Best country & our-country Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Propelled by freedom of faith, gender equality and economic justice for all, India will become a modern nation. Minor blemishes cannot cloak the fact that India is becoming such a modern nation: no faith is in danger in our country, and the continuing commitment to gender equality is one of the great narratives of our times.”

“I think very poorly of United Russia. United Russia is the party of corruption, the party of crooks and thieves. And it is the duty of every patriot and citizen of our country to make sure that this party is destroyed.”

Thinking Country United Party Duty Citizens Corruption Russia Destroyed Our Country Thieves Patriot Crooks

Author:Alexei Navalny

“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.”

People Looks Country Stories Bigs Seems Class Struggle Fans Labor Mark Our Country Epic Royalty Life Struggle Upper Class

Author:Lucas Neff

“We're not trying to take back our country. We are our country.”

Trying Country Our Country

Book:Troublemaker: Let's Do What It Takes to Make America Great Again

Source: Troublemaker: Let's Do What It Takes to Make America Great Again

“It is a sad day for our country when the moral foundation of our law and the acknowledgment of God has to be hidden from public view to appease a federal judge.”

Country Law Views Moral Judging Foundation Our Country Acknowledgment Appease Sad Day Federal Judges

Author:Soledad O'Brien

“The more English is heard in the world, the more gratifying it seems to speak French, and above all to know the culture of our country. They find a kind of French social grace in the language and culture.”

Knows World Kind Country Seems Culture Speak Language Social Grace Heard Our Country Speaks French Social Graces

Author:Bernard Pivot

“The use of methamphetamines has become pervasive in our country, and especially in rural areas.”

Country Use Areas Our Country Rural Areas Methamphetamine

Author:Collin Peterson

“We Greeks want change. We know there are problems in our system. We have great potential but we need to manage our country well. Now that hasn't been done over the last decades. And that is, of course, what we are paying for.”

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Author:George Papandreou

“Today I want to send a message of optismism to all Greeks. Our road, our path, will be more stabilised. Our country will be in a better situation. We will be stronger.”

Want Country Today Situation Path Messages Stronger Our Country Greek

Author:George Papandreou

“The financial crisis in our country is not a passing storm. Given the size of the problems, our national effort will not be completed in 2012. It will take many years and will require the efforts and insistence of several governments.”

Years Country Problem Government Given Effort Crisis Financial Size Storm Passing Passings Our Country Financial Crisis Insistence

Author:Lucas Papademos

“I thank all of those deputies who supported the government and gave it a vote of confidence. I believe each of those votes represents a responsible decision to avoid placing our country's membership of the eurozone in danger.”

Believe Country Government I Believe Decision Danger Vote Responsible Our Country Membership Deputies Eurozone

Author:Lucas Papademos

“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

“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

“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

“We should be proud of our country when we have done something to be proud of, when we have lived up to our own standards. But the flip side of genuine pride is being able to recognize when we have fallen short, and to hold ourselves to account.”

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Author:Anne-Marie Slaughter

“Our country, like every modern state, needs profound democratic reforms. It needs political and ideological pluralism, a mixed economy and protection of human rights and the opening up of society.”

Needs Humans Country States Political Economy Rights Modern Democratic Profound Human Rights Protection Opening Our Country Reform Ideological Opening Up Pluralism Mixed Economy

Author:Andrei Sakharov

“There is nobody that I know who believes that Bank of America is a human being who should be entitled for the same constitutional rights that the people of our country are.”

People Knows Should Believe Humans Country America Human Beings Rights Our Country Entitled Constitutional Rights

Author:Bernie Sanders

“Our country has suffered from an on-again, off-again energy policy that has failed to get us to energy independence. As President Obama has said, we need a comprehensive energy plan for the country that includes conventional resources like oil and gas, but that also takes advantage of wind, solar, biomass, geothermal, and other renewable resources.”

“Clearly while the president is overseas, he's at a conference and while the president is overseas I think it's appropriate that people not be critical of him or our country.”

People Thinking Country President Republican Critical Our Country Appropriate Conferences

Author:John Boehner

“We are a mixed economy. We will remain a mixed economy. The public and private sector will continue to play a very important role. The private sector in our country has very ample scope and I am confident that India's entrepreneurs have the capacity, and the will to rise to the occasion.”

Important Country Play Roles Economy Capacity India Entrepreneur Our Country Occasions Scope Private Sector Mixed Economy

Author:Manmohan Singh

“But obviously, we can't afford to make some bad long-term decisions with regard to basic commitments our country has - trade those away for some short-term assistance that may or may not be there a month from now.”

May Long Country Term Decision Months Commitment Regard Trade Our Country Long Term Assistance Short Term

Author:Fred Thompson

“I ask you, people who care about the soul of Ukraine, those who want to preserve the heart, the spirit and the faith of our country for future generations, to please defend it.”

People Want Heart Soul Country Care Spirit Asks Generations Please Our Country Preserves Who Cares Future Generation Ukraine

Author:Yulia Tymoshenko

“The vast majority of Greeks accept the need for reform and want to keep our country inside the euro zone.”

Want Needs Country Accepting Majority Our Country Reform Greek Zone Euro

Author:Evangelos Venizelos

“This is a perilous time, and more than ever, the world needs a united and strong America. If, God forbid, we live to see Mr. Obama president, we will live through a socialist era that America has not seen before, and our country will be weakened in every way.”

Ifs World Way Needs Country America Strong President United Our Country Eras Socialist Perilous Times Strong America

Author:Jon Voight

“In the last four years, I heard the same thing over and over again from people: 'We've had enough,' 'Our country is drifting,' 'We've lost our way.”

People Way Years Country Enough Lasts Lost Four Heard Our Country Four Years Had Enough Drifting

Author:Ted Yoho

“Ronald Reagan was able to accomplish extraordinary purposes for our country without having to put our military forces into conflict.”

