Top 100 Quotes About Countries
#1. Princess, the contents of your shoe closet would break the budgets of a lot of third world countries - Jake Malone
Mackenzie Crowne
#2. We're more than friends and neighbors and allies; we are kin, who together have built the most productive relationship between any two countries in the world today.
Ronald Reagan
#3. We must also promote global access to the Internet. We need to bridge the digital divide not just within our country, but among countries. Only by giving people around the world access to this technology can they tap into the potential of the Information Age.
Al Gore
#4. The fact is that co-operation between independent countries - to our mutual advantage - is the way of the modern world.
Nicola Sturgeon
#5. Today, we have more than 110,000 men and women deployed in conflict zones around the world. They come from nearly 120 countries ... Thanks to their efforts, life-saving humanitarian assistance can be delivered and economic development can begin.
Ban Ki-moon
#6. We need economic growth in Europe and we need to find a solution for the excessive interest rates that are making it difficult for many countries to get their own debt under control.
Martin Schulz
#7. The artificial noble shrinks into a dwarf before the noble of nature; and in the few instances (for there are some in all countries) in whom nature, as by a miracle, has survived in aristocracy, those men despise it.
Thomas Paine
#8. Educated and productive young people are needed to help lift their countries out of poverty and create a wealthier, more secure world.
Anne M. Mulcahy
#9. The game has evolved over the years, and I don't think we have as a country. In other countries they have, and they adjust much quicker than our boys.
Mahela Jayawardene
#10. We need the help of other member countries and leaders who, like us, want to see a change in Europe's direction. That's also my logic when I tell voters that electing me president will not only shape France's future, but also initiate change across all of Europe.
Francois Hollande
#11. Freedom of expression is not absolute. Countries have laws that define the framework for exercising this right and which, for instance, condemn racist language.
Tariq Ramadan
#12. From the weak nations' point of view, it is better if there are many powerful countries then if there are just a few. The more concentrated is power, the fewer opportunities there are to move. Space for change, space for freedom to implement change is then very narrow; very small.
Eduardo Galeano
#13. On my travels around the world, I've met people in countries where democracy doesn't exist and if it does, they are intimidated into voting in a certain way.
Ross Kemp
#14. China is one of the greatest cultures on Earth, and it is one of those countries that suffered immensely from colonialist horrors and humiliation.
Andre Vltchek
#15. The biggest markets for my books outside the UK are France and Italy, and those are the two countries where I also have the closest personal relationships with my translators - I don't know whether that's a coincidence, or if there's something to be learned from it.
Jonathan Coe
#16. Expressing the thoughts of my comrades, I suggested, among other means, the organization of an international information service on inventories, on production, and on the needs of the various countries for raw materials.
Leon Jouhaux
#17. In some countries Women's Day is a national holiday and men give women flowers. In America Women's Day falls on another holiday, Mardi Gras, where men give women beads in the respectful and post-feminist desire to see their naked boobies.
Craig Ferguson
#18. I've been to many countries and watched a number of conflicts or their residue, and I've served in the military.
Ralph Peters
#19. Sons of Islam everywhere, the jihad is a duty - to establish the rule of Allah on earth and to liberate your countries and yourselves from America's domination and its Zionist allies, it is your battle - either victory or martyrdom.
Ahmed Yassin
#20. I'll say this, I'm no stranger to working with a foreign cast, foreign directors, that sort of thing. I love it, because I think that when you have people from different countries, it sort of brings everyone together, it's more of a worldly film.
Jaimie Alexander
#21. No day is similar to another, but usually mail is part of my start of the day. Our company never sleeps: we have business in 180 countries, so there are no real mornings or nights.
Hans Vestberg
#22. Stonewall" has come to mark the origins of gay political activism although earlier groups in countries such as Germany, the Netherlands, Switzerland and the French movement that grew out of the May 1968 events cannot be ignored.
Chantal Zabus
#23. In free countries, every man is entitled to express his opinions and every other man is entitled not to listen.
J. Norman Collie
#24. After all, what is crazier: one person owning the same amount of money as the combined economies of twenty-three countries, or suggesting that if we shared, there would be enough for everyone?
