Famous Quotes & Sayings

There is a clash, and there will be a growing one, between what Americans want of their president and want of their country in the world ... and what foreign leaders want of us.

We said it all along. Lotteries around the country are notorious for replacing general revenues with lottery money.

Jim Davies

We're much too spontaneous as a society. We need to become knowledgeable about our nutrition: Learn how to read food labels and count our portion size. Most of the food from restaurants is hugely over-proportioned.

We're trying to create a model for the country.

We kind of dug ourselves a hole and tried to get out of there. It's not the start we wanted, definitely. But we're not going to count ourselves out yet.

We kept standing in the middle of the ring taking punches and by the eighth or ninth round, we were still standing. We started throwing counter punches. I am extremely proud of the way we competed.

Dick Thompson

We keep encouraging countries to develop a plan because a pandemic is inevitable.

Mark Phillips

We think we have made a step, but we have some more to climb. If we can run five healthy ladies at conference, we are going to give Johnson County all they can handle.

We think that developing countries should not sign up to what's there if that's all there is.

Madeleine Albright

I felt that America's duty was not to try to do everything itself, but to foster a sense of commitment that would bring out the best in every country.

Madeleine Albright

If you look at U.S. history through religious history, there is very much a motif that shows the importance religion has played in the U.S. We're a very religious country and it affects the way we look at various political issues.

Madeleine Albright

And so I think that the idea of America working with other countries to solve problems is good for us, and it is part of digging us out of the 'my way or the highway' approach that was evident in the previous eight years.

Madeleine Albright

I have been in meetings where a head of state will say, 'I like your tie,' to a man... or, 'I like your country because the weather's good,' or whatever. So for me, the pins in some ways were openers.

Madeleine Albright

Embrace the faith that every challenge surmounted by your energy; every problem solved by your wisdom; every soul stirred by your passion; and every barrier to justice brought down by your determination will ennoble your life, inspire others, serve your country, and explode outward the boundaries of what is achievable on this earth.

Madeleine Albright

I've never seen America as an imperialist or colonialist or meddling country.

William Shakespeare

If we are marked to die, we are enough to do our country loss; and if to live, the fewer men, the greater share of honor.

William Shakespeare

Hear me profess sincerely: had I a dozen sons, each in my love alike, and none less dear than thine and my good Marcius, I had rather have eleven die nobly for their country than one voluptuously surfeit out of action.

William Shakespeare

I do love My country's good with a respect more tender, More holy and profound, then mine own life, My dear wife's estimate, her womb increase, And treasure of my loins.

John Grant

This is a unique aquarium in that a large portion of its collection features freshwater species, and it specializes in fish, amphibians and reptiles from the southwestern part of the country. The River Journey exhibit transports visitors from the Appalachian highlands through ponds, rivers and swamps, all the way to the seacoast. The recently added Ocean Journey exhibit allows visitors to sample a variety of saltwater environments.

John Grant

The country's newest aquarium, opened in November, bills itself as the largest in the world, holding more than 100,000 animals representing 500 species. It is the first in the USA to display whale sharks, the largest fish in the world.

John Grant

The oldest continuously operated aquarium in the country features 630 species and more than 8,000 animals. The walruses are especially popular.

Candice Wiggins

There is no other post player in the country I would want on my team. Now the whole nation will get to see what we see in practice and that's how great she is.

Candice Wiggins

There is no other post player in the country I'd rather have on my team than Brooke. Now the whole nation can see what we see in practice every day.

Abdullah Gul

There is no other country which harms its own interests this much,

Jeb Bush

There is no other country that has the Cuban Adjustment Act; that's why it's called the Cuban Adjustment Act and not the Nicaraguan Adjustment Act.

Rudolf Scharping

There is no military planning for Iraq, even if this country presents a real problem for international security, ... We have no room for a new engagement.

Carol Bellamy

Until we stand up and first of all shine the light on it, until we identify the countries where it's happening, until women feel they can be protected enough to speak out, which they do not feel -- women and girls -- these days, we're not going to be able to do very much.

Alexander McCall Smith

There is this intimacy still in Botswana. It's a country of just under two million people, and there's this sense of connectedness, in that people tend to be related to one another.

Alex Tabarrok

There is no right to a job or a wage rate, but there is a right to move from one country to another in search of a better life. This is the point of view of Thomas Jefferson, John Locke and other great supporters of the natural rights tradition in America.

William Shakespeare

Those that are good manners at the court are as ridiculous in the country, as the behavior of the country is most mockable at the court.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

The country in which reparations actually happen is a very different one than the one we live in.

Marion Barry

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

Mariella Frostrup

One of my few childhood memories is as an eight-year-old, refused permission to watch the Hitchcock season on Irish television, sneakily viewing 'The Birds' though a crack in the living-room door. It transformed my hitherto perfectly enjoyable half-mile walk to school, down a country lane patrolled by watchful birds, into a terrifying ordeal.