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“There is no greater breach of the public trust than knowingly misleading the country into war. In a democracy, we simply cannot tolerate the abuse of this trust by the government.”

War Country Government Democracy Greater Abuse Tolerate Mislead Abuse Of Power Breach Public Trust

Author:John F. Kerry

“And here and now we must insist again that fidelity, honor, and love of country demand untrammeled debate and open dissent. At no time is that truer than in the midst of a war rooted in deceit and justified by continuing deception.”

War Country Honor Demand And Love Debate Deception Deceit Midst Rooted Continuing Justified Here And Now Dissent Fidelity

Author:John F. Kerry

“I think I'm Swedish because I like to live here on this island. You can't imagine the loneliness and isolation in this country. In that way, I'm very Swedish - I don't dislike to be alone.”

Thinking Way Country Imagine Loneliness Islands Isolation Dislike Swedish

Book:Ingmar Bergman: Interviews

Source: Ingmar Bergman: Interviews

“Men, I'm getting out of Rome. Anyone who wants to carry on the war against the outsiders, come with me. I can offer you neither honours nor wages; I offer you hunger, thirst, forced marches, battles and death. Anyone who loves his country, follow me”

Men Want I Can War Country Battle Offers Hunger March Honour Rome Outsiders Thirst Wages Follow Me

Author:Giuseppe Garibaldi

“There may be some tough times here in America. But this country has gone through tough times before, and we're going to do it again.”

May Country America Gone Tough Tough Times

Author:George W. Bush

“A good history covers not only what was done, but the thought that went into the action. You can read the history of a country through its actions.”

Country Done Government Action Good History

Author:Benjamin Hooks

“I think there is no work of art which represents the spirit of a nation more surely than "Die Meister Singer" of Richard Wagner. Here is no plaything with local colour, but the raising to its highest power all that is best in the national consciousness of his country.”

Thinking Art Country Spirit Dies Nations Consciousness Highest Singers Locals Colour Works Of Art Wagner

Author:Ralph Vaughan Williams

“There's a normal tendency in the campaign, during a crisis, for the country to rally around the White House. vThat may help Al Gore in this campaign, but on the other hand, George W. Bush handled himself so well the other night on foreign policy that I think it fortified him just before this crisis broke.”

Thinking Wells May Country Helping Hands Night House White Policy Normal Crisis Campaigns Tendencies Broke White House Als Foreign Policy Gore

Author:David Gergen

“There are flaws in the way politics is reported in this country today and we should do something about it, .. Radio and television coverage of politics doesn't see its role as a mission to explain, but to destroy, in a pernicious culture in which journalists pit themselves against politicians.”

Way Should Country Today Culture Roles Television Politician Radio Missions Journalist Flaws Pits Coverage Pernicious

Author:Tim Allen

“The UN should arrange, as US forces leave, for an international group of peacekeepers and negotiators from the Arab countries to bring together Shiites, Sunnis and Kurds, and work out a solution for self-governance that would give all three groups a share in political power. Simultaneously, the UN should arrange for shipments of food and medicine, from the United States and other countries, as well as engineers to help rebuild the country.”

“If the current birth rate, which is the lowest in the major developed countries, continues, there will be no Japanese. Who will pay the enormous debt?”

Ifs Country Pay Birth Majors Rate Currents Debt Enormous Lowest Developed Country Birth Rate

Author:Jim Rogers

“Country' and 'city' are very powerful words, and this is not surprising when we remember how much they seem to stand for in the experience of human communities. In English, 'country' is both a nation and a part of a 'land'; 'the country' can be the whole society or its rural area. In the long history of human settlements, this connection between the land from which directly or indirectly we all get our living and the achievements of human society has been deeply known.”

Source: The Country and the City

“On the country has gathered the idea of a natural way of life: of peace, innocence, and simple virtue. On the city has gathered the idea of an achieved centre of learning, communication, light. Powerful hostile associations have also developed: on the city as a place of noise, worldliness and ambition; on the country as a place of backwardness, ignorance, limitation. A contrast between country and city, as fundamental ways of life, reaches back into classical times.”

Source: The Country and the City

“What could I do but go with them Civil War soldiers, or work for them and my country? The patriot blood of my father was warm in my veins.”

War Country Father Blood Civilization Soldier Warm Civil War Patriot Veins Soldiers At War

Author:Clara Barton

“No country which has cricket as one of its national games has yet gone communist.”

Country Games Gone Communist Cricket

Author:Woodrow Wyatt

“There flows throughout our whole history a stream of humanity, of generosity, of tolerance, so broad, so powerful, and so pure that it would be vain indeed to look for a similar one in the past of any other European country.”

Looks Country Whole Would Be Past Humanity Powerful Pure Flow Tolerance Generosity Vain Streams Broads European Countries

Author:Ignacy Jan Paderewski

“I've always wanted to serve my country in some capacity. But many years ago, my father said he wanted me to run the brewery and he'd do politics.”

