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“I love that we are one of the least unionized states in the country...We don't have unions in South Carolina because we don't need unions in South Carolina...And we'll make the unions understand full well that they are not needed, not wanted, and not welcome.”

Needs Wells Country States Wanted Values Needed Unions South Conservative Welcome Carolina South Carolina Conservative Values

Author:Nikki Haley

“The most upsetting thing is that the US is a leader in the world, and if they don't sign, then how do you expect to convince Russian and China and Iran, Pakistan, all these other countries, to sign? They simply won't. (The US government) feels it's against their constitutional right to bear arms, or they've said that it's needed in North and South Korea, on the border. I don't think any of these are good enough excuses for the damage.”

“As Minister of Foreign Affairs, I will work on deepening Haiti's links with its traditional partners from the north and the south, while exploring all the opportunities for economic, cultural, scientific and technological cooperation that may benefit my country.”

May Country Opportunity Economic Benefits South Affair Partners Traditional Ministers Links Cooperation Exploring Technological Haiti Foreign Affairs

Author:Laurent Lamothe

“As a citizen of this country, I've got to be honest to the people of South Africa.”

People Country Honest Citizens South Being Honest South Africa

Author:Jacob Zuma

“It was good to launch the economy in the '50s. Japan did this; China did this; even South Korea did this. All the East Asians did this - import substitution. I think all countries followed import substitution in the '50s and in the '60s, but I think by the '70s, countries were getting out of that first phase of the strategy.”

Thinking Firsts Country Economy Strategy South China East Japan Phases Korea Imports Substitution South Korea

Author:Jairam Ramesh

“The white men were roused by a mere instinct of self-preservation—until at last there had sprung into existence a great Ku Klux Klan, a veritable empire of the South, to protect the Southern country.”

Men Self Country Lasts White Existence Protect Mere Instinct South Empires Southern Preservation White Man Self Preservation Sprung Ku Klux Klan

Author:Woodrow Wilson

“I know that my grandfather is 92 years old. And he has seen this country evolve in amazing ways. He looks at South Carolina and he says, wow, what an amazing state that we have the blessing to live within because of the evolution.”

Knows Way Years Looks Country States Evolution Blessing South Evolve Wow Grandfather My Grandfather Carolina South Carolina

Author:Tim Scott

“A decade ago, critics suggested biotech crops would not be valuable in the developing world. Now 90 percent of farmers who benefit are resource-poor farmers in developing countries. These helped alleviate 7.7 million subsistence farmers in China, India, South Africa, the Philippines from abject poverty.”

“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

“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

“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

“The shock caused by the September 11 events has also lead to a thorough reflection on the existing disparity between rich and poor countries, on the misery of populations of the South.”

Country Poor Rich Events Reflection Misery South Population Shock September September 11 Rich And Poor Thorough Disparity Poor Countries

Author:Omar Bongo

“You can find your way across this country using burger joint the way a navigatior uses stars....We have munched Bridge burgers in the shadow of the Brooklyn Bridge and Cable burgers hard by the Golden Gate, Dixie burgers in the sunny South and Yankee Doodle burgers in the North....We had a Capitol Burger - guess where. And so help us, in the inner courtyard of the Pentagon, a Penta burger.”

Way Country Hard Helping Use Stars Shadow South Golden Bridges Gates Yankees Joints Cables Sunny Brooklyn Capitol Hamburgers Pentagon Burgers Dixie Brooklyn Bridge

Author:Charles Kuralt

“Let me assure my countrymen of the Southern States that it is my earnest desire to regard and promote their truest interest - the interests of the white and of the colored people both and equally and to put forth my best efforts in behalf of a civil policy which will forever wipe out in our political affairs the color line and the distinction between North and South, to the end that we may have not merely a united North or a united South, but a united country.”

“Other countries may boast of this and that, but nobody can touch the United States for poisonous snakes. We have about twenty species, most of them deadly, and Europe has only five or six, none of them much good. We have fifteen kinds of Rattlesnakes alone and nobody else has even one. [Footnote: There is a species in Central and South America, but it probably came from here.]”

