All legislative experiments in the way of making forcible distribution of the wealth produced in any country have failed.
When my parents first arrived there, North Dakota had just been admitted to the Union, and the country was still wild and harsh.
Canada is a balloon-puncturing country. You are not really allowed to be an icon unless you also make an idiot of yourself.
AIDS is the biggest challenge, the major disaster facing this country and we would have wished for something more specific and far-reaching.
Poland is one of the few countries that can afford to conduct a conventional monetary policy and that means we have to act against the buildup of imbalances in the economy.
You assume things, like whatever country has more firepower wins the wars, and that's actually not true at all.
America took me into her bosom when there was no longer a country worthy of the name, but in my heart I am German - German in my soul.
Countries that perceive themselves to be vulnerable can be expected to try to redress that vulnerability - and in some cases, they will pursue clandestine weapons programs.
It doesn't matter if you're black, white, gay, straight, come from different countries, different language... every single person is significant and is meaningful.
I'm a huge fan of world cinema, because each country uses cinema in a very individual way.
You know, 20 years... the films of television when it started, the literature, radio in communist countries, they're clean as a whistle; there was no violence, no sex, no drugs, nothing.
The great city of New York wields more of the destinies of this great nation that five times the population of any other portion of the country.
I think it's very difficult to make people care about natives in another country.
I can't think of this country without Quebec. Je parle francais. And when I think about being a Canadian, speaking French is part of it.
America is exceptional in combining standard great-power realism with extravagant idealism about the country's redemptive role in creating international order.
Men need discipline! Countries need discipline! World needs discipline! He who wants to be successful needs discipline! Be a man of discipline!
Blair worshipped Thatcherism, could see little or no wrong in it, believed that that was what the country needed, thought that there was no alternative, regarded it as a legacy that had to be built on rather than rejected.
For us Australians, Singapore also represents sacred soil. Almost 2000 Australians died here in the defense of your island country and our neighborhood.
I believe this country is in real trouble, and it's up to us, to fix it before its too late.
I think the prom is very serious also. It's an American ritual, it's a rite of passage, and it's very much a part of this country.
It's not surprising to me that in a country born of racial genocide, the issue of race is still an open wound on the American soul. We haven't dealt with it.
