerry Walker

• 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

• I live sort of in the country and I like that. It's very quiet, it's beautiful.

  Author: Christopher Walken

• My country is in the grips of a major economic crisis. This is causing dramatic consequences for the very existence of Polish families. A permanent economic crisis in Poland may also have serious repercussions for Europe. Thus, Poland ought to be helped and deserves help.

  Author: Lech Walesa

• My youth passed at the time of the country's reconstruction from the ruins and ashes of the war in which my nation never bowed to the enemy paying the highest price in the struggle.

  Author: Lech Walesa

• My most ardent desire is that my country will recapture its historic opportunity for a peaceful evolution and that Poland will prove to the world that even the most complex situations can be solved by a dialogue and not by force.

  Author: Lech Walesa

• Country and western is the music of the devil. That's the real truth of the matter. My late Mother, bless her, loved country and western. God, I couldn't handle it.

  Author: Rick Wakeman

• It turned out that the country was helpless in the face of a new reality.

  Author: Andrzej Wajda

• For young filmmakers, Saw is a perfect film. It doesn't cost the GNP of almost every country of the world.

  Author: Donnie Wahlberg

• I do not pretend to know precisely what is on foot there; but I think it pretty evident that there is a very free communication between that country and this body, and unless I am greatly mistaken, I see the dwarfish medium by which that communication is kept up.

  Author: Benjamin Wade

• A small child from a developing country has the advantage, from a very early age, of having access to toys which structure his mind, which constitute a sure advantage over the little African child who has never even held a modern toy.

  Author: Abdoulaye Wade

• True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.

  Author: Kurt Vonnegut

• In this country it is a good thing to kill an admiral from time to time to encourage the others.

  Author: Voltaire

• Whoever serves his country well has no need of ancestors.

  Author: Voltaire

• Our country is that spot to which our heart is bound.

  Author: Voltaire

• I don't understand why people in this country are so bent on doing the 'perfect,' when you have something that is good and makes sense from a cost-benefit point of view.

  Author: George Voinovich

• It seems to me that if Mr. Obama wins the presidential election, then Messrs. Farrakhan, Wright, Ayers and Pfleger will gain power for their need to demoralize this country and help create a socialist America.

  Author: Jon Voight

• There's a real question at stake now. Is President Obama creating a civil war in our own country?

  Author: Jon Voight

• This is a perilous time, and more than ever, the world needs a united and strong America. If, God forbid, we live to see Mr. Obama president, we will live through a socialist era that America has not seen before, and our country will be weakened in every way.

  Author: Jon Voight

• This lie of political correctness is bringing this country down. You just want to break through it all.

  Author: Jon Voight

• There was the best teachers from the Czech Philharmonic, highly dedicated people, some of the best musicians in the world passing on the knowledge about the country, about the principles, and about the music.

  Author: Miroslav Vitous

• Do you know that charming part of our country which has been called the garden of France - that spot where, amid verdant plains watered by wide streams, one inhales the purest air of heaven?

  Author: Alfred Vigny

• Now you have people in Washington who have no interest in the country at all. They're interested in their companies, their corporations grabbing Caspian oil.

  Author: Gore Vidal

• The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity - much less dissent.

  Author: Gore Vidal

• Nonetheless, the research budgets of the Department of Defense are under enormous stress-and they are extremely important because they support more than 40 percent of all federal funding for engineering schools across the country. So the threat was and is real.

  Author: Charles Vest

• In a democratic country, when a man is accused, he's accused from a document issued by the public attorney.

  Author: Jacques Verges

• We call our country home of the brave and land of the free, but it's not. We give a false portrayal of freedom. We're not free - if we were, we'd allow people their freedom.

  Author: Jesse Ventura

• I think it's a little early to tell what the economic impact will be. This year our cattle prices have been particularly high. The demand for beef has remained strong in this country, even though there was the single find in Canada earlier this year.

  Author: Ann Veneman

• I think that's unjustified criticism. We have had a number of measures in place in this country for several years to mitigate the possibility of mad cow spreading in this country. We have found a single case.

  Author: Ann Veneman

• I'm confident that we have measures in place. And the additional measures that we announced yesterday will be even more protective of our food supply in this country.

