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“I take office during the most difficult moment in the country's recent history. The country can be saved - it's up to us. I think it is obvious for those who support this government to undertake the commitment and ensure that our country's euro membership is not endangered.”

Thinking Country Moments Government Difficult Support Office Commitment Obvious Saved Our Country Euro Membership Difficult Moments

Author:Lucas Papademos

“The new co-operation government will do the best it can to address the country's problems, and I believe that with the co-operation of all - and the new government stresses this - and the unity of all, we will achieve that.”

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Author:Lucas Papademos

“The government is determined to continue the process of fiscal consolidation and structural reform in order to secure sound public finances and improve the country's international competitiveness.”

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Author:Lucas Papademos

“We must all assume out responsibilities to take the country forward.”

Country Responsibility Assuming

Author:Lucas Papademos

“In a country like France, so ancient, their history is full of outstanding people, so they carry a heavy weight on their back. Who could write in French after Proust or Flaubert?”

People Writing Country Literature Weight Ancient Heavy France Outstanding Proust Heavy Weights

Author:Manuel Puig

“My mom and I used to listen to records, read, and take train rides across the country in the summer. It was a very chill life. She didn't expose me to anything that was ahead of my development, but she expected me to adjust to her world - she did not expect to adjust to mine.”

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Author:Martha Plimpton

“I think to be - for me to be an American is - you know, it's one of the greatest things in the world for - you know, for me just because I've been able to grow up with everything. The freedom. You know, in my eyes this is the greatest country in the world.”

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Author:Michael Phelps

“The struggle you see in the Republican Party today is the country club Republican versus the bowling alley Republican. Colin Powell brings us back to the country club image. He's an insider. He's a moderate.”

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Author:Pete du Pont

“I've been to many countries and watched a number of conflicts or their residue, and I've served in the military.”

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Author:Ralph Peters

“The last four years under President Obama have been trying and troubling for this entire country. The tired big government policies of the past have failed us. We can't afford more disappointments. We need a new direction. We need a new president.”

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Author:Reince Priebus

“Instead of focusing on growing jobs and reigniting our economy, President Obama focused on growing government and tried to remake the United States into the image of the debt-laden countries of Europe. His approach has been more spending, more regulation, and higher taxes.”

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Author:Rob Portman

“Obama's Justice Department has also targeted Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio. Sheriff Joe bills himself as America's Toughest Sheriff for good reason. Maricopa County is responsible for one out of every four deportations in the country.”

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Author:Russell Pearce

“President Obama has decided to have the United Nations review the law of Arizona. You have got to be kidding! We're now going to have countries like Cuba, Libya and Uganda sitting in judgment on Arizona's laws? Enough is enough!”

Country Enough Law Nations President United Judgment Sitting Decided Reviews President Obama United Nations Cuba Arizona Libya Uganda Enough Is Enough

Author:Russell Pearce

“Reviewers said Ghost Country was rich, astonishing and affecting in the way it blended comedy, magic, and a gritty urban realism in a breathtaking ride along Chicago's mean streets.”

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Author:Sara Paretsky

“To me there's nothing different in principle with a Catholic adoption agency, or indeed Methodist adoption agency, saying the rules in our community are different and therefore the law shouldn't apply to us. Why not then say sharia can be applied to different parts of the country? It doesn't work.”

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Author:Trevor Phillips

“When goods are exchanged between countries, they must be paid for by commodities or gold. They cannot be paid for by the notes, certificates, and checks of the purchaser's country, since these are of value only in the country of issue.”

Country Values Issues Gold Paid Notes Checks Goods Commodity Certificates Purchasers

Book:Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time

Source: Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time

“I think Helen of Troy must have been pretty hot. She got two countries going crazy for 10 years over her.”

Thinking Years Has Beens Two Country Crazy Hot Helen Going Crazy Two Countries Helen Of Troy

Author:Colin Quinn

“I barely knew I wanted to be an artist. I liked my art classes and painting was fun, I guess, but I didn't realize that seeing the country was going to inspire me to further explore that... but that's what it did.”

