Quotes about country
country thinking lasts
I just think it would be unrealistic to suggest we're going to eliminate every last domestic insurgent in Afghanistan. Certainly, the history of the country would indicate that's not a very realistic objective, and I think we have to have realistic objectives. Stephen Harper
country mistake canada
Make no mistake. Canada is not a bilingual country. In fact it is less bilingual today than it has ever been.
country government promise
Canadians know that the promise of a recession didn't happen because of anything we did here. If you look at all the causes of the recession, problems in mortgage markets, the problems in the banking sector, the problems in government finance in countries like Greece, none of those problems were in present Canada.
country responsibility issues
We'll support the government on issues if it's essential to the country but our primary responsibility is not to prop up the government, our responsibility is to provide an opposition and an alternative government for Parliament and for Canadians.
country canada mask
Canada appears content to become a second-tier socialistic country, boasting ever more loudly about its economy and social services to mask its second-rate status ...
country appreciation sacrifice
Too often in the past, our Armed Forces have returned to Canada from their trials with little fanfare. Not so today. Canadians across the country came out in force, united in appreciation, to honour the bravery, heroism, strength and sacrifice of those who fought for freedom and security in Afghanistan.
country inspiration america
America, and particularly your conservative movement, is a light and an inspiration to people in this country and across the world,
country religious hypocrite
A cat won't curry favor even if it's in their best interests to do so. A cat can't be a hypocrite. If more preachers were like cats, this would be a more religious country. Stephen King
country strong people
A strong nation is one that is loved by its people and, as Edmund Burke put it, for a country to be loved it ought to be lovely. Ronald Reagan
country two presidential
We're more than friends and neighbors and allies; we are kin, who together have built the most productive relationship between any two countries in the world today.
country ocean long
In 1939 Winston Churchill, describing the 5000-mile peaceful border dividing Canada and the United States, said, 'That long frontier from the Atlantic to the Pacific Oceans, guarded only by neighborly respect and honorable obligations, is an example to every country and a pattern for the future of the world.
country thinking people
I think people have a need to feel good about the country they live in, but what's happening, I think, is that that need - which is a good thing - is getting manipulated and exploited.
country love-you wealth
Love your country, not for her power or wealth, but for her selflessness and her idealism.
country past america
The things that unite us-America's past of which we are so proud, our hopes and aspirations for the future of the world and this much loved country-these things far outweigh what little divides us.
country war successful
We have to realize that this country in its private sector has been fighting the most successful war on poverty the world has seen for the last 200 years.
country home people
We have found, in our country, that when people have the right to make decisions as close to home as possible, they usually make the right decisions.
country war airplane
With all this talk about the supposed strain in relations [with the Soviet Union], there is an inference that somehow it is our fault. But we didn't kill Russian civilians by shooting down a civilian airplane. We didn't attempt to conquer an adjacent country to ours. We didn't walk out on negotiations and refuse to give a date for when we would resume.
country strong government
This is not to say that the government should confiscate from the "haves" and bestow upon the "have-nots", beyond the requirements of a compassionate welfare program to provide for those who cannot provide for themselves. Far from it. But it is to say that our duty is to foster a strong, vibrant wealth-producing economy which operates in such a way that new additions to wealth accrue to those who presently have little or no ownership stake in their country.
country justice effort
Our economic assistance must be carefully targeted, and must make maximum use of the energy and efforts of the private sector... Economic freedom is the world's mightiest engine for abundance and social justice... Developing countries need to be encouraged to experiment with a growing variety of arrangements for profit sharing and expanded capital ownership.
country team world
I have scored against every team, every country, every defender in the world.
country italian economy
The Italian economy is certainly the weakest of the big European countries. Romano Prodi
country fit berlusconi
Berlusconi is no longer fit to lead our country.
country children predator
I would rather live in a country where children are protected and their predators prosecuted, and even (which in Hollywood is evidently not always the same thing) disapproved of. Roman Polanski
country personal-opinions russia
In my personal opinion, Russia is no less democratic than it used to be. It is a democratic country. It is democratic enough. Roman Abramovich
country war hate
Love of my country does not demand that I shall hate and slay those noble and faithful souls who also love theirs. Romain Rolland
country fighting revolution
They ask me if I'm going to quit. I thought we were just getting started. We have a revolution to fight, a country to change. Ron Paul
country principles born
Secession is a deeply American principle. This country was born through secession.
country hurt years
We're bankrupting our country and we have an empire that we're trying to defend which costs us $1 trillion a year. And the standard of living is going down today. It's going down and the middle class is hurting because of the monetary policy. When you destroy a currency, the middle class gets wiped out.
country war fighting
During World War II, Joseph Stalin was once asked by an American writer, according to Professor Dean Russell, how he could justify conscripting all the property of all the people for use by the government to fight the war. Stalin answered by asking why they considered it more immoral and illogical to conscript lifeless property than to conscript life itself, as was being done in the United States and all other capitalistic countries. His American challenger had no answer, because there was no answer.
country war civil-war
Every country ended slavery without civil war; US could have.
country military believe
I believe that when we overdo our military aggressiveness, it actually weakens our national defense. I mean, we stood up to the Soviets. They had 40,000 nuclear weapons. Now we're fretting day in and day and night about third-world countries that have no army, navy or air force.
country historical liberty
Our country's founders cherished liberty, not democracy.
country ideas people
The World's Smallest Political Quiz is responsible for many Americans' first contact with libertarian ideas. While traveling around the country, I have often heard people say, 'I never knew I was a libertarian until I took the Quiz!'