Quotes about country
country class people
Between 2001 and 2011, Brazil lifted 20 million people out of poverty and into its growing middle class, and in the last quarter of the twentieth century Botswana's gross domestic product per capita grew faster than that of any other country on the planet. The once-labeled 'Third World' is edging its way into the 'First World.' Peter Blair Henry
country jobs people
Economic growth creates jobs, and countries grow when they educate their people and pursue policies that encourage households to save, existing businesses to invest, and entrepreneurs to innovate and create new markets.
country pakistan conspiracy
So Pakistan is a country that I'm very fond of and have spent a lot of time, but it is a country where conspiracy theories have a life of their own. Peter Bergen
country strong buddhism
As Buddhism moved to the West, one of the big characteristics was the strong place of women. That didn't exist in the countries of origin. It's just a sign of our culture. Pema Chodron
country play honor
Not that money is a driving force. It's an honor to play for your country. Payne Stewart
country patriotic usa
Yes, I'm a patriotic person. For these people who disgrace the American way and burn our flag and do all of these things... I say, don't live here and disgrace my country. Go live in the Middle East and see how you like it.
country law people
...we will not grant amnesty to illegal aliens in this Congress or, hopefully ever again. We did that once. Everybody said it was a one time deal. We were to never do it again. The problem with doing it was we reward people who violated the law. We reward people who came into the country illegally. Phil Gramm
country democracy inability
The biggest threat to this country isn't the Russians. It's our own inability to make democracy or capitalism work. Phil Donahue
country appreciate language
I do that in whatever language of the country I'm in, because the audience appreciate it. Phil Collins
country unique government
The primary factor that enables our government to peddle economic snake oil is the dollar's unique role as the world's reserve currency, and our creditors' willingness to preserve its status. By buying up dollars and loaning them back to us through Treasury debt, productive countries give American politicians cart blanche to play Santa Claus. Peter Schiff
country stupid crazy
I feel a whole country growing inside me, thousands of years, millions of people, stupid, crazy, shrewd people, and all of them me. I never felt like that before, I never felt that there was anything inside me, even myself. Peter S. Beagle
country iraq pace
The bottom line is that after we defeat the armed forces of Iraq, that we will want to and need to provide stability throughout that country. Peter Pace
country secret president
[President Bush should] quit hiding behind the Secret Service, come out and face the nation and explain his failure to protect the country. Peter Jennings
country village small-countries
New Zealand is not a small country but a large village. Peter Jackson
country independent law
This is not the kind of country where you would feel comfortable if you were opposed to democracy, parliamentary law, independent courts and so I would say to people who don't feel comfortable with those values there might be other countries where they'd feel more comfortable with their own values or beliefs Peter Costello
country hands america
Congress will be tempted to wipe their hands of this, go to the Election Day and say 'we've done our part' and that's where groups like ours, Concerned Veterans for America, veterans across the country have to keep the heat on them to say this is just the start. VA is not fixed. Pete Hegseth
country memorial-day veterans-day
Memorial Day isn't just about honoring veterans, its honoring those who lost their lives. Veterans had the fortune of coming home. For us, that's a reminder of when we come home we still have a responsibility to serve. It's a continuation of service that honors our country and those who fell defending it.
country football player
There is a growing feeling that perhaps Texas is really another country, a place where the skies, the disasters, the diamonds, the politicians, the women, the fortunes, the football players and the murders are all bigger than anywhere else. Pete Hamill
country home people
Tennis is seen all around the world; if I am home or anywhere in the country, United States, people will stare. Pete Sampras
country men people
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! Pearl White
country appreciation community
The Canadian community must invest, for the defence and better appreciation of the French language, as much time, energy, and money as are required to prevent the country from breaking up Pierre Trudeau
country heart feet
Canada is not a country for the cold of heart or the cold of feet.
country strong home
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.
country smart thinking
I just think you Westerners should take over this country if you are so smart.
country cutting two
You just cannot cut a country in two any more than you can cut a human being in two. If you do, you do not have two human beings; you have a corpse.
country baseball rain
Canada is a country whose main exports are hockey players and cold fronts. Our main imports are baseball players and acid rain.
country believe together
I believe that Canada cannot, indeed, that Canada must not survive by force. The country will only remain united - it should only remain united - if its citizens want to live together in one civil society.
country integrity pyramids
A country, after all, is not something you build as the pharaohs built the pyramids, and then leave standing there to defy eternity. A country is something that is built every day out of certain basic shared values.
country people disease
A friend hipped me to hypoglycemia, which an article I read calls 'a disease for a nation of sugar junkies.' Who knows how many people in this country have it? Phoebe Snow
country military support
Instead of ending U.S. military aid to the 23rd wealthiest country to use for its consistent violations of international law and human rights, we see the Obama administration escalating the annual amount of aid, so that Israel will now start each year with almost $4 billion, with $3.8 billion a year of military aid coming from our tax money to support its military, without any restrictions on how it makes - how it uses that money, what weapons in the U.S. it's able to buy.
country thinking laughing
People in Third World countries think and laugh and smile, just like us. We have got to understand that we are them they are us. Rachel Corrie
country thinking rich
I think family movies have gotten so rich in this country. Rachel Griffiths
country father heaven
Where the mind is led forward by thee into ever-widening thought and action-Into that heaven of freedom, my father, let my country awake. Rabindranath Tagore