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• We have in this country a federal government that increasingly is engaged in trying to determine which business, which regions, which industries will succeed, which will not through a whole range of economic development, regional development corporate subsidization programs.

  Stephen Joseph Harper

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  Tags in Government

• Being a white South African, I enjoyed the better things that that country gave to a small percentage of its population.

  Dave Matthews

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  Tags in Better, Small

• We are part of a country that outshines those that have gone before us and most of those in existence today.

  Stephen E. Ambrose

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• Our country right or wrong.

  Stephen Decatur

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• Truthiness is tearing apart our country, and I don’t mean the argument over who came up with the word. I don’t know whether it’s a new thing, but it’s certainly a current thing, in that it doesn’t seem to matter what facts are. It used to be, everyone was entitled to their own opinion, but not their own facts. But that’s not the case anymore. Facts matter not at all. Perception is everything.

  Stephen Colbert

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• Country fans need to support country music by buying albums and concert tickets for traditional artists or the music will just fade away. And that would be really sad.

  George Jones

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  Tags in Music, Artists

•  I represent nine sovereign Sioux tribes. In South Dakota, some of the tribes are in the most remote, rural areas of the country. They lack essential infrastructure. Some communities don’t even have clean drinking water.

  Stephanie Herseth Sandlin

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  Tags in Water

• Norway is a small country, about half the size of Sweden, but it has a very good film climate because they have municipal cinemas, so even in the smallest towns you have a cinema that shows art house films from all over the world.

  Stellan Skarsgard

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• It’s not realistic to live in the country at this stage. I’ve got a business in London. I beat myself up about it all the time.

  Stella McCartney

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• Your ethnic or sexual identity, what region of the country you’re from, what your class is – those aspects of your identity are not the same as your aesthetic identity.

  Stanley Crouch

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  Tags in Identity

• American movies and music deliver themes of freedom, innocence, and power that appeal to others – partly because America itself was put together out of a multiplicity of national traditions.

  Todd Gitlin

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• Next to the love of God, the love of country is the best preventive of crime.

  George Henry Borrow

  Topics in Country, Love

• I don’t want to feel I’m responsible for anorexia across the country.

  Courteney Bass Cox

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• I come from a district where the veterans are not the richest in the country.

  Corrine Brown

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• Is bankrupting this great country the top priority of this administration?

  Corrine Brown

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  Tags in Great, Priority

• You know, having been an election monitor in countries across the world, I can tell you that we would never certify another country’s election if it had as many flaws in place as we had in Florida.

  Corrine Brown

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  Tags in Place, Election

• I think that both men, Bush and Blair, will be damned in history. Both men have made their respective countries the two most hated countries in the world.

  George Galloway

  Topics in Country, History

  Tags in Respective

• Every president needs to deal with the permanent government of the country, and the permanent government of the country is Wall Street oligarchs and corporate plutocrats and the questions becomes what is the relationship between that president and Wall Street.

  Cornel West

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  Tags in Government, Between, Relationship

• Taking employment out of the country – now that’s taking away jobs. These shows employ a lot of people: production, post-production, music supervisors, camera people. A hundred people or more.

  Corbin Bernsen

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  Tags in People, Music, Employment

• Tricks you need to transform something which appears fantastic, unbelievable into something plausible, credible, those I learned from journalism. The key is to tell it straight. It is done by reporters and by country folk.

  Gabriel García Márquez

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