- 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
- Great Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Having a first single is such a great opportunity for any artist... I'm very appreciative of the support country radio's given 'Could It Be.'
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
What we're really trying to do is level out the health care system. It has gotten so one-sided as more and more people have been put into managed care; in fact, about 70 percent of the patients in the country.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
School districts around the country, and the taxpayers that support them, have a moral right to the information the NFL might have concerning the medical aspects of the game, and to assess the risks to the students in their charge. Colleges have a moral right to that information for the same reasons.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
In theory, at least, all presidents are servants of the people who elected them. In the case of Barack Obama, it has seemed from the start that the idea as applied to him was more than mere metaphor. He is the first president in my lifetime whom the country felt obligated to remind that he know his place.
- Nobody
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- Nov 07, 2020
This has been the new normal since September 11. Everyone knows, but nobody says, that if something happens again, the elite consensus in this country, and the overwhelming consensus of the citizenry, will be to pitch the Bill of Rights out the window and start rounding folks up.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
At first I didn't dig country.
- Compromise
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- Nov 07, 2020
From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human rights have been abandoned.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Supreme Court has in place a legal structure which protects abortion rights in this country, and something has got to be done to change that before we can put in place truly meaningful protection for the unborn.
- Privilege
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- Nov 07, 2020
A privilege may not be a right, but, under the constitution of the country, I do not gather that any broad distinction is drawn between the rights and the privileges that were enjoyed and that were taken away.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
My great desire has been to remove from the political arena a question of this kind that is calculated to prevent us getting a verdict upon the important political issues that separate the two parties in this country.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nonetheless, the research budgets of the Department of Defense are under enormous stress-and they are extremely important because they support more than 40 percent of all federal funding for engineering schools across the country. So the threat was and is real.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think there's enough room in country music for everybody.
- Fans
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- Nov 07, 2020
The tastes of country music fans are not limited to the narrow range defined by consultants and programmers and record company moguls.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
What we don't need in country music is divisiveness, public criticism of each other, and some arbitrary judgement of what belongs and what doesn't.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020