- Fleeing
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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
- Joy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I cast my vote against Donald Trump. I did it without joy or enthusiasm. I did it out of civic duty and love for our country.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I voted against Donald Trump for every American who looks and sounds like me. Because we love this country. We are proud of this country. We stand as equals in the United States of America.
- Force
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm passionate about mobilizing young Latinos to get to the polls, so I'm involved with Voto Latino. Latinos are a vital but underrepresented force in this country.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
Right after college, after growing up in the United States, I moved to India, broadly telling the story of how an old and stagnant country was suddenly waking up. And I came home, back to America, in 2009 after telling that story and writing a book about that.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I live in places where, although I don't take public stands, I'm surrounded by liberals, and I've spent a lot of time in this country talking to people who have very different views than the people I live around and trying to see kind of what's in common beneath those conversations.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
A military base in a country like Afghanistan is also a web of relationships, a hub for the local economy, and a key player in the political ecosystem.
- Night
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- Nov 07, 2020
Night raids are only the first step in the American detention process in Afghanistan. Suspects are usually sent to one of a series of prisons on U.S. military bases around the country. There are officially nine such jails, called Field Detention Sites in military parlance.
- Personal
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- Nov 07, 2020
Al Qaeda's vision of global jihad doesn't resonate in the rugged highlands and windswept deserts of southern Afghanistan. Instead, the major concern throughout much of the country is intensely local: personal safety.
- Different Parts
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- Nov 07, 2020
The best way to propel the economy may be to encourage different parts of the country to go their own way.
- Poverty
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- Nov 07, 2020
For too many years, we, as a country, have suffered from a poverty of aspiration.
- India
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- Nov 07, 2020
India does not encourage - India has forbidden - child labour. We are a rule-based and rule-governed country.
- Better Off
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- Nov 07, 2020
Embracing cultural distance, cultural distance nationalism, means in effect taking the position that our country will be better off with more whites than non-whites.
- First World
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- Nov 07, 2020
My position here is that conservatives need a realistic approach to immigration that best serves and preserves our country's status and identity as a relatively high-functioning, at least for now, Western and First World nation. That status will not automatically maintain itself. It is fragile. It is precarious and vulnerable to erosion.
- Nov 07, 2020
You want to represent the country and you want elected officials that are representative of the country.
- Betterment
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- Nov 07, 2020
Courage means standing next to someone you don't always agree with for the betterment of the country.
- Balance
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- Nov 07, 2020
There must always be a balance between protecting privacy and security. In our country, one of the ways we have struck that balance is by requiring a court order before law enforcement can access certain communications of and data on suspects.
- Density
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- Nov 07, 2020