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Quotes About Countries

Ask anybody on Main Street whether it makes any sense to allow foreign countries to charge higher tariffs than we charge them, and the answer will surely be a resounding 'heck no!'
~ Matt Gaetz
I was surprised at how cosmopolitan the Gold Rush was: prospectors were of all races, genders, and countries. I was equally surprised at how fast gold prospecting became big business.
~ Laurence Yep
The Germans argue - and I can fully understand them - that the euro countries must surrender their sovereignty, because that is the only way to implement budget discipline in a fiscal union.
~ Charles Dallara
The American media struggled to sustain a semblance of calm and order, still insistent Lee Harvey Oswald had been the lone crackpot assassin and had acted unilaterally. But observers and journalists in other countries had already started speculating Oswald had been killed to keep him from talking.
~ Richard Belzer
It is a law of nature that fainthearted men should be the fruit of luxurious countries, for we never find that the same soil produces delicacies and heroes.
~ Herodotus
What is wrong with the prosaic Englishman is what is wrong with the prosaic men of all countries: stupidity.
~ George Bernard Shaw
America has become the most unequal society among advanced countries, and rich people are now free to spend as much money on political campaigns as they wish.
~ Robert Reich
Saddam Hussein's trial would not be public since he could name countries and persons whom he gave money.
~ Ayad Allawi
At G-20 summit, I worked with US and other countries to bring black money back.
~ Narendra Modi
I'm cautious about the currency situation, oil pricing and the economies of some countries not performing as we are expecting.
~ Lakshmi
If you go into the eastern bloc countries we are huge, and in Russia. Maybe there is something about the depressing nature of our music and lyrics that some people find an affinity with.
~ Martin Gore
Would the world be in the mess it is if we were loyal to love and not to countries?
~ Graham Greene
Thus, if armaments were curtailed without a secure peace and all countries disarmed proportionately, military security would have been in no way affected.
~ Ludwig Quidde
Overpopulation in various countries has become a serious threat to the health of people and a grave obstacle to any attempt to organise peace on this planet
~ Albert Einstein
It is extremely important that mass media, having freed from the relics of the Cold War, served for peace and dialogue between nations and religions, the rich and the poor, countries and continents.
~ Nursultan Nazarbayev
Peaceful coexistence cannot be limited to the powerful countries if we want to ensure world peace.
~ Che Guevara
Knowledge of peace passes from country to country, like children's games, which are so much alike, everywhere.
~ Yehuda Amichai
China has been committed to the independent foreign policy of peace and has developed friendship and cooperation with all countries on the basis of the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence.
~ Hu Jintao
Global politics remains extremely complex and countries have different interests, which will also lead them to make what might seem as rather bizarre friends and allies.
~ Samuel P. Huntington
I find politics in almost every country I go to be incredibly different and incredibly similar and I'm never surprised by anything.
~ George Clooney
I'm convinced nonviolence can be successful in working for positive change in our relations with other countries right now.
~ Dorothy Cotton
Writing has nothing to do with meaning. It has to do with landsurveying and cartography, including the mapping of countries yet to come.
~ Gilles Deleuze
us?" Hal's analytical brain was working hard. "It can't be a personal grudge. You get along with everybody. You haven't any personal enemies. It can't be political—you don't mix in politics. There are lots of revolutionaries in these Latin American countries with axes to grind, but you've never had anything to do with that sort of thing. So it must be economic." "What
~ Willard Price
The EU is not a country and it's not going to become a country, in my view, now or ever in the future. It is a group of countries working together.
~ William Hague