“I'm a big John Steinbeck fan. Cormac McCarthy. I've always loved the stories of regular people. Mark Twain, too. When you look back at some of the epic writers of our country's history, very rarely do you find upper-class royalty. We seem to delve into the struggle of life and the labor of life much more frequently.” PeopleLooksCountryStoriesBigsSeemsClassStruggleFansLaborMarkOur CountryEpicRoyaltyLife StruggleUpper Class Author:Lucas Neff
“It's an appeal as old as America and its presidency: This is an extraordinary country populated by hard-working, big-dreaming, freedom-loving people graced by God when they're not pulling themselves up by the bootstraps.” PeopleCountryHardDreamBigsAmericaHard WorkExtraordinaryAppealsPullingPresidencyBootstraps Author:Ron Fournier
“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.” NeedsTryingYearsHas BeensCountryBigsGovernmentLastsPastPresidentFourPolicyTiredDisappointmentPresident ObamaFour YearsBig GovernmentNew DirectionsGovernment Policy Author:Reince Priebus
“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.” WorldMeanCountryDoneBigsGivenChanceForgetEffortPovertyLowsDebtIncomeIndebtedGood ChanceLow Income Author:Rodrigo Rato
“I want to see Haiti do better. We have the sun everywhere: that's a big asset. We have wonderful coasts, beautiful islands, mountains. Other countries that have that are known for it, but Haiti has been so focused inwards, on its problems.” WantHas BeensCountryProblemBigsBeautifulKnownSunWonderfulMountainFocusedIslandsAssetsOther CountriesCoastHaiti Author:Laurent Lamothe
“I'm fighting for small businesses. I'm not fighting for big oil. Don't be confused. And there are thousands of businesses in this state that are at great risk. Meanwhile, the country keeps guzzling the oil, but we're out of work down here. We need to get back to work to build this region, and we intend to do so.” NeedsCountryStatesBigsFightingRiskOilConfusedRegionsGet BackSmall BusinessBack To WorkGreat RiskBig Oil Author:Mary Landrieu
“When I left the University of Iowa and made the decision to come to Rutgers, I said to my athletic director, as both of us stood there crying, 'I wish I could just take Iowa to the East Coast. That would be the best of all worlds.' Of course, I couldn't. I have the best of all worlds now by being at Rutgers, being in this part of the country and being able to embrace and receive the great prestige that is part of the Big Ten.” WorldMadeSaidCountryBigsWould BeAbleCoursesLeftWishDecisionCryDirectorsTenEmbraceUniversityEastBeing The BestCoastAthleticPrestigeIowaEast CoastRutgers Author:C. Vivian Stringer
“In London - and forget those extra public pressures on politicians - the lovely old Sloane world of manor houses simply hasn't cut it since Big Bang in 1986, the point at which Mrs. Thatcher really started to achieve her ambition to make this country more like America - its ambition, economy, it's very tangible measures of success.” WorldCountryBigsAmericaHouseForgetEconomyCuttingAchievePoliticianAmbitionPressureLondonLovelyExtrasBangsTangibleMeasure Of SuccessMrs Thatcher Author:Peter York
“When I was growing up you would see big American films that really mythologised their landscape, that really showed the vastness and the drama of their country.” CountryBigsFilmGrowing UpGrowingDramaLandscapeVastnessAmerican Film Author:Baz Luhrmann
“There'll be no more big powers and oppressed poor - only fairness and justice for all, and eternal happiness. So if you're looking for the perfect city and the perfect government in the perfect country with perfect people, just wait a little while longer - it's coming” PeopleIfsLittlesCountryBigsGovernmentWaitingJusticePerfectPoorCitiesEternalHeavenlyFairnessOppressedEternal HappinessJustice For All Author:David Berg
“This is one way that wealthy Americans could really contribute. They could put hundreds of millions of dollars into the infrastructure bank, be a good investment for them, for their children, for their grandchildren, and they would directly contribute to revitalizing a big sector of middle-class wages in America and making our country more productive, so that we could create more opportunity. But I think that we could get a lot of grassroots support from, like, local chambers of commerce and other things if they understood exactly how this infrastructure bank would work.” IfsThinkingWayChildrenCountryBigsAmericaOpportunityClassMillionsSupportMiddleUnderstoodDollarsInvestmentLocalsOur CountryOne WayProductiveMiddle ClassWealthyCommerceWagesGrandchildrenInfrastructureChamberGrassrootsChamber Of Commerce Author:William J. Clinton
“Public relations, in this country, is the art of adapting big business to a democracy so that the people have confidence that they are being well served and at the same time the business has freedom to serve them well.” PeopleWellsArtCountryBigsFreedomBusinessDemocracyRelationHave ConfidencePublic RelationsBig BusinessAdapting Author:Arthur W. Page
“I am just an old country boy in a big town trying to get along. I have been eating pretty regular and the reason I have been is because I have stayed an old country boy.” TryingHas BeensCountryReasonHumorBigsFunnyBoysEatingTownsAgricultureCountry Boy Book:Will Rogers' Weekly Articles: The Harding Source: Will Rogers' Weekly Articles: The Harding
“I don't care how little your country is, you got a right to run it like you want to. When the big nations quit meddling then the world will have peace.” WorldWantLittlesCountryBigsCareRunningNationsLike YouDon't CareCaringQuittingI Don't CareMeddling Author:Will Rogers
