Country If Quotes

#1. [Political] conventions lend themselves to pandering, as few politicians can resist the temptation to tell a national television audience how well they will run the country if elected. The problem is that government is not supposed to run the country - we're supposed to be free.

Ron Paul

#2. I think it would be really fun to film a drama in a foreign country. If the opportunity presents itself, I want to film a Chinese production.

Lee Min-ho

#3. I've always felt real blessed, especially to live in this country. If you dream hard and work hard, anything can happen here-I'm perfect proof.

Yogi Berra

#4. If it had been our intention to take Iraq, if it had been our intention to destroy the country, if it had been our intention to overrun the country, we could have done it unopposed.

Norman Schwarzkopf

#5. It's just cheaper to be White in America than it is to be Black, because of educational advances, because of the police incidents, because of the poverty we grow up in as African-Americans. So, it's just cheaper in this country if you're born a Caucasian than being born a Black person.

Warren Ballentine

#6. To retain his dignity, an artist must live in opposition. He must be critical of his country. If not, then he is worthless.

Bruno Dumont

#7. Aren't all the best songs about a girl? It doesn't matter if it's metal, if it's country, if it's blues or rock and roll; all the songs that make us remember and make us want to sing along are about the best kind of girl, the kind you can't live without but can't ever get ahold of.

Jay Crownover

#8. We cannot change the country, if our life has not been changed

Sunday Adelaja

#9. Crime is a human behavior problem, not a mechanical problem. Furthermore, if firearms were not very useful for self-defense, then police wouldn't carry them. In a free country, if the government can go armed, so should the citizens, if they so choose.

Charley Reese

#10. Nothing will ruin the country if the people themselves will undertake its safety; and nothing can save it if they leave that safety in any hands but their own.

Daniel Webster

#11. Obviously, education is hugely important, along with healthcare. They're the basics and you're hurting your own country if you don't pour money into them.

Kelly Reilly

#12. I'm the only Mauritanian filmmaker so it wouldn't make sense to make a film in France. I could shoot outside of my own country if the story was something that called for it. Africa really has to be the reason for me to make a new film.

Abderrahmane Sissako

#13. There is bound to be a certain amount of trouble running any country. If you are president, the trouble happens to you. But if you are a tyrant you can arrange things so that most of the trouble happens to other people.

Don Marquis

#14. Iran will be the most checked and inspected country if the principles agreed in Lausanne are transferred into the language of practical agreements.

Sergei Lavrov

#15. If a great country yields to a small country, it will conquer the small country. If a small country yields to a great country, it will be conquered by the great country.

Laozi

#16. We need a regime change in this country ... If we launch a pre-emptive strike on Iraq we lose all moral authority.

Jesse Jackson

#17. Abuse of power isn't limited to bad guys in other nations. It happens in our own country if we're not vigilant.

Clint Eastwood

#18. The obese are eating the worst diet in the country if you define
worse as ratio of calories to essential micronutrients. They're just eating
empty calories.

Bruce Ames

#19. We think we should only go into a country if we can be sure of our return. Jesus never promised that.

Andrew Van Der Bijl

#20. This is the most terrible thing that can happen in a friendly country if Thai people have to escape from the backdoor of an embassy.

Thaksin Shinawatra

#21. How can people like these be in charge of our country? If I didn't see it with my own eyes, I'd think I was having a hallucination." Though

Philip Roth

#22. If we are going to save this country, if we are going to reestablish that belief in God, it's up to us. If we don't do it, who will?

Bob Riley

#23. This here's a hard country. If a man ain't fit, he can't last - Kilkenny

Louis L'Amour

#24. No matter how long you'd been in the country, if you weren't in Australia for the majority of 2000 to 2002 - when I was particularly busy filming overseas - you can't become a citizen.

Russell Crowe

#25. Are you a politician asking what your country can do for you or a zealous one asking what you can do for your country? If you are the first, then you are a parasite; if the second, then you are an oasis in the desert.