Shane Claiborne
#25. By common consent, most European countries support the maintenance of robust welfare states and are comfortable with taxation systems that support them.
Charles Kennedy
#27. It's a different outlook, and one that I understand. When you are a former member of the Warsaw Pact, when you have lived behind the Berlin Wall, when you have experienced the communist systems that existed in these countries, for them, the West represents hope.
Jean-Pierre Raffarin
#28. The countries that have developed economically are those which were not colonized by the West; every country that was colonized by the West is a total wreck.
Noam Chomsky
#29. In many poor countries, the problem is not so much individual thugs and rapists but an entire culture of sexual predation.
Nicholas D. Kristof
#30. There are, I think, three countries left in the world where I can go and I'm not as well-known as I am here. I'm a pretty big star, folks - I don't have to tell you. Superstar, I guess you could say.
Bruce Willis
#31. It's a reality check. These other countries took it seriously. You have to realize that other countries play the game and that anything can happen in a three-game series. It's do, or die.
Eduardo Perez
#32. I'd say that Holland, Sweden, and Denmark are all better countries politically than the United States. The average person is far better off in one of those countries than he is in the United States and poverty of the sort that we have is absolutely unknown in Northern Europe.
Gore Vidal
#33. He could tell her he loved her. He ached to shout it out loud for the gods and everyone to hear. Little good it would do. Better to trust in the moon's promises than in the word of the Thief of Eddis. He was famous in three countries for his lies.
Megan Whalen Turner
#34. I don't want to turn into one of those pathetic creatures who are always homesick, always saying I wish I were still in Beirut. I don't want to become like you, split between here and there. I know I'm not happy here, but why should I be unhappy in two countries?
Hanan Al-Shaykh
#35. Countries keep on building higher and higher buildings, instead of building higher and higher men!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#36. Like the Britain of Beaverbrook and Kipling, Japan in the early twentieth century was a jingoistic nation, subduing weaker countries with the help of populist politicians and sensationalist journalism.
Pankaj Mishra
#37. Like Afghanistan before it, Iraq is only one theater in a regional war. We were attacked by a network of terrorist organizations supported by several countries, of whom the most important were Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Saudi Arabia.
Michael Ledeen
#38. There's something that people misunderstand about screen quotas. It's not about rejecting or hating other countries' films, but about protecting our domestic film industry.
Min-sik Choi
#39. Countries and places have a history, a story, and a culture.
Moshe Safdie
#40. The other countries did not share the same concern the United States had in the early '90's - that North Korea actually had an ongoing nuclear weapons program.
Mitchell Reiss
#41. Connectivity just can't be a privilege for people in the richest countries. We believe that connecting everyone in the world is one of the great challenges of our generation, and that's why we are happy to play whatever small part in that that we can.
Mark Zuckerberg
#42. The secret to global investing is gaining an insight into the hopes and desires of the people who live and work in the countries you invest in.
Mark Mobius
#43. It is of the greatest importance that people and governments in many more countries than ours should realize that it is more dangerous to have access to nuclear arms than not to possess them.
Alva Myrdal
#44. There are many countries who have traditionally sponsored terrorism. Iraq is one, though it appears the majority of the terrorism committed by Saddam Hussein is on his own citizens. Iran in this regard. Syria, with their close support of Hezbollah, is noteworthy in this respect.
Richard Armitage
#45. Traveling in other countries is especially fun because others often attribute your differences to the less-stigmatizing idea that you're like this only because you're a foreigner.
Michael John Carley
#46. By going into third world countries and serving, by actually feeding and helping people, I've been led to focus a little more on how people here try to be happy by ignoring other people who are unhappy.
Ram Dass
#47. Over the years, Good Deeds Day has annually gained greater popularity, spreading beyond geographical boundaries to include many more countries worldwide. International Good Deeds Day has become a global annual tradition of giving.
Shari Arison
#48. The quality most desirable in a CEO? According to a global survey conducted by IBM of 1,500 top executives in sixty countries: creativity.
Steven Kotler
#49. The single most important way to encourage women and girls to stand up for their rights is education, and we can do far more to promote universal education in poor countries.
