Country Quotes

Dad was always that way: who's the candidate that's best for this country? We can debate theology later - that was his famous line. I kind of feel like that's in my DNA.

~ Jerry Falwell

It is only in the country that we can get to know a person or a book.

~ Cyril Connolly

Sadly, embryonic stem cell research is completely legal in this country and has been going on at universities and research facilities for years.

~ Mike Pence

Governments and scientists in India need to ensure that politics and religious ideology do not intrude into science. They belong to separate spheres, and if they are not kept separate, it is science in India and the country as a whole that will suffer.

~ Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

The accumulation of skill and science which has been directed to diminish the difficulty of producing manufactured goods, has not been beneficial to that country alone in which it is concentrated; distant kingdoms have participated in its advantages.

~ Charles Babbage

The crudest thing I've done as a teacher was to require students to write a national anthem for their country and sing it themselves.

~ Chris Van Allsburg

When I first came to Los Angeles, I was a teacher in Compton. I know how in need schools are around the country.

~ Kym Whitley

The military might of a country represents its national strength. Only when it builds up its military might in every way can it develop into a thriving country.

~ Kim Jong-Un

I am deeply concerned with the diminution of the teaching strength of the country as a result of the disproportionately low salaries that are paid to teachers throughout the country.

~ Bainbridge Colby

We - we need strength, we need energy, we need quickness and we need brain in this country to turn it around.

~ Donald Trump

I've been taught by some of the best strength and conditioning coaches in the country, and I've learnt that technique for weight training and cycling is very much more strength and less conditioning.

~ Victoria Pendleton

We all need Europe, not just those of us in Europe. And we Germans need Europe more than the others. Germany is the country with the longest border, the most neighbours, and is, by population and economic strength, the number one in Europe.

~ Helmut Kohl

This country is being managed to death, being public related to death.

~ Kurt Vonnegut

The death penalty is becoming a way of life in this country.

~ Dennis Miller

We're also the only country that has the Death Penalty. That's something to boast about, isn't it?

~ Tony Randall

Each country has a soul, and France's soul is equality.

~ Francois Hollande

Our new vice president, Mike Pence, is one of the most blatantly anti-LGBT politicians in the country, and most, if not all, of Trump's cabinet is anti LGBT equality as well.

~ Billy Eichner

I'm going to do anything I can do - whether that's being part of FIFA or creating some sort of movement that can actually impart real equality across all lines - in every country, every city, every sector all over the world, that's what I'm going to do.

~ Abby Wambach

Sweden is an open, liberal, secular and democratic country. We strive towards achieving equality; we are forward-looking and refuse to be pulled back by social constructs such as religion.

~ Bjorn Ulvaeus

We are a model country where gender equality is concerned.

~ Tarja Halonen

I'm so fascinated by the concept of teen pregnancy for some reason. Not that I condone it or promote it, but it's just a very real thing in our country and culture.

~ Leven Rambin

Country music has to evolve in order to survive.

~ Blake Shelton

There's only two kinds of music I don't like... Country and Western.

~ Bobby Heenan

In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.

~ Thomas Jefferson

If you can ensure happiness and public order, the country will go ahead well, just like what all Thais want.

~ Bhumibol Adulyadej

France is, for me, the country of happiness.

~ Max Von Sydow

I have always believed that the aristocracy of any country should be the men who have succeeded - the men who have aided in upbuilding their country - the men who have contributed to the efficiency and happiness of their fellow men.

~ Charles M. Schwab

There are whole precincts of voters in this country whose united intelligence does not equal that of one representative American woman.

~ Carrie Chapman Catt

We need intelligence in this country. We need a certain toughness in this country, or we're going to end up like a lot of the other places, and we're not going to have a country left.

~ Donald Trump

They say somebody's 'street smart.' I feel like, if I got intelligence, it's just a country smart.

~ Dolly Parton

Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.

~ George Bernard Shaw

I could feel it in my bones, how I missed the heat of my country and the love of my family.

~ Tony Perez

Revived in this country the long forgotten beauties of Gothic architecture.

~ James Wyatt

It is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.

~ James A. Baldwin

Our position is that we do not accept conditions of any kind which may affect the independence and sovereignty of our country just with the view to solve economic problems existing between the United States and Cuba.

~ Fidel Castro

I do know that Syria never will recognize Lebanon as an independent country, and the declaration of independence of Lebanon took place in 1943. Syria never - Syria never have recognized Lebanon. They regard Lebanon as part of Syria.

~ Ariel Sharon

India helped Bangladesh to achieve independence. The Bangladeshis should remain happy inside the territory of their own country.

~ Atal Bihari Vajpayee

The fact is that we cannot drill our way to independence. We cannot drill our way to freedom, and we cannot drill our way to create jobs in this country.

~ Jay Inslee

The United States is proud to be the first country to recognize the existence of a Jewish State - just 11 minutes after Israel's independence was declared.

~ Denis Mcdonough

Swaziland is a small part of south-east Africa, the last country in the continent to gain its independence.

~ Richard Grant