Quotes About Country

Choosing to disrespect our flag is an over-generalized indictment of the greatest nation on Earth.

I love the national anthem.

There are many challenges our country has - our economic security, our national security.

The No. 1 issue with women in this country is jobs, and the No. 2 issue is our national security. So, economic security, national security and retirement security.

We don't push back hard enough against the government. We could use, the country in general could use a more adversarial press corps, especially when it comes to matters of national security.

The country needs leadership driven by the dictates of national security, not the ebb and flow of political fortunes.

There's so many things, when you're in national security, that you do that aren't perfect, but you do them because you think you're doing what the country needs to be safe.

The national team requires a work commitment but also a personal one as well. To lead your country is something very different.

I spent a lot of time in the national team and I love playing for my country.

Just because I believe in the identity and integrity of my country doesn't make a xenophobe or a nationalist.

My identity and my background still remain with me when I go to a foreign country. I have kept my nationality.

I've always liked country music. It's a certain aspect of America that goes back to the British Isles and the influence is very native to America.

It is only in the country that we can get to know a person or a book.

laissez-faire system works if every country agrees to it. Many governments, especially in Asia, were deeply involved in supporting their chip industries.

He fought for his country, but mostly he fought for the people in his country so they had freedom to make choices. He just hoped they'd be good ones.

Will this long presidency of George W. Bush ever be over? Living through it is starting to seem like some ghastly, upsetting novel in which the hero is the country, and the president is this disturbing, pig-headed, oblivious villain who makes things worse and worse and worse.

I'm very depressed how in this country you can be told That's offensive as though those two words constitute an argument.

If someone tells me that I've hurt their feelings, I say, 'I'm still waiting to hear what your point is.' In this country, I've been told, 'That's offensive' as if those two words constitute an argument or a comment. Not to me they don't. And I'm not running for anything, so I don't have to pretend to like people when I don't.

The anti-life of [Jerry Falwell] proves only one thing: that you can get away with the most extraordinary offenses to morality and truth in this country if you'll just get yourself called Reverend. People like that should be out in the street, shouting and hollering with a cardboard sign and selling pencils from a cup.

Thomas Jefferson said, "I tremble for my country when I remember that god is just.

During all this I never quite lost the surreal sense that I had become in some way a pro-government dissident and that of all the paradoxes of my little life this might have to register as the most acute one. ... For the sake of my country, and perhaps a little for the sake of my soul, I have given up the deep peace of being in opposition.

A wall is a defense of a country that values inaction. But a wall imprisons the people of a country as much as it protects them. That's why Balthasar had us go this way. He wanted me to see the error in the Tao. One can't be free without action.

I think this is a bodhi tree," I said, "just like Buddha sat under! It's so exciting. I'm feeling sort of enlightened just standing here. Really, I can feel ripe bodhies squishing between my toes." Joshua looked at my feet. "I don't think those are bodhies. There was a cow here before us." I lifted my foot out of the mess. "Cows are overrated in this country. Under the Buddha's tree too. Is nothing sacred?

A wall is the defense of a country that values inaction. But a wall imprisons the people of a country as much as it protects them.