  Author: Ann Veneman

• We had a single find of BSE in this country. And we believe that what we're doing is appropriate action taken in an abundance of caution under the circumstances. And I believe it's the right thing to do.

  Author: Ann Veneman

• We've had risk assessments performed by Harvard University, which said that even if we did have a small number of cases in this country that the likelihood of it spreading or getting into any kind of human health problem is very, very small.

  Author: Ann Veneman

• No one can feel as the owner of the country and no one can feel excluded from the right of property. We must all suffer Colombia.

  Author: Alvaro Velez

• We played in Texas about a year ago, at Emo's, the famous country and western club in Austin. And I figured, well, if I'm finally gonna die onstage, that's where it's going to be!

  Author: Alan Vega

• To God, thy country, and thy friend be true.

  Author: Bill Vaughan

• I like to sing. I write music. Country songs. You have to if you're in Nashville. It's part of the lease. You sign a lease that says, I will write country songs and pay my rent on time.

  Author: Jim Varney

• But I am not allowed to speak to foreigners and I am not allowed to leave the country. So I'm not so happy.

  Author: Mordechai Vanunu

• You can't stop what comes into a country, you can be influenced, but you can't stop it, you shouldn't, because it makes all the others interesting, we all get muddled up together, and produce something that belongs to everyone.

  Author: Ninette Valois

• I love Johnny Cash but I don't love country music that much.

  Author: Ville Valo

• If there is to be any hope of prosperity for this country it is by reversing that policy which made us simply the kitchen garden for supplying the British with cheap food.

  Author: Eamon Valera

• 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

• 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

• One-third of our people were dangerously ill, getting worse hourly, and we felt sure of meeting the same fate, with death as our only prospect, which in such a country was much worse yet.

  Author: Alvar Vaca

• All over the land are vast and handsome pastures, with good grass for cattle, and it strikes me the soil would be very fertile were the country inhabited and improved by reasonable people.

  Author: Alvar Vaca

• I think it took me a while to convince Nashville that what I do is genuine and my heart's in the right place, and I love country music.

  Author: Keith Urban

• My father's record collection was all country. That's how I was exposed to it.

  Author: Keith Urban

• I wondered how people would take me being a country music singer. I thought about deviating from that and singing other things. But... it doesn't really make sense for me to try to be something that I'm not.

  Author: Carrie Underwood

• As a kid I used to pretend I was John Denver, of all people, and play the guitar and sing Take Me Home, Country Roads.

  Author: Skeet Ulrich

• This is America's Team and we are confident this outstanding group of athletes will make our country proud.

  Author: Peter Ueberroth

• President Ford was a devoted, decent man of impeccable integrity who put service to his country before his own self interest. He helped heal our nation during a time of crisis, provided steady leadership and restored people's faith in the presidency and in government.

  Author: Mark Udall

• The general who advances without coveting fame and retreats without fearing disgrace, whose only thought is to protect his country and do good service for his sovereign, is the jewel of the kingdom.

  Author: Sun Tzu

• There has never been a protracted war from which a country has benefited.

  Author: Sun Tzu

• In the practical art of war, the best thing of all is to take the enemy's country whole and intact; to shatter and destroy it is not so good.

  Author: Sun Tzu

• We are at last on the high lands of Mexico, the districts which at least three different races have chosen to settle in, neglecting the fertile country below.

  Author: Edward Tylor

• Whenever anything disagreeable is happening in the country, Vera Cruz is sure to get its full share.

  Author: Edward Tylor

• I'm really just a country boy.

  Author: Steven Tyler

• We may need to change the way we think. As in Israel, I think there should be a mandatory draft, where you go away for the service of your country for three years.

  Author: Steven Tyler

• Every country I've had different hit records, so we have to change the set to fit the country.

  Author: Bonnie Tyler

• Country music is still your grandpa's music, but it's also your daughter's music. It's getting bigger and better all the time and I'm glad to be a part of it.

  Author: Shania Twain

• Loyalty to the country always. Loyalty to the government when it deserves it.

  Author: Mark Twain

• It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

  Author: Mark Twain

• Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.

  Author: Mark Twain

• As I traveled from one country to another, no one knew anything about me. So I could be anybody, I could speak as I wished, act as I wished, dress as I wished.

