Other Countries Quotes - Page 4

• Maybe every other American movie shouldn't be based on a comic book. Other countries will think Americans live in an infantile fantasy land where reality is whatever we say it is and every problem can be solved with violence.

  Bill Maher

  Country, Book, Reality

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• One of the ongoing crises in America is institutional racism. We have a very broken criminal justice system. We live in a country where there are more people in jail than any other country on Earth. There are some 2.2 million people currently incarcerated and they are disproportionally African American and Hispanic. Unarmed African Americans have been abused and sometimes killed while in police custody. Clearly these are issues that must be dealt with and changed.

  Bernie Sanders

  Country, America, Jail

  Source: www.ebony.com

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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 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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• 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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• Disarmament should be conducive to the enhancement of every country's general security instead of becoming the instrument and means for a few countries to strengthen their military superiority by weakening or restricting other countries.

  Sha Zukang

  Country, Military, Mean

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• Russia can offer state-of-the-art technology, .. For example, we can help other countries launch space devices such as satellites.

  Vladimir Putin

  Country, Art, Helping Others

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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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• 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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• 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 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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• 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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• 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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• There's a civic nationalism in Britain and dozens of other countries.

  Michael Ignatieff

  Country, Dozen, Britain

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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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