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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 May 30, 2021
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nobody in this country realizes that cap-and-trade is a tax - and it's a great big one.
- Judge
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- Nov 07, 2020
The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities.
- Democracy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Far from being the product of a democratic revolution and of an opposition to English institutions, the constitution of the United States was the result of a powerful reaction against democracy, and in favor of the traditions of the mother country.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
The man who prefers his country before any other duty shows the same spirit as the man who surrenders every right to the state. They both deny that right is superior to authority.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not a fan of Fox News. They do more to pervert the truth in this country than most organizations that I know of.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Before television, there was a piano in many homes in this country. People played instruments on an amateur level and because of that, they became informed amateurs. We've lost that.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Clay Hunt was the kind of individual that has made America a great country. In 2005, when his country needed him, he enlisted in the Marine Corps. Shot in Iraq, he earned a Purple Heart, and after he recuperated, he graduated from Marine Corps Scout Sniper School and was deployed to Afghanistan.
- Growth
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not advocating spending less on the elderly, but I am strongly advocating spending more on kids while also putting the country on a sound, long-term fiscal trajectory. To do that, we have to reduce the rate of growth of entitlement-related expenditures and add more revenues.
- Climate Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
Addressing climate change and positioning the United States as the leader in advanced energy should be a top priority for our country and our economy, and I applaud the Obama administration for the steps it is taking.
- Financial Services
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- Nov 07, 2020
By any measure, CapitalSource outperformed both our direct competitors and the financial services industry in general, particularly in the context of the near collapse of the financial services industry where 19 of the 20 largest financial institutions in the country either failed or were bailed out by the government.
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- Nov 07, 2020
This is not the first time that Mexican authorities have handed over an Arab from a country with known Al Qaeda connections to a local sheriff across the border. FBI picks them up and disappears.
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- Nov 07, 2020
When a country doesn't have a good economic infrastructure, that harms the country. With Stripe, the idea is that by providing better infrastructure, by linking the Internet economically, by making it easier for these online businesses to exist, it'll make the web better.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
Too many of my constituents, like many other hard working Americans across the country, are suffering unnecessarily due to our flawed health care system.
- Confidence
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- Nov 07, 2020
If we want to build the Iraqis' confidence about our intentions in their country, if we want to stop adding fuel to the fire of insurgency and terrorism, we must clarify our intent.
- Moral
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- Nov 07, 2020
When the country's indebtedness is so colossal and where the budget deficit is so huge, there is a moral obligation on people to pay their fair and reasonable dues.
- Distinguished
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- Nov 07, 2020
England is a fairly envious little country and it's embodied in the press. They don't like anyone being more distinguished than they are.
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- Nov 07, 2020