Between 1980 and 1990, the number of countries that were classified as 'free' or 'mostly free' increased by about 50%.
Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it....
You may depend on it that the bunting, emberiza miliaria, does not leave this country in the winter.
Afghanistan is one of the poorest countries on earth. Security issue or no security issue, there would need to be a focus on it.
There is a type of writer that can happily bury themselves in the country and dig very deep, but I'm not like that.
The Occupy Wall Street protests at last suggest that America's wealth gap is once again becoming an organizing political principle in the country.
I'm a traditional country singer and we're always trying to make that a fresh and modern sound. That's always going to be the challenge with me.
Very hard, very hard to represent a country, or carry out a policy that does not have consensus support.
I don't know if it matters what country you're from, size of the city you're from, urban or rural, there are people that are hurting each other everywhere.
America may be unique in being a country which has leapt from barbarism to decadence without touching civilization.
Allowing the U.N. into Iraq will demonstrate to the Iraqis that the international community as a whole is committed to bringing stability and safety to their country.
If the current birth rate, which is the lowest in the major developed countries, continues, there will be no Japanese. Who will pay the enormous debt?
We are, in many respects, in a moral and spiritual free-fall in our country, and we are paying a terrible price.
That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings.
Developing countries often have hypertrophied bureaucracies, requiring businesses to deal with enormous amounts of red tape.
U.S. corn exports to CAFTA countries will benefit from reduced tariffs and duty-free access for corn products.
The principal role of the President of the United States is the security of the country and participating in trying to stabilize the world.
I've been to Canada, and I've always gotten the impression that I could take the country over in about two days.
I will not be a Democrat or a Republican. They are the problem, not the solution. We need to abolish political parties in this country.
One of the Republicans' major products is dream making. People are dying to get into this country... not out of it.
When we got married, nobody gave it more than two weeks. There were bets all over the country, with astronomical odds against us.
