Country Quotes

I think a failed state is the responsibility of the people who have made that state fail, and those are generally the people of that country.

In my country, at that time, being a champion of chess was like being a King. At that time I was a King - and when you are King you feel a lot of responsibility, but there is nobody there to help you.

Our first responsibility is not to ourselves. Our first responsibility is to our country and to our God.

Basically I am a private individual who has concerns about his country and who has resources that give me the privilege - and responsibility - to do something to help my country if I can.

We must all assume out responsibilities to take the country forward.

The managers are getting paid very well by their respective clubs to do a job for their clubs not the country they are working in.

More than anything, I think as our country matures, we recognize that women deserve to be treated with respect and dignity.

I respect the president. He and I have a difference of opinion on how to help the country we both love. But the question each of us wants the voters to answer is who will be the better president, not who is the better American.

I've had the greatest respect for my work in this country by Americans. Critics have no brains.

What helped me was I had people around me to remind me to help my country even when it did me wrong, have respect for my people, my family, my nation and mankind.

I couldn't do country, with all due respect to all country music artists. My parents dressed me up with a cowboy hat and we'd go to the rodeo when I was younger and it traumatized me for life.

I am not someone who believes we should build a fence around our country but I do believe there ought to be some fairness with respect to the rules of this globalization.

I have the utmost respect for those who have come to this country legally and have contributed to the great melting pot that is America today. But those who have crossed our borders illegally have broken the law and the law ought to be enforced.

Marks of Identity is, among other things, the expression of the process of alienation in a contemporary intellectual with respect to his own country.

Unfortunately, you know, working in a spirit of cooperation and respect requires someone else to reach back, and I don't think that's happened and it's been disappointing because the debate in our country has become so rancorous.

There's no country in the world that's more devastated from natural resources than Afghanistan.

The third point is that for some time the UN has been talking about helping Afghanistan in the reconstruction of the country but there has never been any real commitment by the international community to provide resources for that.

You are a large country, you have many resources, and you have people who are highly capable.

Everybody in this country who wants to should be able to get as much education as they want. Education is the best resource we have.

I started hitching about the country when I was 16 or 17 years old. I found the music that was played around the country - Irish music - had a particular resonance.

There's a clear example of resolve in this country to fight back.

I have to think of my status as a resident in this country. But I do insist that in Paraguay there was order; the judiciary had the power of complete independence; justice was fully exercised.

Research in this country is going down.

In addition to the research, I enjoyed learning French and assimilating the culture of another country.

I regard the endorsement of both the objective and a method - which can differ from one country to another- of democratization by the parties in the region as a basic requisite of democratization in the Middle East.

This is a basic requirement the meaning of globalization is that we should admit that the economy of each country is dependent on the economy of all the others.

There are a great number of Republicans who are economically conservative but have hearts and a consciousness about their country.

One of the Republicans' major products is dream making. People are dying to get into this country... not out of it.

The Republicans in the House and the Bush administration are bankrupting this country.

What our Republican friends are doing, if we look at what they do and not what they say, they have decided that the most important thing in this country is to increase payments for interest on the national debt.