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Quotes About Countries

No Scandinavian has ever identified American socialism as resembling Scandinavian socialism, even in embryo. The defining features of American socialism and the American Left (identity politics, class and ethnic division, and social intimidation to enforce these categories) are simply absent in the Nordic countries. -chapter 4
~ Dinesh D'Souza
No one can match America. We have big hearts—and the courage to do what's right. But we're not the world's policemen. And if we have to take on that role, we need to send a clear message that protection comes at a price. If other countries benefit from our armed forces protecting them, those countries should cover the costs. Period.
~ Donald Trump
No. Americans just persecute smaller countries that believe different from them.
~ Donna Tartt
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~ Unknown
That is why those countries would endure and why America was doomed to fail.
~ Unknown
Eight featured countries representing nearly half of the world's population.
~ Unknown
Religious fanaticism is simply good politics in the middle-eastern countries.
~ Unknown
Big Mother walked home from the bus station, through the rowdy twilit streets, and the novel in her bag gave her a pleasant, illusory calm, as if she were leaving a secret meeting and the documents she carried could bring down systems, countries, lies and corruption.
~ Madeleine Thien
But guilt and shame, remorse, ambivalence, those are foreign countries to our kind, which must be learned stone by stone.
~ Madeline Miller
It had been tested extensively in clinical trials in third-world countries;
~ John Grisham
Jailhouse snitches testify every day in this country. Other civilized countries prohibit them, but not here.
~ John Grisham
Two thousand lawyers in twenty countries, half of them in New York City alone, a thousand right up there packed together on floors 30 through 65.
~ John Grisham
If we're going to see sustainable results from all the other investments we're making in education, we need to build leadership capacity in each and every country.
~ Wendy Kopp
The awareness of our environment came progressively in all countries with different outlets.
~ Jacques Yves Cousteau
There seems in most countries to be either one extreme or the other. Truly a paradise could exist wherever material progress and spiritual values could be properly balanced.
~ Malcolm X
HIV AIDS is a disease with stigma. And we have learned with experience, not just with HIV AIDS but with other diseases, countries for many reasons are sometimes hesitant to admit they have a problem.
~ Margaret Chan
The battleground has been moderates of all faith traditions in all the countries of the world against the radicals of all faith traditions in all parts of the world.
~ Feisal Abdul Rauf
Ironically, Latin American countries, in their instability, give writers and intellectuals the hope that they are needed.
~ Manuel Puig
in all countries fools outnumber the rest;
~ Marcel Proust
To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.
~ John Muir
I brought a young MIT mathematician, Dr. Nadipuram Prasad, into my department and gave him a budget. Within six months he developed the Markov method for econometric modeling. [...] It was exactly what we wanted: a tool that scientifically "proved" we were doing countries a favor by helping them incur debts they would never be able to pay off.
~ John Perkins
More than ever before, there is a global understanding that long-term social, economic, and environmental development would be impossible without healthy families, communities, and countries
~ Gro Harlem Brundtland
I don't know where my father is from. I just don't. He's lived in so many countries.
~ Mika
While the United States bars FGM within its borders, there is no federal law yet that punishes parents for taking their daughters to their countries of origin for FGM. Bills to deter the transport of girls for FGM have been introduced since 2010, but have not yet passed, which means girls who do not receive an illegal FGM here may still be transported to another country.
~ Unknown