Our Country Quotes - Page 27

• But our country's equivalent of gritty reality is more like "Look out Sarge, he's got a shooter!"

  Bill Bailey

  Funny, Country, Humor

  "Cosmic Jam". Comic DVD, 2005.

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• As Pope Francis visits the United States for the very first time, it is our privilege as Catholics and Americans to welcome His Holiness to our country. Here, he will find people who are uniquely free.

  Marco Rubio

  Country, People, Catholic

  Source: www.cnn.com

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• Religious freedom is often referred to as America's first freedom. Our country was founded by religious exiles and built on the belief that God has given all people certain inalienable rights. Government's role in society is to protect these rights and ensure that we are safe from religious persecution and discrimination.

  Marco Rubio

  Country, Religious, Rights

  Source: www.cnn.com

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• Even when we are deeply divided over important issues facing our country and the world, "In God We Trust" for the guidance and wisdom to do what's both right and necessary for our Republic.

  Marco Rubio

  Country, Issues, Important

  Source: www.cnn.com

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• Japan should not intervene in other countries' conflicts by using military power. And I don't think Japan is capable of doing such things. For starters, I don't believe our country has sufficient human resources to make that type of international contribution.

  Sadako Ogata

  Country, Military, Believe

  Source: asia.nikkei.com

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• President Obama has been a disaster for America. He's wrecked our economy, saddled our children with more debt than America managed to rack up in 225 years, and gone around the world apologizing for our country - as if the greatest nation in the world needs to apologize for being a land of opportunity and freedom, which we were before Obama became president.

  Donald Trump

  Country, Children, Opportunity

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• We welcome private investment, but any company or national firm will be a partner of a venture where the result will go mainly to the Bolivian people. Of course, any investor is entitled to recover their investment and take profits. But be assured that these new functions with our partners will also be reinvested in our country for the benefit of the Bolivian people.

  Evo Morales

  Country, People, Benefits

  Interview with David Hirschman, bigthink.com. September 22, 2010.

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• Government and politics isn't like a reality TV show. It's not about voting the bad guys out of the house. You know, it's about what do we need to take our country or our state or our city forward? And people, frankly, would be well advised to really get back into understanding politics.

  Campbell Newman

  Country, Reality, Government

  "Campbell's Comeback". "Landline" with Pip Courtney, www.abc.net.au. September 20, 2015.

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• The cultural influences in our country are like the floo floo bird. I am referring to the peculiar and especial bird who always flew backward. To keep the wind out of its eyes? No. Just because it didn't give a darn where it was going, but just had to see where it had been.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Country, Eye, Past

  Frank Lloyd Wright (1992). “Frank Lloyd Wright Collected Writings: 1931-1939”, Rizzoli Intl Pubns

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• The strength of my country lies in the huts of the poor; in the villages; in the youth, mothers and sisters; in the farmers...I believe in your strength and hence I believe in the future of our country.

  Narendra Modi

  Mother, Country, Lying

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• The choices we make now will shape the future of not just our countries, but the world at large. We should intensify our cooperation in confronting global challenges like Terrorism, Cyber Security and Climate Change.

  Narendra Modi

  Country, Choices, Challenges

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• I salute the poor of our country who have deposited more than Rs 20,000 crore in Jan Dhan Bank Accounts.

  Narendra Modi

  Country, Motivation, India

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• We weren't lucky enough to sacrifice our lives for our country, but at least we can live for our country!

  Narendra Modi

  Country, Motivation, Sacrifice

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• If we want the nation to move ahead, then we'll have to leave behind the thinking that Government will do everything...we all need to collectively devote to make our country move forward.

  Narendra Modi

  Country, Moving Forward, Thinking

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• I don't think the average American understands what patriotism truthfully is. That's why when I attack our country or attack the government, it's sometimes looked at as unpatriotic. It's not.

  Patti Smith

  Country, Thinking, Government

  Source: www.spin.com

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• I can remember saying again and again and again, "A terrible thing has happened, but this should be a kind of wake-up call for our country, and we have a great opportunity now to reinvent ourselves. To rethink our position about oil and energy, to rethink our relationship with other cultures and other countries, and why other people want to attack us."

  Paul Auster

  Country, Opportunity, Other Cultures

  Interview with Gregg LaGambina, www.avclub.com. September 6, 2008.

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• I still believe we wasted a golden opportunity to make significant changes in our country. I think people in America would have been ready and willing to do it, but the Bush administration took a kind of simplistic, almost moronic approach to it, all because people were so afraid.

  Paul Auster

  Country, Believe, Opportunity

  Interview with Gregg LaGambina, www.avclub.com. September 6, 2008.

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• We ought to increase legal immigration for our country's advantage. The high-tech world we are now dominating is dependent on educated folks, but we're short...of workers. It is to our nation's advantage to encourage high-powered, smart people to come into our country.

  George H. W. Bush

  Country, Smart, People

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• At the front end, to stop people from illegally entering our country, not at the back end, by reimbursing states after it has failed to enforce the border. [I] would allocate additional resources to enforcing the border, so states such as Texas and California would not have the huge expenses they currently do.

  George H. W. Bush

  Country, Texas, California

  "Bush Says He Misunderstood Illegal-Immigration Question / He didn't mean states should pay all costs" by Carla Marinucci, www.sfgate.com. September 9, 1999.

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• They are possibly the dumbest people on the planet... We Americans suffer from an enforced ignorance. We don't know about anything that's happening outside our country. Our stupidity is embarrassing.

  Michael Moore

  Sarcastic, Country, Ignorance

  "The Awkward Conscience of a Nation". The Daily Mirror, November 3, 2003.

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• A militia law, requiring all men, or with very few exceptions besides cases of conscience, to be provided with arms and ammunition... is always a wise institution, and, in the present circumstances of our country, indispensable.

  John Adams

  Wise, Country, Men

  John Adams (1851). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.199

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• I know of no one who has been more helpful to the industry. His teachings and consultations internationally, without doubt, improved the quality of winemaking in our country. He was a friend to everyone interested in fine wine.

  Robert Mondavi

  Country, Teaching, Wine

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• Where will our country find leaders with integrity, courage, strength-all the family values-in ten, twenty, or thirty years? The answer is that you are teaching them, loving them, and raising them right now.

  Barbara Bush

  Country, Integrity, Teaching

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• A person who believes that Elvis is still alive is very unlikely to get promoted to a position of great power and responsibility in our society. Neither will a person who believes that the holocaust was a hoax. But people who believe equally irrational things about God and the bible are now running our country. This is genuinely terrifying.

  Sam Harris

  Running, Country, Believe

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• These bastards who run our country are a bunch of conniving, thieving, smug pricks who need to be brought down and removed and replaced with a whole new system that we control.

  Michael Moore

  Running, Country, Needs

  Michael Moore (2004). “Dude, Where's My Country?”

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