Quotes About Country

Truth is an outlaw in every country.

I love the freedoms we got in this country, I appreciate your freedom to burn your flag if you want to, but I really appreciate my right to bear arms so I can shoot you if you try to burn mine.

I want you to know that everything I did, I did for my country.

The people of this country want an industrial policy that is for America and Americans.

One of the difficulties about interviewing people in Rwanda is that the country is trying to get on with ordinary life and some people just don't want to get involved in this.

The fate of our country is now in the hands of people who don't think about what they want until they get right up to the register at McDonald's.

I am raising my voice as a citizen of the country. I don?t want to enter politics.

The politician in my country seeks votes, affection and respect, in that order...With few notable exceptions, they are simply men who want to be loved.

People aren't blind. They know - they want to have a country where people who are coming in are known to our authorities, those who are in charge of this.

I am not (yet) facing the problem of emigration. I want my music to be acknowledged here first of all, in this country: after that, we shall see - perhaps the question will then become urgent.

It is not my duty to spend my money in my country, but it is what I want to do. There is nowhere else I would like to invest.

There's been a shift: Country music is popular music now. Every other genre wants to come over to our land.

The people of my country want the two freedoms that spell security: freedom from want and freedom from fear.

If Iran wants to be treated like a normal country, let it act like a normal country.

Giving people what they want isn't just good radio; it's also the right way to run a country.

I spent a little time in Germany as a schoolboy learning German, and it's a country I knew very well, spent a lot of time in. I knew the history very well. I've always wanted to do a piece of work about the post-war period, of one sort or another.

Jefferson could write, "I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just.

We'll support the government on issues if it's essential to the country but our primary responsibility is not to prop up the government, our responsibility is to provide an opposition and an alternative government for Parliament and for Canadians.

Austin confided as much in his private correspondence. "Strangers to each other," he wrote, "to me, and to the laws and languages of the country, they come here with all the ideas of americans and expect to see and understand the laws they are governed by, and many very many of them have all the licentiousness and wild turbulence of frontiersmen.

As for politics, well, it all seemed reasonable enough. When the Conservatives got in anywhere, [Judge] Pepperleigh laughed and enjoyed it, simply because it does one good to see a straight, fine, honest fight where the best man wins. When a Liberal got in, it made him mad, and he said so,--not, mind you; from any political bias, for his office forbid it,--but simply because one can't bear to see the country go absolutely to the devil.

Someone tell the story, Someone sing the song. Every now and then the country Goes a little wrong. Every now and then A madman's bound to come along. Doesn't stop the story Story's pretty strong.

If two New Hampshiremen aren't a match for the devil, we might as well give the country back to the Indians.

Every now and then, I'll run into someone who claims not to like chocolate, and while we live in a country where everyone has the right to eat what they want, I want to say for the record that I don't trust these people, that I think something is wrong with them, and that they're probably - and this must be said - total duds in bed.

At the C.I.A., officers like Chris Wood, who had been working in the country since the fall of 2001, told colleagues that they were confident the Taliban would be back in power by 2017.