Khalil Gibran

#26. All the money in the world is no use to a man or his country if he spends it as fast as he makes it. All he has left is his bills and the reputation for being a fool.

Rudyard Kipling

#27. I was alone, without a single cent, in an unknown country. If I'd learned anything from last year's ill-fated adventures, though, it was not to get overwhelmed by minor inconveniences.

Isabel Allende

#28. You cannot get an influence from the cuisine of a country if you don't understand it. You've got to study it.

Ferran Adria

#29. There's no doubt in our minds we can play with the best teams in the country - if we play well.

Gregg Marshall

#30. Let us both small and great push forward in this work, in this pursuit, if to our country, if to ourselves we would live dear.

Horace

#31. Everybody feels better about himself, his community, and his country if employers are paying workers well. Economics, though, teaches that if every employer is pressured to raise wages, some labor will be priced out of the market.

Edmund Phelps

#32. Our country, if it does justice to itself, will be the workshop of liberty to the civilized world.

James Madison

#33. I just think you Westerners should take over this country if you are so smart.

Pierre Trudeau

#34. Why should you stay in one place and one country if they're not offering you a job? It doesn't make sense!

Estelle

#35. And we need a full affront on an energy crisis that is real in California and looms for other parts of our country if we don't move quickly.

George W. Bush

#36. What will it profit this country if we ... put our man on the Moon by 1970 and at the same time you can't walk down Woodward Avenue in this city without fear of some violence?

Jerome Cavanagh

#37. If we want to be proud of our country, if we want to be proud as Americans, if we want to be proud of our history, then we can't talk about the things that are inconsistent with pride, about which we can have no pride.

Bryan Stevenson

#38. We are losing each day an average 50 to 60 people throughout the country, if not more. If this is not civil war, then God knows what civil war is.

Iyad Allawi

#39. You can bring changes to your country if you have a victorious mentality

Sunday Adelaja

#40. It's difficult to see how Syria can have any long-term future with Assad there as president. Many people would never return to that country if that were the case.

George Osborne

#41. The majority in this country have not seen anything wrong with Zuma. I go with the overwhelming feeling of this country. If the majority say, 'Zuma, do this,' I will do it.

Jacob Zuma

#42. If you control the oil you control the country; if you control food, you control the population.

Henry A. Kissinger

#43. This is a great country. You're trying to tell me we can't keep people from coming into our country if we really had the desire to do it? I don't buy it.

Joe Arpaio

#44. Texas is a great place to be rich and a terrible place to be poor. It's got the highest percentage of people without health insurance in the country. If you get injured on the job, good luck getting workers' comp. And God help you if you're poor and mentally ill.

Gail Collins

#45. In a corrupt country, if you want to succeed in politics, you must keep your conscience under control.

Miriam Defensor Santiago

#46. Now they got such a high inheritance tax on 'em that you won't catch these old rich boys dying promiscuously like they did. This bill makes patriots out of everybody. You sure do die for your country if you die from now on.

Will Rogers

#47. I am not helpless. Any timid minister will not go forward ... I have come here to strive hard for the sake of the country, to work for the country. If anybody thinks that decision making process in the oil sector will be prevented, they are totally wrong.

Veerappa Moily

#48. Fixing our thoughts on Jesus requires time, for true reflection cannot happen with a glance. No one can see the beauty of the country if he hurries through it on the interstate.

R. Kent Hughes

#49. I care not who hoes the lettuce of my country if I can eat the salad!

F Scott Fitzgerald

#50. Indiana houses the home offices of most fraternities and sororities in the country. If Indiana doesn't pass a law that guarantees people that they'll be free of discrimination, those fraternities and sororities need to move out of Indiana.

Dannel Malloy

#51. You know those Navy SEALs, they weren't Democrats and Republicans. They were just doing what was best for America. Wouldn't that be a great country if all of you Americans were just like that? You followed orders, you marched in step and you followed my agenda.

