Country Quotes - Page 12

• Most of our country's serious problems can be laid at the feet of Congress and the White House and not at capitalism.

  Walter E. Williams

  White, Feet, House

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• No matter how much of our liberty Washington takes away in the name of security, there are no guarantees that there won't be another terrorist attack. Instead of attacking American liberties, the government ought to go after terrorists in their countries of origin. It should be like what our military attempted during WWII. Don't wait to defend ships against the kamikaze -- bomb the fields where they take off.

  Walter E. Williams

  Military, Government, Guarantees That

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• 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.

  Todd Tiahrt

  Believe, Mean, People

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• National Guard soldiers, as you know, give up their jobs, their time with their family, make sacrifices to make sure this country is safe.

  Todd Tiahrt

  Jobs, Giving Up, Sacrifice

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• I have decided to fight for my country, because we have build a success story in Guanajuato, with real results and more yet to come in the next two years.

  Vicente Fox

  Real, Fighting, Years

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• Mexico doesn't deserve what has happened to us. A democratic change is urgent, a change that will permit us to stop being a loser country.

  Vicente Fox

  Change, Mexico, Loser

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• To be able to achieve the laudable goals (of preventing and treating HIV/AIDS), especially for us in sub-Saharan Africa, there is the need for us to invest in improving our weak health systems. The inadequate number of healthcare facilities in many of our countries are major issues of concern.

  John Dramani Mahama

  Numbers, Issues, Goal

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• We were surprised that the television series had the kind of longevity that it had after only four years of filming it and the reception in 6 countries around the world was quite extraordinary.

  Paul Michael Glaser

  Years, Television, World

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• Afghanistan is a land-locked country.

  Lakhdar Brahimi

  Land, Afghanistan, Locked

  "After nearly a century, a modern Afghan railroad is under construction" by Ivan Watson, www.cnn.com. September 27, 2010.

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• After my first visit to Japan, in 1960, to work on a joint model building project at Osaka University, I maintained a continuing interest in the country and the entire Far East.

  Lawrence Klein

  Japan, East, Osaka

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• Today, bilateral relations with Britain are excellent, with cooperation in many areas and both countries continuing to work on strengthening these ties.

  Hassanal Bolkiah

  Ties, Today, Cooperation

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• Earth's biggest country 's gut her soul, An' risen up earth's greatest nation.

  James Russell Lowell

  Soul, Earth, Guts

  James Russell Lowell (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)”, p.583, Delphi Classics

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• AUSTRALIA, n. A country lying in the South Sea, whose industrial and commercial development has been unspeakably retarded by an unfortunate dispute among geographers as to whether it is a continent or an island.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Funny, Lying, Humor

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.16, 谷月社

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• There are over 500,000 registered sex offenders across the country, and statistics have shown that the recidivism rate for those criminals is high.

  Jim Sensenbrenner

  Sex, Criminals, Statistics

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• 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

  Iraq, Needs, Pace

  "Bush, Blair to hold summit on Iraq", www.cnn.com. April 7, 2003.

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• We sincerely hope that south Asian countries will respect and live in amity with each other, and achieve common development, and that south Asia will enjoy peace, stability and prosperity.

  Li Peng

  Asian, Development, Common

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• Allowing the U.N. into Iraq will demonstrate to the Iraqis that the international community as a whole is committed to bringing stability and safety to their country.

  Jay Rockefeller

  Iraq, Safety, Community

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• When I visited coffee farms in Ethiopia, the farmers could not believe we spend a week's wages in their country on a cup of coffee in ours, because they see so little of the profits. Oxfam's fair trade campaign helps right this wrong.

  Colin Firth

  Coffee, Believe, Campaigns

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• When I was engaged in the struggle for my country, I was very young. My horizons were open.

  Ahmed Ben Bella

  Struggle, Horizon, Engagement

  "For Ahmed Ben Bella, the liberation of the people in the South is still unachieved". Interview with Silvia Cattori, www.voltairenet.org. May 9, 2006.

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• The unprecedented development of science and technology... so rapid that it is said that 90 per cent of the scientists which this country has ever produced are still living today.

  Robert Platt

  Science, Technology, Today

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• If it were the Clinton people, they'd be sitting around figuring out how to pull themselves out. Instead the president is continuing to go around the country and peddling Social Security, which the needle is not moving on.

  Gwen Ifill

  Moving, People, President

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• These studies are a spur to the young, a delight to the old: an ornament in prosperity, a consoling refuge in adversity; they are pleasure for us at home, and no burden abroad; they stay up with us at night, they accompany us when we travel, they are with us in our country visits.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Adversity, Home, Night

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• I like almost everything, even country twang, disco, blue grass and accordions.

  Lee Patrick Mastelotto

  Eye, Blue, Grass

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• All over the country, they're reading about me, and the story doesn't center on me being gay. It's just about a gay person who is doing his job.

  Harvey Milk

  Jobs, Reading, Gay

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• Whither shall I flee? To no country on earth that I know of where there is as much liberty as yet remains to me even in Virginia.

  Robert E. Lee

  War, Virginia, Liberty

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