It is not my duty to spend my money in my country, but it is what I want to do. There is nowhere else I would like to invest. – Haile Gebrselassie
When I was growing up in South Korea in the ’70s and early ’80s, the country was too poor to buy original records. Everything was bootlegged. – Ha-Joon Chang
After the collapse of Wall Street in the 1920s, the culture stopped being all about money, and the country survived and ultimately flourished. – Graydon Carter
Lebanon is caught in a cycle of threats. And it is our duty to be strong and capable of defending our country. But we will not clarify or explain what we do or do not possess. – Hassan Nasrallah
The principles upon which a safety lamp might be constructed I stated to several persons long before Sir Humphrey Davy came into this part of the country. – George Stephenson
In a country where women regard themselves as equal, they are not prepared to see men running the show themselves. – Harriet Harman
World peace is no longer some pie-in-the-sky thing, because no single person or country is going to solve it on their own. – Herbie Hancock
I’ve often dreamed about going back to Nigeria, but that’s a very romantic notion. It’s a hideous country to go to in reality. – Hugo Weaving
This country is armed to the teeth, and none of these African states could begin to attack South Africa. – Helen Suzman
The disappearance of Israel as a Zionist project, through war, cultural exhaustion or demographic momentum, is… plausible… Many Israelis see the demise of the country as not just possible, but probable. – Ian Lustick
We were very happy when a South African court, which had previously ruled against us, took another look and decided that this material was not obscene and allowed it into the country. – Gilbert Hernandez
When you have armed militants, aided and abetted by a major country like Russia, able to use surface-to-air missiles to bring down a commercial airline, that is a form of terrorism. – Hillary Clinton
Bush is a frat boy in the White House but we’ve had that before. But I wasn’t one of those people that was threatening to leave the country. By the way none of those people have left the country. Alec Baldwin is still here. – Harry Shearer
Afghanistan is a country in need. Afghanistan needs to protect itself in the region; Afghanistan needs to secure itself within the country. Afghanistan needs to develop its forces, and Afghanistan needs to provide stability to the people. – Hamid Karzai
Israel’s a small country but both the audience and programme-makers are very sophisticated. – Gideon Raff
I don’t consider myself qualified to do a movie about international intrigue – I seldom leave the country. – John Hughes
I find most modern country virtually unlistenable. I can’t relate to the music or the lyrics. – Jenny Lewis
I’m usually in control of the room, but if I sense some kind of hostility, I address it. Occasionally, there are pockets of homophobia, and it’s not just the South – it’s all over the country. – James Adomian
The fact of the matter is, this country is not going to deport 11 million undocumented immigrants. What are we supposed to do with them? What are we supposed to do with these kids? – Jose Antonio Vargas
There are over 500,000 registered sex offenders across the country, and statistics have shown that the recidivism rate for those criminals is high. – Jim Sensenbrenner
Since I got to this country when I was 12, I’ve been obsessed with this idea of whiteness and blackness because I realized I was neither. For me, it was so important to me to make a film that focused on whiteness because you wouldn’t have blackness if you didn’t have whiteness. – Jose Antonio Vargas
I never saw, heard, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the religion of the country. Nothing can render them popular, but some degree of persecution. – Jonathan Swift
We have a very structured process for taking in refugees. It takes almost two years to transition from another country into the United States through the refugee process. – James Lankford
Although lynchings have steadily increased in number and barbarity during the last twenty years, there has been no single effort put forth by the many moral and philanthropic forces of the country to put a stop to this wholesale slaughter. – Ida B. Wells
I hold that there is a mysterious connection between the fate of this country and that of Mexico; so much so that her independence and capability of sustaining herself are almost as essential to our prosperity and the maintenance of our institutions as they are to hers. – John C. Calhoun
It is of great importance to our country generally, and especially to our navigating and whaling interests, that the Pacific Coast and, indeed, the whole of our territory west of the Rocky Mountains, should speedily be filled up by a hardy and patriotic population. – James K. Polk
War, in our country, ought never to be resorted to but when it is clearly justifiable and necessary; so much so as not to require the aid of logic to convince our understanding nor the ardour of eloquence to inflame our passions. There are many reasons why this country should never resort to it but for causes the most urgent and necessary. – John C. Calhoun
