Love of country is like love of woman - he loves her best who seeks to bestow on her the highest good.
The nation will benefit in the long term if it continues to be open to foreign expertise. This will help the country to establish its business culture and environment faster, based on international best practice.
As we've seen, deploying large armies abroad won't always be our best offense. Countries typically don't want foreign soldiers in their cities and towns.
The best world is one in which all countries cooperate with one another to kind of meet each other's needs and be partners in the process.
I think Americans are at our best when we recover from a crisis. We've suffered some blows that other countries would have never recovered from.
For me, the international expansion of eBay was the best idea. We are now in 35 countries, and have a huge global network. The second best one was the acquisition of PayPal - the wallet on eBay.
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.
I've always been really ambitious, whatever I do. At school, I always wanted to be the best in the class - no, it wasn't enough to be the best in the class, I'd want to be the best in the country.
We own the country we grow up in, or we are aliens and invaders.
I urge calm and sensitivity to the fundamental civil liberties of our country.
I don't know that a political climate - as long as it's still a free country - makes much difference in the film world.
In countries where innocent people are dying, the leaders are following their blood rather than their brains.
All countries, big or small, strong or weak, are equal members of the United Nations.
If you say something that undermines the stability of the country, then you have to be held accountable.
I'm just little me, an American who wants to see his country do better.
There weren't any white people in this country who didn't know who Gladys Knight was. Or the Pips were, as far as that's concerned.
Germany is not like Ireland or Denmark. It is a country where the domestic market counts much more than the external market.
I was born in Canada for a reason. It was because my parents wanted me to have the freedoms that this country offers.
We are regarded as a Third World country with First World living conditions.
I think Australia has to be a country which has the 'Welcome' sign out.
Deep down I have this atavistic feeling that really I should be in the country.
