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country community climate
The time has come for a public-private community partnership to fix this country and put it back to work. Van Jones
country smart government
We just want government to be a smart, supportive, reliable partner to the forces that are working for good in this country. Van Jones
country opportunity transition
We should use the transition to a better energy strategy as an opportunity to create a better economy and a better country all around. Van Jones
country opportunity giving
When you take the people who most need work and connect them with the work that most needs doing, you save. You save that young person’s life, you save a whole bunch of money, and you save the soul of this country when you invest and give people a chance, give people hope, give people opportunity. Van Jones
country college middle-class
There are only two ways to have a middle class in your country: either you have highly skilled manufacturing jobs, or you have a highly skilled, well trained, knowledge-based workforce. In other words, college. Van Jones
country war thinking
America should be leading the world in green and clean solutions, and human rights. We shouldn't be leading the world in wars and incarceration rates and pollution. We can be a better country. I think we're going to be a better country. Van Jones
country realizing rhythm
The fact I wasn't getting off made me realize that I really had to take a hard look at it and at the type of music that I played, which ranges from ballads to country type stuff to rock and rhythm 'n' blues. It takes in a wider spectrum. Van Morrison
country western-music acoustics
Skiffle was blues featuring a washboard and acoustic instruments. It encompassed blues, with elements of folk, jazz, and, at times, American country-and-western music. Van Morrison
country children your-smile
Way across the country where the hillside mountains glide, the dynamo of your smile caressed the barefoot virgin child. Van Morrison
country culture different
I've been in America for almost ten years. I've had many parts of the American experience. I've been all over this country and seen many different parts of it. It's just that I'm not an American. I've never become an American. I'm talking about the whole thing-psychologically, citizenship, the whole trip. Of course I've definitely been influenced by America-I'm definitely influenced by the music and the culture. Van Morrison
country antiques fleas
When I go to a country, I go to flea markets, antique stores. I am always looking for something. Ursula Andress
country men two
All day long this man would toil thus, his whole being centered upon the purpose of making twenty-three instead of twenty-two and a half cents an hour; and then his product would be reckoned up by the census taker, and jubilant captains of industry would boast of it in their banquet halls, telling how our workers are nearly twice as efficient as those of any other country. If we are the greatest nation the sun ever shone upon, it would seem to be mainly because we have been able to goad our wage-earners to this pitch of frenzy. Upton Sinclair
country religious suffering
But I have a conscience and a religious faith, and I know that our liberties were not won without suffering, and may be lost again through our cowardice. I intend to do my duty to my country. Upton Sinclair
country lying eye
Our roots are in the dark; the earth is our country. Why did we look up for blessing -- instead of around, and down? What hope we have lies there. Not in the sky full of orbiting spy-eyes and weaponry, but in the earth we have looked down upon. Not from above, but from below. Not in the light that blinds, but in the dark that nourishes, where human beings grow human souls. Ursula K. Le Guin
country loneliness law
as a writer you are free. You are about the freest person that ever was. Your freedom is what you have bought with your solitude, your loneliness. You are in the country where you make up the rules, the laws. You are both dictator and obedient populace. It is a country nobody has ever explored before. It is up to you to make the maps, to build the cities. Nobody else in the world can do it, or ever could do it, or ever will be able to do it again. Ursula K. Le Guin
country women civilization
The misogyny that shapes every aspect of our civilization is the institutionalized form of male fear and hatred of what they have denied and therefore cannot know, cannot share: that wild country, the being of women. Ursula K. Le Guin
country hate what-is-love
What is love of one's country; is it hate of one's uncountry? Then it's not a good thing. Ursula K. Le Guin
country reading important
The reason literacy is important is that literature is the operating instructions. The best manual we have. The most useful guide to the country we're visiting, life. Ursula K. Le Guin
country important institutions
The single most important impediment to global institutions is the concept of "my country, right or wrong". U Thant
country thinking development
Progressively thinking biologists, both in our country and abroad, saw in Darwinism the only right road to the further development of scientific biology. Trofim Lysenko
country gay agency
Representatives of the American intelligence agencies - and I hope they won't be angry - but they could have been more professional, and the diplomats as well. After they found out that he was flying to us, and that he was flying as a transit passenger, there was pressure from all sides - from the Americans, from the Europeans - instead of just letting him go to a country where they could operate easily. Vladimir Putin
country powerful thinking
Russia is an ancient country with historical, profound traditions and a very powerful moral foundation. And this foundation is a love for the Motherland and patriotism. Patriotism in the best sense of that word. Incidentally, I think that to a certain extent, to a significant extent, this is also attributable to the American people. Vladimir Putin
country believe great-love
I am proud of Russia and I am sure that the vast majority of Russian citizens have great love and respect for their Motherland. We have much to be proud of: Russian culture and Russian history. We have every reason to believe in the future of our country. But we have no obsession that Russia must be a super power in the international arena. The only thing we do is protecting our vital interests. Vladimir Putin
country mistake iraq
But if the U.S. were to leave and abandon Iraq without establishing the grounds for a united and sovereign country, that would definitely be a second mistake. Vladimir Putin
country political culture
This is the political culture of the United States, which one should accept as is. The United States is a great country and it deserves non-interference and no third-party comments. Vladimir Putin
country order europe
We are ready to build large underground gas storages in Turkey, to participate in the privatization of Turkey's gas-distribution networks, to use the existing and participate in the construction of new pipelines in order to supply our energy resources through Turkey to third countries, including in southern Europe Vladimir Putin
country art helping-others
Russia can offer state-of-the-art technology, .. For example, we can help other countries launch space devices such as satellites. Vladimir Putin
country presidential democracy
Look, there is parliamentary democracy in most European countries, there is parliamentary democracy in Japan, there is parliamentary democracy in many countries, but in the United States, for some reason, the State is organized differently, there is quite a stringent presidential republic. Vladimir Putin
country government behind-the-scenes
It is no accident that I mention our American friends, as they are always influencing our relations with our neighbors either directly or behind the scenes. Sometimes you don't even know who to talk to - the governments of certain countries or directly to their American patrons, Vladimir Putin
country provocative standards
Our aims are absolutely clear: They are a high living standard in the country and a secure, free and comfortable life. Vladimir Putin
country political foundation
I see that not everyone in the West has understood that the Soviet Union has disappeared from the political map of the world and that a new country has emerged with new humanist and ideological principles at the foundation of its existence. Vladimir Putin
country people political
Nowhere is it written that NATO had to accept certain countries. All that would have been required to refrain from doing so was the political will. But people didn't want to. Vladimir Putin
country gay regulation
We ask that (other countries) do not interfere in our regulation. Vladimir Putin