Quotes About Country

Our country was founded on immigration. We are all occupying Native American land here. At what point do we say 'It's our land, and nobody else can come here.'

I've always said I can't tell sometimes that people even have an album out until I see them nominated for a Grammy. I think country gets dumped on across the board by the Grammys.

None of us has any personal interest above the interests of the country. Our country is more important than our careers.

Early college high schools in North Carolina and across the country show us that challenge - not remediation - is an approach to education that works.

Every February, we celebrate the heritage and contributions of African Americans in North Carolina and around the country. North Carolina holds an important place in African American history going back generations.

There is no way to know for certain what accounts for North Korean decisionmaking, given how closed a country it is.

Most of the time I was in the Northeast, I lived in the country, and I think that helped me to discover my material for writing.

It's always great to fight in Brazil, especially northeast Brazil. There are a lot of tough people here. It's a tough part of the country, to fight here is amazing for me.

At 14, I was in my own little classic rock country band. Then, after high school, I started another band called Northern Comfort. That was based out of Chico, Calif.

I'm a bit biased, as I married a Norwegian, but Norway is an incredible country.

Nobody has done Mariah Carey whistle-tone notes in country music that I've heard of, and if you're capable of doing it, you might as well add it in.

I feel humiliated that I live in a country that demands more already. Why do we cling to the notion that not only must we maintain the current level of consumption, but that it must continue to grow by an exponential factor of 2 to 7 percent every year?

I was raised with the notion that there is no greater honor than to find a way to serve your country.

If I was just a country singer, I wouldn't be near as cool and I wouldn't have nowhere near as cool of a fan base.

There are things about this country that are horrible; there's things about this country that are beautiful. I've been almost everywhere, and there's nowhere else I'd rather live.

Violence and disrespect for your country are going to get you nowhere.

If a country is suspected of going nuclear, you need to understand why. Why does it feel insecure?

I hope nuclear becomes a part of the conversation, at the right time when we recognize the importance of that resource. I hope we can work that out as a country and figure out how we are going to put nuclear in the mix.

That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings.

If the country has invested in the training of doctors or nurses or midwives for that matter, people are beginning to say, 'Should we not ask them to serve a number of years in the country who invested in their training?' I think this is now coming to be an interesting discussion.

I did not come to Congress to impeach the President. But I took an oath to protect our country and defend the Constitution.

None of what Barack Obama is doing or wants to do to this country is anything the rest of the world hasn't seen before and already failed at.

The media believes that what Obama was gonna do when he took over, go dictator immediately, that was what this country needs, finally central government running everything.

Joe Biden had a shot for eight years in the Obama administration to do great things for this country and we didn't see a whole lot come out of that.