Jonah Goldberg

#52. We could leave the country if you want. Live in Spain, Italy, wherever you like, spend our days eating mangoes in the sun. Sleep late, play Scrabble, flip through books aimlessly, swim in the ocean.

Gillian Flynn

#53. I'm not sure we can understand another country if we don't understand our own.

Gloria Steinem

#54. Our country, if that is what we want, can now permanently radiate love, understanding, the power of the spirit and of ideas. It is precisely this glow that we can offer as our specific contribution to international politics.

Vaclav Havel

#55. Our country, if you read the 'Federalist Papers,' is about disagreement. It's about pitting faction against faction, divided government, checks and balances. The hero in American political tradition is the man who stands up to the mob - not the mob itself.

Jonah Goldberg

#56. You can't get to a balanced budget and begin to pay down debt and thus create jobs in this country if you don't have specific plans to make it work.

Ted Cruz

#57. Any country if you go really, really in depth somewhere, the human rights are not totally respected.

Sepp Blatter

#58. What I'm trying to do is save and rescue the country if I can, and I'm doing my best to do it.

Najib Mikati

#59. We wouldn't be as far along as a country if we didn't take on some of Martin Luther King's ways that he instilled in us.

Rodney King

#60. I was taught that in this country if you work hard, you can do anything, and I don't see a lot of those principles in children's books today.

Allen Covert

#61. The spirit of a country, if it is to be true to itself, needs continually to draw great breaths of inspiration from the simple realities of the country; from the smell of its soil, the pattern of its fields, the beauty of its scenery and from the men and women who dwell and toil in the rural areas

George Stapledon

#62. You don't have to vaccinate every man, woman and child in the country if you have a couple of cases of smallpox cropping up.

Anthony Fauci

#63. We are not a civilized country if we can read in a newspaper what a lady tells her boyfriend or husband.

Silvio Berlusconi

#64. If we want to build the Iraqis' confidence about our intentions in their country, if we want to stop adding fuel to the fire of insurgency and terrorism, we must clarify our intent.

John Conyers

#65. We have a saying in my country: If you must strike, make sure to follow the hurt with a kiss.

Anne Fortier

#66. There are tens, perhaps hundreds of millions of people living in poverty and danger who might readily seek to enter a Western country if the opportunity is there.

Tony Abbott

#67. Some of us are happy with our African hair, thank you very much. I don't want some poor Indian girl's hair. And I wish to God I could buy black hair products from black people for once. How we going to make it in this country if we don't make our own business?

Zadie Smith

#68. Yet, upon the whole, the space I traversed is unlikely to become the haunt of civilized man, or will only become so in isolated spots, as a chain of connection to a more fertile country; if such a country exist to the westward.

Charles Sturt

#69. Iraq has slipped enough toward dangerous paths that may endanger the country if we don't realize that the solution ... lies is the concept of national unity

Ayad Allawi

#70. It's very sad that Tanzania is a poor football country. If elected, I promise to put this country on the world football map. I will make sure we produce our own Okochas, El Hadji Dioufs and Zinedine Zidanes here.

Jakaya Kikwete

#71. I have no illusions that my work can rouse the masses to create change, because literature simply doesn't have that power anymore in my country, if it does anywhere. But I do hope that it can be read by those who are in positions to create change, or that it can at least be part of that dialogue.

Miguel Syjuco

#72. It would be a much better country if women did not vote. That is simply a fact. In fact, in every presidential election since 1950 - except Goldwater in '64 - the Republican would have won, if only the men had voted.

Ann Coulter

#73. Everyone always dies for his country. If you have lived in it, well and wisely and actively, you die for it too.

Jean Giraudoux

#74. Basically I am a private individual who has concerns about his country and who has resources that give me the privilege - and responsibility - to do something to help my country if I can.