  Author: Kathleen Turner

• In days of doubt, in days of dreary musings on my country's fate, you alone are my comfort and support, oh great, powerful, righteous, and free Russian language!

  Author: Ivan Turgenev

• A privilege may not be a right, but, under the constitution of the country, I do not gather that any broad distinction is drawn between the rights and the privileges that were enjoyed and that were taken away.

  Author: Charles Tupper

• My great desire has been to remove from the political arena a question of this kind that is calculated to prevent us getting a verdict upon the important political issues that separate the two parties in this country.

  Author: Charles Tupper

• I really like Alan Jackson, in Country Music. I think he's really very, very talented along with George Jones, and Merle Haggard, the same old favorites.

  Author: Tanya Tucker

• There's no way to be able to tell what it's like to be a country singer until you're walking in the shoes.

  Author: Tanya Tucker

• We've got great fans that rock and roll won't have, because you can have a one-hit record and country music used to, not so much anymore and you have a fan forever.

  Author: Tanya Tucker

• I am an American. I love this country.

  Author: Paul Tsongas

• You are Americans. You love this country. Together we are entrusted with the principles that represent mankind's greatest political and social achievement.

  Author: Paul Tsongas

• The country's top chefs, designers, media personalities and businesses are part of this dynamic city. We know that Chicagoans are used to the highest standards.

  Author: Ivanka Trump

• It's not like I'm anti-China. I just think it's ridiculous that we allow them to do what they're doing to this country, with the manipulation of the currency, that you write about and understand, and all of the other things that they do.

  Author: Donald Trump

• Well, I am a Republican, and I would run as a Republican. And I have a lot of confidence in the Republican Party. I don't have a lot of confidence in the president. I think what's happening to this country is unbelievably bad. We're no longer a respected country.

  Author: Donald Trump

• I support health care for people. I want people well taken care of. But I also want health care that we can afford as a country. I have people and friends closing down their businesses because of Obamacare.

  Author: Donald Trump

• Nixon is one of the few in the history of this country to run for high office talking out of both sides of his mouth at the same time and lying out of both sides.

  Author: Harry Truman

• I have no desire to crow over anybody or to see anybody eating crow, figuratively or otherwise. We should all get together and make a country in which everybody can eat turkey whenever he pleases.

  Author: Harry Truman

• I do not believe there is a problem in this country or the world today which could not be settled if approached through the teaching of the Sermon on the Mount.

  Author: Harry Truman

• Canada will be a strong country when Canadians of all provinces feel at home in all parts of the country, and when they feel that all Canada belongs to them.

  Author: Pierre Trudeau

• Let a man find himself, in distinction from others, on top of two wheels with a chain - at least in a poor country like Russia - and his vanity begins to swell out like his tires. In America it takes an automobile to produce this effect.

  Author: Leon Trotsky

• Who is more in touch with the problems of this country? One of those guys who goes off to Oxford or to University of Yale, or someone who has lived in buses, in the Metro, in the street?

  Author: Gloria Trevi

• To wait for hours to buy a train ticket or to see a doctor is accepted as a normal way of doing things. Privacy is not a great preoccupation, and this is a very crowded country.

  Author: Nancy Travis

• When I was a teenager there was no video in my country. Betamax came to Mexico very slowly.

  Author: Guillermo Toro

• Every country has it trade offs.

  Author: Peter Tork

• When I competed, it was for honor and country. It was a privilege to be a part of the U.S. team.

  Author: Bill Toomey

• I very much regret, in appearing before you at your request, to address you on the present state of the country, and the prospect before us, that I can bring you no good tidings.

  Author: Robert Toombs

• Ninety eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.

  Author: Lily Tomlin

• By the time I was in sixth grade I could bound every country in the world from memory.

  Author: Clyde Tombaugh

• Each had defended his own country; the Germans Germany, the Frenchmen France; they had done their duty.

  Author: Ernst Toller

• I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America.

  Author: Alexis Tocqueville

• No protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic country.

  Author: Alexis Tocqueville

• Shakespeare fascinated me. He hardly ever left the country. His imagination was worldwide though reading.

  Author: Michael Tippett

• But in those days - in the mid-'50s, early '60s - there was less than 300 radio stations that were playing country music and a lot of that wasn't full time.

