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Quotes About Nation

Female service members are so integrated into the military, so critical and vital to all functions of the military, from combat service support to combat support, to direct combat, that we could not go to war as a nation - we could not defend America - without our women.
~ Tammy Duckworth
Economic success is the vital underpinning of every happy nation.
~ Andrea Leadsom
Generically, wars in necessity are wars where, I think, the vital interest of the nation are at stake, in which there are no viable alternatives to the use of force.
~ Richard N. Haass
Other lands have their vitality in a few, a class, but we have it in the bulk of our people.
~ Walt Whitman
The very foundation of our nation's economy is predicated on the health, growth, and vitality of our local communities.
~ Ron Dellums
I had studied Irish history. I had read speeches from the dock. I had tried to fuse the vivid past of my nation with the lost spaces of my childhood. I had learned the battles, the ballads, the defeats. It never occurred to me that eventually the power and insistence of a national tradition would offer me only a new way of not belonging.
~ Eavan Boland
I love this country and I am very vocal about my thoughts and beliefs. America is the greatest nation on the planet!
~ Hank Williams Jr.
No person can be more deeply sensible than myself of the danger of entangling alliances with any foreign nation. That we should avoid such alliances has become a maxim of our policy consecrated by the most venerated names which adorn our history and sanctioned by the unanimous voice of the American people.
~ James K. Polk
The Keystone XL pipeline is a threat to our nation. It would increase pollution and intensify climate change for generations to come. We must raise our voices and demand our leaders reject this dirty scheme.
~ Frances Beinecke
Through your individual leadership, millions of gun owners across the nation made their voices heard sending an unmistakable message: stop President Barack Obama's destruction of our liberty and restore our Constitution.
~ Wayne LaPierre
In the Senate, you can become one of the nation's leading voices on the issues.
~ Tammy Duckworth
I feel opera is an expression of artistic excellence. To do it is expensive, as there's a requirement for an orchestra, good voices, excellent sets, and the fact that productions generally have only short runs. But I believe it's something we ought to achieve as a nation.
~ Michael Portillo
The tattooed nation will live to regret this voluntary disfigurement.
~ Tony Parsons
A contract for the establishment of government, being nothing but a voluntary contract between individuals for their mutual benefit, differs, in nothing that is essential to its validity, from any other contract between man and man, or between nation and nation.
~ Lysander Spooner
If we would leave parties to the politicians, and would vote not for the party, not even for men, but for the city, and the State, and the nation, we should rule parties, and cities, and States, and nation.
~ Lincoln Steffens
Today's vote ensures that coal will continue to be an important part of our nation's energy policy, with strong parameters to make it cleaner and more efficient.
~ Ron Lewis
The nation voted us to power to see unity and communal harmony, not for any division or communality.
~ Khaleda Zia
Yes, more than 100 Democrats voted to authorize Bush to take the nation to war. Most of them did so in the belief that the president and his administration were truthful in their statements that Saddam Hussein was a gathering menace.
~ Bob Graham
Narendra Modi promised a future and represented a hope. He wanted to rid the nation of a non-performing, corrupt government. People voted for him.
~ Arun Jaitley
Europe should be a continent of nation states who are free trading, with our own identities, not a bunch of Eurocrats nobody voted for.
~ Geert Wilders
As the country has become more diverse, not just states like California and New York, but throughout the nation, it's no coincidence that we have seen a resurgence of white supremacy and violent extremism. And history's clear: voter suppression is rooted in white supremacy.
~ Alex Padilla
Judicial Watch has a massive project to force states and counties across the nation to clean up their voter rolls.
~ Tom Fitton
Elites want to cut taxes and stop government regulation of business. Evangelicals want to make America a Christian nation. And alt-right voters want to purge the rights of minorities and women.
~ Heather Cox Richardson
What the voters want to know is who is going to get out there, fight for them, and deal with the income gap that exists in the nation today.
~ Terry McAuliffe