Years Said Country Running Wanted Father Politics Capacity Years Ago Breweries

Author:Pete Coors

“I look back on my years as a Wall Street lawyer as time spent in a foreign country.”

Years Looks Country Streets Wall Profession Lawyer Time Spent Foreign Countries

Book:Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

Source: Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

“My heart aches for less divisiveness, less polarization Less mindless partisanship, which at times sounds almost hateful to the ear of Americans. How we conduct ourselves and how we treat you, Judge Roberts, can be a great start toward reconciliation in our country.”

Heart Country Sound Judging My Heart Ears Treats Our Country Ache Reconciliation Hateful Mindless Partisanship Polarization Heart Ache Divisiveness My Heart Aches

Author:Tom Coburn

“A super-legislator body is not what the court was intended to be, When I ponder our country and its greatness, its weakness, its potential, my heart aches for less divisiveness, less polarization, less finger-pointing, less bitterness, less mindless partisanship.”

“This country lacks the backbone and the spine and the will to demand fair trade and stand up for our products. If our producers can't compete, shame on us. Then we lose. But requiring our producers to compete when the game is rigged, saying our producers ought to compete, when foreign markets are closed to us, is fundamentally wrong.”

Ifs Country Games Loses Products Ought Demand Fairs Shame Trade Producers Spine Backbone Rigged Fair Trade

Author:Byron Dorgan

“Some of the lowest-paid workers in this nation are people that we ask to watch the next generation of Americans. We do a better job insisting that your pets are cared for in this country than your children are, and there ought to be a sense of outrage about that.”

People Children Country Jobs Next Asks Nations Watches Generations Ought Paid Our Children Workers Your Children Pet Lowest Next Generation Outrage Better Jobs Insisting

Author:Christopher Dodd

“Obviously it's very hard to leave a club that you've supported all your life. But the reason that I've come to Birmingham is that I think Steve Bruce is one of the best young managers in the country and that Birmingham as a club is a sleeping giant.”

Thinking Country Hard Reason Young Sleep Clubs Managers Giants Birmingham

Author:David Dunn

“Recall that the United Nations commissioned Arab scholars and analysts to publish the Arab Human Development Report. What causes the backwardness, the scholars wondered, of 22 Arab states, covering nearly 300 million people? Their conclusion? Of all world regions, the Arab countries scored the lowest in freedom, media independence, civil liberties, political process and political rights.”

“I have a studio in the country - in the woods - but my paintings look more real to me than what is outdoors. You walk outside; the rocks are inert; even the clouds are inert. It makes me feel a little better. But I do have a faith that it is possible to make a living thing, not a diagram of what I have been thinking: to posit with paint something living, something that changes each day.”

Thinking Feels Looks Littles Has Beens Real Country Nature Walks Rocks Painting Paint Clouds Studios Woods Each Day Living Things Diagrams

Book:Philip Guston: Collected Writings, Lectures, and Conversations

Source: Philip Guston: Collected Writings, Lectures, and Conversations

“With support jobs moving to China and India, it's not surprising that English-speaking countries' top frustration revolves around the difficulty of understanding customer service representatives. However, even if the level of customer service is exceptional, the extent to which poorly-understood accents trump quality of service speaks to English-speaking customers' growing intolerance of non-native speech, more so than in other countries.”

“Canadians want a country. They don't want a community of communities. I'm committed to the national unity of the country.”

Want Country Community Communication Unity Committed National Unity

Author:Michael Ignatieff

“Using the Japan-U.S. alliance as a basis, it is important that we maintain and develop cooperative relations with our neighboring countries such as China, South Korea, and Russia.”

Important Country Bases Relation South China Russia Japan Korea Alliances Cooperatives South Korea

Author:Junichiro Koizumi

“Our country has caused tremendous damage and pain to the peoples of many countries, especially Asian countries, through colonial rule and invasion. Humbly acknowledging such facts of history, I once again reflect most deeply and offer apologies from my heart as well as express my condolences to all the victims of the last major war both in and out of the country,.”

Wells Heart War Country Facts Pain Lasts My Heart Offers Majors Victim Our Country Damage Apology Asian Invasion Condolences My Condolences Asian Countries

Author:Junichiro Koizumi

“The current total of countries in the world with First Amendments is one. You have guaranteed freedom of speech. Other countries don't have that.”

World Firsts Country Speech Currents Amendments Other Countries Freedom Of Speech First Amendment

Author:Neil Gaiman

“I was the legal counsel in the effort to amend the Virginia Constitution to give Virginians the right to hunt and fish constitutionally, and we are one of the few states in the country to protect that right.”

Giving Country States Effort Protect Constitution Fishes Hunts Virginia Virginians

Author:Tim Kaine

“If you think the country is a bastion only of nasty tendencies and racism and oppression, that is anti-American.”

Ifs Thinking Country Racism Tendencies Oppression Nasty Anti-american

Author:Rich Lowry

“I think there is a commitment on the part of the White House to racial justice in this country, and no ambiguity.”