Country Able Purpose Force Military Conflict Extraordinary Accomplish Our Country Military Force

Author:Mitt Romney

“The labor movement has a great role to play in our country today.”

Country Play Today Roles Movement Labor Our Country Labor Union Labor Movement

Author:Eleanor Roosevelt

“Ethanol is a premier, high performance fuel. It has tremendous environmental benefits and is a key component to energy independence for our country.”

Country Energy Keys Benefits Performances Independence Environmental Our Country Fuel Components Ethanol Energy Independence

Author:Richard Lugar

“At the moment, we don't deserve international cricket in our country. The security situation is poor here.”

Country Moments Poor Situation Security Deserve International Our Country Cricket

Author:Rashid Latif

“Our official histories of our countries and societies are made of forgetfulness.”

Made Country Our Country Officials Forgetfulness

Author:Mia Couto

“We must have systems of checks and balances to make sure that those people who are making critical decisions for our country are held accountable, and nowhere is that more important than in the area of national security.”

People Important Country Decision Security Balance Areas Critical Checks Our Country National Security Critical Decisions

Author:Chris Van Hollen

“There are a number of steps that we can take to reinvigorate and rebuild the economic and the physical infrastructure of our country and then to rebuild us, frankly, on a spiritual level.”

Country Spiritual Levels Numbers Steps Economic Our Country Infrastructure

Author:Carol Moseley Braun

“The property of the people belongs to the people. To take it from them by taxation cannot be justified except by urgent public necessity. Unless this principle be recognized our country is no longer secure, our people no longer free.”

People Country Principles Property Our Country Secure Justified Taxation Urgent

Book:Calvin Coolidge, His Ideals of Citizenship as Revealed Through His Speeches and Writings

Source: Calvin Coolidge, His Ideals of Citizenship as Revealed Through His Speeches and Writings

“I've been watching politics for 35 or 40 years and you just never know. You can have one person win the Iowa caucus and then the whole picture changes ten minutes later. The same thing can happen again after New Hampshire. I have no idea what's going to happen with our country in the future.”

Knows Years Persons Ideas Country Whole Happens Winning Minutes Ten Our Country No Idea Iowa Hampshire New Hampshire Caucus Whole Picture

Author:Jackie Mason

“There has been enough suffering in our country, there has been enough of children whose dreams die before they have a chance to grow and there has been enough of our elders who, having served their nation, are forced into indignity in their old age.”

Children Has Beens Country Enough Dream Age Suffering Dies Nations Grows Chance Old Age Our Country Elders Indignity

Book:Towards a golden age of business: selected speeches of H. E. Mr. John Agyekum Kufuor, January-December, 2001

Source: Towards a golden age of business: selected speeches of H. E. Mr. John Agyekum Kufuor, January-December, 2001

“Workers of France, it is for the freedom of the prisoners that you will go to work in Germany! It is for our country that you will go in large numbers!”

Country Numbers Workers Our Country France Germany Prisoner Large Numbers

Author:Pierre Laval

“There has been no appreciable improvement in our country's ability to produce the kind of talent we need in this space. There have been some small initiatives around the country that have been noteworthy.”

Needs Kind Has Beens Country Ability Space Talent Produce Improvement Our Country Initiative

Author:John W. Thompson

“To be a superstar is incredible pressure. And also in our country, I'm going to speak about this, America. We have a way of kind of making it hard on our superstars. I don't sense it when I go to Europe or I go to Japan.”

Way Kind Country Hard America Speak Europe Pressure Incredibles Our Country Japan Superstar

Author:Narada Michael Walden

“We're leaving this Hell of a mess before long and we're going to go to our Country and our City to be with our King!”

Long Country Cities Hell Kings Leaving Our Country Mess Heavenly

Author:David Berg

“I'm proud of our country that we elected Barack Obama. I mean, it says something about us nationally. You know, it's kind of like crowning your checker when you get to the end of your checker board. Here's another thing that says America's special: Barack Obama, president of the United States.”

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Author:Tom Coburn

“One of the real dilemmas we have in our country and around the world is that what works in politics is organization and conflict. That is, drawing the sharp distinctions. But in real life, what works is networks and cooperation. And we need victories in real life, so we've got to get back to networks and cooperation, not just conflict. But politics has always been about conflict, and in the coverage of politics, information dissemination tends to be organized around conflict as well.”

“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.”

“Life, lift the full goblet--away with all sorrow-- The circle of friendship what freedom would sever? To-day is our own, and a fig for to-morrow-- Here's to the Fourth and our country forever.”

Country Forever Sorrow Circles Our Country Lifts Fourth Toasts Morrow Figs Circle Of Friends

Author:Franklin P. Adams

“Slaves cannot breathe in England; if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free; They touch our country, and their shackles fall.”

Ifs Country Moments Fall Air England Slavery Slave Breathe Our Country That Moment Lungs Shackles Slavery Freedom

Author:William Cowper

“There's so many people who move around our country and lose track of their own ancestry. It's nice to know where you come from.”

People Knows Country Moving Loses Nice Track Our Country Ancestry Where You Come

Author:Garrison Keillor

“But I am not discouraged. I do not despair for our country. I believe tonight, as I always have, that the essential decency, compassion and common sense of the American people will prevail.”

People Believe Country I Believe Common Compassion Essentials Despair Common Sense Our Country Tonight Decency Discouraged

Author:Jimmy Carter

“The children of warriors in our country learn the grace and caution that come from a permanent sense of estrangement.”

Children Country Grace Our Country Warrior Permanent Caution Estrangement

Book:A Lowcountry Heart: Reflections on a Writing Life

Source: A Lowcountry Heart: Reflections on a Writing Life

“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.”

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