Quotes with country-western

Quotes 681 till 700 of 807.

  • Salman Rushdie Two things form the bedrock of any open society - freedom of expression and rule of law. If you don't have those things, you don't have a free country.
    Salman Rushdie
    Engels writer (1947 - )
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  • Bob Filner Unfortunately, my district like many others across the country has a problem with gangs, which is why I introduced this amendment.
    Bob Filner
    American politician (1942 - )
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  • Caleb Cushing Upon the Constitution, upon the pre-existing legal rights of the People, as understood in this country and in England, I have argued that this House is bound to revive the Petition under debate.
    Caleb Cushing
    American Democratic politician and diplomat (1800 - 1879)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Ang Lee Usually with this genre the first thing that happens is a good fight sequence to show that you're in good hands. So we broke that rule. I think a lot of that comes from the western audience.
    Ang Lee
    Taiwanese film director, producer, and screenwriter (1954 - )
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  • Boman Irani Very few movies remain in public memory as landmark films, and I want to see whether '3 Idiots' will be up there with some of the wonderful films that have come out of this country... Hopefully, we'll come to know in a few years whether it can become one of the great films.
    Boman Irani
    Indian actor (1959 - )
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  • Bruce Willis Violence - look, we live in a violent world, man. This country was founded on violence. Who's kidding who?
    Bruce Willis
    American actor, producer, and singer (1955 - )
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  • George Orwell War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Carlos Saavedra Lamas War of aggression, war which does not imply defense of one's country, is a collective crime.
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  • Alistair Cooke Washington's birthday is as close to a secular Christmas as any Christian country dare come this side of blasphemy.
    Alistair Cooke
    British journalist (1908 - 2004)
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  • Binyavanga Wainaina We are a mixed up people. We have mixed up ways of naming, too... When my father's brothers and sisters first went to colonial schools, they had to produce a surname. They also had to show they were good Christians by adopting a western name. They adopted my grandfather's name as surname. Wainaina.
    Binyavanga Wainaina
    Kenyan author and journalist (1971 - 2019)
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  • Aleksander Kwasniewski We are a strong democratic country.
    Aleksander Kwasniewski
    Polish politician and journalist (1954 - )
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  • Barbara Boxer We are all different. Yet we are all God's children. We are all united behind this country and the common cause of freedom, justice, fairness, and equality. That is what unites us.
    Barbara Boxer
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • Benjamin Todd Jealous We are confident that the Supreme Court will soon see the direction that this country is headed and enshrine marriage as a constitutional right for all.
    Benjamin Todd Jealous
    American civic leader and politician (1973 - )
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  • Bev Perdue We can go back to economic plans that are only designed to benefit the wealthiest among us, like Mitt Romney. Or we can keep moving forward with President Obama's vision for a growing economy that works for middle-class families in North Carolina and all across the country. For me, for North Carolina and for America, it's an easy choice.
    Bev Perdue
    American businesswoman and politician (1947 - )
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  • Adlai Stevenson II We cannot be any stronger in our foreign policy for all the bombs and guns we may heap up in our arsenals than we are in the spirit which rules inside the country. Foreign policy, like a river, cannot rise above its source.
    Adlai Stevenson II
    American politician and governor (1900 - 1965)
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  • Havelock Ellis We cannot be sure that we ought not to regard the most criminal country as that which in some aspects possesses the highest civilization.
    Havelock Ellis
    British psychologist (1859 - 1939)
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  • Thomas Paine We fight not to enslave, but to set a country free, and to make room upon the earth for honest men to live in.
    Thomas Paine
    English-born American political activist, philosopher, political theor (1737 - 1809)
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  • Ann Veneman We had a single find of BSE in this country. And we believe that what we're doing is appropriate action taken in an abundance of caution under the circumstances. And I believe it's the right thing to do.
    Ann Veneman
    American politician (1949 - )
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  • Bill Haslam We have a lot of entitlement programs in this country, and we've seen how much they cost us on the back end when people don't have the education they need. I say let's make this investment on the front end. I think it'll be better for the individual and better for our state in the long term.
    Bill Haslam
    American businessman and politician (1958 - )
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