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• The Man Without a Country, was an orator no one could silence and no one could answer.

  Thomas Starr King

  Topics in Country

  Tags in Man

• I knew all about Edward VIII’s abdication, George VI becoming the king and having a stammer, but nothing about how he got rid of it.

  Geoffrey Rush

  Topics in Country

  Tags in King, Abdication

• What this country needs is a really good five cent cigar.

  Thomas R. Marshall

  Topics in Country

  Tags in Need

• I went to England in the ’70s, and I was in my early 20s. There was still a residue of that era of being an underclass or colonial. I assume it must have been a more aggressive and prominent attitude 40 years before that, because Australia internationally wasn’t regarded as having much cultural value. We were a country full of sheep and convicts.

  Geoffrey Rush

  Topics in Attitude, Country

  Tags in People, Prominent

• You had to be into sport and, sad to say, I’m a traitor to my country because I don’t have a sporting bone in my body.

  Geoffrey Rush

  Topics in Country

  Tags in Self, Traitor

• This country and the Commonwealth last Tuesday were not far from the Kingdom of Heaven.

  Geoffrey Fisher

  Topics in Country

  Tags in Kingdom, Heaven

• In cities no one is quiet but many are lonely; in the country, people are quiet but few are lonely.

  Geoffrey Fisher

  Topics in Country

  Tags in People

• By the time I was in sixth grade I could bound every country in the world from memory.

  Clyde Tombaugh

  Topics in Country, Memory

  Tags in World

• I think we typically, as Northerners, stereotype what the South is in so many negative ways. We kind of forget all the beautiful things that they contribute to make this country a country.

  Genevieve Gorder

  Topics in Country

  Tags in Beautiful, Things

• I got country music in me.

  Shemar Moore

  Topics in Country

  Tags in Music

• We were the first urban school system in the country to wire all of our schools for the Internet.

  Thomas Menino

  Topics in Country

• I don’t like modern country music. It’s not what I’m into, is all. I’m old-school.

  Shelby Lynne

  Topics in Country

  Tags in Music

• I remember being in China and realising how irrelevant not even Britain is, but also Europe. We’re just another remote country that hardly impinges on some places at all.

  Clive Anderson

  Topics in Country

  Tags in Remember, Realising

• I would just like to say something, ladies and gentlemen. Something that I think is very important. It is that, you, we – we own this country. We – we own it. It is not you owning it, and not politicians owning it. Politicians are employees of ours.

  Clint Eastwood

  Topics in Country

  Tags in Important, Politicians, Something

• Romney and Ryan would do a much better job running the country, and that’s what everybody needs to know.

  Clint Eastwood

  Topics in Country

  Tags in Better, Everybody

• And that’s really what’s happening in this country is a violation of the First Commandment. We have become a country entrenched in idolatry, and that idolatry is the dependency upon our government. We’re supposed to depend upon God for our protection and our provision and for our daily bread, not for our government.

  Sharron Angle

  Topics in Country

• The country has come a long way in race relations, but the pendulum swings so far back. Everyone wants to be so sensitive.

  Clint Eastwood

  Topics in Country

  Tags in Relations, Sensitive

• Country radio certainly widens the boundaries of what I can do. Other artists may do something more edgy that gets on radio and that opens the door for me to be more edgy, I think.

  Clint Black

  Topics in Country

  Tags in Artists, Think

• If we don’t get gun-control laws in this country, we are full of beans. To have the National Rifle Association rule the United States is pathetic. And I agree with Mayor Michael Bloomberg: It’s time to put up or shut up about gun control for both parties.

  Harvey Weinstein

  Topics in Country

  Tags in Time, Control

• If inflation-adjusted interest rates decline in a given country, its currency is likely to decline.

  Ray Dalio

  Topics in Country

  Tags in Interest, Likely