- 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
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many of our own people here in this country do not ask about computers, telephones and television sets. They ask - when will we get a road to our village.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are not being arrogant or complacent when we are said that our country, as a united nation, has never in its entire history, enjoyed such a confluence of encouraging possibilities.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
This is the most terrible thing that can happen in a friendly country if Thai people have to escape from the backdoor of an embassy.
- Gratitude
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- Nov 07, 2020
I come from election, I come from the people. I owe gratitude to our people. I do everything for the good of the country and the people.
- Nov 07, 2020
I was born in 1940 in Minnesota and grew up in the country... dirt roads, swamps, lakes, woods.
- Imagination
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- Nov 07, 2020
Well, I think that as a country, we've drifted away from appreciating the importance of imagination.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the last four years, I heard the same thing over and over again from people: 'We've had enough,' 'Our country is drifting,' 'We've lost our way.'
- American Troops
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not willing to commit American taxpayers' money anymore or American troops on the ground in another Middle Eastern country.
- Mission
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- Nov 07, 2020
When foreign assistance has a clear mission, buy-in from the aid-recipient country, and explicit metrics for implementation, the United States will be able to transition aid-recipient nations into strong trading partners. One of the greatest examples of this successful transition is South Korea.
- Internet
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the things that made the Internet so explosive and such an economic and intellectual force is because of the free-market enterprise in a country like the U.S. controlling access to it.
- Others
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- Nov 07, 2020
Early in my career, I was galvanized by a disease that ravaged my country and many others around the world: malaria.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Trying to rebuild Afghanistan on the cheap has left the country in the hands of warlords and an impotent Northern Alliance puppet regime that runs Kabul and nothing else.
- Coupled
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- Nov 07, 2020