Other Countries Quotes - Page 24

• The colleges of Edinburgh and Geneva as seminaries of science, are considered as the two eyes of Europe. While Great Britain and America give the preference to the former, all other countries give it to the latter.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Country, Eye, College

  Thomas Jefferson (1854). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson”, p.109

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• We have a complete respect for history, we respect the experiences of other countries and we have our own, but the truth is that if the Cuban revolution had not been a democracy it would not have survived.

  Alejandro Castro Espin

  Country, Democracy, Revolution

  "The Future of Cuba". Interview with Lasonas Pipinis Velasco, www.counterpunch.org. February 27, 2015.

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• The euro is a vital issue for Germany. There is no other country that derives as much benefit from the common domestic market and the monetary union as Germany.

  Peer Steinbruck

  Country, Issues, Germany

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• Instead of disbursing her annual millions for these dye stuffs, England will, beyond question, at no distant day become herself the greatest coloring producing country in the world; nay, by the very strangest of revolutions she may ere long send her coal-derived blues to indigo-growing India, her tar-distilled crimson to cochineal-producing Mexico, and her fossil substitutes for quercitron and safflower to China, Japan and the other countries whence these articles are now derived.

  August Wilhelm von Hofmann

  Country, Blue, Japan

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• So the idea about how detonation of a nuclear weapon might happen vary, you know - some people are especially concerned about terrorists getting their hands on nuclear weapons and using them. Some people are worried that there might be a nuclear war between India and Pakistan. Some think the Middle East, were Israel already has nuclear weapons and where other countries may be interested at some point and acquiring them, might be a flash point.

  John Burroughs

  Country, War, Thinking

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• In the past when a country became as powerful as the United States, other countries would band together to clip its wings. But that isn't happening now and I don't think it's not going to happen, because other countries are not threatened by us, and they secretly appreciate the services that we provide, even if they don't usually say so.

  Michael Mandelbaum

  Country, Powerful, Past

  "Lou Hobbs Tonight", www.cnn.com. April 26, 2006.

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• When you do business, you have to depend on other countries. This is the global economy.

  Stan Shih

  Country, Economy, Depends

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• When you innovate, the jobs can't go overseas because other countries haven't figured out how to do it yet.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Country, Jobs, Havens

  Source: blog.sfgate.com

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• That whole country, Malaysia has a history of telling other countries back off, we`ll do our business. They`re pretty stubborn bunch of people. So they will do what they have to do.

  Christopher R. Hill

  Country, People, Stubborn

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• I'm convinced nonviolence can be successful in working for positive change in our relations with other countries right now.

  Dorothy Cotton

  Country, Successful, Positive Change

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• What Donald Trump is determined to do, as someone who has spent a lifetime looking for deals, is to see if we can have a new relationship with Russia and other countries that advances the interests of America first and the peace and security of the world.

  Mike Pence

  Country, New Relationship, Russia

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• America spends billions of dollars protecting the borders of other countries around the world. It's high time we start protecting our own.

  Kellyanne Conway

  Country, America, Borders

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The fact that refugees traveled through six other countries, like former Yugoslavia, Macedonia, Hungary, Austria, Switzerland, France, Germany, Holland, is because they like our social benefits. They like our welfare state. They know which country to pick. They're not going to stay in Hungary or in Estonia. They come to Germany, to Holland. And people sense that those are not the real refugees. And our government has spent billions of euros on them, and the Dutch people know.

  Geert Wilders

  Country, Real, Government

  Source: www1.cbn.com

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• I spoke in the United States of America and in Canada and other countries already have good results with immigration, that it cannot be compared everything to Europe.

  Geert Wilders

  Country, Europe, America

  Source: www.parlementairemonitor.nl

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• The Russians always base their policies on values, and these values are the sovereignty of other countries, the international law, respecting other people, other cultures, so they don't interfere in whatever is related to the future of Syria or the Syrian people.

  Bashar al-Assad

  Country, Law, Other Cultures

  Source: www.globalresearch.ca

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• 70% of children born into poverty will never make it to the middle class. The uncomfortable truth is that there are now a number of other countries with as much or more opportunity than ours. In fact, more people in Canada go on to surpass the income of their parents than in the United States.

  Marco Rubio

  Country, Children, Opportunity

  "Rubio Delivers Address on 50th Anniversary of the 'War on Poverty'". www.rubio.senate.gov. January 08, 2014.

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• America is the most violent democracy in the world. It's something that's met with great shock, horror, and mystery when I travel to other countries. They ask, Why are there so many shootings in America? Why does everyone own a gun?

  Patricia Cornwell

  Country, Gun, America

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• We are soldiers who devote ourselves to arms not for the invasion of other countries, but for the defense of our own, not for the gratification of our private interests but for public security

  Nathanael Greene

  Country, Soldier, Defense

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• For two generations groups of women have given their lives and their fortunes to secure the vote for the sex and hundreds of thousands of other women are now giving all the time at their command. No class of men in our own or any other country has made one-tenth the effort nor sacrificed one-tenth as much for the vote.

  Carrie Chapman Catt

  Country, Sex, Men

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• When you see Hitler burning paintings by Salvador Dali and Picasso he's telling you that this time period and these men and this culture didn't exist, and I've seen that happen in other countries, Sudan for instance, it's not enough to kill them you have to destroy all of their markings that they left that was their history.

  George Clooney

  Country, Men, Culture

  "The Monuments Men - George Clooney interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I do conventions sometimes every other weekend. Whenever I have time, and it's not too far away. I get a lot of invitations (to appear at conventions) in other countries and I have to turn them down.

  Stan Lee

  Country, Weekend, Sometimes

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• We have to remember that information sharing is restricted by legal barriers and cultural barriers and by the notion that information is power and therefore should be hoarded so if you share information you can extract something in exchange. In today's digital online world, those who don't share information will be isolated and left behind. We need the data of other countries to connect the dots.

  Alan Bersin

  Country, Data, Information Sharing

  Source: www.salon.com

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• That's a large part of the source of the gun culture. You have to have a gun when you go into Starbucks, because who knows what's going to happen. It just doesn't happen in other countries.

  Noam Chomsky

  Country, Gun, Culture

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Do I think Donald Trump can run the country a lot better and get along with other countries like Russia? Absolutely he can do a better job. He can create a stimulus. He can lower taxes.

  Doug Ford, Jr.

  Running, Country, Jobs

  Source: www.citynews.ca

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• I have great love and respect for Russian history and culture. But the world is changing and Russia is too. Russia is part of the modern world, not the world of the past but the modern world. And I believe it has an even greater future than some other countries that can't take care of their young people, of the new generations, of their children, and believe that they can just let things slide.

  Vladimir Putin

  Country, Children, Believe

  "Putin speaks out on Ukraine, Crimea and US relations with French media". Interview with Gilles Bouleau, Jean-Pierre Elkabbach, www.rt.com. June 5, 2014.

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