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Quotes About National

We need a Peace Department in our national government to do extensive research on peaceful ways of resolving conflicts. Then we can ask other countries to create similar departments.
~ Peace Pilgrim
CANNON, n. An instrument employed in the rectification of national boundaries.
~ Ambrose Bierce
Progress is not about hating or destroying America, it is about loving and building the world, which can only come from healing our national dementia.
~ Bryant McGill, Voice of Reason
In Australia, not reading poetry is the national pastime.
~ Phyllis McGinley
When I was awarded a fellowship in poetry by the National Endowment for the Arts (for "Alphabets"), I felt myself suddenly (vaingloriously) equal to my Crow, which would be - I knew at once - Rat.
~ Norman Lock
Overall relations between the North and the South have developed in favor of national reconciliation, unity and reunification.
~ Kim Jong Il
Politics is the art of making your selfish desires seem like the national interest.
~ Thomas Sowell
National defense is the sacred duty of the young and all other people.
~ Kim Jong Il
I have left orders to be awakened at any time during national emergency, even if I'm in a cabinet meeting.
~ Ronald Reagan
politics can be an ugly game, and in a national election the stakes get higher while the tactics get lower.
~ Geraldine Ferraro
The conservation of our natural resources and their proper use constitute the fundamental problem which underlies almost every other problem of our national life.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
Protecting Americans from nuclear terrorism rises above politics.
~ Lee H. Hamilton
National politics and elections are dominated by emotions, by lack of self-confidence, by fear of the other, by insecurity, by infection of the body politic by the virus of victimhood.
~ Tariq Ramadan
I would dodge, not lie, in the national interest.
~ Larry Speakes
It's a national failing to think of politics as something that goes on in Parliament. It isn't; it's something that goes on inside us.
~ Brian Aldiss
That's just silly. Closing a global business in reaction to single-issue national politics is foolish.
~ Dick Costolo
I worked in the media from the late 30's through the early 70's. Politics in general became more liberal both nationally and within the state as the years passed.
~ Jesse Helms
National defense is one of the cardinal duties of a statesman, and that there is an obligation to perform such a duty absolutely irrespective of party politics or factional differences.
~ John Adams
I know nothing grander, better exercise, better digestion, more positive proof of the past, the triumphant result of faith in human kind, than a well-contested American national election.
~ Walt Whitman
In all, Nigeria belongs to us all and we have a personal responsibility to see that it succeeds
~ Fela Durotoye
Air power alone does not guarantee America's security, but I believe it best exploits the nation's greatest asset - our technical skill.
~ Hoyt Vandenberg
If national pride is ever justifiable or excusable it is when it springs, not from power or riches, grandeur or glory, but from conviction of national innocence, information and benevolence.
~ John Adams
Baseball is a skilled game. It's America's game -- it, and high taxes
~ Will Rogers
The State in organising security should not stifle incentive, opportunity, responsibility; in establishing a national minimum, it should leave room and encouragement for voluntary action by each individual to provide more than that minimum for himself and his family.
~ William Beveridge