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Quotes About Countries

What we have here is a situation where the pull factor of rising reserves and stronger creditworthiness actually created its own push factor by depressing U.S. yields and therefore pushing more capital toward higher-yielding developing countries.
~ David Lubin
God how I hate new countries: They are older than the old, more sophisticated, much more conceited, only young in a certain puerile vanity more like senility than anything.
~ D. H. Lawrence
I don't know whether machine translation will eventually get good enough to allow us to browse people's websites in different languages so you can see how they live in different countries.
~ Tim Berners-Lee
Refugee problems can only be solved in the region (of origin) - maybe with a little help from the UN. Governments must provide something for their countries. They need to deliver.
~ Yoweri Museveni
Rent control has in certain Western countries constituted, maybe, the worst example of poor planning by Governments lacking courage and vision.
~ Gunnar Myrdal
The biggest threat to global stability is the potential for food crises in poor countries to cause government collapse.
~ Lester R. Brown
The consequences arising from the continual accumulation of public debts in other countries ought to admonish us to prevent their growth in our own.
~ John Adams
Government does not cause affluence. Citizens of totalitarian countries have plenty of government and nothing of anything else.
~ P. J. O'Rourke
Study after study, not only here but in other countries, show that the most affordable housing is where there has been the least government interference with the market - contrary to rhetoric.
~ Thomas Sowell
Most countries choose to have government run the economy.
~ Marco Rubio
People in the UK will say that the design community in the US is much more coherent than other countries. It has no government support at all, so it's really like a grass roots thing.
~ Michael Bierut
America's health care system is second only to Japan, Canada, Sweden, Great Britain, well ... all of Europe. But you can thank your lucky starts we don't live in Paraguay!
~ Matt Groening
History has proven that the PLO and its sectors suffered great damage when walking the way of harming Zionist interests in other countries around the world.
~ Ahmed Yassin
Since our economy is closely allied with that of foreign countries, not one of us can be indifferent to what consequences these disturbances can have at home and abroad
~ Hjalmar Schacht
I'm vegan on home base, but when I travel to other countries, I throw it all into the garbage.
~ Lake Bell
I hope the example of Saddam Hussein will give a lesson to leaders of other countries where human rights are not respected.
~ Shirin Ebadi
But since her earliest days, America has inspired people from all over the world. Inspired them with the hope that one day their own countries would be one like this one.
~ Marco Rubio
There are many non-intellectual countries; Australia is one of the few anti-intellectual ones.
~ George Mikes
Countries are making nuclear weapons like there is no tomorrow.
~ Emo Philips
In some countries a hunting parson is no uncommon sight. Such a one might make a good shepherd's dog, but is far from being the Good Shepherd.
~ Henry David Thoreau
In some things, we Americans leave to other countries the carrying out of the principle that stands at the head of our Declaration of Independence.
~ Herman Melville
I walk across the dreaming sands under the pale moon: through the dreams of countries and cities, past dreams of places long gone and times beyond recall.
~ Neil Gaiman, Brief Lives
If some countries have too much history, we have too much geography.
~ William Lyon MacKenzie
We do not know whether Jewish manuscripts were usually made by Jewish artists to order in Christian workshops, but they were certainly made in the styles locally current in their countries of adoption.
~ Janet Backhouse