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Quotes About Countries

The Sussexes were cheered for urging manufacturers to donate free vaccines to poor countries. 'The ultra-wealthy pharmaceutical companies are not sharing the recipes to make them,' Harry told the crowd. 'Recipes' is the word he used.
~ Tom Bower
There is a certain amount of momentum that is achieved when one country after another reopens their borders.
~ Mike Johanns
I do business in 170 countries; none of them is perfect. There is not even one country that I think of, and I am like, 'God, that did everything that I wanted it to do.'
~ Jeffrey R. Immelt
Romance is one of the things that most countries share, and I've noticed how different communities have their own ways of singing about love and heartbreak.
~ Kurt Elling
Nuclear countries are those countries that are big and powerful. It is difficult to criticize them and try to lead them onto a humanitarian path. But we can only do what we can and appeal to their sense of reason.
~ Masatoshi Koshiba
F1, we have all sorts of teams with different characteristics. They operate in different countries, under different legislation and with their own ways of working.
~ Mattia Binotto
We can sit between active drilling operations in neighboring countries, complaining that it's too risky to develop our own resources while the world around us does exactly that.
~ Lisa Murkowski
Yet, while energy transition has become a pervasive theme all around the world, disagreement rages, both within countries and among them, on the nature of the transition: how it unfolds, how long it takes, and who pays. "Energy transition" certainly means something very different to a developing country such as India, where hundreds of millions of impoverished people do not have access to commercial energy, than to Germany or the Netherlands.
~ Daniel Yergin
over the rest of this century—than any other grouping. The G2 comprises just two countries —the United States and China—which together represent about 40 percent of the world's GDP and 50 percent of its military spending. The G2 is not an alliance or a forum for decision-making. Rather, it underlines the importance of the relationship between these two countries—and their new rivalry—and its impact on the entire world.
~ Daniel Yergin
The pleasure of the table belongs to all ages, to all conditions, to all countries, and to all areas; it mingles with all other pleasures, and remains at last to console us for their departure.
~ Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
The public history of all countries, and all ages, is but a sort of mask, richly colored. The interior working of the machinery must be foul.
~ John Quincy Adams
There tends to be a jealousy in England towards countries that are successful.
~ Chris O'Dowd
Today the Church has 220 data-gathering teams in forty-five countries that are making digital copies of new records. They are also converting 2.4 million microfilm records into a digital format.
~ Christine Kenneally
And when Ambrose thought it over, it began to seem that really had been his subconscious project. Especially after he'd made contact with citizens of various countries who said they were Druhástranians. They all turned out to be people whose Druhástranianism was a nonviolent product of their alienation from every society currently known to them.
~ Helen Oyeyemi
At a time when most countries are reneging on their environmental promises, Danes are setting themselves tougher and tougher targets, and they're on course to meet them.
~ Helen Russell
The arts of power and its minions are the same in all countries and in all ages. It marks its victim; denounces it; and excites the public odium and the public hatred, to conceal its own abuses and encroachments.
~ Henry Clay
la palabra «teología» el regusto de una ciencia de la vida (y es tal vez la consecuencia de que, en los países latinos especialmente, estos textos sean percibidos como la más insólita y verdadera impertinencia).
~ Henry Corbin
But whether the amount of capital ever does limit the productiveness of industry, and thus fix a maximum which wages cannot exceed, it is evident that it is not from any scarcity of capital that the poverty of the masses in civilized countries proceeds. For not only do wages nowhere reach the limit fixed by the productiveness of industry, but wages are relatively the lowest where capital is most abundant.
~ Henry George
in effect, none of the most important countries which must build a new world order have had any experience with the multistate system that is emerging. Never before has a new world order had to be assembled from so many different perceptions, or on so global a scale.
~ Henry Kissinger
We may set it down as a historical law: fascism was able to conquer only in those countries where the conservative labor parties prevented the proletariat from utilizing the revolutionary situation and seizing power.
~ Leon Trotsky
Instead of teaching us to love one another and help each other in our sorrow, they teach us the deplorable history of our countries, which are steeped in hatred and blood." Late
~ Leslie Stainton
Marx championed technical progress and his attitude was strongly Eurocentric, including a lack of interest in the problems of underdeveloped countries.
~ Leszek Ko?akowski
SARS was a very important event... And many countries have learned from SARS... The SARS event sort of gave them additional impetus and the sense of urgency for them to really revise the International Health Regulations.
~ Margaret Chan
Our resolution urges all Latin American and Caribbean countries to designate al Qaeda, Hezbollah, Hamas, and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad as terrorist organizations.
~ Tom Lantos