Quotes About Countries

I learned never to lazily conflate countries, their government's policies, and the people who live in them.

This was not just an American phenomenon. A survey of twenty-one industrial countries reported that in the 1970s and 1980s female employment rose twice or even three times as fast as the growth in total employment. In almost every case, married women accounted for the majority of the increase in women's workforce participation.35

I watched the hockey game with him for a while, but I couldn't stop asking him questions about which countries the players are from, and he was "resting his eyes," which means he was sleeping but didn't want me to change the channel.

The happiness differences between rich and poor countries that one might expect on the basis of within-country differences by economic status are not borne out by the international data," Easterlin

The United States is today one of only three countries not to have officially adopted the French metric system. The other two are Liberia and Myanmar (Burma).

Mountains cover 24 percent of the Earth's surface, accommodating 12 percent of the world's population in 120 different countries. They tend to be hotspots of cultural diversity. In the Hindu Kush of the Himalayas alone people speak more than a thousand different languages and dialects.

Mankiw himself had ignited a short-lived media controversy by speaking favorably about outsourcing jobs to other countries

I don't think that the ECB should compensate for the lack of reforms in some countries... But it is clear that monetary policy can help countries and continents to rebound faster.

Refugees come from many different backgrounds and live in many different circumstances, so I wouldn't like to generalise. But I think refugees from the U.K. would probably be healthier and better fed than those from many other countries.

Now, what produces a want of demand? A refusal to take from other countries the commodities which they produce.

The government rightly resisted pressure to accept Free Movement of people from E.U. countries, to allow us to regain control over our immigration policy.

If you challenge the constitution and if you challenge the borders of Iraq and the borders of the region, this is a public invitation to the countries in the region to violate Iraqi borders as well, which is a very dangerous escalation.

We must focus much more on developing countries' own policies and priorities, and increase policy and operational coherence between national, regional and multilateral actors.

Non-alignment will continue to be the fundamental basis of our approach to world problems and our relations with other countries.

We have to work towards free trade because otherwise we will miss out on many opportunities for cooperation, and relations amongst countries will become much more difficult.

We will cultivate relations with neighboring countries based on the foundation of the U.S.-Japan alliance.

The answer dictates what the policy should be in our relationships with every country in the world.

New York is really the cheapest ad market. When I go on TV, I'm hitting a country. The market is as big as some countries, you know.

There are emerging countries. I mean, there are countries, you know, China, India, and Brazil, and all of these countries that are emerging. They are building homes. They are building - so there is a new lifestyle.

I hope K-dramas can make inroads into more Asian countries.

A war is a horrible thing, but it's also a unifier of countries.

There is a huge difference between gathering intelligence in foreign countries, even our allies, and secretly getting information on U.S. citizens.

More attention should be given to the Arab world and the human rights abuse that is taking place every day in many countries in the Arab world.

I'll always be American in my world view and allegiance. American in the naive way I go to other countries and tell them how they should treat their poor or clean their water.