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Quotes About Countries

Sovereignty is a word that is used often but it has really no specific meaning. Sovereignty today is nominal. Any number of countries that are sovereign are sovereign only nominally and relatively.
~ Zbigniew Brzezinski
Bebo has an opportunity to prove its products and services. Bebo plays in a very competitive space; it has big market share in specific countries. An AIM profile vs. a Bebo profile are very different experiences.
~ Tim Armstrong
The definition of hate speech in some countries is problematic.
~ Alex Stamos
One of the jobs of comedy is to expose hypocrisy. When you look at countries like Iran or North Korea that don't have freedom of speech, we who do should push it as far as we need to.
~ Maz Jobrani
If the E.U. formally becomes a union of different speeds it would in effect be formally divided into better and worse members and it would to a large extent lose its attractiveness for those countries that were deemed second class.
~ Andrzej Duda
Garth, marriage is punishment for shoplifting in some countries!
~ Wayne Campbell
The Covenant of the League of Nations had envisaged sponsoring only the protection of certain categories of men: national minorities and populations of territories controlled by other countries.
~ Rene Cassin
The standard of living of the common man is higher in those countries which have the greatest number of wealthy entrepreneurs.
~ Ludwig von Mises
I Have traveled 201 countries including Hell (Norway), and the strangest thing I've seenwas man
~ Robert Ripley
Men born in hot countries love the night because it refreshes them and have a horror of light because it burns them.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
I found out that the idea of the Internet as a highly distributed, redundant global communications system is a myth,'' he discovered. "Virtually all communications between countries take place through a very small number of bottlenecks, and the available bandwidth simply isn't that great.
~ Neal Stephenson
IARPA—the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Agency, which has been running this thing until now—thinks other countries might have, or might soon have, access to . . . others like Erzsebet.
~ Neal Stephenson
The seven largest emitters of fossil fuels—the United States, the European Union, China, Russia, Japan, India, and China
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
There are two disadvantages to this political fragmentation. Small countries are often formed as a result of civil war within an earlier multi-ethnic polity – the most common form of conflict since 1945. That in itself is economically disruptive. In addition, they can be economically inefficient even in peacetime, too small to justify all the paraphernalia of statehood
~ Niall Ferguson
It nevertheless remains true that, in most countries for which long-run data are available, stocks have out-performed bonds – by a factor of roughly five over the twentieth century.
~ Niall Ferguson
los inversores prefieren colocar su dinero en países donde los derechos de la propiedad privada estén protegidos de manera eficaz, aunque esto debería ser considerado como un requisito mínimo. En
~ Niall Ferguson
I'm concerned when certain movements or countries have been isolated from the international dialogue because then you have no way of influencing them.
~ Martti Ahtisaari
'Game of Thrones' has multiple story lines, multiple countries, and it's complete fantasy.
~ Caitriona Balfe
I would rather live as a Muslim in the West than in most of the Muslim countries, because I think the way Muslims are allowed to live in the West is closer to the Muslim way.
~ Hamza Yusuf
The fact is that co-operation between independent countries - to our mutual advantage - is the way of the modern world.
~ Nicola Sturgeon
Learning some of the names and countries of my subscribers and what life is like for them is really cool.
~ Eva Gutowski
In today's world, it is shortsighted to think that infectious diseases cannot cross borders. By allowing developing countries access to generic drugs, we not only help improve health in those nations, we also help ourselves control these debilitating and often deadly diseases.
~ Ron Wyden
What I will remember most from my time in NATO is meeting children in the countries where I've gone to, to Moscow and to Kiev, I've met school children.
~ Lord Robertson
Taiwan isn't simply the source of the advanced chips that both countries' militaries are betting on. It's also the most likely future battleground.
~ Chris Miller