Other Countries Quotes

• Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Funny, Wisdom, Country

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• 'My country, right or wrong' is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying 'My mother, drunk or sober.'

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Mother, Country, Patriotic

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• I think the United States and the secretary of State should be concerned about the poverty in this country - people without health insurance. The United States should stop being the empire and be concerned about other countries. You've got to be more worried about your own people.

  Hugo Chavez

  Country, Thinking, People

  "Larry King Live", www.realclearpolitics.com. September 24, 2009.

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• In many respects, the United States is a great country. Freedom of speech is protected more than in any other country. It is also a very free society.

  Noam Chomsky

  Country, Freedom Of Speech, United States

  "'The United States Has Essentially a One-Party System'". Interview with Gabor Steingart, www.spiegel.de. October 10, 2008.

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• The United States strongly condemns the illegal disclosure of classified information. It puts people's lives in danger, threatens our national security, and undermines our efforts to work with other countries to solve shared problems.

  Hillary Clinton

  Country, People, Effort

  Presser on Wikileaks Release of Confidential Documents, delivered 29 November 2010, Treaty Room, Washington, D.C.

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• For me the definition of a patriot is someone who is willing to constantly question the government; that’s what separates us from other countries.

  George Clooney

  Country, Government, Definitions

  Interview with Norman Lear, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 7, 2012.

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• I think it has something to do with being British. We don't take ourselves as seriously as some other countries do. I think a lot of people take themselves far too seriously; I find that a very tedious attitude.

  Joan Collins

  Country, Attitude, Thinking

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• We have this kind of revolving door, we don't have a permanent class of millionaires in America like a lot of other countries.

  Jim DeMint

  Country, Class, America

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• We don't have an Official Secrets Act in the United States, as other countries do. Under the First Amendment, freedom of the press, freedom of speech, and freedom of association are more important than protecting secrets.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Country, Freedom Of Speech, Secret

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• The sad reality is that there are no purely domestic issues in Israel. Issues that would be dealt with by municipalities in other countries - such as how to deal with a dangerous bridge or how to resolve conflicts between religious and secular bus riders - become major international issues when they occur in Israel.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Country, Religious, Reality

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• Look at music for what it's worth around the world and not just America. In other countries, people are still buying CDs and going to record stores. But in America, it's all about digital. The game is breaking down. But, look at me, you need to know how to play the game the right way.

  Snoop Dogg

  Country, Cds, Games

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• People think celebrities don't have to worry about human things like sickness and death and rent. It's like you've traveled to this Land of Celebrity, this other country. They want you to tell about what you saw.

  David Duchovny

  Country, Thinking, Land

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• I cannot imagine any other country in the world where the opposition would seek, and the chief executive would allow, the dissemination of his most private and personal conversations with his staff, which, to be honest, do not exactly confer sainthood on anyone concerned.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Country, Sainthood, World

  Gerald R. Ford's speech to the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor as quoted in "The New York Times", May 4, 1974.

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• In Spain, the dead are more alive than the dead of any other country in the world.

  Federico Garcia Lorca

  Country, Spain, Alive

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• Yes, Democrats can prove that America pays more for health care than other countries; yes, they have won the dispute that private health insurance is needlessly expensive. But what they've lost is the argument that we are a society.

  Thomas Frank

  Country, America, Care

  "Why Democrats Are Losing on Health Care" by Thomas Frank, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 18, 2009.

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• Egypt has suffered more ordeals than the other countries to get where it is.

  Tahar Ben Jelloun

  Country, Egypt, Ordeals

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• Americans like to make money; Canadians like to audit it. I don't know of any other country where the accountant enjoys a higher social and moral status.

  Northrop Frye

  Country, Moral, Making Money

  "The Northrop Frye Quote Book".

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• To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.

  Aldous Huxley

  Inspirational, Country, Travel

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• Many other countries have already banned human cloning, and there are efforts at the UN to make such a ban universal.

  Leon Kass

  Country, Effort, Cloning

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• Americans have the right and advantage of being armed - unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.

  James Madison

  Country, Gun, Government

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• The current total of countries in the world with First Amendments is one. You have guaranteed freedom of speech. Other countries don't have that.

  Neil Gaiman

  Country, Freedom Of Speech, World

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• I think that in a year I may retire. I cannot take my money with me when I die and I wish to enjoy it, with my family, while I live. I should prefer living in Germany to any other country, though I am an American, and am loyal to my country.

  Harry Houdini

  Country, Money, Thinking

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• One might enumerate the items of high civilization, as it exists in other countries, which are absent from the texture of American life, until it should become a wonder to know what was left.

  Henry James

  Country, Civilization, Texture

  'Hawthorne' (1879)

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• Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every other country.

  Sinclair Lewis

  Country, 4th Of July, Patriotic

  1930 Interview in Berlin, 29 Dec.

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• I hope the example of Saddam Hussein will give a lesson to leaders of other countries where human rights are not respected.

  Shirin Ebadi

  Country, Rights, Giving

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