  Author: Mel Tillis

• The same tools we need to use to keep this country safe by bringing terrorists to justice, because I guarantee you, if they have the opportunity and the means, they will take American lives.

  Author: Todd Tiahrt

• As Members of Congress, we swear an oath to uphold the United States Constitution. It means something to be an American because we believe in our country, we believe in our people, and we believe in our constitution.

  Author: Todd Tiahrt

• I am particularly disturbed that our country is the largest financial supporter of an organization that not only wastes a lot of our money but also seems to be increasingly anti-American in its policies and conduct.

  Author: Mac Thornberry

• When it comes to helping make the country strong, we in Congress have an important role to play.

  Author: Mac Thornberry

• Our country has had a hard time learning that lesson with energy.

  Author: Mac Thornberry

• You carry your country with you, it's part of your baggage.

  Author: Roy Thomson

• There has been no appreciable improvement in our country's ability to produce the kind of talent we need in this space. There have been some small initiatives around the country that have been noteworthy.

  Author: John Thompson

• But obviously, we can't afford to make some bad long-term decisions with regard to basic commitments our country has - trade those away for some short-term assistance that may or may not be there a month from now.

  Author: Fred Thompson

• We've made some mistakes in this country in times past - the Korean conflict proceeding that, some say proceeding the Persian Gulf War, where we were ambiguous as to what we would do.

  Author: Fred Thompson

• The day Dick Cheney is going to run for president, I'll kill myself. All we need is another liar... I think he'd like to run, but it would be a sad day for the country if he does.

  Author: Helen Thomas

• Politicians have limited power. They can't impose morality on themselves. How can they impose it on the country?

  Author: Cal Thomas

• If you lead a country like Britain, a strong country, a country which has taken a lead in world affairs in good times and in bad, a country that is always reliable, then you have to have a touch of iron about you.

  Author: Margaret Thatcher

• Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.

  Author: Margaret Thatcher

• The whole of the situation of the Conservative Party today springs from that night when they dismissed the best prime minister the country had had since Churchill.

  Author: Denis Thatcher

• I've traveled all over the country for years speaking in churches, teaching the Ten Commandments. It's amazing if 2 percent of any congregation knows the Ten Commandments.

  Author: Randall Terry

• We are not at the same place we were in 1973. This country today is drifting, moving steadily towards the pro-life position because the data is with us.

  Author: Randall Terry

• People are ready to say, 'Yes, we are ready for single-payer health insurance.' We are the only industrialized country in the world that does not have national health insurance. We are the richest in wealth and the poorest in health of all the industrial nations.

  Author: Studs Terkel

• There's no glory like those who save their country.

  Author: Alfred Tennyson

• When I was 15, I started playing first class cricket and always dreamt of being a Test cricketer, wanted to do something for the country, married in 1995, have 2 kids it's been great.

  Author: Sachin Tendulkar

• Also the fact that anything he does is seen and heard by the entire country, not just his actual audience or those who live in the region he happens to be in.

  Author: Robert Teeter

• The President, the Administration and the campaign need a theme. I am concerned that the President is seen as a tactician without an overall strategy of his plan for the country.

  Author: Robert Teeter

• I think he could have made most of the trips and gone to most of the fund-raisers if he would have avoided the partisan rhetoric and talked to the country as President in each of these appearances rather than to the narrow partisan audiences.

  Author: Robert Teeter

• I think we need one recognized, respected public figure to make a tough, blunt statement on just what Reagan's record is and what he might do to the country, let alone the Republican Party before Christmas.

  Author: Robert Teeter

• Look at the declining television coverage. Look at the declining voting rate. Economics and economic news is what moves the country now, not politics.

  Author: Robert Teeter

• Let us form one body, one heart, and defend to the last warrior our country, our homes, our liberty, and the graves of our fathers.

  Author: Tecumseh

• I certainly want to get back to the U.S. to play. It's such a big country. I've always liked playing there, and enjoyed living there. I lived in New York, LA, and Florida.

  Author: Mick Taylor

• New Orleans has to learn to live with water rather than in fear of water, and we need a master plan that shows us how to do this. It's so critical that we send a signal to everyone in the country that we're serious about rebuilding New Orleans.

  Author: Billy Tauzin

• I also believe our country made a promise to veterans and their families. Veterans have kept their end of the bargain, and now, the VA is looking to pull out the rug.

