There are a lot of countries, oil-producing countries, that aren't very democratic, but supported by the United States. That's odd.
I like my country, but I don't think like an Italian. It's a complex, complicated difficult country to make things happen in.
Country people give me more than writers, and country places than towns.
I think one country with nuclear weapons is one country too many.
Africa has 53 countries. And you find that three or four countries in these 53 are dominating the news.
When the sun sets, life gets darker in the country; when a bad leader sinks, life gets brighter in the country!
Canada is a country of ingredients without a cuisine; we're a country with musicians without an indigenous instrument; Toronto's a city that doesn't even have a dish named after it.
It was said that Chile was not ready to vote for a woman, it was traditionally a sexist country. In the end, the reverse happened: the fact of being a woman became a symbol of the process of cultural change the country was undergoing.
You have to understand, beauty differs from country to country. When I came to India, I found my sense of belonging and appreciation. People thought I was beautiful.
In the music business, especially the country music business, every 10 years or so you're going to have this changing of the guard, this wave of new artists that comes in.
I'm a country singer. I love all kinds of music, but country is where my loyalty lies. That's just me and what I do, and I'm not going to change it.
A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond.
When I had my television show, 'Barbara Mandrell and the Mandrell Sisters,' it was my high hope to convert people to country music. It is wonderful and contagious!
The first country to adopt happiness as an official goal of public policy is the tiny little country of Bhutan in Asia near China and India.
I think that both men, Bush and Blair, will be damned in history. Both men have made their respective countries the two most hated countries in the world.
Right around the end of the fifties, college students and young people in general, began to realize that this music was almost like a history of our country - this music contained the real history of the people of this country.
When your dad is a country music fan and you take long car trips, you become one too.
I love Nashville. It's such a great town, and I'm a huge country music fan. That's what I listen to on the radio in the car.
The country experience was more of a departure. When you consider my education and my upbringing, you can see that was more of country rock outgrowth of my popular music aspirations.
For me, the country where I feel good, where I feel in harmony with the lifestyle and fundamental values, is the United States - more than any other country.
For years I thought what was good for our country was good for General Motors and vice versa. The difference did not exist. Our company is too big. It goes with the welfare of the country.