Nicholas D. Kristof
#50. The great powers claim that whatever they possess is theirs by right, but whatever we, the smaller countries possess is negotiable.
Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
#51. The U.S. government engages with many countries around the world in official dialogues on human rights.
Samantha Power
#52. In expressing love we belong among the undeveloped countries.
Saul Bellow
#53. Gravity is the best cloak for sin in all countries.
Henry Fielding
#54. I think it has something to do with being British. We don't take ourselves as seriously as some other countries do. I think a lot of people take themselves far too seriously; I find that a very tedious attitude.
Joan Collins
#55. The rich do not have to invest enough in the poorest countries to make them rich; they need to invest enough so that these countries can get their foot on the economic ladder ... Economic development works. It can be successful. It tends to build on itself. But it must get started.
Jeffrey Sachs
#56. During the Reagan Administration, so much attention was devoted to fighting Marxism in Nicaragua and El Salvador that Washington lost sight of longer-term challenges in other countries.
Stephen Kinzer
#57. The growing use of biofuel will be an inestimable contribution to the generation of income, social inclusion and reduction of poverty in many poor countries of the world.
Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva
#58. It is no accident that I mention our American friends, as they are always influencing our relations with our neighbors either directly or behind the scenes. Sometimes you don't even know who to talk to - the governments of certain countries or directly to their American patrons,
Vladimir Putin
#59. I quit my job. I bought myself a real cheap, like, around-the-world flight ticket, and I went to 16 countries for six months just backpacking, living in cheap hostels, looking for stories with a camera and my ex-girlfriend.
Malik Bendjelloul
#60. Maybe every other American movie shouldn't be based on a comic book. Other countries will think Americans live in an infantile fantasy land where reality is whatever we say it is and every problem can be solved with violence.
Bill Maher
#61. We have to be very clear with the population and the countries we enter what we can do and what we cannot do.
Kofi Annan
#62. Our wandering life isn't over yet and before we definitely settle in Peru, a country that I admire in many ways, or in Argentina, we want to see a bit of Europe and two fascinating countries, India and China.
Hilda Gadea
#63. The Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness, and the related Accra Agenda for Action, are useful policy instruments that set out the mutual responsibilities of donors and recipient countries.
Margaret Chan
#64. Even if national peculiarities in character and in laws occasion differences in the curve which the woman movement describes in the different countries, yet everywhere the movement has had the same causes, must follow the same main direction, and - sooner or later - must have the same effects.
Ellen Key
#65. And it's very strange, but I think there is something very common - not only in Celtic music - but there is a factor or element in Celtic music that is similar in music that we find in Japan, the United States, Europe, and even China and other Asian countries.
Nobuo Uematsu
#66. Globilization in its current form cannot deliver the benefits expected of it. Civil society, particularly in developing countries, must ensure that it does.
Martin Khor
#67. Freedom is partial to no race. Freedom has no religion. Freedom favors no ethnicity. Freedom discriminates not between rich and poor countries. Inevitably freedom will overwhelm Ethiopia.
Eskinder Nega
#68. The US intervened in the Philippines to uplift and christianize the backward people, killing a couple of hundred thousand of them and destroying the place. The same thing happened in Haiti, the same thing happened with other countries.
Noam Chomsky
#69. Everybody has to chip in, I think, and see how we can have a functioning system of collective security where we do not continue to face the threat of countries trying to acquire weapons of mass destruction or particularly nuclear weapons.
Mohamed ElBaradei
#70. More humane societies are usually smaller, like the Scandinavian countries and Holland, where it is much easier to reach consensus and cooperation.
David Korten
#71. I discovered that Thailand was one of those countries, like Sri Lanka and India, where memory of past lives used to be commonplace. Go back a few generations, and you find people talking about earlier lives with total certainty.
John Burdett
#72. In 75 foreign countries, we have a presence in the USDA.
Mike Johanns
#73. I have the distinction of speaking to you from one of the few countries that still has a communist party.
Dennis Miller
#74. The greatest bloodbaths in the history of the human race were recorded in the twentieth century in countries that sought to eliminate God, worship, and faith.
