Other Countries Quotes - Page 20

• The U.S. routinely ranks lower than other countries in health outcomes such as infant mortality.

  Tammy Baldwin

  Country, Outcomes, Mortality

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• I'm vegan on home base, but when I travel to other countries, I throw it all into the garbage.

  Lake Bell

  Country, Home, Garbage

  "Esquire Presents Me in My Place with Lake Bell", www.esquire.com. November 14, 2011.

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• Kosovo today is closer to Europe than other countries in the region of South Eastern Europe.

  Ibrahim Rugova

  Country, Europe, Today

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• It has not been possible to build that society. It set very high standards, because not only would life in the Soviet Union or in any other country which adopted that system, have to be just as good as in the Capitalist world, it would have to be better. So that other peoples, other nations would want to join it, and obviously we have failed in that.

  George Blake

  Country, Kgb, High Standards

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• Charles Kernaghan is a legitimate American hero... Through his determination he has forced the leadership in our country and many other countries around the world to pay attention. Kernaghan has done more to expose child labor than has the whole Department of Labor that has a budget of hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars, because he has the guts and determination to do it.

  Bernie Sanders

  Country, Determination, Children

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• We were sent to this country by the President, who desires to promote the welfare of Japan, and are quite different from the ambassadors of other countries.

  Townsend Harris

  Country, Japan, Desire

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• Japan and China are isolated and without intercourse with other countries; hence the President directed me to attend to or watch the state of affairs in China also.

  Townsend Harris

  Country, Japan, President

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• The United States have no possessions in the east and do not desire to have any, as other countries do.

  Townsend Harris

  Country, Desire, United States

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• Like other countries in the world, China must uphold its own sovereignty, territorial integrity and development interests. At the same time, we are willing to properly handle differences and disagreements in state-to-state relations in accordance with the basic norms governing international relations and the principle of mutual understanding, mutual accommodation, dialogue and consultation.

  Hu Jintao

  Country, Integrity, Differences

  The Wall Street Journal Interview, www.wsj.com. January 18, 2011.

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• The reality is, the United States has global interests. Our defense budget is about the same as the defense budgets or military budgets of every other country in the world put together.

  Robert M. Gates

  Country, Military, Reality

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• India has the opportunity to be a leader in genetic engineering, It has institutions that no other country has.

  Nina Fedoroff

  Country, Opportunity, Engineering

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• As soon as one nation claims the right to take preventive action, other countries will naturally do the same.

  Jacques Chirac

  Country, Action, Claims

  "French Leader Offers Formula to Tackle Iraq". www.nytimes.com. September 09, 2002.

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• Our Scottish theory ... is that every country has need of Scotchmen, but that Scotland has no need of the citizens of any other country.

  Arthur Balfour

  Country, Scotland, Needs

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• We need to focus on green jobs: solar, wind, geothermal, biomass.There's so many opportunities. But other countries like China are getting ahead of the curve.

  Alexi Giannoulias

  Country, Jobs, Opportunity

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• By 2020 the U.S. will be short 91,000 doctors. There's no way we can educate enough doctors to make up that shortfall, and other countries are far worse off.

  Peter Diamandis

  Country, Doctors, Way

  "X Prize Founder Peter Diamandis Has His Eyes on the Future". Interview with Ted Greenwald, www.wired.com. June 22, 2012.

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• When you kill 500,000 children in order to impose your will on other countries, then you shouldn't be surprised when somebody responds in kind.

  Ward Churchill

  Country, Children, Order

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• Human dignity is independent of national borders. We must always defend the interests of the poor and the persecuted in other countries.

  Kjell Magne Bondevik

  Country, Independent, Borders

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• The American attitude is 'We're the best'. That's why the NBA guys who come from other countries, the Europeans, all sort of stick together away from the game.

  Andrew Bogut

  Country, Attitude, Nba

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

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• I think Americans are at our best when we recover from a crisis. We've suffered some blows that other countries would have never recovered from.

  Max Brooks

  Country, Blow, Thinking

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• In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti, but in America the successful writer or picture-painter is indistinguishable from any other decent businessman.

  Sinclair Lewis

  Country, Art, Writing

  'Babbitt' (1922) ch. 14

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• The seizure of power by armed force, the settlement of the issue by war, is the central task and the highest form of revolution. This Marxist-Leninist principle of revolution holds well universally, for China and for all other countries.

  Mao Zedong

  Country, Peace, War

  Mao Zedong (2017). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works”, p.37, Lulu.com

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• Will America lead...and reap the rewards? Or will we surrender that advantage to other countries with clearer vision?

  Susan Hockfield

  Country, Math, Science

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• You all know that certain things are necessary to make a religion. First of all, there is the book. The power of the book is simply marvellous! Whatever it be, the book is the centre round which human allegiance gathers. Not one religion is living today but has a book. With all its rationalism and tall talk, humanity still clings to the books. In your country every attempt to start a religion without a book has failed. In India sects rise with great success, but within a few years they die down, because there is no book behind them. So in every other country.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Country, Book, Years

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• Being American is to eat a lot of beef steak, and boy, we've got a lot more beef steak than any other country, and that's why you ought to be glad you're an American. And people have started looking at these big hunks of bloody meat on their plates, you know, and wondering what on earth they think they're doing.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Country, Food, Boys

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• The Bill of Rights isn't some legalistic fine print. It was written to make our lives freer, more prosperous, and happier. By forsaking it, America has become no better than any other country in the world.

  Harry Browne

  Country, Rights, America

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