Quotes with nation-states

Quotes 161 till 180 of 622.

  • Al Gore I have faith in the United States and our ability to make good decisions based on the facts.
    Al Gore
    American politician and environmentalist (1948 - )
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  • Winston Churchill I have never accepted what many people have kindly said-namely that I inspired the nation. Their will was resolute and remorseless, and as it proved, unconquerable. It fell to me to express it.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Bruce Willis I have zero interest in performing in films to try to convey any kind of message. My job is to be entertaining. There's a very different point of view about messages in films in Europe than there is in the States. Audiences rebel because they feel that they are being preached to.
    Bruce Willis
    American actor, producer, and singer (1955 - )
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  • Chaim. Weizmann I head a nation of a million presidents.
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  • Arthur Miller I know that my works are a credit to this nation and I dare say they will endure longer than the McCarran Act.
    Arthur Miller
    American Dramatist (1915 - 2005)
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  • Abraham Lincoln I know that the Lord is always on the side of the right. But it is my constant anxiety and prayer that I and this nation should be on the Lord's side.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Jonathan Swift I never saw, heard, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the religion of the country. Nothing can render them popular, but some degree of persecution.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • George F. Will I say statecraft is soulcraft. Just as all education is moral education because learning conditions conduct, most legislation is moral legislations because it conditions the action and the thought of the nation in broad and important spheres in life.
    George F. Will
    American columnist (1941 - )
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  • Franklin D. Roosevelt I see one-third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished.
    Franklin D. Roosevelt
    American statesman (1882 - 1945)
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  • John McCain I spent several years in a north Vietnamese prison camp in the dark, fed with scraps. Do you think I want to do that all over again as vice president of the United States?
    John McCain
    American politician (1936 - 2018)
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  • Adam Michnik I think it's always dangerous to make political arguments in a religiously ideological way. And it's very dangerous to treat as traitors to the American nation those who think differently.
    Adam Michnik
    Polish historian, essayist and dissident (1946 - )
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  • Alec Baldwin I think my exact comment was that if Bush won it would be a good time to leave the United States. I'm not necessarily going to leave the United States.
    Alec Baldwin
    American actor, writer, producer and comedian (1958 - )
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  • Burn Gorman I think of myself as a character actor, compared to a straight actor. I know a character actor in England is pretty much the same as in the States; you're actually hired to put on terrible teeth and stuff like that.
    Burn Gorman
    British actor and musician (1974 - )
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  • Assata Shakur I think that one of the problems that exists in the United States and in many places in the world is that people don't believe that they can make a difference. So a lot of times we're defeated before we even start. We've become consumers of a world vision, of Kentucky Fried Chicken, of McDonalds.
    Assata Shakur
    American activist and former member of the Black Liberation Army (BLA) (1947 - )
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  • Hubert Humphrey I think the worst thing this nation could do for humanity would be to leave any uncertainty as to our will, our purpose and our capacity to carry out our purpose.
    Hubert Humphrey
    American politician (1911 - 1978)
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  • Buffalo Bill I thought I was benefiting the Indians as well as the government, by taking them all over the United States, and giving them a correct idea of the customs, life, etc., of the pale faces, so that when they returned to their people they could make known all they had seen.
    Buffalo Bill
    American soldier, bison hunter, and showman (1846 - 1917)
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  • Alec Baldwin I wanted to be president of the United States. I really did. The older I get, the less preposterous the idea seems.
    Alec Baldwin
    American actor, writer, producer and comedian (1958 - )
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  • Anna Quindlen I would even go to Washington, which is saying something for me, just to glimpse Jane Q. Public, being sworn in as the first female president of the United States, while her husband holds the Bible and wears a silly pill box hat and matching coat.
    Anna Quindlen
    American author and journalist (1952 - )
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  • Woodrow Wilson I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty.
    Woodrow Wilson
    American president (1856 - 1924)
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  • Arthur Godfrey I'm proud to pay taxes in the United States; the only thing is, I could be just as proud for half the money.
    Arthur Godfrey
    American radio and television (1903 - 1983)
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