Quotes of: National-identity Keyword

Africa has been going through so much for so many years; it's time that it stands up the way other nations are standing up.

Nas

I was the candidate first time a Green or any progressive third party has ever been in a national televised debate. I was in five of them. And the response from the public was overwhelming.

Peter Camejo

Franklin Roosevelt had to govern at a time of crisis. If you're going to make changes in the way a nation thinks, you have to have the ability to take the crisis of the moment and use it to shape an agenda.

Pete du Pont

The idea of a national digital library has been in the air for a long time, and there was a danger that some people would feel that it's their property, so to speak.

Robert Darnton

In a time of serious budget deficits, immense war costs and a sluggish economy, we cannot afford to grant such outlandish subsidies to some of our Nation's largest corporations.

Ron Kind

In time it will become clear to everyone that support for the policies of pre-emptive war and interventionist nation-building will have much greater significance than the removal of Saddam Hussein itself.

Ron Paul

As recent as the year 2000 we won elections by saying we shouldn't be the policemen of the world, and that we should not be nation building. And its time we got those values back into this country.

Ron Paul

I'm a Buddhist and active in my Buddhist's Association, and I'm actually a National Young Women's representative for the organization, so I travel a lot helping young women who are practicing Buddhism.

Vinessa Shaw

The Constitution preserves the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation where the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.

James Madison

The truth is that Oxford is simply a very beautiful city in which it is convenient to segregate a certain number of the young of the nation while they are growing up.

Evelyn Waugh

Some of our national heroines were defined by the fact that they never nested - they were peripatetic crusaders like Susan B. Anthony, Clara Barton, Sojourner Truth, Dorothy Dix.

Gail Collins

Frank Costello: Fucking rats. It's wearing me thin. Mr. French: Francis, it's a nation of fucking rats.

The Departed

Harold: [non-sequitur to hawkish uncle] During war time, the national suicide rate goes down.

Harold and Maude

Clark: Real tomato ketchup, Eddie? Cousin Eddie: Oh, nothing but the best.

National Lampoon's Vacation

Lasky, Guard at Walleyworld: Sorry folks, park's closed. Moose out front shoulda told ya.

National Lampoon's Vacation

Clark: Why aren't we flying? Because getting there is half the fun. You know that.

National Lampoon's Vacation

[the kids are playing Pacman while Clark is designing a map on the computer] Clark: Russ, please don't eat the Truckster.

National Lampoon's Vacation

The Girl in the Ferrari: It's too bad you're married... I'm in the mood for some fun!

National Lampoon's Vacation

Rusty Griswold: That was a crummy Wyatt Earp dad. He was wearing jogging shoes. Clark: They used to Rusty.

National Lampoon's Vacation

Clark: I don't give a frogs fat ass who went through what. We need money.

National Lampoon's Vacation

As one digs deeper into the national character of the Americans, one sees that they have sought the value of everything in this world only in the answer to this single question: how much money will it bring in?

Alexis de Tocqueville