Country Quotes

I didn't leave bodybuilding until I felt that I had gone as far as I could go. It will be the same with my film career. When I feel the time is right, I will then consider public service. I feel that the highest honor comes from serving people and your country.

When was the last time you heard news accounts of a boatload of American refugees arrive on the shores of another country?

It's about time we make the well-being of our young people more important than ideology and politics. As a country, we benefit from investing in their future by investing in teen pregnancy prevention.

What the country needs are a few labor-making inventions.

There used to be this country called the Soviet Union; it's not there anymore. Our technology was better than theirs.

But my view is that you need a system at the border. You need some fencing but you need technology. You need boots on the ground. And then you need to have interior enforcement of our nation's immigration laws inside the country. And that means dealing with the employers who still consistently hire illegal labor.

Further, the United States is moving ahead in the development of clean coal technology. There are vast coal reserves in our country, and when it is burned cleanly, coal can provide a resource to supply a large amount of our energy requirements.

Without competition, the spectacular development of technology that we have seen in the last one hundred years in this country would not have happened.

Canada's a huge country, so to be able to unite the country through communication satellite technology or to be able to observe it through remote sensing technology from space is a natural fit for a country like Canada.

Whether you come from a council estate or a country estate, your success will be determined by your own confidence and fortitude.

You know, I start with the assumption that -or with, with the belief that this president has to succeed. We all have an enormous amount of capital invested in his success. His success is the country's success.

In America, as opposed to the old country, success was based on merit.

Well, I do feel that I carry the responsibility of representing my country wherever I am, and this responsibility came with the success that I had in last couple of years, not just myself but the whole group of tennis players that comes from Serbia. And athletes in general are, in this moment, the biggest ambassadors that our country has.

Winning in Afghanistan is having a country that is stable enough to ensure that there is no safe haven for Al Qaida or for a militant Taliban that welcomes Al Qaida. That's really the measure of success for the United States.

We all know that Social Security is one of this country's greatest success stories in the 20th century.

I sang in the coffee houses of the country in the early '60s with no idea of success in terms of records or television. I just thought I was a storyteller. I didn't even think of myself as a singer.

It is not that I don't like contemporary country music because I do. I love it. I have recorded a lot and have had great success recording records that have not been very traditional country records.

I don't know why people question the academic training of an athlete. Fifty percent of the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their classes.

We're a crazy country about sports, but for the longest time, only followed our own sports.

The importance that our society attaches to sport is incredible. After all, is football a game or a religion? The people of this country have allowed sports to get completely out of hand.

Sports can unify the Iraqi people - no Sunnis, no Shiites, just sport for the country.

But as a practical matter, Detroit's the sports city in the country.

You can find your way across this country using burger joints the way a navigator uses stars.

We are trying to construct a more inclusive society. We are going to make a country in which no one is left out.

Class is not a fixed designation in this country. We are an upwardly mobile society with a lot of movement between income groups.

In many respects, the United States is a great country. Freedom of speech is protected more than in any other country. It is also a very free society.

All the United States, it is a society that is split like to the bottom, that had very poor people in the country that is one of the wealthiest countries.

No one can live entirely on their own, nor can any country or society exist in isolation.

Full participation in government and society has been a basic right of the country symbolizing the full citizenship and equal protection of all.

I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.