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Country Quotes


"It's very certain that North Korea is developing nuclear weapons for offensive purposes. They don't need nuclear weapons to defend their own country."


"England is very interested as well, and other countries if I could speak the languages!"


"I never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively."


"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."


"Japan is the only country in the world which suffered from the scourge of nuclear weapons."


"Iraq is a country that has been invaded. It's not a failing state that you want to help. It's a country that was functioning good or bad, with a horrible dictator, but you have invaded."


"Your message is stupid. Iraq is not afraid of you or anyone else when it has a right to claim. What you warned about is not on Iraq's agenda. Iraq is vital and powerful. It is not an opportunistic country. Your administration has not learned from the past."


"This country, and the West Coast, especially, is bad at preserving any cultural legacy."


"Everybody has to chip in, I think, and see how we can have a functioning system of collective security where we do not continue to face the threat of countries trying to acquire weapons of mass destruction or particularly nuclear weapons."


"It is necessary to expose the false propaganda of the imperialists and thoroughly dispel the illusion that the imperialists will give up their positions in the colonies and dependent countries with good will."


"We cannot build a viable state with a country that is disintegrating into small pieces."


"Countries and states which have capital punishment have a much higher rate of murder and crime than countries that do not, so that makes sense to me, and the moral question - I struggle with it morally."


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


"If you see oppression of the poor, and justice and righteousness trampled in a country, do not be astounded."


"There was a lot of protest after Bravo, from countries like India, for example. India was the first country which came forward and proposed at the United Nations that all of these nuclear tests should be stopped, that there should be a complete ban on nuclear testing."


"The same things go on everywhere, whether you're from the city, the country or wherever."


"What they're doing is, they're making the decisions for us. That's what this country is coming down to. They're going to make the decisions for us."


"In all my travels I never met with any one Scotchman but what was a man of sense: I believe everybody of that country that has any, leaves it as fast as they can."


"I do think the patriotic thing to do is to critique my country. How else do you make a country better but by pointing out its flaws?"


"Any album that I ever put out I'm going to send it to country radio first."


"Watergate showed more strengths in our system than weaknesses... The whole country did take part in quite a genuine sense in passing judgment on Richard Nixon."


"If the United Nations is a country unto itself, then the commodity it exports most is words."


"Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch."


"None of what Barack Obama is doing or wants to do to this country is anything the rest of the world hasn't seen before and already failed at."


"I opened my own restaurant when I was 17. I went broke, then traveled around the country, learning about different kinds of foods, had three other restaurants that went broke. It didn't all start just a few years ago!"


"To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world."


"The undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveler returns."


"So, we're saying, if we can give developers and builders incentives to cut down on the regulatory barriers that are faced in this country, then we might be able to address the needs of affordable housing."


"Australia was great. I would advise anybody to go there. In fact, if you couldn't live here, Australia would be the place to live. It's the most Americanized country that I've ever seen in the world."


"The direct investment of Japanese businesses to East Asian economies accelerates the reallocation of their production bases. Consequently, between Japan and the other East Asian countries, both exports and imports are growing substantially."


"Today, Arizona's sons and daughters, mothers and fathers are proudly serving their country."


"Commuting from New York to Hollywood to do this show gets more interesting every week. Before I used to think the country was just New York on one end and Los Angeles on the other, with sand and mountains in the middle."


"The opposition may have the right to doubt every thing, but for myself, I call on opposition to practice its role within limits of objectively, responsibility and country interests."


"We need to in this country begin again to raise civil discourse to another level. I mean, we shout and scream and yell and get very little accomplished, but you can disagree very much with the next guy and still be friends and acquaintances."


"Our little house was way back in the country. We had one house close to us, and hell the next one would've been a mile. If you got sick, you could holler and wouldn't nobody hear you."


"I believe that Ronald Reagan will someday make this country what it once was... an arctic wilderness."
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