The founding leaders of our country believed in a three-part sharing of governmental power, with each branch jealously watching the actions of the other two.
To retain his dignity, an artist must live in opposition. He must be critical of his country. If not, then he is worthless.
The man with the best job in the country is the vice-president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, 'How is the president?'
Going to another country you're not in your house, you're with people you've never met before, and I think it's definitely a good growing experience.
Today, the Iraqi citizen sees that America is coming and wants to occupy his country and kill him, and he is willing to experience for himself what happened in Palestine.
I think technology is spreading, and I think one's experience of technology is going to relate increasingly to class - not so much to country.
Once you're in a particular country, and you're surrounded by musicians who are so adept at traditional music, you suddenly realize how much there is to explore and digest and learn and experience.
The country needs someone with experience and determination to make tough decisions. All the money aside, it is important that Greece restore its reputation.
The trouble with this country is that there are too many politicians who believe, with a conviction based on experience, that you can fool all of the people all of the time.
I have just come out of an electoral experience with the people of my country in which I invited them to join me in a partnership for governance.
An illness is like a journey into a far country; it sifts all one's experience and removes it to a point so remote that it appears like a vision.
I'm confident that we have measures in place. And the additional measures that we announced yesterday will be even more protective of our food supply in this country.
In countries around the world, people spend more money on food because they know how precious it is.
America is a country of abundance, but our food culture is sad - based on huge portions and fast food. Let's stop with the excuses and start creating something better.
I love this country because I didn't always have it. Freedom, food, water that is clean, Constitution - these are not things I take for granted.
There's a food revolution going on throughout the country. And it doesn't matter if you're down south, up north in Maine, if you're out west in Portland or Seattle.
The man or country that fights priestcraft and priests is to my mind striking deeper for freedom than can be struck anywhere.
The terrorist attacks upon our country changed the way that we live forever and provided us with a cruel reminder that freedom and liberty have a price.
One of the things that bothers me most is the growing belief in the country that security is more important than freedom. It ain't.
Back a hundred years ago, especially around Woodrow Wilson, what happened in this country is we took freedom and we chopped it into pieces.
In the democratic western countries so-called capitalism leads a saturnalia of 'freedom', like a bastard brother of reform.
