- Fishing
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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
- Poverty
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- Nov 07, 2020
Jamaica's a country of great dichotomy. On the one hand you have a tourist industry with great beaches and resorts, but on the other you have such great poverty and the violence that goes along with that.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
Early college high schools in North Carolina and across the country show us that challenge - not remediation - is an approach to education that works.
- Police
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every place in the country you should get a license that shows you know how to safely store it, keep it away from your children or grandchildren. You should have to license it so the police can trace it if it's used in a crime.
- Mom
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- Nov 07, 2020
We've got activists all across the country like the members of the Million Mom March organization, some of their leaders are here tonight. We're phone banking congressional offices and pursuing editorial boards.
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are in really bad shape as a country. We are not respected around the world. We are not respected in our own country.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
I put family and country first.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's not unreasonable to imagine that, at least as we're in a transition to a world economy, it's still necessary now to pay attention to how our country is doing economically in comparison with other countries.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
And I have to say, I agree with some of the criticisms that some have made about that state program which allocates the grant money on a very rigid formula all across the country, with a certain percentage to each state.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
The founders were very worried that if parties developed in America, you might have something like the modern Italian system, where you have 20 different parties that divide Congress and the country and can't govern.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have nothing against America; I love spending time there. I fell in love with the country the very first time I went out there, and I have a lot of fans in the U.S.
- Plant
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my district back in Texas, significant because we have a big solar panel production plant in Keller, Texas, we have a wind turbine plant in Gainesville, Texas, up in Cook Country.
- Progress
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- Nov 07, 2020
While NCLB drove important progress on transparency and data disaggregation, I think it's clear that the status quo in public education is not working for our kids or our country.
- Process
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- Nov 07, 2020
Electoral victory is not an end in itself. It is intended to set in motion a pluralist process to resolve our disputes and move the country forward.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
We don't have to settle for Freedom Caucus tactics - those guys are tyrants. We don't have to accept that. In fact, we can't and have this country be what this country really can be.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a very clear idea of what the Freedom Caucus has done to this country by terrorizing both the Republican Party and the America people.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020