Our Country Quotes - Page 30

• German businesspeople have invested a great deal in our country, and trade is flourishing. We want to speed up economic cooperation. Your country is a large, important provider of aid, and it has done a great deal to reduce the poverty of many Vietnamese.

  Nguyen Minh Triet

  Country, Important, Done

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I believe I am a work horse. I believe that that is what our country needs. We need a president who will roll up our sleeves collectively as a nation and tackle the problems that we confront.

  Hillary Clinton

  Country, Horse, Believe

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• I meet people who can't get healthcare for their families, people who are just distressed over what is happening in our country. So when somebody asks me, "How do you get up?" it really triggered in me the feeling that that's what I want us all to think about each other. How do we get up? How do we pull on our shoes, go out and deal with the problems America faces. That's what I intend to do as president.

  Hillary Clinton

  Country, Thinking, Shoes

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• I am a great supporter of bionics and this diversity in nature, this genetic diversity, is not available for free. We, as industrialized nations, have already sinned enough, and we have significantly reduced biodiversity in our countries. But now we expect the poor, less developed countries of the world to preserve their rainforests, mangrove forests and coral landscapes for us at no charge.

  Klaus Topfer

  Country, Countries Of The World, Diversity

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• In a speech in Texas, Donald Trump called Hillary Clinton 'easily the worst Secretary of State in the history of our country.' When asked what he based that on, Trump said, 'I heard ME say it just now. So it's gotta be true.'

  Jimmy Fallon

  Country, Texas, Speech

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• Our country right or wrong is an evil motto - what if your country be in the wrong? It will only compound her injury. I wish to serve the republic with an honest and fearless criticism.

  Horace Greeley

  Country, Evil, Fearless

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• I heard the prophet Joseph Smith say the time would come when this nation would so far depart from its original purity, its glory, and its love for freedom and its protection of civil rights and religious rights, that the Constitution of our country would hang as it were by a thread. He said, also, that this people, the sons of Zion, would rise up and save the Constitution and bear it off triumphantly.

  Eliza R. Snow

  Country, Religious, Son

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• What better day to lay the cornerstone of the Freedom Tower than the day our country declared its independence.

  George Pataki

  Country, Independence, Towers

  "Cornerstone to be laid at trade center site" by Phil Hirschkorn, Alina Cho, www.cnn.com. July 3, 2004.

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• Join us in the fight to defeat the Washington machine. It’s fun and easy to get started. You can make a difference and change the direction of our country! Join today.

  Rand Paul

  Country, Fun, Fighting

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• Discover how beautiful our country is and how wonderful our people are. Time to fall in love with the Philippines.

  Tony Meloto

  Beautiful, Country, Falling In Love

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• Crossing the Finish Line is a must-read for anyone concerned with the disturbing fact that Americans can no longer count on each generation being better educated than the last. Focusing on public institutions that educate more than three-fourths of U.S. students, Bowen, Chingos, and McPherson provide compelling arguments that institutions and policymakers must find new ways to overcome deeply entrenched patterns if our country is to regain its position as the most educated.

  Molly Corbett Broad

  Country, Overcoming, Three

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• Years ago I decided that the greatest need in our Country was Art... We were a very young country and had very few opportunities of seeing beautiful things, works of art... So, I determined to make it my life's work if I could.

  Isabella Stewart Gardner

  Beautiful, Country, Art

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• I believe that all people that are successful should pay back their cities, their states, their towns, our country.

  John Catsimatidis

  Country, Believe, Successful

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• The divers were the bravest of us. They gave their lives for the independence of our country and the success of our revolution.

  Mohsen Rezaee

  Success, Country, Eight

  "How Iran is trying to win back the youth" by Narges Bajoghli, www.theguardian.com. July 20, 2015.

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• If, with the nation watching, three black women at three different levels can't get justice... for this community, you tell me where you're going to get it in our country.

  Stephanie Rawlings-Blake

  Country, Justice, Community

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• Even if we were to sign peace today, the economic conditions in our country would not improve automatically because it will take some time to reach the level of oil production before the war and the oil prices are likely to remain low for some time as the supply of oil in the world is high and demand is low.

  Salva Kiir Mayardit

  Country, Peace, War

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• Our country regularly uses military force, but only a fraction of Americans serve in the military. This means fewer and fewer people have a direct link to the military, and yet it remains as important as ever that we have a rich understanding of what we are doing as a country.

  Phil Klay

  Country, Military, Mean

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• Walt Whitman's "Leaves of Grass" is still in print. They're debating right now over Mark Twain. He's still available. Winslow Homer can still be seen. Our arts are - they're there. We got to go get them and understand that this is an important legacy for our country.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Country, Art, Important

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I think we really made a mistake in separating the Internet from capitalism in a certain way that is bad for our country.

  Esther Dyson

  Country, Mistake, Thinking

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• I am convinced that a multi-faceted dialogue between Russia and Egypt will continue to deepen and expand for the benefit of the peoples of our countries, for the sake of peace and stability in the Middle East and North Africa.

  Vladimir Putin

  Country, Peace, Russia

  "Putin visits Cairo amid ongoing chill in US-Egypt relations" by Paul Alster, www.foxnews.com. February 09, 2015.

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• I can tell you what I believe, particularly about Mexican-Americans: they are a community that has contributed greatly to this country, they work extremely hard, they've been very productive citizens of our country, and I think that's true of many ethnic groups in this country.

  Marco Rubio

  Country, Believe, Thinking

  "GOP worries about Donald Trump fallout" by Chris Moody, www.cnn.com. July 8, 2015.

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• Americans who read and think are patriots of the first order. The kind who know enough to roll their eyes whenever anyone tries to claim sole custody of the flag and weild it as a blunt instrument. There are as many ways to love America as there are Americans, and our country needs us all.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Country, Eye, Thinking

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• [Saddam Hussein] is a threat because he is dealing with al-Qaeda. . . . A true threat facing our country is that an al-Qaeda-type network trained and armed by Saddam could attack America and not leave one fingerprint.

  George W. Bush

  Country, America, Hussein

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• I believe in active citizenship, for men and women equally, as a simple matter of right and justice. I believe we will have better government in all of our countries when men and women discuss public issues together and make their decisions on the basis of their different areas of experience and their common concern for the welfare of their families and their world.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Country, Believe, Men

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1995). “What I Hope to Leave Behind: The Essential Essays of Eleanor Roosevelt”, Carlson Pub

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• I think future generations will look back at this history of our country and call us barbarians for murdering millions of babies who we never gave a chance to live.

  Marco Rubio

  Country, Baby, Thinking

  Marco Rubio's speech at the first GOP debate in Cleveland, Ohio, www.washingtonpost.com. August 6, 2015.

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