Quotes about country
country wall government
Every president needs to deal with the permanent government of the country, and the permanent government of the country is Wall Street oligarchs and corporate plutocrats and the questions becomes what is the relationship between that president and Wall Street. Cornel West
country men america
To accept your country without betraying it, you must love it for that which shows what it might become. America -- this monument to the genius of ordinary men and women, this place where hope becomes capacity, this long, halting turn of 'no' into the 'yes' -- needs citizens who love it enough to re-imagine and re-make it.
country struggle fighting
The country is in deep trouble. We've forgotten that a rich life consists fundamentally of serving others, trying to leave the world a little better than you found it. We need the courage to question the powers that be, the courage to be impatient with evil and patient with people, the courage to fight for social justice. In many instances we will be stepping out on nothing, and just hoping to land on something. But that's the struggle. To live is to wrestle with despair, yet never allow despair to have the last word.
country people heartbeat
This country will kill you in a heartbeat and still people love it. Cormac McCarthy
country reading past
It may be enough to study history in all its nuance and ambiguity for its own sake. But there is no country free of the need to find new ways of reading the past as an inspiring way of thinking about everything else, including the present. Colm Toibin
country cheer language
Music is the great cheer-up in the language of all countries. Clifford Odets
country couple years
I got fed up with being in bands. I spent a couple of years touring the country in a smoked filled band, doing lots of drugs and being really unhealthy. Cliff Martinez
country successful president
Apparently Arnold was inspired by President Bush, who proved you can be a successful politician in this country even if English is your second language. Conan O'Brien
country crazy hair
Donald Trump is the grandson of German immigrants. Don't worry. The last time a German guy with crazy hair took over a country, everything turned out fine.
country military decision
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has been awarded the highest rank in the country's military. The decision was praised by everyone from Parliamentary leader Kim Jong Un to opposition leader Kim Jong Un.
country garden kitchen
If there is to be any hope of prosperity for this country it is by reversing that policy which made us simply the kitchen garden for supplying the British with cheap food. Eamon de Valera
country embrace music-is
I embrace country music because of love, a love of what I came from. Dwight Yoakam
country crazy thinking
I think Helen of Troy must have been pretty hot. She got two countries going crazy for 10 years over her. Colin Quinn
country iraq leader
Baghdad fell on April 9, 2003, Hussein and his regime were brought down, we declared "Mission Accomplished" and celebrated victory . . . and chaos erupted. We did not assert control and authority over the country, especially Baghdad. We did not bring with us the capacity to impose our will. We did not take charge. And Iraq did not in a few weeks magically transform itself into a stable nation with democratic leaders. Instead a raging insurgency engulfed the country. Colin Powell
country government work-out
We all hoped in 2001 that we could put in place an Afghan government under President Karzai that would be able to control the country, make sure al-Qaeda didn't come back, and make sure the Taliban wasn't resurging. It didn't work out.
country volunteer together
We are not going to dwell on those things that divide us. We are going to rejoice in those things that keep us together to make this a better country - to reach down and back to touch every young person in need!
country philosophy slave-owners
It's the old American Double Standard, ya know: Say one thing, do somethin' different. And of course this country is founded on the double standard. That's our history. We were founded on a very basic double standard: This country was founded by slave owners who wanted to be free. George Carlin
country good likes sam stands street uncle wall war
Wall Street likes it when Uncle Sam stands tall. Wall Street likes a little war when we're in the right. It makes us feel good about our country and ourselves.
country dictators foreign likely pockets
Foreign trade is not a replacement for foreign aid, of course, but foreign aid to a country that doesn't also engage in significant amounts of foreign trade is more likely to end up in the pockets of dictators and cronies. Brian Behlendorf
country decay general god rising
There is a rising generation in this country who do not know God because of a general decay of religion. Arthur Middleton
country forces liberate occupying relations russia
We will liberate our country from the occupying forces and put an end to relations between Russia and the Chechen State, no matter how difficult the task may be. Aslan Maskhadov
country egypt middle women
Egypt was the first democracy in the Middle East. Women were unveiled in the 1920s. Egypt is a country of civilization, of culture. It shouldn't be suffering. Ahmed Zewail
country haiti outsiders poorest range remains supposed western
For the better part of two centuries, outsiders have been offering explanations that range from racist to learned-sounding - the supposed inferiority of blacks, the heritage of slavery, overpopulation - for why Haiti remains the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere. Adam Hochschild
country elitist people point radical run until
This country has always been run by elite, and it's an elitist democracy. And that's not a radical concept. It's elitist democracy. When people talk about democracy, they don't talk - really talk about participatory democracy, until the point that we get us at Election Day. Danny Glover
country
My country right or wrong; when right, to keep her right; when wrong, to put her right. Carl Schurz
country relationships
The answer dictates what the policy should be in our relationships with every country in the world. Bob Menendez
country menace saw terrible
What happened? The Country got sick of it and said, Enough is enough. And all over the Country we saw springing up community organizations determined to do something about this terrible menace of drugs. Barry McCaffrey
country
I want to produce a country album for a country singer.
country hindu liberal time
As for my stand, I think it has become difficult in our country to be a Hindu and a liberal at the same time. Anupam Kher
country donor functional generate medicine needing organs shortage shown solution techniques
We have shown that regenerative medicine techniques can be used to generate functional bladders that are durable. This suggests that regenerative medicine may one day be a solution to the shortage of donor organs in this country for those needing transplants. Anthony Atala
country decline general ground interest loses policy science united
The partisanship surrounding space exploration and the retrenching of U.S. space policy are part of a more general trend: the decline of science in the United States. As its interest in science wanes, the country loses ground to the rest of the industrialized world in every measure of technological proficiency. Neil deGrasse Tyson
country education question role says science teaching
This really says something about the role of science education in this country and begs us to question how we are teaching evolutionary theory. Andrew Cohen
country politics
The Philippines is one country where politics matter." ()