Art Country Wanted Artist Fun Realizing Class Seeing Inspire Painting Art Class

Author:Edward Ruscha

“The one thing I miss is hitchhiking. Now there's no more of that. When's the last time you saw a hitchhiker? It's not that I consider it a great sport, but it was my way of seeing the country. The open road, especially in the western United States, is still very pristine, but everything else around it has changed.”

Way Stills Country States Lasts Sports United United States Saws Seeing One Thing Missing Changed Western My Way Last Time Great Sports Pristine Hitchhiking Open Road

Author:Edward Ruscha

“Obviously, education is hugely important, along with healthcare. They're the basics and you're hurting your own country if you don't pour money into them.”

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Author:Kelly Reilly

“If somebody knows me, they know for sure I'm from Poland because I'm playing for my country every tournament, every match. I'm staying in my hometown and my home country because that is where I feel comfortable. I feel good there.”

Ifs Knows Feels Country Home Comfortable Feel Good Staying Know Me Tournaments Hometown Poland I Feel Good Home Country

Author:Agnieszka Radwanska

“But if you want to be a songwriter-based musician, whether you play punk or rock or country or jazz, whatever, you have to work on your songwriting and you have to work on being able to play in front of people, I think. That performance is how you create the groundwork for a lasting career.”

People Ifs Thinking Want Country Play Able Careers Rocks Fronts Musician Performances Jazz Lasting Songwriting Punk Songwriters Groundwork

Author:Amy Ray

“I think President Karzai realizes exactly how important it is to strengthen the fight against corruption in the country now, step up endeavors to stop the drug trade and to deliver better governance. He said as much in his inaugural address.”

Thinking Said Important Country Fighting President Realizing Steps Drug Trade Corruption Addresses Endeavor Governance Step Up Inaugural Inaugural Address

Author:Anders Fogh Rasmussen

“Iran also has an extensive missile development programme. Iranian officials declare that the range of their modified Shahab-3 missiles is 2,000km, putting allied countries such as Turkey, Greece, Romania, and Bulgaria within reach.”

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Author:Anders Fogh Rasmussen

“It is the responsibility of Afghanistan's new government to gain better control over the country's administration and to resolutely fight the drug trade and corruption.”

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Author:Anders Fogh Rasmussen

“There was a wonderful little short four-year time period when marvelous things happened. It started in 1908, when the Wright brothers flew in Paris, and everybody said, 'Ooh, hey, I can do that.' There's only a few people that have flown in early 1908. In four years, 39 countries had hundreds of airplanes, thousands of pilots.”

“At first I didn't dig country.”

Firsts Country

Author:Charlie Rich

“I give away about 50 percent of my income, so my, you know, desire to give back to the country is pretty strong and I intend to give away a lot more. I've signed the giving pledge with Warren Buffett and Bill Gates, and I intend to give away the bulk of my money.”

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Author:David Rubenstein

“You don't have any communication between the Israelis and the Iranians. You have all sorts of local triggers for conflict. Having countries act on a hair trigger - where they can't afford to be second to strike - the potential for a miscalculation or a nuclear war through inadvertence is simply too high.”

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Author:Dennis A. Ross

“There are individuals who are working very hard to promote fear and antagonism towards Islam and Muslims in this country. It's fueled, in part, by the first African-American president that we have. Obama's father was a Muslim and people have used this to arouse hostility against him.”

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Author:Feisal Abdul Rauf

“Israel's a small country but both the audience and programme-makers are very sophisticated.”

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Author:Gideon Raff

“Other than the fact that I like a country house, I can't think of anything I'd want to spend my money on.”

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Author:Guy Ritchie

“There are a few people, but a diminishing number, who still believe that Marxism, as an economic system, off era a coherent alternative to capitalism, and socialism has, indeed, triumphed in one country.”

