Country Quotes

Our soldiers have nobly fought to protect freedom since our country's birth, and have fought to protect those that could not protect themselves, even in foreign lands when called upon.

~ John Linder

Canada will be a strong country when Canadians of all provinces feel at home in all parts of the country, and when they feel that all Canada belongs to them.

~ Pierre Trudeau

It began to dawn on me that perhaps my country needed me more at home than overseas.

~ Larry David

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

~ Golda Meir

By far the greatest part of those goods which are the objects of desire, are procured by labour; and they may be multiplied, not in one country alone, but in many, almost without any assignable limit, if we are disposed to bestow the labour necessary to obtain them.

~ David Ricardo

One person alone can't do anything as important as bringing genuine democracy to a country.

~ Aung San Suu Kyi

Federal elections happen every two years in this country. Presidential elections every four years. And four years just isn't long enough to dismantle all the environmental laws we've got in this country.

~ Jared Diamond

There has been a banking crisis, a financial crisis, an economic crisis, a social crisis, a geostrategic crisis and an environmental crisis. That's considerable in a country that's used to being protected.

~ Jean-Francois Cope

We are trying to construct a more inclusive society. We are going to make a country in which no one is left out.

~ Franklin D. Roosevelt

All the United States, it is a society that is split like to the bottom, that had very poor people in the country that is one of the wealthiest countries.

~ Desmond Tutu

Each country thinks its school is in a specific crisis, without ever linking the school's crisis to that of the society around it.

~ Daniel Pennac

There should not be a question of legal or illegal immigration. People came and immigrated to this country from the time of the Indians. No one's illegal. They should just be able to come.

~ Linda Ronstadt

Italy advocates the adoption of a legal instrument on cultural diversity, guaranteeing every country the protection of its own historical identity and the uniqueness of its physical and intangible cultural heritage.

~ Carlo Azeglio Ciampi

No country could claim to be civilized if its legal system weren't available to everyone in it.

~ Sydney Pollack

If a woman chooses to have an abortion, it is legal to do that in this country, but I don't think taxpayers should be put in a position to have to pay for those abortions.

~ John Fleming

We need to stop illegal immigration totally and reduce legal immigration and end the diversity visas policy pushed hard by President Clinton and allowing many persons from the Middle East to come to this country.

~ Virgil Goode

The factual reality is that the vast majority of immigrants - legal and illegal - contribute more to this country than they take out in social services.

~ Juan Williams

The Singaporean government, which represents legal migrant workers in employment disputes and claims of exploitation, requires that they stay in the country until the disputes are settled. If they leave, their claims are closed.

~ Alan Huffman

My favourite flowers are English country roses - I had a bouquet of them for my wedding.

~ Kate Moss

The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending against all hazards: And it is our duty to defend them against all attacks.

~ Samuel Adams

Poland is quite a mediocre country in some regards. The only natural resource that we have, and with which we can compete, is freedom.

~ Donald Tusk

My Dad used to tell us: 'En este pais, ustedes van a poder lograr todas las cosas que nosotros no pudimos' 'In this country, you will be able to accomplish all the things we never could.'

~ Marco Rubio

The country that is more developed industrially only shows, to the less developed, the image of its own future.

~ Karl Marx

We are not out to boast that there is so much percentage of growth per year. Our real concern is how it affects the lives of people, the future of our country.

~ Aung San Suu Kyi