National Quotes

Science, almost from its beginnings, has been truly international in character. National prejudices disappear completely in the scientist's search for truth.

All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.

National character is only another name for the particular form which the littleness, perversity and baseness of mankind take in every country. Every nation mocks at other nations, and all are right.

We'll never see national shows with 45 shares again.

The French have got to understand that a film is so expensive that it can no longer afford to be regional or even national in scope.

I find it greatly disturbing that the Bush administration has used political and religious ideologies to influence national policy on science and medicine.

The realities of the modern global economy require government to play a substantial role in ensuring the national and economic security of the people.

A standard international language should not only be simple, regular, and logical, but also rich and creative.

Health care comprises nearly 20 percent of our national economy, but outdated bureaucracy and red tape have stifled competition and raised costs. As a result, today more than 45 million are without any health coverage.

All of Britain's aid is spent in Britain's national interests, and some of it contributes to Britain's national security as well.

Those 40 or 50 national correspondents who had followed Kennedy since the beginning of his electoral exertions into the November days had become more than a press corps - they had become his friends and, some of them, his most devoted admirers.

The Silent Service is all together too silent. It's important to begin to highlight the critical importance of the Silent Service to our national security.

Mr. Obama denounced the $2.3 trillion added to the national debt on Mr. Bush's watch as "deficits as far as the eye can see." But Mr. Obama's budget adds $9.3 trillion to the debt over the next 10 years. What happened to Obama the deficit hawk?

The national team comes before everything.

Here we encounter two conflicting concepts with which we must come to grips in our time: the idea of national solidarity and the idea of international cooperation.

I was for two years a pupil at the Model School in Fort street which was then conducted upon the Irish national system, and if any special religious instruction was given in connection with that system, I do not recollect it.

The whole of our national sport is not doing very well.

You talked about national identity cards and the terrorism bill. We have made a government that has grown used to viewing us as subjects, has grown used to seeing its role as commanding us.

Six months ago, I traveled to India to see firsthand what the prime minister of that country calls a national shame. It is the systematic, widespread, shocking elimination of India's baby girls. Some 50,000 female fetuses are aborted every month in India.

The newspapers loved pinup pictures of pretty young swimmers, and as a national champion, I got more than my share of space in the sports pages.

Stay with us, please remain in this country and constitute a nation based on national unity.

We have an incredible national forest service, and we have an incredible child outreach program that the president has put together. I don't see anything wrong with national service for a minimum of two years. If we were to require that, we wouldn't need a draft.

And when they do spin out of control there are important ramifications that affect America, not just its direct national interest but its broader interests as a nation which has thought of itself as a beacon to other nations, of freedom, liberty, democracy, whatever.

From blood banking to the modern subway, from jazz to social justice, the contributions of African Americans have shaped and molded and influenced our national culture and our national character.

I don't know how this company got the name National Shakespeare Company, because it was literally like retards employing retards.

We hope that the plain people - the labourers and small farmers - will take this opportunity of coming together and working out the National programme.

Typically, an historic site is considered by the National Park Service to contain a single historical feature, while generally a National Historic Park extends beyond single properties or buildings.

The standards of the international community manifest firmness. Iran has no need for long-range missiles or to collaborate with terrorist organizations all over the world.

The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is a unique and biologically special place that should be preserved.

There's no excuse for skimping on national defense when the country is at war.