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• I used to have a pony but I outgrew it and I do dream that one day I will live in the country and have lots of horses and be like a proper English lady who goes hunting and everything.

  Georgia Jagger

  Topics in Country, Dream

  Tags in Proper, Lady, Hunting
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  God made the country, and man made the town.

  William Cowper

  Topics in Country, God

  Tags in Town, Made

• When the people who are responsible for our country ask you a direct question, I expect them to accept a direct answer, not to be blackballed because you are telling the truth.

  Eartha Kitt

  Topics in Country

  Tags in People, Responsible

• Giving women education, work, the ability to control their own income, inherit and own property, benefits the society. If a woman is empowered, her children and her family will be better off. If families prosper, the village prospers, and eventually so does the whole country.

  Isabel Allende

  Topics in Ability, Children, Country, Education, Society, Work

  Tags in Women, Prospers, Families

• Historically courts in this country have been insulated. We do not look beyond our borders for precedents.

  Sandra Day O'Connor

  Topics in Country

• The courts of this country should not be the places where resolution of disputes begins. They should be the places where the disputes end after alternative methods of resolving disputes have been considered and tried.

  Sandra Day O'Connor

  Topics in Country

• I live sort of in the country and I like that. It’s very quiet, it’s beautiful.

  Christopher Walken

  Topics in Country

  Tags in Beautiful, Live

• I don’t need politicians doing a 24-hour prayer with Oral Roberts to get our country back on track.

  Lewis Black

  Topics in Country

  Tags in Politicians

• We must have systems of checks and balances to make sure that those people who are making critical decisions for our country are held accountable, and nowhere is that more important than in the area of national security.

  Christopher Van Hollen Jr.

  Topics in Country

  Tags in People, Important, Critical

• I mention my age because I find people in this country – women, not men, of course – women are so troubled by their age. There’s a culture of youth, and it’s a phony culture.

  Teresa Heinz

  Topics in Country

  Tags in Women, Culture

• Also, of course, for most of this time most Americans thought of America as a white country with, at best, only a very segregated and subordinate role for blacks.

  Samuel P Huntington

  Topics in Country

  Tags in Best

• Immigrants are people who leave one country, one society, and move to another society. But there has to be a recipient society to which the immigrants move.

  Samuel P Huntington

  Topics in Country, Society

• Show me the country that has no strikes and I’ll show you the country in which there is no liberty.

  Samuel Gompers

  Topics in Country

• The country runs better with a good looking man in the White House. Look what happened with Nixon… no one wanted to f**k him, so he f**ked everyone.

  Samantha Jones

  Topics in Country

  Tags in Men

• The experts who managed the original Marshall Plan say Afghanistan needs a commitment of at least $5 to $10 billion over 5 to 10 years, coupled with occupation forces of 250,000 Allied soldiers to keep the peace throughout the country.

  Ted Rall

  Topics in Country

  Tags in Occupation

• Trying to rebuild Afghanistan on the cheap has left the country in the hands of warlords and an impotent Northern Alliance puppet regime that runs Kabul and nothing else.

  Ted Rall

  Topics in Country

  Tags in Trying

• Roots are not in landscape or a country, or a people, they are inside you.

  Isabel Allende

  Topics in Country

  Tags in People, Inside, Landscape, Roots

• Those religions that are oppressive to women are also against democracy, human rights, and freedom of expression.

  Taslima Nasrin

  Topics in Country, Religion

  Tags in Women

• The three top issues have to be restoring jobs and private sector job growth to our country, getting the entitlement mess under control, and restoring back to our country a sense of self-confidence that Americans can achieve whatever we want to achieve.

  Christopher James Christie

  Topics in Country

  Tags in Control, Entitlement

• Today, the biggest challenge we must meet is the one we present to ourselves. To not become a nation that places entitlement ahead of accomplishment. To not become a country that places comfortable lies ahead of difficult truths. To not become a people that thinks so little of ourselves that we demand no sacrifice from each other.

  Christopher James Christie

  Topics in Challenge, Country

  Tags in Nation, Difficult