Country Quotes - Page 38

• But you are absolutely right that when the international community decides to help in a meaningful manner a country like Afghanistan, then coordination between the various actors that are involved in these processes is very, very difficult indeed.

  Lakhdar Brahimi

  Meaningful, Community, Actors

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• We must have a relentless commitment to producing a meaningful, comprehensive energy package aimed at conservation, alleviating the burden of energy prices on consumers, decreasing our country's dependency on foreign oil, and increasing electricity grid reliability.

  Paul Gillmor

  Meaningful, Commitment, Oil

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• Survival means the survival of human kind as a whole, not just a part of it. If the South cannot survive, then the North is going to crumble. If countries of Third World cannot pay their debts, you are going to suffer here in the North. If you do not take care of the Third World, your well-being is not going to last, and you will not be able to continue living in the way you have been much longer. It is leaping out at us already. You cannot leave the job to the governments or the political scientists alone. You have to do it yourself.

  Nhat Hanh

  Jobs, Mean, Government

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• We secured peace for our country for one and a half years, as well as an opportunity of preparing our forces for defense if fascist Germany risked attacking our country in defiance of the pact. This was a definite gain to our country and a loss for fascist Germany.

  Joseph Stalin

  War, Loss, Opportunity

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• I have been lucky enough to have had the opportunity of travelling across this country and enduring all the classic situations that go with talking to people.

  Barbara Amiel

  Opportunity, Journey, Talking

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• Travelling to different countries is a goal. I wouldn't mind playing huge places if we got an opportunity to, but it's nice to play small places too. Fish was saying yesterday that he doesn't ever want to play stadiums, or maybe he would once, he said.

  Mike Gordon

  Nice, Opportunity, Journey

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• Saigon was an addicted city, and we were the drug: the corruption of children, the mutilation of young men, the prostitution of women, the humiliation of the old, the division of the family, the division of the country-it had all been done in our name. . . . The French city . . . had represented the opium stage of the addiction. With the Americans had begun the heroin phase.

  James Fenton

  Children, War, Men

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• What can one say about a country where a museum of science in a great city can feature an exhibit in which people fire machine guns from a helicopter at Vietnamese huts, with a light flashing when a hit is scored? What can one say about a country where such an idea can even be considered? You have to weep for this country.

  Noam Chomsky

  War, Gun, Fire

  Institute Professor Department of Linguistics and Philosophy Noam Chomsky, Noam Chomsky (2010). “American Power and the New Mandarins”, p.28, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• A man's first duty is to his own conscience and honor; the party and country come second to that, and never first.

  Mark Twain

  Party, Men, Honor

  Mark Twain (2004). “The Letters of Mark Twain”, p.238, 1st World Publishing

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• As I travel through my country, people often ask me how it feels to have been imprisoned in my home -first for six years, then for 19 months. How could I stand the separation from family and friends? It is ironic, I say, that in an authoritarian state it is only the prisoner of conscience who is genuinely free. Yes, we have given up our right to a normal life. But we have stayed true to that most precious part of our humanity-our conscience.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Home, Years, People

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• We are a big country, with lots of advantages and history. We are proud to be French. We have to call on patriotism at this time... to ask for an effort in the battle against debt.

  Francois Hollande

  Effort, Patriotism, Battle

  "François Hollande annouces €10bn cut in public spending" by Kim Willsher, www.theguardian.com. September 9, 2012.

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• Yes, our greatness as a nation has depended on individual initiative, on a belief in the free market. But it has also depended on our sense of mutual regard for each other, of mutual responsibility. The idea that everybody has a stake in the country, that we're all in it together and everybody's got a shot at opportunity. Americans know this. We know that government can't solve all our problems - and we don't want it to. But we also know that there are some things we can't do on our own. We know that there are some things we do better together.

  Barack Obama

  Responsibility, Opportunity, Greatness

  Barack Obama (2009). “Barack Obama: Speeches on the Road to the White House”

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• To love country means to rise above I am because I am. It is to recognize that I am because we are.

  Eric Liu

  Mean, Citizenship, Rise Above

  Eric Liu, Nick Hanauer (2012). “The True Patriot”, p.35, Sasquatch Books

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• True patriots believe that we should measure a citizen's worth by contribution to country and community, not by wealth or power-that those whom America has benefited most should contribute in proportion to their good fortune-and that serving others should be esteemed more highly than serving self.

  Eric Liu

  Believe, Self, America

  Eric Liu, Nick Hanauer (2012). “The True Patriot”, p.20, Sasquatch Books

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• When I'm out the country, niggas call me Neeki. Hi, how are you? Yes, it's nice to meet me.

  Nicki Minaj

  Nice, Bragging, Call Me

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• . . . perhaps our grandsons, having never seen a wild river, will never miss the chance to set a canoe in singing waters . . . glad I shall never be young without wild country to be young in.

  Aldo Leopold

  Rivers, Water, Missing

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• Good and evil are not what our parents told us, not what our church tells us, or our country, not what anybody else tells us! All of us decide good and evil for ourselves, automatically, by choosing what we want to do!

  Richard Bach

  Evil, Parent, Church

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• When I wrote the song, The Way It Is, I wanted to move people to take a stand on civil rights in this country.

  Bruce Hornsby

  Song, Hippie, Moving

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• I stand before you today heart broken, I know history and I love this country ...God blessed this country and it took sacrifice because even though they were endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, that's an inheritance. And if you are not willing to fight for you inheritance, even when you leave your children, if they won't fight for it, they don't keep it. Mean greedy evil people will take it away.

  Louie Gohmert

  Children, Blessed, Heart

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• So many of the things we are doing right now as a country are things that lead to loss of a country. I leave you with this thought and challenge any historian, no mater who you are where you are. You show me a country that ever met its demise while as a nation it was honoring the one true God. You won't find it. Let's keep this country alive.

  Louie Gohmert

  Loss, Evil, Challenges

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• I love this country, but the union jack leaves me cold.

  Timothy Garton Ash

  Heart, Unions, Cold

  "In our search for Britishness, we should put out more flags - or none" by Timothy Garton Ash, January 18, 2006.

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• It is in that spirit, the spirit of '76, that I ask you to rise and join me in a toast to Chairman Mao, to Premier Chou, to the people of our two countries, and to the hope of our children that peace and harmony can be the legacy of our generation to theirs.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Children, War, Our Generation

  Nixon, Richard M. (1974). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Richard M. Nixon, 1972”, p.374, Best Books on

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• If you had to work in the environment of Washington, D.C., as I do, and watch those men who are so imprisoned and so confined by their eighteenth-century thought patterns, you would know that if anybody is going to be liberated, it's men who must be liberated in this country.

  Barbara Jordan

  Work, Men, Watches

  Barbara Jordan, Shelby Hearon (1979). “Barbara Jordan, a self-portrait”, Doubleday Books

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• Their Internet usage is growing very rapidly, and even they can do the math: If everyone in China needed an IPv4 address - just one - this country would use up one third of the entire public IP address space.

  Vinton Cerf

  Math, Space, Use

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• That is no country for old men. The young In one another's arms, birds in the trees - Those dying generations-at their song, The salmon-falls, the mackerel-crowded seas, Fish, flesh, or fowl, commend all summer long Whatever is begotten, born, and dies. Caught in that sensual music all neglect Monuments of unaging intellect.

  William Butler Yeats

  Death, Summer, Song

  "Sailing to Byzantium" l. 1 (1928)

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