In order to address world economic imbalances, countries around the world should make joint efforts to adjust their economic structure.

I definitely listened to country music. I don't think I listened to hair bands as much as I did Bruce Springsteen and U2 and Aerosmith.

An Ambassadore is a man of virtue sent to lie abroad for his country, a news writer is a man of no virtue who lies at home for himself.

More and more countries of the world have decided that corporations do a better job of generating and deploying capital than do states.

On Chris Evert: Before I even met her, she stood for everything I admired in this country: poise, ability, sportsmanship, money, style.

There are whole precincts of voters in this country whose united intelligence does not equal that of one representative American woman.

What ultimately happened is that my country had a war. I think it would be extraordinary, as a writer, not to want to write about that.

When we stage the Olympics it will inspire kids all over the country. A kid in Scotland or Ireland will be encouraged to take up sport.

Britain is not a country that is easily rocked by revolution... In Britain our institutions evolve. We are a Fabian Society writ large.

Whoever would understand the poet Must go into the poet's country. [Ger., Wer den Dichter will verstehen Muss in Dichters Lande gehen.]

They know where happiness lies, not in a cave or a country, but in love and the freedom to give and take what has been there all along.

In relations with many domestically weak countries, a radio transmitter can be a more effective form of pressure than a squadron B-52s.

I always kid the president in different circumstances. Mr. President, a country's never going to be more optimistic than the president.

I think win the election big, if she can win it, I`d like to see Hillary Clinton 54, 55 percent because I want her to rule the country.

I love being around people who work with their hands, who do the hard things to keep our country going. They're just my kind of people.

Most foreign policies that history has marked highly, in whatever country, have been originated by leaders who were opposed by experts.

Of all the hokum with which this country [America] is riddled, the most odd is the common notion that it is free of class distinctions.

There is no such thing as a Palestinian people... It is not as if we came and threw them out and took their country. They didn't exist.

To Lawren Harris art was almost a mission. He believed that a country which ignored the arts left no record of itself worth preserving.

All right. I'm corny. But I think there's just about a-hundred-and-forty-million people in this country that are just as corny as I am.

I look under the skin of countries' economies, and I help them make better decisions and be stronger, to prosper and create employment.

Well I'm not convinced that expanding uranium mining is in the best interests of the country and the best interests of its environment.

There is a vast deal of make-believe in the carefully nurtured sentiment for country life, and the barefoot boy, and the mountain girl.

A friend from India told me that a countryman of his said: "I want to go to America. I want to see a country where poor people are fat."

There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.

A country of victims is also a country of heroes, risking their lives so others will live. This is the Philippines, the country we love.

Construction is an important front for solidifying the foundations of a thriving country and creating bases for the people's happy life.

No country can sustain, in idleness, more than a small percentage of its numbers. The great majority must labor at something productive.

The use of "religion" as an excuse to repress the freedom of expression and to deny human rights is not confined to any country or time.

Perhaps for totemic reasons, people like to possess a piece of the country they are visiting. Women like to wear it. Men like to eat it.

There are loads of countries that have nice written constitutions like ours. But there aren't loads of countries where they're followed.

The broader question if Sarah Palin becomes vice president, will she be shortchanging her kids or will she be shortchanging the country?

The worst loss for any country is not the infrastructure or the buildings or the material loss; actually, it's the human resources loss.

If a country puts its entire focus on making sure that the education system improves, then that's the kind of progress that you can see.

I, for one, resent it when a representative of the people refers to you and me, the free men and women of this country, as 'the masses.'

A man who sells his conscience for his interest will sell it for his pleasure. A man who will betray his country will betray his friend.

It is extreme arrogance for one to think he...and it's usually he, is the only one who can govern his country and nobody else can do it.

This country exists as the fulfillment of a promise made by God Himself. It would be ridiculous to ask it to account for its legitimacy.

You're my bread when I'm hungry You're my shelter from troubled winds You're my anchor in life's ocean Most of all You're my best friend

This is my country, that is your country; these are the conceptions of narrow souls - to the liberal minded the whole world is a family.

I think we do better as a country when we go step by step toward a goal, and the goal in this case should be reducing health care costs.

In any country, if you don't have countervailing institutions, the power of any one president is problematic for democratic development.

You know, a one-term president with some balls who actually got stuff done would have been, in the long run of the country, much better.

Of the whole sum of human life no small part is that which consists of a man's relations to his country, and his feelings concerning it.

What I like is not a particular genre, it's storytelling. There's a lot of great storytelling in jazz, and in folk and in country music.

I have no interest or desire to be head of Fine Gael.... I am ambitious for my country and I always said I would love to sit at Cabinet.

One of the things I will talk about, that no president has talked about before, is I think the dangers of contraception in this country.

The first big choice: a government with the strength to deliver stability, or a government that takes the country back to boom and bust.

I think if you live in a country, basically you share the dominant values of a country although you may disagree on issues all the time.

Our Scottish theory ... is that every country has need of Scotchmen, but that Scotland has no need of the citizens of any other country.

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