Nations Quotes - Page 36

• I saw a threat in Saddam Hussein. Members of the United States Congress from both political parties saw that same threat. The United Nation's saw the threat. I made the right decision in getting Saddam Hussein out of power.

  George W. Bush

  Party, Political, Decision

  "President Bush in Georgia". President Bush's speech at a Georgia rally, www.nytimes.com. October 31, 2006.

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• The worst thing we can do as a nation is taking the easy way out. If you start opening up offshore drilling, then you are buying time and you are not addressing the fundamental problem with fossil fuels.

  Joe Biden

  Opening Up, Fossils, Fundamentals

  "Sen. Joe Biden (D-DE), Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), political roundtable". Interview with Brian Williams, www.nbcnews.com. June 22, 2008.

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• American nation will not wait to be attacked again. We will defend our freedom and we will take the fight to the enemy.

  George W. Bush

  Fighting, Waiting, Enemy

  "Transcript: President Bush‘s Fort Bragg speech". "Hardball with Chris Matthews", www.nbcnews.com. June 30, 2005.

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• American mission in Iraq is clear: We're hunting down the terrorists. We're helping Iraqis build a free nation that is an ally in the war on terror. We're advancing freedom in the broader Middle East. We are removing a source of violence and instability and laying the foundation of peace for our children and our grandchildren.

  George W. Bush

  Children, War, Hunting

  "Transcript: President Bush‘s Fort Bragg speech". "Hardball with Chris Matthews", www.nbcnews.com. June 30, 2005.

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• If you don't have an auto industry, you will not be secure as a nation because you won't have a backbone like manufacturing to be able to put people to work in producing the means to you keep you secure.

  Jennifer Granholm

  Mean, People, Able

  "Hardball with Chris Matthews", www.nbcnews.com. March 30, 2009.

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• We need, from time to time, to use military force or all of the resources at our command in order to defend the nation and defend our friends. Sometimes, that requires us to take actions that generate controversy. I think there are probably some who actually believe, if we just go talk nice to these folks, everything is going to be OK. I don't think the world works that way.

  Dick Cheney

  Military, Nice, Believe

  "Hardball" with Chris Matthews, www.nbcnews.com. February 5, 2009.

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• I feel like we [americans] are a unique nation in this world, in that we are able to implement great change in our society over a relatively short period of time. What takes centuries in Europe, we accomplish in a generation.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Unique, Europe, World

  "Barnes & Noble interview with Khaled Hosseini". Interview with James Mustich, www.csmonitor.com. November 24, 2008.

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• Afghanistan has always been sort of a fractured nation, very tribal, where the countryside and the distant provinces have been run by custom, by tribal law and by tribal leaders rather than edicts from the central government in Kabul.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Running, Government, Law

  "Khaled Hosseini, Kabul’s Splendid Son". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. May/June, 2009.

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• People being encouraged to make up their own minds and think for themselves is so important. This world talks endlessly about freedom of choice, but we've never been [nothing] more than a nation of robots. Everybody is seduced by corporate culture.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Thinking, People, Choices

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• USA belongs to a handful of men who also control the media. Look at General Electric. It produces nuclear weapons for the Pentagon and also owns the NBC News cable channel, which is a very sophisticated censure apparatus, intrinsic to the system. It's genius. It's like an electronic cage around the nation which blocks information from getting through.

  Gore Vidal

  Block, Men, Nbc News

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• Why is it that farmworkers feed the nation but they can't get food stamps?

  Dolores Huerta

  Farming, Food Stamps, Stamps

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• Every single day we sit down to eat, breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and at our table we have food that was planted, picked, or harvested by a farm worker. Why is it that the people who do the most sacred work in our nation are the most oppressed, the most exploited?

  Dolores Huerta

  Lunch, People, Breakfast

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• We are not saved by nations or by churches or by families, but as individuals, through a personal interest in a personal Saviour.

  John Angell James

  Church, Individual, Interest

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 226, 1895.

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• All people are a single nation.

  Aly Khan

  People

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• Old Dublin City there is no doubtin'
  Bates every city upon the say.
  'Tis there you'd hear O'Connell spoutin'
  And Lady Morgan making tay.
  For 'tis the capital of the finest nation,
  With charmin' pisintry upon a fruitful sod,
  Fightin' like devils for conciliation,
  And hatin' each other for the Love of God.

  Charles Lever

  Cities, Devil, Dublin

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• Not for the mighty world. O Lord, tonight, Nations and kingdoms in their fearful might--Let me be glad the kettle gently sings, Let me be grateful for little things.

  Edna Jaques

  Grateful, Kingdoms, Tonight

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• Agriculture has become essential to life; the forest, the lake, and the ocean cannot sustain the increasing family of man; population declines with a declining cultivation, and nations have ceased to be with the extinction of their agriculture.

  Elias Hasket Derby

  Ocean, Men, Agriculture

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• when a great war has cut off the young men of a nation it never can be told thereafter what losses of scholars, poets, thinkers and great designers the country and the world have suffered.

  James Vila Blake

  Country, War, Cutting

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• According to our belief, Japan was founded by the Sun Goddess Amaterasu Omikami, who is revered by the entire nation for her all-pervading virtue, and from whom our Imperial House is descended.

  Sadao Araki

  Japan, House, Sun

  "Contemporary Japan" by Nihon Gaiji Kyokai, (p. 422), 1932.

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• The spirit of the Japanese nation is, by its nature, a thing that must be propagated over the seven seas and extended over the five continents. Anything that may hinder its progress must be abolished, even by force.

  Sadao Araki

  Sea, Progress, May

  "Dragon in the Dust" by Post Wheeler, (p. 229), 2007.

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• So many forces and resources would become available if States, aware (or conscious) of their true (or real) mission, would want to get on (or agree) to abolish every politics aiming at ("visant à", Fr.) expansion or hegemony; system that maintain among nations a a perpetual distrust and tension, impose on them (or force or compel, "leur impose", Fr.) formidable armies and crushing war budgets.

  African Spir

  Crush, Real, War

  "Paroles d'un sage: Choix de pensées d'African Spir" ("Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir") by Hélène Claparède-Spir, (p. 54), 1937.

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• Philosophy and the arts are but a manifestation of the intelligible ideas that move the public mind; and thus they become visible images of the nations whence they emanate.

  Lydia M. Child

  Art, Philosophy, Moving

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• As the United Nations pushes for jurisdiction over the globe, it is important to remember how it has acted in Bosnia. The character of an institution, no less than of an individual, is revealed through actions, not words.

  Wendy McElroy

  Character, Important, Bosnia

  "Is the U.N. Running Brothels in Bosnia?" by Wendy McElroy, www.foxnews.com. January 22, 2002.

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• For me, passion means whatever a person is willing to suffer for.'Apostolic passion,' therefore, is a deliberate, intentional choice to live for the worship of Jesus in the nations. It has to do with being committed to the point of death to spreading His glory. It's the quality of those who are on fire for Jesus, who dream of the whole earth being covered with the Glory of the Lord.

  Floyd McClung

  Dream, Jesus, Passion

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• I don't want to force the peacekeeping nations to feel like I'm pushing them out.

  Michel Martelly

  Want, Pushing, Force

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