“I am a big believer in the value of traveling while you are young. The experiences you have in other countries can inspire greatness.” CountryBigsMotivationalYoungValuesGreatnessInspireBelieverOther Countries Author:Blake Mycoskie
“One of the most important things for a country, particularly when it's seeking to attract long-term capital in big risky projects that are going to have a payback over many years if not decades, is to be seen as being a predictable environment where tax changes will be few. But if they are going to come about they'll come about in a way that you know is predictable, understandable.” IfsKnowsWayYearsLongImportantCountryBigsTermEnvironmentTaxesProjectsImportant ThingsSeekingDecadesLong TermPredictablePayback Author:Malcolm Turnbull
“China is a big country, inhabited by many Chinese.” CountryBigsStupidChinaSillyDumbChineseUnfortunateStupid PeopleReally StupidStupid Celebrity Author:Charles de Gaulle
“I got the breaks. Starting from nowhere in the corn belt, I helped edit a country weekly, then was jack-of-all-departments on an obscure daily, so that when I arrived in a big city everything I tackled in the line of column conducting and syndicate peddling and playwriting had to bring promotion, because I had no social standing which could be endangered, no reputation to toss away and no pride which might suffer a setback. Everything I acquired had to be velvet. You cannot lose your silver spoon if you are brought up on pewter.” IfsCountryBigsMightSufferingSocialLosesLinesCitiesBreakPrideStandingStartingReputationDepartmentSilverObscureBeltsPromotionCornColumnsSetbackEditsSpoonsTossVelvetConductingBig CitiesPlaywritingSilver SpoonsSyndicatePeddlingPewter Author:George Ade
“It's a big mistake to think that your own cause, or your own country, or your own side has God in its corner. For one thing, it commits the sin of pride.” ThinkingCountryBigsCausesSidesSinMistakeOne ThingPrideCornersCommitBig MistakeSin Of Pride Author:Christopher Hitchens
“The political controversy surrounding this Boston's Big Dig could have the effect of throwing cold water on any plans for farsighted infrastructure development around the country.” CountryBigsPoliticalWaterPlansEffectsColdDevelopmentThrowingControversyInfrastructureBostonCold Water Author:Andrew Natsios
“The "patron saint" of Japanese quality control, ironically, is an American named W. Edwards Deming, who was virtually unknown in his own country until his ideas of quality control began to make such a big impact on Japanese companies.” IdeasCountryBigsQualityCompanyImpactSaintPatronBig ImpactQuality Control Author:Akio Morita
“You know what made us the biggest, meanest, Big Mac eating, calorie-counting, world-dominating kick-ass powerhouse country in the history of the human race? The pursuit of happiness. Not happiness. The pursuit.” KnowsWorldHumansMadeCountryBigsAmericaHappinessRaceEatingPursuitAssHuman RaceKicksPursuit Of HappinessCountingMacsCaloriesDominatingKick AssBig Mac Book:Happiness Source: Happiness
“I think both sides [China and United States] should work hard to build a new type of relationship between big powers. The two sides should cooperate with each other for a win-win result in order to benefit people from the two countries and the world.” PeopleThinkingWorldShouldTwoCountryHardStatesBigsOrderWinningSidesUnitedResultsUnited StatesHard WorkTypeBenefitsChinaBoth SidesTwo SidesWin WinTwo Countries Author:Xi Jinping
“We have a tendency in this country that when we say Black it automatically means Black Americans. But that's a big mistake, and that keeps us divided. There are Blacks all over this entire world-even in Africa.” WorldMeanCountryBigsBlackMistakeTendenciesDividedBig Mistake Author:Irene Cara
“I do not dislike but I certainly have no especial respect or admiration for and no trust in, the typical big moneyed men of my country. I do not regard them as furnishing sound opinion as respects either foreign or domestic business.” MenCountryBigsSoundBusinessOpinionRegardAdmirationDislikeTypicalNo Trust Author:Theodore Roosevelt
“Politics in this country [USA] is always tough. It's always contentious, because this is a big country and a diverse country, and people have strong points of view, and we've got a great diversity of interests.” PeopleCountryBigsStrongInterestViewsDiversityToughPoint Of ViewUsaDiverseContentiousGreat Diversity Author:Barack Obama
“I don't think polarization is some kind of grand distraction. It's real. People have different commitments, believe in different things and principles, different visions of the good life ... but there is also a degree to which all the really big, successful reform movements in the country had extremely bizarre ideological coalitions.” PeopleThinkingBelieveKindDifferentRealCountryBigsVisionPrinciplesSuccessfulMovementDegreesCommitmentReformDifferent ThingsGood LifeDistractionBizarreIdeologicalCoalitionsPolarizationReform Movements Author:Chris Hayes
“Basically, there are two kinds of stereotypes out there in the world about America. There's America the Goliath - the big, powerful, bullying country that pushes its way around the world and gets its ways, pursues its own interests nakedly, irrespective of what others want. And the other stereotype is America, the land of opportunity, where everyone can go and do anything, be anything, make any dreams come true.” WorldWayWantKindTwoCountryDreamBigsAmericaOpportunityInterestPowerfulLandPursueAround The WorldBullyingStereotypeDreams Come TrueGoliathLand Of Opportunity Author:Shashi Tharoor