Famous Quotes & Sayings

Deana Carter

Any album that I ever put out I'm going to send it to country radio first.

Dilma Rousseff

I believe that Brazil was prepared to elect a woman. Why? Because Brazilian women achieved that. I didn't come here by myself, by my own merits. We are a majority here in this country.

Bobby Fischer

The white people should go back to Europe, and the country should be returned to the American Indians. This is the future I would like to see for the so-called United States.

Barry Goldwater

It's a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president . . . except me.

Barry Goldwater

You don't need to be straight to fight and die for your country. You just need to shoot straight.

Barbara Boxer

The White House has embarked on a mission to convince the people of our country that Social Security is in dire need of drastic change in order to save it for all workers

Barbara Boxer

More than anything, I think as our country matures, we recognize that women deserve to be treated with respect and dignity

Artur Davis

Sometimes in this country, we don't focus a lot on people's experience and their resume. Mitt Romney would be the most experienced executive to be nominated since 1952. The fundamental task for the next president is going to be fixing things, cleaning things up, being a turnaround artist, if you will.

Aristophanes

A man should be able to stand up under any disaster for his country's good.

Anton Yelchin

Russia itself is an extremely complex country, and sometimes I feel like all of that comes back to haunt me. I can see why so many Russian writers were so tortured.

Anurag Kashyap

Indian films have this obsession with hygienic clean spaces, even though the country's not so clean. They're either shot in the studios or shot in London, in America, in Switzerland - clean places. Everywhere except India.

Antonin Scalia

Day by day, case by case, the Supreme Court is busy designing a Constitution for a country I do not recognize.

Bruce Babbitt

We have to preserve it and use it sustainably. And the short-term use of resources at the destruction of the long-term heritage of this country is not a policy that we can pursue.

Edwidge Danticat

There is a frustration too, that at moments when there's not a coup, when there are not people in the streets, that the country disappears from people's consciousness.

Edwidge Danticat

The justification - the idea that we have a right to invade another country and determine another people's destiny - is frightening. And I fear really for the future of that occupation. What happens now, and twenty years from now, and forty years from now, given our case? People in the United States may feel like when we don't see it on CNN twenty-four hours a day, it sort of disappears. But it doesn't disappear for the people who have to live under occupation - and their children and their children's children.

Edmund Burke

I am not one of those who think that the people are never in the wrong. They have been so, frequently and outrageously, both in other countries and in this. But I do say that in all disputes between them and their rulers, the presumption is at least upon a par in favour of the people.

Edmund Burke

In this choice of inheritance we have given to our frame of polity the image of a relation in blood; binding up the constitution of our country with our dearest domestic ties; adopting our fundamental laws into the bosom of our family affections; keeping inseparable and cherishing with the warmth of all their combined and mutually reflected charities, our state, our hearths, our sepulchres, and our altars.

Edward Ruscha

I barely knew I wanted to be an artist. I liked my art classes and painting was fun, I guess, but I didn't realize that seeing the country was going to inspire me to further explore that... but that's what it did.

Edward Said

To say that we're going to end countries or eradicate terrorism, and that it's a long war over many years, with many different instruments, suggests a much more complex and drawn-out conflict for which, I think, most Americans aren't prepared.

Edward Snowden

I'm not a spy for Russia or China or any other country for that matter.

Edward Snowden

Defending ourselves from internet-based attacks, internet-originated attacks, is much, much more important than our ability to launch attacks against similar targets in foreign countries.

Edward Snowden

I love my country. I love my family. And I have dedicated my life to both of them.

Edward Snowden

If the United States is promoting the development of exploits, of vulnerabilities, of insecurity in this critical infrastructure, and we're not fixing it when we find it, instead we put it on the shelf so we can use it the next time we want to launch an attack against some foreign country. We're leaving ourselves at risk.

Edward Snowden

I can do more good outside of prison... This country is worth dying for.

We have arrived. Now the entire county is getting the respect.

We have a pretty high standard of what we expect, and a lot of that comes from a lot of things Stark County has done.

We have invited a number of global energy players to explore oil in our country and share production with us.

We have imposed the strictest voting system tests in the country. We think this should be part of it too,

Bruce Willis

There are, I think, three countries left in the world where I can go and I'm not as well-known as I am here. I'm a pretty big star, folks - I don't have to tell you. Superstar, I guess you could say.

Bruce Willis

Violence - look, we live in a violent world, man. This country was founded on violence. Who's kidding who?

Bruce Chatwin

I will go to France, to Yugoslavia, to China and continue my profession. 'As sanitary engineer?' No, Monsieur. As adventurer. I will see all the peoples and all the countries in the world.

We hear that Dolly Parton was in town eating dinner at a restaurant, or other country music stars doing this and that.

We have reached a solution to the problem. We feel a huge satisfaction at having liberated the country from a truly difficult situation.