Our Country Quotes - Page 23

• As much as I cherish your [McCarthy's] right to a platform as an independent candidate I am not going to sit here quietly and listen to you denigrate the two party system. It has served our country well over the last two hundred years.

  John Anderson

  Country, Party, Independent

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• If an asteroid is coming toward you, you don't have to blow it up. You just have to slow it down long enough for our country to rotate out of the way.

  Emo Philips

  Country, Blow, Long

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Speaking as just simply an American who cares about the economic health of our country, I see one of the surest ways to bring wealth and prosperity to the country is to innovate in science and technology.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Country, Technology, Who Cares

  "Neil DeGrasse Tyson Explains Why The Cosmos Shouldn't Make You Feel Small". "Fresh Air" with Dave Davies, www.npr.org. February 27, 2014.

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• Nobody should ever mistake and think that our country [USA] is weakened, or that authority is diffuse and unspecified, and that we are vulnerable.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Country, Mistake, Thinking

  "GPS November 2, 2008: Interviews with Michael Bloomberg and Madeleine Albright". Interview with Fareed Zakaria, globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com. November 2, 2008.

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• I think it sucks that in our country [the USA] there is such a double standard education-wise. Which part of the city you live in, or something like that, determines if you'll be successful, and that's not fair.

  Charles Barkley

  Wise, Country, Successful

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• I did not feel proud of our country, seeing that we were bombing peasant villages, that we were not just hitting military targets, that children were being killed. We were terrorizing the North Vietnamese with our enormous Air Force. They had no Air Force at all. They were a little pitiful country and we were terrorizing them with our bombs. And no, I did not feel proud at all.

  Howard Zinn

  Country, Children, Military

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Yet since the 1950s, little has been done to prepare for our country's current or future energy needs.

  Cathy McMorris Rodgers

  Country, Energy, Needs

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• In the Tea Party narrative, victory at the polls means a new American revolution, one that will "take our country back" from everyone they disapprove of. But what they dont realize is, there's a catch: This is America, and we have an entrenched oligarchical system in place that insulates us all from any meaningful political change.

  Matt Taibbi

  Meaningful, Country, Party

  "The Truth About the Tea Party". www.rollingstone.com. September 28, 2010.

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• Blood Dazzler is Patricia Smith's impassioned lyric chronicle of a beloved city in peril, a city whose people were left to die before us all, a people who were the heart of our country and lifeblood of our culture. After rising water, winds and abandonment, after our failure and neglect, comes this symphony of utterance from the ruins: many-voiced, poignant, sorrowful and fierce. This is poetry taking the full measure of its task.

  Carolyn Forche

  Country, Heart, Wind

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• Nothing's black or white in our country - you're either brilliant or you're hopeless

  Alan Shearer

  Country, White, Black

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• As the baby boomers like me are retiring and getting ready to retire, they will spend whatever it takes - and theyre the wealthiest generation in our country - to make themselves live an enjoyable life in their retirement years.

  David Rubenstein

  Country, Baby, Retirement

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• Recruiters in our country are known for lying to people.

  Cindy Sheehan

  Country, Lying, People

  "Sheehan to Sheehan". www.counterpunch.org. January 10, 2006.

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• If the people of America do not rise up, take ownership of our country, we're going to lose it forever.

  Cindy Sheehan

  Country, America, People

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• Despite fearful rhetoric to the contrary, terrorism is not a transcendent threat. A terrorist attack cannot possibly destroy our country's way of life; it's only our reaction to that attack that can do that kind of damage.

  Bruce Schneier

  Country, Way, Damage

  Bruce Schneier (2014). “Bruce Schneier on Trust Set”, p.471, John Wiley & Sons

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• When I became prime minister last September, I promised the Japanese people that I would not tolerate the politics of indecision. A propensity to delay difficult and weighty decisions has been hurting our country. It is detrimental to our economy, society and future, and it cannot be allowed to continue.

  Yoshihiko Noda

  Country, Hurt, People

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• We've always believed that popular culture and populist politics go hand in hand. It's an honor to be working with so many respected and influential artists, and we're indebted to them for having the courage to speak out at a time when our country so desperately needs change. For our 2.5 million members and far beyond, the Vote for Change tour will have a seismic cultural impact.

  Eli Pariser

  Country, Artist, Impact

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• For an athlete myself, it is especially meaningful for our country to host an Olympics. Every athlete hopes to participate in an Olympics, so I still can't believe the games of dreams is going to take place in Korea.

  Yuna

  Meaningful, Dream, Country

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• The whole idea of a democracy is that we ourselves, the people, are supposed to make a path of our politics, and it is we who with our feet and our vote and our labors and our vigilance are supposed to shape our country.

  Eugene Jarecki

  Country, Ideas, Feet

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

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• Our country was founded on a distrust of government. Our founding fathers gave power to the people to keep an eye on government. So when politicians say, 'Trust me,' they're actually being very un-American.

  David Duchovny

  Country, Father, Eye

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• We must also promote global access to the Internet. We need to bridge the digital divide not just within our country. But among countries. Only by giving people around the world access to this technology can they tap into the potential. Of the information age.

  Al Gore

  Country, Technology, Bridges

  Al Gor's Foreign Policy Speech to the International Press Institute in Boston, Massachusetts, www.c-span.org. May 1, 2000.

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• It is the responsibility of all the Sudanese, especially the political leaders and the media, to strengthen social cohesion through the proper understanding of the dynamics of unity, if they really want our country to remain united.

  Salva Kiir Mayardit

  Country, Responsibility, Media

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• Our religious police has the most dangerous effect on society - the segregation of genders, putting the wrong ideas in the heads of men and women, producing psychological diseases that never existed in our country before, like fanatacism.

  Basmah bint Saud

  Country, Religious, Men

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• We have found, in our country, that when people have the right to make decisions as close to home as possible, they usually make the right decisions.

  Ronald Reagan

  Country, Home, People

  Address to the International Committee for the Supreme Soviet of the U.S.S.R., September 17, 1990.

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• If we stick together as an American people we can bring down the war criminals that are running our country right now.

  Cindy Sheehan

  Running, Country, War

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• Entrepreneurship is the very back bone of our country and what makes us great - we are a nation of founders.

  Nancy Lublin

  Country, Bones, Entrepreneurship

  "Innovation is Great but Execution is Better" by Nancy Lublin, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 3, 2009.

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