Country Quotes - Page 11

• On behalf of Major League Baseball, I am terribly saddened by the sudden passing of Kirby Puckett. He was a Hall of Famer in every sense of the term. He was revered throughout the country and will be remembered wherever the game is played. Kirby was taken from us much too soon - and too quickly.

  Bud Selig

  Baseball, Taken, Games

  "Baseball great Kirby Puckett dies", edition.cnn.com. March 7, 2006.

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• At Rome there were nothing even vaguely resembling modern political parties - although given the stifling impact of these, this may well have made it more rather than less democratic than many countries today - and each candidate for office competed as an individual. Only rarely did they advocate specific policies, although commenting on issues of current importance was more common. In the main voters looked more for a capable individual who once elected could do whatever the State required.

  Adrian Goldsworthy

  Party, Rome, Issues

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• We don't have any splits here. The players country is Liverpool Football Club and their language is football.

  Gerard Houllier

  Football, Player, Splits

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• I will go on my knees and ask the Liberian people to participate in bringing peace and stability to our country.

  George Weah

  Peace, People, Knees

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• By in large in this country the issue of gay rights and equality should be past the point of debate. Really, there should be no debate anymore.

  Scott Fujita

  Gay, Past, Rights

  "“Why I Support the National Equality March”: NFL’s Scott Fujita Speaks Out for Gay Rights". Interview with Dave Zirin, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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• I love poetry and my country above all else in the world.

  Fyodor Tyutchev

  World, Love Poetry

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• Storm clouds of terror and dictatorship are gathering over the whole country... They must not be allowed to bring eternal night.

  Boris Yeltsin

  Night, Clouds, Gathering

  Appeal to citizens of Russia to oppose the 1991 coup attempt against Mikhail Gorbachev, August 19, 1991.

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• 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

  Support, Leader, Receiving

  Boris Yeltsin's speech to the summit of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) in Istanbul, news.bbc.co.uk. November 18, 1999.

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• Instead of the primitive raw material economy, we will create a smart economy generating unique knowledge, new useful things and technologies. Instead of the archaic society, in which the leaders think and make decisions for everyone, we will become a country of intelligent, free and responsible people.

  Dmitry Medvedev

  Smart, Intelligent, Unique

  "Medvedev wants Russia to go hi-tech" by Maxim Tkachenko, edition.cnn.com. November 12, 2009.

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• I believe that with the help of foreign countries - and under that condition only, because they have no other source of financing - the new government may temporarily extricate Georgia from the current situation.

  Eduard Shevardnadze

  Believe, Government, May

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• As you look around the country there are still a significant number of states where their whole school debate is over school funding and we've been focused on the quality debate for most of the '90s.

  John Engler

  School, Numbers, Quality

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• The Boston Globe: The Woodstock Music and Art Festival will surely go down in history as a mass event of great and positive significance in the life of the country ... That this many young people could assemble so peaceably and with such good humor in a mile-square area ... speaks volumes about their dedication to the ideal of respect for the dignity of the individual ... In a nation beset with a crescendo of violence, this is a vibrantly hopeful sign. If violence is infectious, so, happily, is nonviolence.

  Michael Lang

  Art, Dedication, Boston

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• Women have worked hard; starved in prison; given of their time and lives that we might sit in the House of Commons and take part in the legislating of this country.

  Ellen Wilkinson

  House, Might, Prison

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• It the British System is the most gigantic system of slavery the world has yet seen, and therefore it is that freedom gradually disappears from every country over which England is enabled to obtain control.

  Henry Charles Carey

  World, Slavery, England

  Henry Charles Carey (1853). “The slave trade, domestic and foreign: why it exists, and how it may be extinguished”, p.364

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• In this country protection has always, to some extent, existed; but at some times it has been efficient, and at others not; and our tendency toward freedom or slavery has always been in the direct ratio of its efficiency or inefficiency.

  Henry Charles Carey

  Slavery, Ratios, Protection

  Henry Charles Carey (1859). “The Slave Trade, Domestic and Foreign: Why it Exists, and how it May be Extinguished”, p.365

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• The commerce of India does not grow, nor does that of Portugal, or of Turkey; that but that of the protected countries does increase, as has been shown in the case of Spain, and can now be shown in that of Germany.

  Henry Charles Carey

  Turkeys, India, Spain

  Henry Charles Carey (1853). “The Slave Trade, Domestic and Foreign: Why it Exists, and how it May be Extinguished”, p.392

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• Bopha, Sandy, floods in Pakistan, droughts in China… How many reports from the likes of the World Bank, NASA and the International Energy Agency will it take? How many preventable catastrophes until our leaders realize that climate change will not be solved by nice speeches and empty promises? Countries like Canada and the U.S. have promised to reduce their greenhouse gas pollution and provide adequate financial support for developing countries, they have so far failed on both counts.

  Steven Guilbeault

  Nice, Agency, Leader

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• I found that there is very little interest in Washington for true election reform. That neither the White House nor either house of the Congress seems to be as committed to guaranteeing democratic participation in this country as we seem to be in other countries.

  DeForest Soaries

  White, House, Reform

  "The Voice of Voting Reform". Interview with Tim Dickinson, www.rollingstone.com. June 6, 2006.

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• Nicaragua is fast becoming a terrorist country club.

  Edwin Meese

  Nicaragua, Clubs, Becoming

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• After the tragedy of 9/11 we were on our way to becoming a fledgling Matriotic society until our leaders jumped on the bandwagon of inappropriate and misguided vengeance to send our young people to die and kill in two countries that were no threat to the USA or to our way of life. The neocons exploited patriotism to fulfill their goals of imperialism and plunder. This sort of patriotism begins when we enter kindergarten and learn the nationalist 'Pledge of Allegiance'. It transcends all sense when we are taught the 'Star Spangled Banner', a hymn to war.

  Cindy Sheehan

  Stars, War, Usa

  "Matriotism" by Cindy Sheehan, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 22, 2006.

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• We really need to stop the imperialist tendencies of countries like the United States and Great Britain

  Cindy Sheehan

  United States, Needs, Tendencies

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• I mean, in a way, Obama's standing above the country, above — above the world, he's sort of God.

  Evan Thomas

  Mean, World, Way

  "Newsweek's Evan Thomas: Obama Is 'Sort of God'". "Hardball" with Chris Matthews, www.newsbusters.org. June 5, 2009.

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• The image of the world around us, which we carry in our head, is just a model. Nobody in his head imagines all the world, government or country. He has only selected concepts, and relationships between them, and uses those to represent the real system.

  Jay Wright Forrester

  Real, World Government, Use

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• With the Michael Moore movie, certain conservative talk show hosts call him un-American. Him and anybody else who says anything about the war... To question your country's policy, especially in a war that kills people, is definitely not un-American. It's probably the most patriotic thing you can do.

  John Fogerty

  War, Patriotic, People

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• What could become a danger to world peace is Iran's nuclear program and the country's open threat to annihilate Israel.

  Sigmar Gabriel

  Israel, Iran, Nuclear

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