Quotes about Country, page 2

I think you will see a lot of strains develop in the political process that will result in violence everywhere in the country - but it's controllable, it's workable and it will lead to a much better future for these people.

Quote by John Abizaid about country

I'm not a politician. I just would like to see us lead the war, this country, this world, in a better way than just killing those people.

Quote by F. Murray Abraham about country

I really do think that if we had lost that case we would really live in a country that would be really quite different.

Quote by Floyd Abrams about country

No other country in the world gives protection like that, but it is not absolute protection. People sometimes meet that high burden and win libel suits, and in those cases I think they ought to win.

Quote by Floyd Abrams about country

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

Quote by M. H. Abrams about country

And internalization is used in this country as a very effective political tool.

Quote by Kathy Acker about country

I don't think what happens in this country is censorship, I should say that. It's something else. It's not banning. It's something else.

Quote by Kathy Acker about country

I think what we have in this country is a little more dangerous in a way because it can't be seen fully. It's sorta internal censorship. We censor each other.

Quote by Kathy Acker about country

One of the reasons I think the ultra right-wing has such power in this country is that no one talks out.

Quote by Kathy Acker about country

The trouble with this country is that there are too many politicians who believe, with a conviction based on experience, that you can fool all of the people all of the time.

Quote by Franklin P. Adams about country

There are plenty of good five cent cigars in the country. The trouble is they cost a quarter.

Quote by Franklin P. Adams about country

My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived.

Quote by John Adams about country

Is there not some chosen curse, some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man who owes his greatness to his country's ruin!

Quote by Joseph Addison about country

What pity is it That we can die, but once to serve our country.

Quote by Joseph Addison about country

The country is provincial; it becomes ridiculous when it tries to ape Paris.

Quote by Honoré de Balzac about country

The governor of California, Pete Wilson, recently signed a bill offering protection to diseased and crippled farm animals. We worked very hard to get this act, the first of its kind in the country

Quote by Kim Basinger about country

Great tragedy has come to us, and we are meeting it with the best that is in our country, with courage and concern for others because this is America. This is who we are.

Quote by George W. Bush about country

I don't see how you can lead this country to succeed in Iraq if you say wrong war, wrong time, wrong place. What message does that send our troops? What message does that send to our allies? What message does that send the Iraqis?

Quote by George W. Bush about country

I understand everybody in this country doesn't agree with the decisions I've made. And I made some tough decisions. But people know where I stand.

Quote by George W. Bush about country

Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to time.

Quote by George W. Bush about country