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- Nov 07, 2020
Country Quotes
What people owe their country, and each other.
This page collects quotes that use "country" to talk about civic principle — due process, fair trials, and the presumption of innocence as part of the American legal tradition. For quotes about rural life and land instead of nationhood, see Countryside quotes.
- Last Updated on Aug 03, 2026
- Graduate School
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- Nov 07, 2020
I left Egypt in 1969 for graduate school at the University of Pennsylvania. I have been on the faculty at Caltech for 37 years and carried dual citizenship for 31. But my commitment to the country of my birth never wavered.
- Egyptians
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- Nov 07, 2020
When Mohamed Morsi was elected president of Egypt in 2012, many in the country, including me, were hopeful that he would become a democratic president for all Egyptians - not only for the Muslim Brotherhood.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
Growing up in Egypt, I never saw the country as divided as it is today. We now have two main political groupings: the Islamist parties and the civil, or liberal, political parties.
- Delegation
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- Nov 07, 2020
To handle the economy and services in a country like Iraq requires delegation of authority and the choice of competent people.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
You know the most important thing the Americans did for Iraq apart from liberating the country from Saddam was helping Iraq reduce its debt. The United States worked very hard to reduce 80 percent of Iraqi debt.
- Back
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Americans stabbed in the back the forces that worked to bring about the collapse of Saddam's regime and wanted to keep Iraq a sovereign country.
- Easy
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is obvious that taking the country from a state of war to being a lawful state won't be easy.
- Nov 07, 2020
When I was engaged in the struggle for my country, I was very young. My horizons were open.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
My life contains so many other things; I have my children, my grandchildren, my two dogs and a big place in the country. I have my own life.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
You cannot take one set of issues from one country and apply it to another. They are all different, in terms of history, and the religious compositions of the populations involved.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
It shouldn't be a matter of who deserves help or not, but of whether we want to be a country that allows its neediest to continue to need. Condemnation of individuals and their choices mutes all these other really important logistical questions about funding and budget and politics.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020