What the country needs are a few labor-making inventions.
~ Arnold H. Glasow
My mom used to call me a parrot, because the way I spoke would change in every country we'd go to.
~ Hannah Simone
Country was about character. Country's changed because of monsters like Clear Channel who bought up all the stations and sliced them up into formats. Our demographic is now the soccer mom.
~ Gary Allan
I go back five generations in Jamaica. My dad grew up in Port Royal, and my mom grew up in Kingston. My family is from the country like West Moreland and also in Manchester. I've been there countless times. As far as cuisine, there's not really much that comes out of Jamaica that's on a plate that I don't like.
~ Dule Hill
Ninety eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.
~ Lily Tomlin
Things in our country run in spite of government, not by aid of it.
~ Will Rogers
Fraud, robbery, and murder have characterized the English usurpation of the government of our country. Why, for the last fifty years we have been robbed in the matter of taxes of hundreds of millions.
~ John Edward Redmond
In a country where Americans sense, quite genuinely, that their freedoms have been taken away by the government - as in the U.S. Patriot Act, as in NSA surveillance - people feel powerless.
~ Jay Parini
We need to understand that we as citizens and as a government in any community throughout this country have no more important obligation than to educate those who are going to replace us.
~ Colin Powell
This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.
I think the country's getting disgusted with Washington partly because of the decline of civility in government.
~ George Mcgovern
When you have a country that's been accustomed to government spending at a certain level, it is really hard to ratchet it back.
~ Mike Lee
It is in the country's best interest that Tony Blair rather than Michael Howard should form the next government.
~ Robert Jackson
Our public school system is our country's biggest and most inefficient monopoly, yet it keeps demanding more and more money.
~ Phyllis Schlafly
I want to go to - what's that hot country with a lot of money? - Dubai.
~ Grandmaster Flash
We have one of the highest interest rates in the world, and we owe more money per capita than any other country. All we need is a nail hole in the bottom of the boat and we're sunk.
~ Pauline Hanson
It was an honor and privilege to arrive to this country 16 years ago with almost no money in my pocket. A lot has happened since then.
~ Antonio Banderas
The President must stop gambling with taxpayers' money and get the country back on the path of fiscal sanity.
~ Tom Harkin
To defend a country you need an army, but to defend a civilization you need education.
~ Jonathan Sacks
There are three major social issues that this country is struggling with: education, poverty, and drugs. Two of them we talk about, and one of them we don't.
~ Steven Soderbergh
Education in this country is about how to maintain the status quo and to perpetuate racism.
~ Jane Elliot
Being a native of Spain, the country to which I owe much of my education and cultural background, I was deeply influenced by my great predecessor Santiago Ramon y Cajal.
~ Severo Ochoa
Our universities and museums are respected around the country.
~ Jane Byrne
Common wisdom dictates that the vice president should provide balance to the ticket by representing a different part of the country, another set of experiences, or a basketful of electoral votes.
~ Madeleine M. Kunin
It is one thing to oppose a bill and say, 'Well, I'm smarter than the other side and have more wisdom than they do,' but it is another thing to oppose a law because it violates the very principles upon which this country was founded.
~ Scott Garrett
My hair is way, way long. I've hitchhiked across the country a zillion times. I've ridden in every car. I was never a hippie. It takes more than long hair.
~ Penn Jillette
I want to see peace in the country.
~ Bhumibol Adulyadej
World peace is no longer some pie-in-the-sky thing, because no single person or country is going to solve it on their own.
~ Herbie Hancock
What could become a danger to world peace is Iran's nuclear program and the country's open threat to annihilate Israel.
~ Sigmar Gabriel
I will go on my knees and ask the Liberian people to participate in bringing peace and stability to our country.
~ George Weah
The weaker the country, the stronger the smile.
~ Howard E. Koch
I've often dreamed about going back to Nigeria, but that's a very romantic notion. It's a hideous country to go to in reality.
~ Hugo Weaving
Whether you come from a council estate or a country estate, your success will be determined by your own confidence and fortitude.
~ Michelle Obama
As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed, and demand a rent even for its natural produce.
~ Adam Smith
The country is filled with energetic and enterprising men, rendered desperate by being reduced from affluence to poverty through the vicissitudes of the times. They will give an impulse to smuggling unknown to the country heretofore.
~ John C. Calhoun
Imagine how much capital a country like Argentina might attract - if instead of defaulting seriatim and affecting a pose of anger toward creditors, it borrowed responsibly and honored its obligations.
~ Paul Singer
We can change the direction of the country with our vote.
~ Roland Martin
The difference between political terror and ordinary crime becomes clear during the change of regimes, in which former terrorists become well-regarded representatives of their country.
~ Jürgen Habermas
Although we must change the ways we protect our country, we must also guard against policies that appear attractive but offer little real protection and may even impede our ability to protect ourselves.
~ Richard Burr
Given that, and assuming that we begin to adjust to issues like climate change and the greenhouse effect, Denver's location in the center of the country becomes a tremendous advantage.
~ John Hickenlooper