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Author:Herbert Read

“My vision is that our country should be integrated in the EU, to transfer a part of our independence there. It is also our duty to do it, if we want to establish trade and a sound economy. This is the vision that I am working on and I will continue to work in the future.”

Ifs Want Should Country Sound Vision Economy Duty Independence Trade Our Country Transfers Integrated

Author:Ibrahim Rugova

“Serbia did not want to recognize our country in a peaceful way, so that is why they wanted to destroy us. All our efforts to find a peaceful solution were impossible. In order to save the people, NATO had to intervene.”

People Way Want Country Wanted Order Effort Impossible Solutions Our Country Peaceful Nato Serbia

Author:Ibrahim Rugova

“The different Ministries have to work more on the promotion of the country, to build Kosovo's public image. Concrete projects must be assembled, in order to activate our businessmen to have more contacts. We have to create a positive image about ourselves.”

Different Country Order Projects Contact Concrete Ministry Businessman Promotion Activate Kosovo Public Image Positive Image

Author:Ibrahim Rugova

“Unless we repeal the illegal Byrd amendment, American exports will be vulnerable to retaliation, and the U.S. will continue to face a difficult task convincing other countries to make their laws comply with international rules.”

Country Faces Law Difficult Tasks International Vulnerable Illegal Amendments Other Countries Convincing Retaliation Difficult Tasks Convincing Others

Author:Jim Ramstad

“Country music historically has been sort of middle-aged people's music.”

People Has Beens Country Middle Middle Aged

Author:John Shelton Reed

“We could say that people who eat grits, listen to country music, follow stock-car racing, support corporal punishment in the schools, hunt 'possum, go to Baptist churches and prefer bourbon to Scotch are likely to be Southerners.”

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Book:My Tears Spoiled My Aim, and Other Reflections on Southern Culture

Source: My Tears Spoiled My Aim, and Other Reflections on Southern Culture

“I was elected by the people of Australia as Prime Minister of Australia. I was elected to do a job, I intend to continue doing that job. I intend to continue doing it to the absolute best of my ability. Part of that job has been to steer this country through the worst economic crisis the world has seen in 75 years.”

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Author:Kevin Rudd

“It's quite interesting that in my growing up I had several influences. We had gospel music on campus. R&B music was, of course, the community, and radio was country music. So I can kind of see where all the influences came from.”

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Author:Lionel Richie

“Country music has always been about as close to R&B as you can possibly get. We're storytellers.”

Country Storyteller

Author:Lionel Richie

“My earliest memories of country music are the Grand Ole Opry.”

Country Memories

Author:Lionel Richie

“Country is bringing in a little rock element... a little '80s element. Melody is king now. But its just in the music, its not so much in the songwriting, which is still very basic to the storytelling aspect of it.”

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Author:Lionel Richie

“Growing up with country, R&B, gospel, and classical music from my grandmother and pop, Tuskegee was the perfect melting pot for my influences as a writer.”

Country Perfect Growing Up Growing Influence Pops Grandmother Pot My Grandmother Classical Music Melting Melting Pot

Author:Lionel Richie

“For many of us who were born and raised in this country, including me, it's sometimes easy to forget how special America really is.”

Country Sometimes America Easy Born Forget Special Raised Including Born And Raised

Author:Marco Rubio

“For me, there will be no enemies but unemployment, the deficit, excessive debt, economic stagnation and anything else that keeps our country in these critical circumstances.”

Country Enemy Economic Circumstances Critical Debt Our Country Unemployment Deficit Stagnation

Author:Mariano Rajoy

“There are countries that are near ours which are in the situation which we all know. I want to say that this is not the case of Spain now and it will not be in the future.”

Knows Want Country Situation Cases Spain

Author:Mariano Rajoy

“Tina Fey could run this country before Sarah Palin could!”

Country Running Palin Fey

Author:Nikki Reed

“I mean, the world has already done a big, big effort to forget debt to countries heavily indebted and with low income. And that has given good chances to countries to get out of poverty.”

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Author:Rodrigo Rato

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