The country Quotes

Great numbers of Canadians... are determined to join us whenever we appear in the Country with any force to support them.

Reducing teen pregnancy and birth is one of the most effective ways of reducing child poverty in the country.

[Dr Nelson said if the country lost sight of what Simpson and his donkey represented,] then we will lose the direction of the country ... He represents everything at the heart of what it means to be Australian.

Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxi cabs and cutting hair.

I feel compelled to say that this decision will send shock waves through college athletics programs around the country. Playing college football, especially at a school like Georgia Tech, is a privilege, not a right. We must be able to set standards of conduct for our student-athletes, and we must be able to enforce and maintain discipline.

You get to learn about different cultures-the different parts of the country. The diversity is different. The atmosphere is different. The people are different. You kind of have to change the way you think.

These elections will fail by themselves. Political parties inside the country won't attend this farce. Chad's citizens, with the current loaded environment, won't be going out to vote, even just to say no to Deby.

Than Shwe is now 18 years governing the country and remains deeply unloved by the majority of the population. That's amazing.

Yemen has a great history of a civil war between the north and the south. The country was only recently reunited, back in 1990. You have about 16 to 17 million people; you have about 50 million guns. It's basically a country that is pretty trigger happy. It's very generous, very hospitable to foreigners, but on the other hand, there's always that element of risk.

Sadly, infant abductions happen. Not with a lot of regularity, but they do happen across the country.

I had the opportunity to see the country from the air and I could see apartheid, ... I could see where the rich white people live, and next to it where the poor black people live.

We need the real, nation-wide terror which reinvigorates the country and through which the Great French Revolution achieved glory.

I knew what they were after; that I had alarmed the country all the way up, that their boats were caught aground, and I should have 500 men there soon. One of them said they had 1500 coming; he seemed surprised and rode off into the road, and informed them who took me, they came down immediately on a full gallop.

It is the first time in the history of Rwanda that political change in the highest leadership of the country has taken place in peace and security.

Now that he is in India and in custody, police can trace his network of associates all over the country.

The talks are very important for the market because the economic development of the country depends on the outcome. If the country is dragged into a war it's going to be a real problem for us.

When across the country the demand for states to defend marriage is overwhelming, it's not accurate to say that people don't want to discuss social issues.

My heart, as all of yours, breaks when it sees how the government is robbing the country of its riches, how they sell out our national interests.

We've changed gears last year and now we are concentrating on the whole of the country.

Relatively cheap labor cost has long offered the country a competitive edge. Globalization has now sentenced the end of that growth model.

I think it is really important that there is a network around the country. You are not a voice crying alone in the wilderness.

We will continue the protest till the democracy is restored in the country. Until then the public will not pay any tax to the government.

[On ABC's] This Week, ... too many people in the country are either not old enough for Medicare, ... or they're not poor enough for Medicaid and they're not fortunate enough to have a good health insurance plan.

Millions of live animals come into the country each year, and very few have really good surveillance. Fish and Wildlife checks cargoes to see if they have endangered species, but it's the U.S.D.A. that does health checks, and they don't go unless it's an agricultural product, so the pet trade tends to get a pass.

[Galbraith says he is frustrated with all the American critics who argue that the constitution divides Iraq. The country is already divided, he says, and drawing a constitution that artificially binds three divergent societies together would create only friction, violence and civil war.] It's not a problem if a country breaks up, only if it breaks up violently, ... Iraq wasn't created by God. It was created by Winston Churchill.