Quotes with country

Quotes 81 till 100 of 741.

  • John F. Kennedy And so, my fellow americans: ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Vladimir Ilyich Lenin Any cook should be able to run the country.
    Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
    Russian revolutionary leader (1870 - 1924)
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  • Bidzina Ivanishvili Any private security is a joke in a country where you're up against your own government.
    Bidzina Ivanishvili
    Georgian politician, billionaire businessman and philanthropist (1956 - )
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  • Margaret Thatcher Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.
    Margaret Thatcher
    British Prime Minister (1979-1990) (1925 - 2013)
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  • Oscar Wilde Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Brin-Jonathan Butler Anyone can see why an elite athlete would want to leave a small, impoverished country where their skills were effectively uncashed winning lottery tickets. All they had to do was wash ashore almost anywhere else in the world and cash in. Yet the vast majority of Cuban boxers - and Cuban athletes in general - despite that incentive, stayed.
    Brin-Jonathan Butler
    American journalist and filmmaker
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  • Alan Greenspan Anything that we can do to raise personal savings is very much in the interest of this country.
    Alan Greenspan
    American economist (1926 - )
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  • Bill Mumy Anyway, in the mid 80's I was spending a fortune buying old Golden Age books from the late 30's and 40's and I was making personal appearances at a lot of sci fi and comic book conventions all around the country here so that I could find books for my collection.
    Bill Mumy
    American actor and musician (1954 - )
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  • Marquis de Sade Are not laws dangerous which inhibit the passions? Compare the centuries of anarchy with those of the strongest legalism in any country you like and you will see that it is only when the laws are silent that the greatest actions appear.
    Marquis de Sade
    French aristocrat, writer, politician and philosopher (1740 - 1814)
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  • Virginia Woolf As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Lance Morrow As American productivity, once the exuberant engine of national wealth, has dipped to an embarrassingly uncompetitive low, Americans have shaken their heads: the country's old work ethic is dead.
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  • Arlen Specter As I think through the issue of funding the rebuilding of Iraq, I think about the analogy of a bankruptcy proceeding. There is no doubt that Iraq as a country is bankrupt.
    Arlen Specter
    American lawyer, author, and politician (1930 - 2012)
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  • Bob Dole As long as there are only 3 to 4 people on the floor, the country is in good hands. It's only when you have 50 to 60 in the Senate that you want to be concerned.
    Reported in Tom Crisp, The Book of Bob: Choice Words, Memorable Men (2007)
    Bob Dole
    American politician and attorney (1923 - )
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  • Albert Bushnell Hart As often happens during a war, some parts of the country prospered, notwithstanding the constant loss.
    Albert Bushnell Hart
    American historian, writer, and editor (1854 - 1943)
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  • Adam Smith As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed, and demand a rent even for its natural produce.
    Adam Smith
    Scottish Economist (1723 - 1790)
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  • Bob Beauprez As state and federal lawmakers debate the country's energy policies and Colorado's role in the ever-expanding energy economy, let's hope they remember that unnecessary regulations stifle growth while doing nothing for public safety or health.
    Bob Beauprez
    American politician and member (1948 - )
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  • Orson Welles Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.
    Orson Welles
    American film maker (1915 - 1985)
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  • Angela Merkel At the beginning of the 60's our country called the foreign workers to come to Germany and now they live in our country. We kidded ourselves a while, we said: 'They won't stay, sometime they will be gone.' But this isn't reality.
    Angela Merkel
    German politician and chancellor (1954 - )
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  • Armstrong Williams At the end of the day, there is no doubt that the unique spirit embodied by this country has worked, not just to make the world safer, but to make it better.
    Armstrong Williams
    American political commentator, entrepreneur and author (1962 - )
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  • Angela Merkel At this time - we're in a dramatic crisis - euro bonds are precisely the wrong answer. They lead us into a debt union, not a stability union. Each country has to take its own steps to reduce its debt.
    Angela Merkel
    German politician and chancellor (1954 - )
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