Quotes About Countries

That's always the bucket list for me: Different countries, different experiences, different food. To be able to do that through work? I'm the luckiest person alive.

Generally, I travel with my own cast to stage plays in different countries.

Developing countries often have hypertrophied bureaucracies, requiring businesses to deal with enormous amounts of red tape.

State oil companies in Saudi Arabia, Africa, Iran, and Mexico have often been intelligence targets for the United States.

Too often, U.N. peacekeepers face an impossible task in countries that are still at war and where there is no real peace to keep.

Narrativity presumes a special taste for plot. And this taste for plot was always very present in the Anglo-Saxon countries and that explains their high quality of detective novels.

Countries that will not tax their elite who expect us to come in and help them serve their people are just not going to get the kind of help from us that historically they may have.

A global tax body would give all countries - not just the rich and powerful - an equal say in how the global rules on taxation are designed.

Business is global. Countries need to react to that; taxes need to be paid where profit arises.

Many countries, even socialist Sweden and former communist Russia, have done away with their death taxes. They found the confiscation of wealth at death to be counterproductive.

Without American leadership at the U.N., countries just continue to talk and socialize and spend taxpayer dollars.

Legal aid gets a bad press. Some rail against handing taxpayers' money to criminals; others attack fat cat lawyers, while some argue that we spend far more on legal aid than other countries. But let's get some facts straight: saying that legal aid is just about criminals is wrong - most goes to people before any decision is taken on their guilt.

It is normal for politicians in all countries to profess themselves the pupils of history, anxious to draw the right lessons from her teaching.

In my regular life, I am very involved in commissions for cities and sometimes countries. And I think of public art as a team sport. The outcome is only possible with the interaction of all the players.

As with the United States, so too in these other five countries federalism was not so much a free choice as a self-evident necessity imposed by history.

The Western countries have experienced a development trajectory in which higher wages led to the invention of labour-saving technology, whose use drove up labour productivity and wages with it.

It requires the most active cooperation of at least several advanced countries, among which we cannot classify Russia.

For that, the proletariat must be victorious "at least in several other countries."[587] Only in the further progress of world revolution lay final security—and in that sense final victory—for the Soviet Revolution.

I don't just use yarn from a store. I buy old sweaters from consignment shops. The older the better, and unravel them. There are countries of women in this scarf/shawl/blanket. Soon it will be big enough to keep me warm.

The U.S. has subsidized the armies of other countries while allowing for the very sad depletion of our military.

Will America lead...and reap the rewards? Or will we surrender that advantage to other countries with clearer vision?

True hunger was a weapon stronger than any of his abstract desires. It's what toppled countries and made men desperate.

The mechanisms of dissent differed in each society, but internal unrest threatened the leadership in nearly every country-including China.

The ideal of Liberty that has made the Republic the arbiter of Europe will also make it the arbiter of distant oceans, of faraway countries.