  Author: Ellen Tauscher

• The event of the landing of these brethren upon our shores is to be, not without its beneficial effect, as well to the colored population of this country, as it promises to be to ill-fated Africa.

  Author: Lewis Tappan

• We have terrorists coming into the country both through our Northern and Southern borders.

  Author: Tom Tancredo

• They view massive immigration as a massive infusion of potential voters for the Democratic Party, and therefore will do nothing, absolutely nothing to stop that flow of legal or illegal entrance into the country.

  Author: Tom Tancredo

• We strain to tell Americans and aliens in this country that there's nothing unique about America, nothing unique about American civilization, nothing that requires their allegiance, nothing of great value that they should sacrifice for.

  Author: Tom Tancredo

• The fight for freedom must go on until it is won; until our country is free and happy and peaceful as part of the community of man, we cannot rest.

  Author: Oliver Tambo

• A poor man is like a foreigner in his own country.

  Author: Ali Talib

• The entire American media apparatus bought into the drug war - which is an enormously damaging and costly undertaking for this country - and there wasn't enough critical reporting about it and that's why it's gotten out of hand.

  Author: David Talbot

• As president of Iraq, I shall strive to represent the diversity of a country that has too often in the past denied difference.

  Author: Jalal Talabani

• Our plan is to struggle against terrorism and have security for the country and help draft a democratic constitution as soon as possible.

  Author: Jalal Talabani

• And it seems to me important for a country, for a nation to certainly know about its glorious achievements but also to know where its ideals failed, in order to keep that from happening again.

  Author: George Takei

• Well, it gives, certainly to my father, who is the one that suffered the most in our family, and understanding of how the ideals of a country are only as good as the people who give it flesh and blood.

  Author: George Takei

• As the Republican platforms says, the welfare of the farmer is vital to that of the whole country.

  Author: William Taft

• I think I might as well give up being a candidate. There are so many people in the country who don't like me.

  Author: William Taft

• I was born in the Second World War during the Nazi invasion of my country.

  Author: Antonio Tabucchi

• Los Angeles is a microcosm of the United States. If L.A. falls, the country falls.

  Author: Ice T

• Movies give me an opportunity to go places. I'm not only a Swede but an American, not just a man of my time, but I've been living 2,000 years ago-and not just in a new country, America, but in the Holy Land, too.

  Author: Max Sydow

• In this country, you have movie actors and theatre actors and television actors.

  Author: Max Sydow

• I think I first realized I wanted to be in country music and be an artist when I was 10. And I started dragging my parents to festivals, and fairs, and karaoke contests, and I did that for about a year before I came to Nashville for the first time. I was 11 and I had this demo CD of me singing Dixie Chicks and Leanne Rimes songs.

  Author: Taylor Swift

• I never saw, heard, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the religion of the country. Nothing can render them popular, but some degree of persecution.

  Author: Jonathan Swift

• Take the time to discover how African-Americans have had a great impact on this country. In science, education, literature, art, and politics.

  Author: Lynn Swann

• I am hopeful about any future for whites in this country, but not entirely optimistic.

  Author: Helen Suzman

• This country is armed to the teeth, and none of these African states could begin to attack South Africa.

  Author: Helen Suzman

• I represent all the enlightened people in this country, and that's a fine thing to be able to do. It infuriates my opponents when I say this, but it is true.

  Author: Helen Suzman

• Debate is almost non-existent and no one is apparently accountable to anybody apart from their political party bosses. It is bad news for democracy in this country.

  Author: Helen Suzman

• No, I'm not rich. I had a tax problem in this country, curiously enough, and my accountant said the British government was patently wrong in taxing me, and they were, but we couldn't persuade them and it cost me everything I had.

  Author: Donald Sutherland

• Tyrone, I think they're taking to festivals. I don't know which festivals it will be at. It's like a buddy picture. It's a couple of guys driving across the country and they get to a small town and they hit a guy. The guy turns out to be a drug smuggler.

  Author: Ethan Suplee

• If you ever live in a country run by a committee, be on the committee.

  Author: William Sumner

• We are to see the development of the country pushed forward at an unprecedented rate by an aggregation of capital, and a systematic application of it under the direction of competent men.

  Author: William Sumner

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