Kind May Country States America United United States Five Six Europe Twenties South Species Other Countries Fifteen Snakes Boast Poisonous South America Rattlesnakes Poisonous Snakes

Author:Will Cuppy

“The decay of the late, great country of South Africa is beginning to become apparent. The name of the Transvaal has been officially changed to 'Gauteng.' (One of our friends has suggested that in view of this its inhabitants in the future should be referred to as Oranggautengs.) ... And now there is a move afoot to wreck the Kruger National Park, one of the wonders of the world, on the notion that a good bit of its land was 'taken from the blacks.' This idea is somewhat akin to giving Yellowstone Park back to the Blackfeet.”

“Our economy is a hundred times better, than the average African economy. Outside South Africa, what country is [as good as] Zimbabwe?.. What is lacking now are goods on the shelves - that is all.”

Country Economy Hundred South Average Goods South Africa Lacking Shelves Zimbabwe

Author:Robert Mugabe

“For the Second Amendment to do its job, the other side must become much better informed. I watched an action-adventure program last night that asserted that the famous AK-47 - the original peoples' rifle (and Authority's greatest mistake) - is rare in this country, and that the only ones here were originally smuggled in from the Middle East, or possibly from South America. The idiots who wrote this mess seemed unaware that after legal imports - mostly from China - were illegally cut off by executive order, they began to be manufactured here.”

“When Tony Benn became a minister in the 1960s -- and I think this must be apocryphal -- he had a huge map of Britain hung upside down in his office, so the channel was at the top and Scotland was at the bottom and, apparently, he said, "This is how we need to look at this country, with the money and the power draining by force of gravity out of the south east." That was a great idea. I rather liked him for that. I don't know if it's actually true or not.”

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Author:Neal Ascherson

“Proper driving etiquette demands that you basically get close enough to a car in front of you at a busy intersection that it would mean that in certain third-world countries, or South Carolina, you would have to get married.”

Source: Rude Bitches Make Me Tired: Slightly Profane and Entirely Logical Answers to Modern Etiquette Dilemmas

“The Aegean sea washes Greece on two sides: first, the side that faces towards the east and stretches from Sunium, towards the north as far as the Thermaean Gulf and Thessaloniceia, a Macedonian city...; and secondly, the side that faces towards the south, I mean the Macedonian country, extending from Thessaloniceia as far as the Strymon.”

Firsts Mean Two Country Faces Sides Cities Sea South East Greece Two Sides Extending

Author:Strabo

“There is one rule for the G-7 (richest countries) and another for the South. The G-7 now preaches open economies and liberalization, as well as 'good governance' and 'transparency'. Yet none of these things was conspicuous when the West grew rich.”

Wells Country Economy Rich Grew West South Governance Transparency Good Governance

Book:The No-nonsense Guide to World Poverty

Source: The No-nonsense Guide to World Poverty

“We cannot change the hearts of the people of the South, but we can make war so terrible that they will realize the fact that however brave and gallant and devoted to their country still they are mortal and should exhaust all peaceful remedies before they fly to war.”

People Should Heart Stills War Country Facts Realizing Terrible Brave South Peaceful Mortals Remedy Devoted Gallant

Author:William Tecumseh Sherman

“During a recent event at a restaurant called Tommy's Country Ham House in South Carolina, presidential candidate Ben Carson delivered a speech right after he lost his front tooth. Which still left him with more teeth than everyone combined at Tommy's Country Ham House.”

Stills Country House Lost Left Fronts Events Speech South Teeth Presidential Candidates Restaurants Carolina Ham Presidential Candidate South Carolina Ben Carson Recent Events

Author:Jimmy Fallon

“I think we typically, as Northerners, stereotype what the South is in so many negative ways. We kind of forget all the beautiful things that they contribute to make this country a country.”

Thinking Way Kind Country Beautiful Artist Forget Negative South Beautiful Things Stereotype Northerners Negative Stereotypes

Author:Genevieve Gorder

“I think Confederate Battle Flag is a symbol that causes a great deal of division and reminds us of a really hurtful legacy and past... I think there are some Southerners, black and white, who feel as though the rest of the country looks down on the South as uneducated and backward. And for some people, that was a symbol of defiance against that.”

People Thinking Feels Looks Country Past Causes Black White Deals Battle South Symbols Legacy Division Flags Black And White Defiance Hurtful Uneducated Confederate Southerner

Author:Russell D. Moore

“I lived in Alabama and Georgia, and the people in the south are wonderful. It's God, faith, family, country.”

People Country Wonderful South Faith In God Georgia Alabama

Author:Sean Hannity

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