John Ortberg
#75. I'm still heard on 1,500 radio stations across North America every day, about 220 million people a day in 150 countries.
James Dobson
#76. Most rich countries have reported increases in happiness as they become richer.
Adam Davidson
#77. Every far-sighted capitalist today must call on his fellows: capitalists of all countries, unite !
Anonymous
#78. Many Muslim countries are closed to missionaries, a policy Christians see as a denial of religious liberty.
Bob Abernethy
#79. Whatever may be said as to our relations to some other countries, I think the relations of this country to Spain offer no ties of gratitude or of blood.
Henry Cabot Lodge
#80. All revolutions more or less threaten the tenure of property: but most of those who live in democratic countries are possessed of property - not only are they possessed of property but they live in the condition of men who set the greatest store upon their property.
Alexis De Tocqueville
#81. Baseball is played by all countries now, and softball, too.
Tommy Lasorda
#82. India and Fiji have many shared values, and it is the responsibility of both the countries to strengthen those values.
Narendra Modi
#83. You have to understand that once an indictment has been signed, all countries that are signature to the U.N. charter will hand a person straight over. You don't have to go through the normal extradition process.
Tony Greig
#84. Since World War II, most of the conflicts in the world have been internal conflicts. The weapon of choice in those wars has all too often been landmines - to such a degree that what we find today are tens of millions of landmines contaminating approximately 70 countries around the world.
Jody Williams
#85. Democracies don't war; democracies are peaceful countries.
George W. Bush
#86. In a perfect world what poor countries at the lowest rungs of economic development need is not a multi-party democracy, but in fact a decisive benevolent dictator to push through the reforms required to get the economy moving
Dambisa Moyo
#87. SARS was a very important event ... And many countries have learned from SARS ... The SARS event sort of gave them additional impetus and the sense of urgency for them to really revise the International Health Regulations.
Margaret Chan
#88. Argentina and Burma. I have been to most of the countries in the world, but not those two. I want to shoot doves in Argentina. Burma, of course, because no one has really been there.
Jeremy Clarkson
#89. Thus, the struggle for peace includes the struggle for freedom and justice for the masses of all countries.
Arthur Henderson
#90. It is a simple fact of life on earth that there is going to be no successful mitigation of the climate change problem without a truly global effort. All developing companies or all major developing countries have to be part of that and accept substantial constraints on greenhouse gas emissions.
Ross Garnaut
#91. We must open our eyes and see that modern civilization has become so complex and the lives of civilized men so interwoven with thelives of other men in other countries as to make it impossible to be in this world and out of it.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
#92. Whatever the deal is with other countries, we want a better deal for America's workers.
Nancy Pelosi
#93. What you and I understand as a government doesn't exist in many African countries. In fact, what we call our governments are vampire states. Vampires because they suck the economic vitality out of their people. Government is the problem in Africa.
George Ayittey
#94. Oblivion, she thought. That was the world she lived in. It was what they should name some countries, towns, and places.
Linda Hogan
#95. We do not get to this age to be written off. Older people can act as a support system, which is what happens more in Mediterranean countries. People become much wiser as they get older and we should value that.
Susan Hampshire
#96. The globalization of the capital market is actually part of economic globalization. This will create a change in the entire world economy, not just restricted to some fields in some countries.
Richard Grasso
#97. We are well aware from which countries and through which countries the terrorists are receiving support. In the immediate future I shall be calling upon the leaders of these states to put a stop to this kind of activity.
Boris Yeltsin
#98. Ironically, the Canadian naval vessels, aircraft and personnel in the Persian Gulf I mentioned earlier who are fighting terrorism will provide more support indirectly to this war in Iraq than most of the 46 countries that are fully supporting our efforts there.
Paul Cellucci
#99. The Chinese Government and I myself have always attached great importance to China-U.S. relations. In the new historic era, I look forward to working together with you to continuously strengthen dialogue and exchanges between our two countries.
Hu Jintao
#100. The merchant increases the speed of the city. The musician slows it down. The merchant intensifies the urban stress, the noise, the chaos. The musician makes you slow down, find your center. This holds true in all cities and countries.
Nicos Hadjicostis
