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"When Lebanon started its resistance it was a small and divided country."
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"We're working on accession to the WTO very actively. We still have several countries with which we need to conclude agreements and possibly that will happen next year."
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"There will be a lot of competitive and strong companies coming here and even though Kosovo is a small country that undoubtedly has a lot to offer to global trade; one of our main interests is to expose it to the world market."
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"For as long as multinational communities have existed, their weak point has always been the relations between different nations."
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"A well balanced, inclusive approach, according to certain standards and ideals, is essential for the proper governance of any country."
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"I always said that Wahhabism is unacceptable for the Chechen nation."
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"Thus we have at least a national song that unites all Germans, and is the symbol of our sixty-million nation."
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"You wanna get rid of drug crime in this country? Fine, let's just get rid of all the drug laws."
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"What this country needs is more unemployed politicians."
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"I think the economic logic behind dumping a load of toxic waste in the lowest wage country is impeccable and we should face up to it."
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"It's impossible for someone who is human to have all good things together, just as there is no single country able to provide all good things for itself."
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"We're like a Third World country when it comes to some of our election practices."
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"I do not believe there is a problem in this country or the world today which could not be settled if approached through the teaching of the Sermon on the Mount."
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"We've worked with President Yeltsin. He is the President of the country. He's been a reformer. We've been able to accomplish a number of things together."
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"This debt crisis coming to our country. The wall and tidal wave of debt that is befalling our nation. Medicare and Social Security go bankrupt within ten years, we have a debt that is looming so high that in the last year of President Obama's budget just the interest payments on our debt is $916 billion dollars."
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"Small businesses are the economic drivers of our country, providing the stimulus our communities need."
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"You can get awful famous in this country in seven days."
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"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."
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"In Spain, the dead are more alive than the dead of any other country in the world."
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"We were sent to this country by the President, who desires to promote the welfare of Japan, and are quite different from the ambassadors of other countries."
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"And internalization is used in this country as a very effective political tool."
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"The reality, sitting ten thousand miles away, is that we remain the country that inspires. We remain that shining city on a hill."
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"And the big question for the West, of course, and to the Europeans is, what other countries, which were formerly part of the Soviet bloc, should be incorporated into western institutions?"
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"It's a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president... except me."
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"Hurricane Katrina exposed the harsh reality that we have been skating on thin ice when it comes to this country's energy concentrations on the Gulf Coast."
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"Back a hundred years ago, especially around Woodrow Wilson, what happened in this country is we took freedom and we chopped it into pieces."
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"America, thou half-brother of the world; with something good and bad of every land."
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"No longer should we rely on oil from countries that are not necessarily friendly or democratic."
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"My country right or wrong; when right, to keep her right; when wrong, to put her right."
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"Four years earlier I had been selected, with Kay Boyle, the writer, and a number of others, to go to Cambodia and come back and prove that there were no sanctuaries in that country."
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"What this country needs is a really good five cent cigar."
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"I cannot resign myself to the decline of Europe, and of France."
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"Afraid no, I wasn't afraid but it was an unusual thing, it was an unusual feeling. It was an unusual atmosphere for me having grown up in this country and, and, and never seeing anything like that."
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"September 11 is one of our worst days but it brought out the best in us. It unified us as a country and showed our charitable instincts and reminded us of what we stood for and stand for."
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"Whoever serves his country well has no need of ancestors."
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"I am hopeful about any future for whites in this country, but not entirely optimistic."
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"I wish that they could have more freedoms to be able to come and play. I know that the only way that they can get out is by, you know, defecting to another country or whatever, or getting on a boat."
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"It would be enough for me to have the system of a jury of twelve versus the system of one judge as a basis for preferring the U.S. to the Soviet Union. I would prefer the country you can leave to the country you cannot."
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"It is often said that Poland is a country where there is anti-semitism and no Jews, which is pathology in its purest state."
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"Our universities and museums are respected around the country."
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"They held it their duty to live but for their country."
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"This is a very important relationship we have with Russia, the relationship over the nuclear arsenal that they have obviously is important. They're a very powerful country."
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"We typically hear numbers that there are 34 million households that are in stocks in some form. Well, I say that what's occurred is if you have a job in this country, you're in stocks."
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"Those market researchers... are playing games with you and me and with this entire country. Their so-called samples of opinion are no more accurate or reliable than my grandmother's big toe was when it came to predicting the weather."
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"I also believe that Hurricane Katrina did reveal a weakness in our energy supply systems, highlighting the reliance this country has on the gulf coast for our energy resources."
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"When the ambassadors of other foreign countries come to Japan to make treaties, they can be told that such and such a treaty has been made with the ambassador of the United States, and they will rest satisfied with this."
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"When I competed, it was for honor and country. It was a privilege to be a part of the U.S. team."
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"Looking at the high cost of occupation in Iraq and the needs we have in this country, would it not have been better to have smaller tax cuts in order to keep down the deficits."
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"The way we're going to win elections in this country is not to become Republican lite. The way we're going to win elections in this country is to stand up for what we believe in."
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"I have suffered my self to be politically sacrificed to save my country from ruin and disgrace and if I am never a gain elected I will have the gratification to know that I have done my duty."
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