Famous Quotes & Sayings

Norman Finkelstein

People have the right to defend their country from foreign occupiers, and people have the right to defend their country from invaders who are destroying their country.

How often we fail to realize our good fortune in living in a country where happiness is more than a lack of tragedy.

Pauline Marois

My victory is your victory. My victory is the victory of a unified party, a party that wants to propose to the Quebec people a country that is free and a country that is independent.

Pete Hegseth

Veterans are driven by the same frustrations that the public has with what is happening in Washington... the fiscal irresponsibility and the financial crisis that our country is facing.

Ryan Williams

We battled the No. 1 team in the country and did it without many of our guys. We had guys who were in foul trouble and we had guys who were sick. Still, we battled them down to the end.

We are looking for a solution that's good for our country, but more particularly that's good for our Fijian people.

Ramsey Clark

We are living in Iraq, a country that I love, in a very dangerous time. Reconciliation is essential. This trial can either divide or heal.

We recognize this is an emotional issue in Florida, and in other parts of the country there are people who feel just as strongly being opposed.

Natalie Maines

We're doing what we want to do, playing what we want to play, we're looking like we want to look, we're saying what we want to say. In rock that's done a lot, but in country it's not.

Gloria Steinem

I'm so happy that we're finally hearing the stories and voices of women who make America. We do what we see, not what we're told, so an incomplete story of this country damages everyone.

Anatoly Karpov

Putin needs strong moves to keep the country as one. There is some criticism that he is centralizing power, but in Russia, if you don't centralize power, you have the risk of losing the country.

Amanda Lindhout

I made a vow to myself while I was a hostage that if I were lucky enough to live and to get out of Somalia, I would do something meaningful with my life - and specifically something that would be meaningful in the country where I'd lost my freedom.

Amanda Lindhout

It was a slow understanding that the lack of education in a country like Somalia creates these huge social problems.

There is a view out there that somehow B.C. doesn't get to do these things, ... We are trying to be true to the promise made by Prime Minister (Paul) Martin that we want to make sure that no part of the country feels left behind.

Grover Norquist

There is a test of Republicans on this. The country will let you get away with this in the wake of 9/11, but that doesn't make it right.

Politicisation of terrorism for narrow gains is not good for society in general and the country in particular.

I have a responsibility to devote my energy to my country and my people.

Diana Quick

'The Discovery of France' by Graham Robb is teaching me lots about a country I've long loved but realise I didn't really know.

Creighton Abrams

While we are guarding the country, we must accept being the guardian of the finest ethics. The country needs it and we must do it.

Stephane Hessel

I feel that I am completely in solidarity with Jews in the world, because I know what it is to be a Jew. I've seen what it is; I am myself of Jewish origin, and therefore I can only be fully in support of the idea that the Jews, after all they've suffered, need a country where they are at home.

Lionel Richie

I want to let everybody know that I'm from there, and country is Tuskegee. Or should I say rather, my country is Tuskegee. I was born and raised there, it's not just someplace I passed through one day.

Howard Dean

You have the power. We're going to make this country strong together. ... We're going to make this country fair again.

Gordon Campbell

Today we have looked at some of our failings as a country and we have embraced the idea that we can improve, we can be better for all Canadians,

John Carlos

We didn't come up there with any bombs. We were trying to wake the country up and wake the world up too.

Henry Bonilla

Well, I think when you come here and wave a Mexican flag in our face in a country that's giving a lot of these people an opportunity that they've never had before, I think a lot of Americans are insulted, whether they're first-, second-, third-, fourth- or fifth-generation Americans.

Hugo Weaving

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.

Henry Williamson

Every country in every war fights for freedom.

Joseph Campbell

When you see the Earth from space, you don't see any divisions of nation-states there. This may be the symbol of the new mythology to come; this is the country we will celebrate, and these are the people we are one with.

When you see Randolph Morris with 19 points and eight rebounds, that's a great performance for him. Kentucky is starting to play at the level everybody in the league and everybody around the country knew they could play at.

We are a country of the last minute.

We are really in a public-private partnership as we run this country in some form or another.

Juan Romero

We are part of this country. We want to be recognized.

Xavier Becerra

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