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Nation Quotes


"When Lebanon started its resistance it was a small and divided country."


"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."


"For as long as multinational communities have existed, their weak point has always been the relations between different nations."


"A well balanced, inclusive approach, according to certain standards and ideals, is essential for the proper governance of any country."


"I always said that Wahhabism is unacceptable for the Chechen nation."


"Thus we have at least a national song that unites all Germans, and is the symbol of our sixty-million nation."


"What this country needs is more unemployed politicians."


"We're like a Third World country when it comes to some of our election practices."


"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."


"Small businesses are the economic drivers of our country, providing the stimulus our communities need."


"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."


"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."


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


"The reality, sitting ten thousand miles away, is that we remain the country that inspires. We remain that shining city on a hill."


"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?"


"It's a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president... except me."


"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."


"No longer should we rely on oil from countries that are not necessarily friendly or democratic."


"My country right or wrong; when right, to keep her right; when wrong, to put her right."


"What this country needs is a really good five cent cigar."


"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."


"I am hopeful about any future for whites in this country, but not entirely optimistic."


"Our universities and museums are respected around the country."


"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."


"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."


"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."


"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."


"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."


"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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