Countries quotes

Explore inspiring quotes from countries around the globe. Discover wisdom, culture, and diversity through motivational words from different nations.

We were surprised that the television series had the kind of longevity that it had after only four years of filming it and the reception in 6 countries around the world was quite extraordinary.

- Paul M. Glaser

Countries are either mothers or fathers, and engender the emotional bristle secretly reserved for either sire.

- Edna O'Brien

Hungary is very similar to Bulgaria. I know they're different countries.

- Kevin Keegan

It can be rebuilt if other countries with selfish interests will not meddle, as has been done in the past.

- Bulent Ecevit

Economically, unfair trade will benefit nobody in the long run, as poorer countries will be bled totally dry and will become unable to produce anything.

- Chris Martin

Even if certain rogue countries do things we wish nobody did, it doesn't necessarily mean that their foolishness should justify our following suit.

- Leon Kass

Acts of anti-Semitism in countries throughout the world, including some of the world's strongest democracies, have increased significantly in frequency and scope over the last several years.

- Tim Holden

Egypt has suffered more ordeals than the other countries to get where it is.

- Tahar Ben Jelloun

As the treaty made with the United States was the first treaty entered into by your country with other countries, therefore the President regards Japan with peculiar friendliness.

- Townsend Harris

Above all, we shall wage no more unilateral, ill-planned, ill-considered, and ill-prepared invasions of foreign countries that pose no actual threat to our security.

- Theodore C. Sorensen

And in the last sentence I would like also to mention that Poland is one of the countries with which the United States has run strategic dialogues since last year.

- Marek Belka

We have repeatedly issued warnings, over a number of years. Following these warnings and these calls, anti-American explosions took place in a number of Islamic countries.

- Osama bin Laden

In light of the attacks on mass transit systems in other countries, shouldn't we be beefing up?... Clearly more could be done.

- Susan Collins

Sometimes I get the feeling the whole world is against me, but deep down I know that's not true. Some of the smaller countries are neutral.

- Robert Orben

New Zealanders who emigrate to Australia raise the IQ of both countries.

- Robert Muldoon

These are the multinationals, like General Motors and Nestle; these are the big industrial groups that weigh, on the monetary scale, much more than big countries like Egypt.

- Ahmed Ben Bella

All countries should immediately now activate their pandemic preparedness plans. Countries should remain on high alert for unusual outbreaks of influenza-like illness and severe pneumonia.

- Margaret Chan

The direct investment of Japanese businesses to East Asian economies accelerates the reallocation of their production bases. Consequently, between Japan and the other East Asian countries, both exports and imports are growing substantially.

- Toshihiko Fukui

Italy and Spain really are not my countries.

- Ruud van Nistelrooy

Reality shows that, contrary to other countries in southern Africa, we have no basis for a classical guerilla struggle. We have never had a hinterland, and we do not expect to.

- Joe Slovo

For this reason, the expansion of relations with all countries is on the agenda of the Islamic Republic of Iran. I mean balanced relationships, based on mutual respect and observation of each other's rights.

- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

A few countries like Sri Lanka and Honduras have led the way in slashing maternal mortality.

- Nicholas D. Kristof

This is just the United States. All the rest of the countries, all over the world, are proud of Michael. It's here we have the most trouble out of them.

- Joseph Jackson

Socialist democracy is not, a luxury and its need is not limited to the most advanced industrial countries.

- Ernest Mandel

It's the only sport that's played in every country in the world. It's played and watched all over the world, it's the most popular sport in probably 90% of the countries, and then with the World Cup, you have the most viewed tournament of any sport in the world.

- Claudio Reyna

You know, having been an election monitor in countries across the world, I can tell you that we would never certify another country's election if it had as many flaws in place as we had in Florida.

- Corrine Brown

When the ambassadors of other foreign countries come to Japan to make treaties, they can be told that such and such a treaty has been made with the ambassador of the United States, and they will rest satisfied with this.

- Townsend Harris

No longer should we rely on oil from countries that are not necessarily friendly or democratic.

- Cathy McMorris

But so far as countries are concerned, I don't go to a place to see what's there, but who is there.

- David McCallum

What's very important is that we build a space that matters in the world, one that operates according to democratic rules, and that small and large countries enjoy a good relationship.

- Jean-Pierre Raffarin