- Country
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Nation Quotes
Reflections on country, community, and the work of change.
This collection brings together quotes about what a nation owes its people and what its people owe back, touching on education access, inequality, and the leaders a country produces. Several lines connect that civic outlook to a deeper belief in what a country can become.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Live
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Afghanistan is a rural nation, where 85 percent of people live in the countryside. And out there it's very, very conservative, very tribal - almost medieval.
- Power
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
The nation voted us to power to see unity and communal harmony, not for any division or communality.
- Great
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
We are so fortunate, as Australians, to have among us the oldest continuing cultures in human history. Cultures that link our nation with deepest antiquity. We have Aboriginal rock art in the Kimberley that is as ancient as the great Palaeolithic cave paintings at Altamira and Lascaux in Europe.
- Courage
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Australia is a nation of compassion. Courage and compassion. And the third of these great values: resilience.
- Exclude
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Socialized medicine allows a nation to exclude a U.S. product from its market if the U.S. firm does not make generous enough price concessions. Accordingly, what has developed is a system within which U.S. firms make large profits on new drugs in the U.S. market, but very low profits on sales everywhere else.
- Man
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
President Kennedy was willing to go to war. He was not a coward. The man had been in war and so had Ken O'Donnell. He was ready to protect this nation, but he was not ready for a military solution just because it was being rammed down his throat.
- Change
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Tax reform is the legislative challenge of a generation for America. It hasn't been accomplished since 1986, when President Reagan and Congress delivered the most sweeping overhaul of our nation's tax code in American history. 2017 is the year to change that and make history of our own.
- Government
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
As the American people have discovered, soaring rhetoric is no substitute for effective leadership on the key issues facing our nation: jobs, runaway spending, and an exploding government debt.
- Compassion
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Our compassion for one another, and our individual actions to help, is what makes our nation - and our community - great.
- I Am
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Texas Democrats should be more concerned about what President Obama is doing to destroy the party, and the nation, than about what I am doing in going after him for that.
- People
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
The President is not squaring with the American people as to the seriousness of our nation's fiscal condition. It is time for people to stand up and tell the truth.
- Never
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
My connection was we never want to put ourselves in a position as a nation where we pit group against group.
- Daily
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Citadel's Capital Market division plays an important role in our nation's financial markets. Our broker-dealer is the largest market maker in options in the United States, executing approximately 30 percent of all equity option trades daily.
- More
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Those who have enjoyed the benefits of our system more than ever now owe a duty to protect the system that has created the greatest nation on this planet.
- Limits
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
While it is important to maintain a balanced approach to solving our nation's energy problems, we must commit ourselves to recognize some areas as 'off limits,' and the Artic National Wildlife Reserve is a national symbol of that commitment.
- History
- |
- Nov 07, 2020