Quotes About Countries

In the end we had the pieces of the puzzle, but no matter how we put them together, gaps remained, oddly shaped emptinesses mapped by what surrounded them, like countries we couldn't name.

Narcissism levels are higher for Americans than for citizens of many other countries and regions

I've been to enough other countries in the world to know what happens when you have socialized single-payer health care. It works. People don't get sick as much. They don't lose their life savings with a catastrophic illness like cancer or AIDS.

Among industrialized countries, the U.S. ranks 29th in infant survival.

Generating more respect, values, and brotherhood among countries is the role of the United Nations. Policing, blaming, or punishing countries is not the job of the UN.

Neutrality is the essential power of the United Nations. If neutrality is lost, then it will no longer be relevant. Generating more respect, values, and brotherhood among countries is the key role of the United Nations.

Many countries' intelligence services spy on their own citizens. In 2018, China spent more on internal security than external defense.

The most serious threats from a national security perspective don't come from Cheeto-eating teens. They come from well-trained operatives and proxies operating at the behest of four countries: China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea.

Some multinational corporations have become mightier than many countries. In effect, the old principles of national sovereignty have become obsolete. What we need is a transnational power, capable of establishing law and order at a global level." Kofi Annan looked at John with even more concern writ large on his face. "Surely you don't mean the United Nations?" he asked. "No," said John Fontanelli, "I don't mean the United Nations.

Our ancestors had fought and murdered one another, married and forged alliances, founded countries. At their best - but only for selfish reasons - they patronized art, literature, and music. But their worlds had to be overthrown by revolutions, because there was room in them only for themselves.

As figure 5.1 shows, in the past the United States was not more economically stratified than other countries, but the last thirty years have seen exceptional growth in the incomes of the richest Americans.

Have citizenship somewhere that does not tax income earned outside the country. This was the personal safe haven. Have businesses and investments in stable, low- or no-tax countries. These are called the business havens. Live as a tourist in countries that support your values, rather than society's. These countries are the lifestyle havens, or 'playgrounds.

These are the multinationals, like General Motors and Nestle; these are the big industrial groups that weigh, on the monetary scale, much more than big countries like Egypt.

I ask our European partners for a truly European migration management. The burden of landings cannot weigh only on the countries of arrival.

While we welcome people of all faiths in America we cannot be so naive as to expect all countries to do the same. But we cannot allow their cultural mores to snuff out our religious freedoms or the freedom of women to have equal rights.

One of the reasons America is welcome in Asia is because with America... there is a certain idealism and a certain bigness of soul. You want the region to prosper; you want countries to do well, and you are prepared to help them.

The numbers that we can welcome to our own countries are relatively small in comparison to the millions that have been displaced, but it's vital because it sets an example.

To maximise global social welfare, policymakers should strongly encourage the diffusion of knowledge from developed to developing countries.

By common consent, most European countries support the maintenance of robust welfare states and are comfortable with taxation systems that support them.

Typhoon Haiyan showed the entire world how vulnerable the Philippines as well as other developing countries are to natural disasters.

The impact of climate change is a tremendous risk to the security and well-being of our countries.

From what I've read, everyone has a claim on Merlin. Was he Scottish, Welsh, English or even French? All these countries have got a big claim on him and Camelot. That's why the Arthurian legends are so popular - because they are such good stories.

Poland is different from the other so-called socialist countries. We have a different background. Poland belongs to the West, not the East. We belong to the Mediterranean, Latin culture, not to the Byzantine, which is very different and which you find in Bulgaria and even parts of Czechoslovakia and, of course, Romania.

In Sudan, we have been targeted by western countries because we have rejected their hegemony on Sudan and turned their companies away that were only interested in oil.