Other Countries Quotes - Page 19

• Other countries have their history. Uruguay has its football.

  Ondino Viera

  Soccer, Football, Country

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• Other countries drink to get drunk, and this is accepted by everyone; in France, drunkenness is a consequence, never an intention. A drink is felt as the spinning out of a pleasure, not as the necessary cause of an effect which is sought: wine is not only a philtre, it is also the leisurely act of drinking.

  Roland Barthes

  Country, Drinking, Wine

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• When I compare myself and my opponents in other countries in the light of history, I do not fear the verdict on our respective mentalities.

  Adolf Hitler

  Country, Light, Anxiety

  Adolf Hitler (1944). “Hitler's Words”

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• When we hold a World Championship for a particular sport, we invite teams from other countries to play as well.

  John Cleese

  Funny, Sports, Sarcastic

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• Among the most inestimable of our blessings is that ... of liberty to worship our Creator in the way we think most agreeable to His will; a liberty deemed in other countries incompatible with good government and yet proved by our experience to be its best support.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Country, Religious, Thinking

  Thomas Jefferson, Andrew M. Allison (1983). “The Real Thomas Jefferson”, Natl Center for Constitutional

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• We ask that (other countries) do not interfere in our regulation.

  Vladimir Putin

  Country, Gay, Regulation

  "Russia's Putin signs 'gay propaganda' ban into law". www.foxnews.com. June 30, 2013.

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• Political leaders in capitalist countries who cheer the collapse of socialism in other countries continue to favor socialist solutions in their own. They know the words, but they have not learned the tune.

  Milton Friedman

  Country, Cheer, Leader

  Milton Friedman, Rose Friedman (1990). “Free to Choose: A Personal Statement”, p.9, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• In England, more than in any other country, science is felt rather than thought. ... A defect of the English is their almost complete lack of systematic thinking. Science to them consists of a number of successful raids into the unknown.

  John Desmond Bernal

  Country, Successful, Science

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• The social progress, order, security and peace of each country are necessarily connected with the social progress, order, security and peace of all other countries.

  Pope John XXIII

  Country, Order, Diversity

  Pacem in Terris (1963) p. 150

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• The important distinction so well understood in America between a constitution established by the people, and unalterable by the government; and a law established by the government, and alterable by the government, seems to have been little understood and less observed in any other country. Wherever the supreme power of legislation has resided, has been supposed to reside also, a full power to change the form of government.

  James Madison

  Country, Government, Law

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (1852). “The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in 1788”, p.247

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• The simple fact is that the world is not paying for the services the forests provide. At the moment, they are worth more dead than alive-for soya, for beef, for palm oil and for logging, feeding the demand from other countries. ... I think we need to be clear that the drivers of rainforest destruction do not originate in the rainforest nations, but in the more developed countries which, unwittingly or not, have caused climate change.

  Prince Charles

  Country, Science, Simple

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• When we got back to the U.S., I wanted to kiss the ground after seeing what people in other countries are denied or don't have.

  Sugar Ray Leonard

  Sports, Country, Kissing

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Today, it is imperative to end this hysteria, to refute the rhetoric of the Cold War and to accept the obvious fact: Russia is an independent, active participant in international affairs. Like other countries, it has its own national interests that need to be taken into account and respected.

  Vladimir Putin

  Country, Powerful, War

  Vladimir Putin “VLADIMIR PUTIN: Munich”, ITBM

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• India has two million gods, and worships them all. In religion all other countries are paupers; India is the only millionaire.

  Mark Twain

  Country, Two, Independence

  Mark Twain (1998). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain: A Book of Quotations”, p.27, Courier Corporation

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• The press of Italy is free, freer than the press of any other country, so long as it supports the regime.

  Benito Mussolini

  Country, Long, Evil

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• I say to the young, be happy that you were born in Italy because of the beauty of the human capital, both masculine and feminine, of this country... No other country has such human capital.

  Rita Levi-Montalcini

  Country, Masculine And Feminine, Born

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• ...Other countries are way ahead of ours in nutrition.

  Fred Richmond

  Country, Dark, Age

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• I fully share the Congress's objective of promoting nonproliferation and combating Iran's efforts to acquire weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and missile delivery systems. This issue remains at the top of the agenda with Russia as well as with other countries whose companies may be providing such assistance to Iran. In the case of Russian entities' cooperation with Iran, we have imposed penalties ten times in the past and stand ready to apply them again whenever necessary.

  William J. Clinton

  Country, Past, Iran

  Clinton, William J. (2000). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 2000-2001”, p.462, Best Books on

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• Ladies and gentlemen, these are not assertions. These are facts, corroborated by many sources, some of them sources of the intelligence services of other countries.

  Colin Powell

  Country, Stupid, Intelligence Services

  Address to the United Nations Security Council, delivered 5 February 2003

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• Whoever controls the flow of Persian Gulf oil has a stranglehold not only on our economy but also on the other countries of the world as well.

  Dick Cheney

  Country, Countries Of The World, Usa

  "The real reasons Bush went to war" by John Chapman, www.theguardian.com. July 27, 2004.

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• The United States of America is a threat to world peace. Because what [America] is saying is that if you are afraid of a veto in the Security Council, you can go outside and take action and violate the sovereignty of other countries. That is the message they are sending to the world. That must be condemned in the strongest terms.

  Nelson Mandela

  Country, Iraq, America

  "Nelson Mandela: U.S Is A Threat To World Peace". Interview with Tom Masland, www.newsweek.com. September 9, 2002.

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• I've never felt like this in any other country. I feel at home, I feel wonderful

  Whitney Houston

  Country, Home, Israel

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• We are going to have to discuss with and seek the opinions of other countries. We don't wish to offend anyone, least of all a country we hold in such deep regard as the United Kingdom.

  Rafael Correa

  Country, Wish, Kingdoms

  "Julian Assange asylum application may take time, says Ecuador president" by Esther Addley, www.theguardian.com. June 22, 2012.

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• We are at war to liberate Iraq, to protect the people of the United States and other countries from the devastating impact of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction being used by terrorists or the Iraqi government to kill thousands of innocent civilians.

  Paul Cellucci

  Country, War, Impact

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• It is not really our country so much is the problem, it's sort of the parasitic relationship that Canada, and France, and other countries have towards us.

  Bob Corker

  Country, Canada, France

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