Country Quotes

To me, country music tells a story about, and deals with, the way people live their lives and what they do.

When the people who are responsible for our country ask you a direct question, I expect them to accept a direct answer, not to be blackballed because you are telling the truth.

Presidents do not go off on leave without telling the country.

I have a great deal of difficulty with those who live in a hugely prosperous country telling people in the developing world that they should be deprived of a critical source of energy.

I am telling you, as a president of the country, I do not find it a mistake to listen to you and to respond to your requests and demands. But it is shameful and I will not, nor will ever accept to hear foreign dictations, whatever the source might be or whatever the context it came in.

I want to tell you that if the Great Spirit had chosen anyone to be the chief of this country, it is myself.

But I think there was a sense amongst the House Republicans especially that we didn't just want to be opposed to Bill Clinton; that we wanted to tell the country what we were for and to brand ourselves in a more positive manner.

Television is an instrument which can paralyze this country.

It's the first war we've ever fought on the television screen and the first war that our country ever fought where the media had full reign.

What you need to know about me is that I always just wanted to be a country singer. I didn't choose the path of television or being on magazine covers.

The sense of national catastrophe is inevitably heightened in a television age, when the whole country participates in it.

This country is armed to the teeth, and none of these African states could begin to attack South Africa.

I live 50 miles from London and we've got some of the highest levels of teenage and childhood poverty in the country. It's disgusting. Just because it's a rural area, it gets forgotten.

Cameroon is stronger because it's a country of conquerors, of winners. Cameroon's players aren't necessarily very technical, but that when they play, they play to win.

At the moment there are some England players who are the stars of their club teams, but not for their country. It's difficult to explain.

As a scientist, you feel a sense of team spirit for your country but you also have a sense of team spirit for the international community.

When I competed, it was for honor and country. It was a privilege to be a part of the U.S. team.

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

I have scored against every team, every country, every defender in the world.

There is a great responsibility on the team to perform well, because our supporters and the whole of the country are expecting us to do just that.

This is America's Team and we are confident this outstanding group of athletes will make our country proud.

No one country has a team that hold a monopoly on the league like Maccabi does in Israel.

The country is making a big mistake not teaching kids to cook and raise a garden and build fires.

By no means do I anticipate screening those who come on to campus... And I have no difficulty if a bishop across the country or some local pastor may say that's not Catholic teaching - that's fine.

The Church has never changed its teaching on the sanctity of human life - it didn't make up a rule for the convenience of a particular time like a rule at a country club as the Governor would have us believe.

It's very important to always put things in their historical contexts. It teaches important lessons about the country in question.

I think you learn a lot about a country from its art. To me, it's part of the drama of life. It teaches you that there are places, moments and incidents in other cultures that genuinely have a life of their own.

It is absolutely impossible to settle the debts to pensioners, teachers, and others. The country hasn't got enough money to do so.

Since the conception of our country, America has held that parents, not schools, teachers, and certainly not courts, hold the primary responsibility of educating their children.

I think what should be celebrated about our campaign is we have over 3 million people who have contributed to our campaign - teachers, firefighters, nurses, retirees. They're making up the backbone of this field organization in the country.