Country Quotes

The pollution they produce, market, sell, and show to billions around the world is at its core contemptuous of the country that gave them better lives than nearly 100 percent of everybody who's ever lived. And they pass that contempt along for everyone to see.

Any cook should be able to run the country.

I was only the servant of my country and had I, at any moment, failed to express her unflinching resolve to fight and conquer, I should at once have been rightly cast aside.

A country should be defended not by arms, but by ethical behavior.

If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.

The big companies and their short-term bottom line rule this country.

We have to preserve it and use it sustainably. And the short-term use of resources at the destruction of the long-term heritage of this country is not a policy that we can pursue.

In this country we're just obsessed with making people celebrities before they've even done anything, which I think is just shocking.

I fail to see the issue that will shock the people of this great country of ours into some decisive action.

Pulling on your country's shirt is the greatest honour a footballer can have. It's what I always dreamed of as a kid and I get a buzz every time.

I take any opportunity I can to raise our country's flag really high and get some shining positive light on things over there.

This is not the first time that Mexican authorities have handed over an Arab from a country with known Al Qaeda connections to a local sheriff across the border. FBI picks them up and disappears.

I'm the first to admit I've had a sheltered life. I grew up in the country and went to a boarding school. It was all just part of the business - be nice to everyone and all that.

Fairfax was incredibly important to the shaping of the country.

It is quite time that our children were taught a little more about their country, for shame's sake.

Henceforth, we shall be happy to be a free citizen in an independent country.

It's amazing how, age after age, in country after country, and in all languages, Shakespeare emerges as incomparable.

It is a sexy country. We are very free with our bodies.

Your ethnic or sexual identity, what region of the country you're from, what your class is - those aspects of your identity are not the same as your aesthetic identity.

The time has come to repeal 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell.' It is the right thing to do. Every American should have the opportunity to serve their country, regardless of race, sex, creed, or sexual orientation.

We live in a country where people still get beaten to death because of their sexual orientation.

There are two sayings that are familiar in every news room across the country: 1) sex sells; 2) if it bleeds it leads.

More than seven months ago, our country learned that the horrors portrayed in Hollywood's make-believe world could actually come to life before our very eyes.

You can get awful famous in this country in seven days.

I might say that when the settlement was made the Nixon administration issued what they called a second inflation alert in which the General Motors settlement was branded as being inflationary and bad for the country.

Ours is not a poor country and even though we are now a poor people, there should be no room for the despondency that has settled on large sections of the population.

I couldn't settle in Italy - it was like living in a foreign country.

We are at last on the high lands of Mexico, the districts which at least three different races have chosen to settle in, neglecting the fertile country below.

Publicity is a great purifier because it sets in action the forces of public opinion, and in this country public opinion controls the courses of the nation.

The countless number of influential figures in American history who are of Caribbean heritage indicates the need to set aside a designated time to celebrate their contribution to our country.