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Quotes About Countries

When I joined Bloomberg, I was especially eager to take advantage of the organization's size. Because I work on a wide variety of stories, bouncing between industries and countries, it's immensely useful to work together with so many journalists with such a wide range of expertise.
~ Mina Kimes
I would say as a journalist, I would envision travelling to other countries that have had to reckon with their past and see how they've done it: what worked, what didn't work, finding characters that would tell the story of how that process was done.
~ Ta-Nehisi Coates
Our trade negotiations should ensure that American workers are protected and that there are mechanisms in place to deal with other countries cheating.
~ Carlos Beruff
A UK-Australia trade deal won't just be a good thing, it'll be a great thing, for our businesses, for our consumers, for our workers and for our two great countries.
~ Liz Truss
The difference between the Chinese workers and foreign workers lies in the fact that the latter are oppressed only by their own capitalists and not by those of other countries.
~ Sun Yat-sen
A literate, skilled workforce is essential for low-income countries to attract investment and fill jobs with local rather than imported labour.
~ Julia Gillard
The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.
~ Vladimir Lenin
I have seen this happen in recent years with regard to pharmaceuticals and vaccines, where, working together, we are improving access to medicines and vaccines for infectious diseases in the poorest countries.
~ Gro Harlem Brundtland
We must update our country's workplace policies to remain competitive against other developed countries.
~ Suzan DelBene
To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.
~ John Muir
The World Bank adjusts its poverty estimates for differences in prices across countries, but it ignores differences in needs.
~ Angus Deaton
When people from organizations like the World Bank descended on Third World countries, they always tried to remove obstacles to development, to reduce economic anxiety and uncertainty.
~ Malcolm Gladwell
I think that all the countries that qualify for a World Cup finals deserve respect and if they are there it is because they have won that right.
~ Keylor Navas
One of the central planks of China's stated plan for world domination is their Belt and Road Initiative, which makes countries around the world dependent on China for vital infrastructure.
~ Steve Hilton
WTO is the only multilateral system in which developed and developing countries sit together at par.
~ Nirmala Sitharaman
The historical profession is nowhere famous for its tolerance, but there are not many countries where historians can expect to pay for their opinions with penal servitude or the firing squad.
~ Norman Davies
Do not forget that the Arab countries, starting with Algeria and Egypt, are the ones that have paid the heaviest toll because of Islamic terror.
~ Omar Bongo
According to an analysis done by Swift Key, Canada uses the poop emoji more than any other country. Hearts are number one in France, even beating the standard smiley and Australia leads the world in alcohol and drug related emojis
~ Scott Matthews
countries allow organizations to claim some aspects of software development as R&D and thereby receive tax benefits for doing so.
~ Scott W. Ambler
We need to deport these criminals and negotiate agreements requiring that they do their time in their own countries.
~ Kathleen Brown
I do conventions sometimes every other weekend. Whenever I have time, and it's not too far away. I get a lot of invitations (to appear at conventions) in other countries and I have to turn them down.
~ Stan Lee
Russia is probably one of the first countries to have been confronted with this problem of terrorism. It took some time before the international community realised the danger terrorism poses.
~ Vladimir Putin
food when it can prevent famines and ensure that children even in the poorest countries can get the right vitamins in their diet. Many of them don't even want us to eat meat.' Madeleine gave a thoughtful and balanced assessment of the benefits and problems of fracking, the cost to France of importing natural gas and
~ Martin Walker
In 1960 an anecdote in the form of an imaginary dialogue circulated in the satellite countries of the East: 'Tell me, Comrade, what is capitalism?' 'The exploitation of man by man.' 'And what is Communism?' 'The reverse.
~ Arthur Koestler