Richard Scaife

#75. Patriotism is a love of country. If you love your country, you should love your countrymen and women. It doesn't mean you always agree with them or even like them. It is understanding that we have interwoven destiny.

Cory Booker

#76. If you want me to be a cry baby, I cannot: I am the leader of a country. If you want to give me something and then withdraw it, fine; I must respect your decision.

Joyce Banda

#77. We lose our right to be surprised that California has the highest recidivism rate in the country if we refuse to hire folks who have taken responsibility for their crimes and have done their time.

Greg Boyle

#78. I think if a candidate ran for office in most states in the country, if his opponent, or her opponent was an effective advocate against the TPP and could show, as I think we will be able to show, it's detrimental to working Americans, I think they would have a hard time getting elected.

Jeff Sessions

#79. There are 40,000 Iraqi police on duty around the country. If they detect an attack about to happen, the police are the ones who are supposed to stop it.

Paul Bremer

#80. There is no week nor day nor hour when tyranny may not enter upon this country, if the people lose their roughness and spirit of defiance.

Walt Whitman

#81. Some write that I'm a genius, others say that I'm disrespectful towards their country ... If you remember in 1993 I squatted to tie my shoe during the French national anthem.

Hristo Stoichkov

#82. You know what, man? I am going to literally - if (Palin) gets elected president, I am going to hang out on the grassy knoll all the time, just loaded and ready - because you know what? It's for my country. It's for my country. If I got to sacrifice myself, it's for my country.

Christopher Titus

#83. We are very ideological about fiction in this country. If a character is not familiar, then that character becomes unbelievable.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#84. Let me ask you, sir, when is the time for brave men to exert themselves in the cause of liberty and their country, if this is not?

George Washington

#85. We have to change our whole way, our health care system is a disaster. It's going to implode in 2017, just like you're sitting there. It doesn't work. Nothing works in our country. If I'm elected president, we will win again.

Donald Trump

#86. Why a slow death in a strange country if you can die on the threshold of your own house?
Refugees don't exist.
Only blown away people exist,
people blown by the wind
all over the world.

Ad De Bont

#87. Not a leaf moves in this country if I'm not moving it.

Augusto Pinochet

#88. I like driving. A lot. I think that's something I just enjoy the most. I can, at a moment's notice, drive across the country if, you know, I had to.

Shahzia Sikander

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

Condoleezza Rice

#90. Getting things done in this country, if you want to build something, if you want to start a company, it's getting to be virtually impossible with all of the bureaucracy and all of the approvals.

Donald Trump

#91. Treating people fairly and with civility is not a bad thing ... It would be good for our country if political leaders actually took that to heart.

Jeb Bush

#92. People only mention it's a free country if they're doing something shitty.

Demetri Martin

#93. [Africa] is a continent of many countries, not one country. If we are down to three or four conflicts, it means that there are plenty of opportunities to invest in stable, growing, exciting economies where there's plenty of opportunity.

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

#94. I have appealed to the constitution and laws of my country; if they fail to protect me, I appeal to God, and with Him I cheerfully rest my cause. I can die at my post, but I cannot desert it.

Elijah Parish Lovejoy

#95. Language is not so important in this country. If you want to understand one another, you do.

Laurie Fabiano

#96. It is now true that this is God's Country, if equal rights-a fair start and an equal chance in the race of life are everywhere secured to all.

Rutherford B. Hayes

#97. God help this country if we're now prepared to vote for someone we don't trust. But every election cycle we do things we never dreamed of.

Rudy Giuliani

#98. Ignorance of the law is no excuse in any country. If it were, the laws would lose their effect, because it can always be pretended.

Thomas Jefferson

#99. Many Americans have no idea of what has been the foreign policy of their country. If you don't know about something, you can't understand what is going on.

Mick Jagger

#100. If you're black in this country, if you're a woman in this country, if you are any minority in this country at all, what could possibly possess you to vote Republican?

Cher