Thinking Country House Justice White Commitment White House Ambiguity Racial Justice

Author:Richard Lugar

“I really liked German food. And it's very clean.. It's a very clean country. They kind of get rid of the waste really well... the garbage.”

Wells Kind Country Waste Clean Garbage Cleanliness

Author:Dominic Monaghan

“What is good for my country is good for my party, Should my party abandon this principle, the American people will abandon us.”

People Should Country Party Principles Abandon Abandonment

Author:John McCain

“Many of the countries outpacing the United States in the deployment of high speed Internet services, including Canada, Japan and South Korea, have successfully combined municipal systems with privately deployed networks to wire their countries, .. As a country, we cannot afford to cut off any successful strategy if we want to remain internationally competitive.”

Ifs Want Country States United United States Successful Cutting Internet Strategy South Including Speed Canada Japan Wire Korea Deployment High Speed South Korea

Author:John McCain

“My stuff gets published in some countries as fiction and in some countries as fantasy. It's just where they think it will do best in the bookshops.”

Thinking Country Stuff Fiction Fantasy Bookshops

Author:Neil Gaiman

“Integrationists are delighted to live in a democratic country where the rule of law prevails, whereas chauvinists wish to import the customs of the Middle East and South Asia.”

Country Law Wish Middle Importance Democratic South East Customs Middle East Asia Delighted Rule Of Law Imports Democratic Country South Asia

Author:Daniel Pipes

“Easter celebrations are evidence of the increased benign influence of the Russian Orthodox Church and other traditional churches in our country on society.”

Country Church Influence Evidence Traditional Our Country Orthodox Celebration Easter Benign Orthodox Church

Author:Vladimir Putin

“Russia can offer state-of-the-art technology, .. For example, we can help other countries launch space devices such as satellites.”

Art Country States Helping Space Technology Example Offers Helping Others Russia Devices Other Countries Satellites

Author:Vladimir Putin

“We are ready to build large underground gas storages in Turkey, to participate in the privatization of Turkey's gas-distribution networks, to use the existing and participate in the construction of new pipelines in order to supply our energy resources through Turkey to third countries, including in southern Europe”

Country Use Order Energy Ready Resources Europe Thirds Including Gas Southern Construction Participation Distribution Turkeys Storage Pipeline Privatization

Author:Vladimir Putin

“There have been plenty of markers that show that this [Iraq] is a country that is worth the investment, because once it emerges as a country that is a stabilising factor, you will have a very different kind of Middle East.”

Kind Has Beens Different Country Shows Middle Investment Iraq East Factors Plenty Different Kinds Middle East Markers

Author:Condoleezza Rice

“What we found out with Katrina is that the country is still unable to deal with disaster. God forbid this happens in San Francisco.”

Stills Country Happens Found Deals Disaster San Francisco Katrina

Author:Warren Rudman

“I believe that it is my right and responsibility as an American to question our government when our government is wrong. I'm not one of the immature patriots who say my country right or wrong because my country is wrong now, and my country-the policies of my country are responsible for killing tens of thousands of innocent people, and I won't stand by and let that happen anymore.”

People Believe Country Government Happens I Believe Responsibility Policy Responsible Killing Innocent Patriot Immature

Author:Cindy Sheehan

“ASEM should build a new Silk Road to actively boost exchanges between these two civilizations in the new century so that countries in Asia and Europe will build on their respective civilizations and respect, learn from, complement and benefit each other.”

Should Two Country Century Civilization Benefits Europe Asia Silk Boost Complement Silk Road

Author:Jiang Zemin

“There are few writers of note, of any country or of any age, from whom quotations might not be made in proof of the love with which they regarded Nature.”

Made Country Might Age Notes Proof Quotations

Author:Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre

“Our guests have an insatiable curiosity for up close and personal worldwide adventures - whether one is taking a segment of the World Cruise or the entire voyage. Traveling to different countries aboard the luxurious floating resort that is Crystal Serenity is just one part of their experience. Our guests relish the opportunity to venture beyond the port cities to experience the destinations' culture, wildlife and unique treasures.”

“May God have mercy on my soul for the deaths on my name and for the treachery I committed. Betrayal of God and country, what a sad and horrible thing it is.”

May Soul Country God Death Names Sad Mercy Committed Betrayal Horrible Commit My Soul Treachery Horrible Things God And Country

Author:E. Howard Hunt

“The glorious memory of brave men is continually renewed; the fame of those who have performed any noble deed is never allowed to die; and the renown of those who have done good service to their country becomes a matter of common knowledge to the multitude, and part of the heritage of posterity.”

Men Country Matter Done Dies Memories Common Fame Brave Deeds Noble Glorious Heritage Multitudes Posterity Brave Man Renown Good Service Common Knowledge Noble Deeds

Book:The Histories

Source: The Histories

“In developing countries, lack of infrastructure is a far more serious barrier to trade than tariffs.”

Country Serious Trade Developing Barriers Infrastructure Developing Countries Tariffs

Author:Joseph Stiglitz

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