Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chuck Hagel

People are not trying to get into China, they're trying to get out of China. The United States is the only great country where people are trying to get into to this country for obvious reasons.

If all goes well, the Iraqis are going to have a country that's going to have a representative government and will be at peace with its neighbors and in the region.

With all the other -isms that we deal with, that sort of nameless -ism that we have in too many of our hearts against the poor in this country is what wounds us most broadly.

Bill Nelson

There's no excuse for skimping on national defense when the country is at war.

Barry Ritholtz

The way we finance homes in this country is slow, filled with middlemen, who run a nonstandardized evaluation process. This makes financing a home cumbersome and difficult.

Sun Tzu

There has never been a protracted war from which a country has benefited.

Amy Klobuchar

You want to represent the country and you want elected officials that are representative of the country.

Amy Klobuchar

We've got great potential in our country and the only way we're going to make sure kids are getting the degrees that they need, make sure we're getting through that red tape, is by working together.

There's an opportunity for the pharmacist to play a much greater role in health care, especially with what we have going on in this country with the shortage of primary-care physicians.

Georgia Holt

I started singing on the radio in Los Angeles. I sang blues, but I would tend toward country blues.

Isabel Allende

I have become an American citizen, and I love this country. I think that this country has incredible potential for goodness, an incredible possibility for doing the wrong thing, too.

India may be the only country in the world that has been free of anti-Semitic prejudice throughout its history.

I think it's perhaps fair to say we've been one of the most influential Royal Commissions this country ever had and there's nothing we have said that isn't relevant to the present situation.

Christian Louboutin

When I'm doing a store in a country, I always like to consider the concept of the country and the city.

Benjamin Netanyahu

We're willing to make difficult and hard decisions and compromises to live in peace with our neighbours, but we're entitled to our own country where Jews from around the world can come here, just as Palestinians from around the world can come to the Palestinian state.

Luke Bryan

You see a lot of people out there that say they're country, and they do their little things that are stereotypical country things, but being country is a way of life.

Luke Bryan

There's always room for your hard-core country songs, and that will always shine through, and I'll always have those on my albums. And then I'll have fun stuff that gets people up and dancing that some people may want to say, 'Well that sounds real pop-y!' but I don't really think it does, I just think it's what's going on.

LZ Granderson

Of all the parts that make up my somewhat quirky life, there are few things that raise a stranger's eyebrows faster than discovering I love country music.

Oscar Hijuelos

It's true that immigrant novels have to do with people going from one country to another, but there isn't a single novel that doesn't travel from one place to another, emotionally or locally.

David Mamet

Roll back the clock, and every possession of every great country started with a crime.

I knew it to be very doubtful whether the Cabinet, Parliament, and the country would take this view on the outbreak of war, and through the whole of this week I had in view the probable contingency that we should not decide at the critical moment to support France.

Karl Liebknecht

Yes, Socialists should defend their country in great historical crises.

Flo Rida

It's always overwhelming when you come to another country and you're embraced in such a positive way.

Fatos Nano

To rebuild this country will take a long time but we have the mandate and the people support us.

Faye Wattleton

This is not a country that has had a tremendous sympathy for poor people, so I think that the notion that somehow we have slipped into an era in which poor people don't matter is not quite the way our history would define it.

Gram Parsons

I just passed my identification crisis and came back to country music.

I don't belong to any country clubs. I don't have this big circle of friends. Where I make my friends is where I work.

Thomas Menino

We were the first urban school system in the country to wire all of our schools for the Internet.

We're trying to take a leadership role in solving the nation's health-care crisis. We want everybody in this country to have health insurance.

We're trying to help other states offer some form of tax relief because of the very problem we see in Nevada we're seeing around the country - rapidly escalated values and people being taxed out of their homes.

Alan Shearer

I hope I never have to face that feeling of missing and sending my country or team out of a competition.

Blake Shelton

When you start dating another country star, the first question is, 'When are y'all gonna do a duet?' And what sucks about that is people expect you to do it whether you want to or not.

Blake Shelton

One of my all-time favorite country singers is a guy named Conway Twitty.