The point of serving your country is not to do your own thing or to go rogue, but to work as part of the process.

It is disgraceful to live as a stranger in one's country, and be an alien in any matter that affects our welfare.

We cannot possibly take them all into this country [asylum seekers] - it is a completely unrealistic expectation.

Only in the winter, in the country, can you have longer quiet stretches when you can savor belonging to yourself.

In my country we say that ignorance is the warm bath in which it is comfortable to sit but dangerous to lie down.

College football is the only game in the country, of any kind, that the college game is longer than the pro game.

This country wants to live in the illusion that it is tolerant but also wants to be able to practice intolerance.

If there is a country that has committed unspeakable atrocities in the world, it is the United States of America.

Each destination you reach only opens out into wider horizons, new and undiscovered countries for you to explore.

It is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.

If there are men in this country big enough to own the government of the United States, they are going to own it.

The government is not doing anything to help the country to heal. The government is just making cosmetic changes.

In the end countries, like people, are alone, and the real things that must be done have to be done without help.

If you want to get broken in good, put four girls on the road together in a van and tour up and down the country.

A true world outlook is incompatible with a foreign imperialism, no matter how high-minded the governing country.

This country maintains that there is no political prisoners, that everybody is criminals, but it's just not true.

Ghana is one of the countries in Western Africa that still has quite a few of their slave castles still standing.

My perspective is if you're not willing to be called a few names to help out your country, you don't care enough.

[I will] totally dismantle every intelligence agency in this country piece by piece, nail by nail, brick by brick

Maybe the country doesn’t pray for me like they do for Sachin Tendulkar, but I know I’m on a good wicket as well.

I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color.

In all countries with a settled bureaucracy people used to say: The cabinets come and go, but the bureaus remain.

It is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.

The rulers of the country generally believed that betting eliminates strikes. Men had to work in order to gamble.

All the professors in all the religious colleges in this country rolled into one, would not equal Charles Darwin.

Oh, I think it's definitely spiritual. All music is. I think it's maybe one of the highest forms of spirituality.

Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held.

Discomfort isn't grounds for discrimination. We have a big country with a lot of different kinds of people in it.

Business people have a a good view of what's happening internally in countries, and they can be a positive force.

I've been surrounded by some of the best economic minds in the country, and hopefully I've absorbed some of that.

You will have Time, that rare and lovely gift that your Western countries have lost the more they have pursued it.

Our long-term objective is clear: to replace the Labour Party as the progressive wing of politics in this country.

The only law we broke was the Brezhnev doctrine that once a country is in the Soviet bloc it cannot be overthrown.

Discover how beautiful our country is and how wonderful our people are. Time to fall in love with the Philippines.

The U.S. is the country that invented progressive taxation of income and of inherited wealth in the 1910s and 20s.

Your country requires heroes; be heroes; your duty is to go on working, and then everything will follow of itself.

When a country is at war we want Congressmen, regardless of party, to back up the government of the United States.

My grandfather was running Hillcrest Country Club, and that's where a whole group of Hollywood comedians hung out.

A primary task of management in the developed countries in the decades ahead will be to make knowledge productive.

A country's competitiveness starts not on the factory floor or in the engineering lab. It starts in the classroom.

When I land in a country and they ask for 'occupation,' I always just put 'artist.' I think that covers all of it.

The filth and noise of the crowded streets soon destroy the elasticity of health which belongs to the country boy.

The National Catholic Register's coverage of the Church universal, and the Church in our own country, is splendid.

We can take this country back. All we need is to nominate the right candidate. It's no more complicated than that.

Our country has the oldest tradition of storytelling, and this was much before writing stories even became a norm.

Travelling. ... when men of sober age travel, they gather knowlege which they may apply usefully for their country

Every time, every time a tourist or an immigrant or a refugee shows up in another country there's a security risk.

Venture too far for love, she tells herself, and you renounce citizenship in the country you've made for yourself.

Life's a dance you learn as you go, sometimes you lead sometimes you follow, don't worry about what you don't know

It's not possible in a free country to completely control the border without us losing our freedoms and liberties.

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