Quotes of: Foreign-lands Keyword

Foreigners who speak Arabic in the Middle East are often assumed to be working for the C.I.A. or Israel's intelligence agency, the Mossad.

Richard Engel

Taiwan gives a lot of foreign aid to Costa Rica, so it looks like they are basically buying the right to fish, even though it's not legal.

Paul Watson

I want to become foreign minister of India one day and then President of India.

Farooq Abdullah

In China, export lobbies have fought for policies that favor their interests and limit foreign competition.

Henry Paulson

PepsiCo did not have a woman in the senior ranks, nor a foreign-born person who was willing to think differently.

Indra Nooyi

Provision was also made for the distribution of Germany's foreign assets among the Allies.

James F. Byrnes

U.S. companies rely on the European market for more than half of their global foreign profits.

John Bruton

What critics call dirty in our pictures, they call lusty in foreign films.

Billy Wilder

Foreign capital to build new cinemas will help modernize China's aging cinema infrastructure, attract Chinese consumers back into cinemas, and increase demand for U.S. films.

Jack Valenti

Everything in our foreign and domestic policy is a question of issue for the American people to vote on.

John Dingell

When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.

Clifton Fadiman

[Skank is chasing T-bird in a wrecked Yugo] Skank: Holy shit! God-damned foreign cars!

The Crow

A figure who receives money from abroad for his political work, and thus serves some foreign interest, cannot be a politician in Russia.

Vladimir Putin

Conflicting commercial regulations of the different States shackled and diminished both foreign and domestic trade; hence the power to regulate commerce was conferred.

Robert Toombs

Protectionism will do little to create jobs and if foreigners retaliate, we will surely lose jobs.

Alan Greenspan

I've seen foreigners really shift on their view of America, and that's hard for me to take.

Billy Corgan

For me, my father was, and still is, a symbol of qualified persons in the Ministry of Foreign Trade under Soviet conditions.

Vladimir Potanin

The government system we have now is set up just like that of Rome and is changing into a system I call Corpocracism (Babylon, United States). Corpocracism is a word derived from some entities of feudalism, democracy, capitalism, classism, and corpor...

JerUSAlem and the Blood of Jesus

No, on the outside view there was nothing for anyone to notice about me. I remained one pillar of a trinity, another pillar was lying only temporarily (temporarily! temporarily! temporarily!) in the hospital, I was the pilot of a three-engine aircraf...

The Dinner

A nuclear reactor is a proposed "solution" to "the energy problem." But like all big-technological "solutions," this one "solves" a single problem by causing many... A garden, on the other hand, is a solution that leads to other solutions. It is a pa...

The Gift of Good Land: Further Essays Cultural and Agricultural

Here is the node, you who hate change and fear revolution. Keep these two squatting men apart; make them hate, fear, suspect each other. Here is the anlage of the thing you fear. This is the zygote. For here 'I lost my land' is changed; a cell is spl...

The Grapes of Wrath