Quotes of: National-championship Keyword

I believe in the transformational power of liberty. I believe that the free Iraq is in this nation's interests. I believe a free Afghanistan is in this nation's interest.

George W. Bush

What we have to do is to find a solution that the interests of the national teams are respecting the interests of the clubs. And also the clubs they shall respect the interests and the aspirations of national teams.

Sepp Blatter

When terrorists attacked the symbols of our national unity and strength, they failed to realize that they were just symbols of our strength. The real strength of our nation comes from our people - not our buildings.

Michael Enzi

Space exploration is important research to our economic and national defense, and America's space program is a symbol of our success as a scientifically and technologically advanced nation.

Randy Forbes

If we would leave parties to the politicians, and would vote not for the party, not even for men, but for the city, and the State, and the nation, we should rule parties, and cities, and States, and nation.

Lincoln Steffens

In many countries today, moral and ethical norms are being reconsidered; national traditions, differences in nation and culture are being erased.

Vladimir Putin

Legislation that would withhold funding for the United Nations is fundamentally flawed in concept and practice, sets us back, is self-defeating, and doesn't work.

Susan Rice

I always take hundreds and hundreds of pictures. I used to work for 'National Geographic,' and they gave us a lot of film.

Yann Arthus-Bertrand

I left the Democratic Party basically on issues of national security during the end of the Vietnam War.

Jim Webb

If the military might of Germany and Japan are ultimately to be crushed, the United Nations, one and all, must definitely and urgently strive toward a total war effort.

William Lyon Mackenzie King

Finally, in 1888, Cixi approved the Western-style Navy Regulations. It was in endorsing these Regulations that she effectively unveiled China’s first national flag. The country had had no national ensign, until its engagement with the West at the b...

Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China

<...> many national leaders including Washington, Franklin, Jefferson, Madison, Hamilton, John Adams, John Jay, Gouverneur Morris, and Rufus King saw American slavery as an immense problem, a curse, a blight, or a national disease. If the degree of t...

Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World

The Americans are very patriotic, and wish to make their new citizens patriotic Americans. But it is the idea of making a new nation literally out of any old nation that comes along. In a word, what is unique is not America but what is called America...

What I Saw in America

There are people everywhere who form a Fourth World, or a diaspora of their own. They are the lordly ones! They come in all colors. They can be Christians or Hindus or Muslims or Jews or pagans or atheists. They can be young or old, men or women, sol...

Jan Morris

Every major technological innovation propels humanity forward to the point of no return.

Facebook Nation: Total Information Awareness

An easy life does not make men, nor does it build nations. Challenges make men, and it is these men who build nations.

Flashes of Thought

If the future remains uncertain, we know the past history of nationalism. And that should be sufficient to encourage a habit of watchful suspicion.

Banal Nationalism

The Senator from Massachusetts has given us ample grounds to doubt the judgment and the attitude he brings to bear on vital issues of national security.

Dick Cheney

A great democracy has got to be progressive or it will soon cease to be great or a democracy.

New Nationalism Speech by Teddy Roosevelt

Sometimes it feels like we're all living in a Prozac nation. The United States of Depression.

Prozac Nation

Religion and nationalism? I defecate on the altar of religious conviction, and wipe my arse on the flag of national pride.

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