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• It is a sad day for our country when the moral foundation of our law and the acknowledgment of God has to be hidden from public view to appease a federal judge.

  Soledad O'Brien

  Topics in Country

  Tags in Day

• The colored man is in the South to stay there. He will not leave it voluntarily and he cannot be driven out. He had no voice in being carried into the South, but he will have a very loud voice in any attempt to put him out.

  Timothy Thomas Fortune

  Topics in Country

  Tags in Man

• There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.

  George Eliot

  Topics in Country

  Tags in Explanation

• Just look at the great Nelson Mandela. He came out of prison and saved his entire country. Some of the best people in the world have spent time in prison.

  George Edward Foreman

  Topics in Country

  Tags in Great, Politician

• The fault seems to me to have been that men have taken ancient country churches as their models and have failed to discover that between them and churches in towns there ought to be a most distinct and marked difference.

  George Edmund Street

  Topics in Country

  Tags in Ancient, Church

• As of essential importance in town churches which are not at all equally necessary in the country.

  George Edmund Street

  Topics in Country

  Tags in Church, Importance

• I think our failure in the production of good town churches of distinctive character must have struck you often, as it has me, when contrasted with our comparative success in country churches.

  George Edmund Street

  Topics in Country, Success

  Tags in Character, Comparative, Church

• I love dogs, but dogs, you have to be in the country with dogs. I cannot walk a dog on the street.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Topics in Country

  Tags in Dogs, Street

• Bankruptcy represents a longstanding commitment in this country to helping people get a fresh start. This principle has never been giving only certain people a fresh start.

  Timothy Peter Johnson

  Topics in Country

  Tags in People

• We have a country that wants to believe it is the best in everything, but until all of us embrace the idea that health care should be a right, not a privilege, our system cannot be glibly described as, quote, ‘the best in the world.’

  Timothy Peter Johnson

  Topics in Country

• Rather than improving the wealth of their own nation, the Mexican government encourages its poor to come to the U.S. and send money home.

  Timothy Murphy

  Topics in Country, Economy

  Tags in Nation

• Illegal immigration is crisis for our country. It is an open door for drugs, criminals, and potential terrorists to enter our country. It is straining our economy, adding costs to our judicial, healthcare, and education systems.

  Timothy Murphy

  Topics in Country

  Tags in Immigration

• Based on observations of the policies of my own government, I viewed this action as an acceptable option.

  Timothy McVeigh

  Topics in Country

  Tags in Government and Rule

• Yet another thing Canadians and Europeans have in common is an obsession with the United States, and with distinguishing themselves from it, often by crude stereotyping.

  Timothy Garton Ash

  Topics in Country

• No country in Europe has a larger proportion of men and women of immigrant descent, mainly from the African continent and mainly Muslim: an estimated six to seven million of them, or more than 10% of the population.

  Timothy Garton Ash

  Topics in Country

  Tags in Population

• Britain is not a country that is easily rocked by revolution… In Britain our institutions evolve. We are a Fabian Society writ large.

  Sir William Hamilton

  Topics in Country

• This is not a happy time for this kind of music in this country.

  George Crumb

  Topics in Country

  Tags in Music

• I like geography. I could tell you the capital of any country you want.

  Bam Margera

  Topics in Country

  Tags in Tell, Geography

• I could feel it in my bones, how I missed the heat of my country and the love of my family.

  Atanasio Perez Rigal

  Topics in Country, Family

  Tags in Missed

• I do not think that it is right for me to start giving opinions about the human rights situation of any country, including Gambia, except when those crimes translate into the crimes that I have to investigate.

  Fatou Bensouda

  Topics in Country

  Tags in Human, Giving