Other Countries Quotes - Page 2

• 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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• 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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• Have you noticed," said John, "how countries call theirs 'sovereign nuclear deterrents,' but call the other countries' ones 'weapons of mass destruction'?

  David Mitchell

  Country, Mass Destruction, Nuclear

  David Mitchell (2007). “Ghostwritten”, p.340, Vintage

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• Patriotism is proud of a country's virtues and eager to correct its deficiencies; it also acknowledges the legitimate patriotism of other countries, with their own specific virtues. The pride of nationalism, however, trumpets its country's virtues and denies its deficiencies, while it is contemptuous toward the virtues of other countries. It wants to be, and proclaims itself to be, "the greatest," but greatness is not required of a country; only goodness is.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Country, Humility, Pride

  "Pieces of Eight". Book by Sydney J. Harris, 1982.

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• Every day we're told that we live in the greatest country on earth. And it's always stated as an undeniable fact: Leos are born between July 23 and August 22, fitted queen-size sheets measure sixty by eighty inches, and America is the greatest country on earth. Having grown up with this in our ears, it's startling to realize that other countries have nationalistic slogans of their own, none of which are 'We're number two!

  David Sedaris

  Country, Queens, Two

  David Sedaris (2000). “Me talk pretty one day”

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• I've always noted with some awe the reading habits of the Australian public. Australians read more newspapers and magazines per head of population than almost any other country in the world.

  Felix Dennis

  Country, Reading, Population

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• In other countries they have histories with revolutions and class movements. In America, people don't like to think of themselves like being in a lower class. They all like to think of themselves as potential millionaires.

  Matt Taibbi

  Country, Thinking, Class

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• America's critics can be heard everywhere. It is too much in love with money - worshipping the god of the marketplace, the golden calf. It has too much money, seven of the top 10 banks, eight of the top 10 companies etc. It is too stingy, giving away less of its wealth than other countries. It is vulgar, a rich barbarian.

  Maurice Saatchi

  Country, America, Eight

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• Ingratitude is amongst them a capital crime, as we read it to have been in some other countries: for they reason thus; that whoever makes ill-returns to his benefactor, must needs be a common enemy to the rest of the mankind, from where he has received no obligations and therefore such man is not fit to live.

  Jonathan Swift

  Country, Men, Enemy

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• He'll be coming and going" he had said. "One day you'll see him and another you won't. He doesn't like being tied down--and of course he has other countries to attend to. It's quite all right. He'll often drop in. Only you mustn't press him. He's wild, you know. Not like a tame lion.

  C. S. Lewis

  Country, Religion, One Day

  C.S.Lewis (2016). “The Chronicles of Narnia Vol I: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe”, p.131, ENRICH CULTURE GROUP LIMITED

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• I firmly believe that we have more latent musical talent in America than there is in any other country. But to dig it out there must be good music throughout the land, a lot of it. Everyone must hear it, and such a process takes time.

  John Philip Sousa

  Country, Believe, Land

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• The United States of America was a pirate nation for the first one hundred years of its existence, ripping off the patents and trademarks of the imperial European powers it had liberated itself from by blood. By keeping their GDP at home, the U.S. revolutionaries were able to bootstrap their nation into an industrial powerhouse. Now, it seems, their descendants are bent on ensuring that no other country can pull the same trick off.

  Cory Doctorow

  Country, Home, America

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• I am not much an advocate for traveling, and I observe that men run away to other countries because they are not good in their own, and run back to their own because they pass for nothing in the new places. For the most part, only the light characters travel. Who are you that have no task to keep you at home?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Running, Country, Travel

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.369

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• I received a letter just before I left office from a man. I don't know why he chose to write it, but I'm glad he did. He wrote that you can go to live in France, but you can't become a Frenchman. You can go to live in Germany or Italy, but you can't become a German, an Italian. He went through Turkey, Greece, Japan and other countries. But he said anyone, from any corner of the world, can come to live in the United States and become an American.

  Ronald Reagan

  Country, Writing, Men

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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 criminalization of marijuana did not prevent marijuana from becoming the most widely used illegal substance in the United States and many other countries. But it did result in extensive costs and negative consequences.

  George Soros

  Country, Marijuana, Substance

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