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Quotes About Country

The filth and noise of the crowded streets soon destroy the elasticity of health which belongs to the country boy.
~ Rutherford B. Hayes
The current prohibition laws are forcing drug disputes to be played out with guns in our streets. We need to put a stop to this criminal drug element in our country.
~ Gary Johnson
When crime was spiking in our communities, Dad wrote the crime bill that put 100,000 cops on the streets and led to an eight-year drop in crime across the country.
~ Beau Biden
Being a prime minister is a very demanding job. And as long as I have the strength, I will continue to do this and be of benefit to my country.
~ Dmitry Medvedev
Our immigration policy should be driven by what is in the best interest of this great country and the American people. Comprehensive immigration reform will strengthen U.S. security and boost economic growth.
~ Charles B. Rangel
We want to empower our people; we want to strengthen them; we want to provide them with the kind of qualifications that will enable them to build up their own country themselves.
~ Aung San Suu Kyi
People understand we're on the doorstep of doing something really historic that will help the American people and strengthen our country for the long run.
~ David Axelrod
This power of democracy is a matter of pride for our country, something which we must always cherish, preserve and further strengthen.
~ Atal Bihari Vajpayee
WHO has a country office in nearly every developing country, usually located close to the Ministry of Health. Staff in these offices need to do much more to help ministries of health strengthen their national health plans and strategies and then negotiate with development partners to support these priorities and follow these plans.
~ Margaret Chan
Respecting the Second Amendment does not mean abandoning common sense. The right to own guns in this country must remain, while we also must strengthen our laws to prevent mass shootings.
~ Claire McCaskill
We have a choice: we can allow the growing disparity between rich and poor to continue unimpeded, or we can take action to budget responsibly and strengthen and expand the middle class. If we want this economy - and this country - to meet its full potential, the choice is simple.
~ Jan Schakowsky
Now our founding fathers had the wisdom to know that social acceptance and popularity were fleeing, and that this country's principles needed to be rooted in strengths greater than the passions and the emotions of the times.
~ Chris Christie
It's a big, complicated democracy, and one of the strengths of our country is... its rich diversity.
~ Valerie Jarrett
I think immigrants, when they're stressed, think that there's something wrong with America, when it's really just difficult to leave a country and all that you know.
~ Akhil Sharma
All along, I did what I was comfortable doing, which was to play the music I enjoyed and try to stretch the parameters a bit. Country and bluegrass and folk were my foundation.
~ Chris Hillman
When you are a country that is economically well-off - we are not leaving people to live on the street without help - then you have to be strict on immigration because you become the most attractive country to go to.
~ Erna Solberg
While giving a clear majority to my government in 2014, the people of the country had also given a clear mandate to take strict action against corruption and black money.
~ Ram Nath Kovind
Mr. Modi is engaged in projecting himself as the saviour of the country by capitalising on the air strike following Pulwama attack.
~ H. D. Kumaraswamy
Show me the country that has no strikes and I'll show you the country in which there is no liberty.
~ Samuel Gompers
I learned that South Africa is the most diverse country I have ever seen. The diversity is just striking. The food, the people, the culture, the look and the feel, for that all to be one country.
~ Gregg Wallace
I believe in the future of country music, but a future without roots is like a kite with no string.
~ Marty Stuart
'I'm Sorry' was one of the first songs to come out of Nashville using strings.
~ Brenda Lee
We've got to be fair. You can't say a place that has strip joints is sacred ground. We've got to be just. We've got to speak the truth. We've got to have justice for everybody. We're a country of justice for all, not justice for non-Muslims only or some groups and not for others.
~ Feisal Abdul Rauf
I was a mixture of a country boy and a town boy, really. Chichester is a town on the coast of England, and I grew up all along that strip of coast that Chichester branches out into. Sometimes I was living in a house in the country, and sometimes I was living in a town.
~ Ed Speleers