When you allow racial disparity and institutional inequity to affect one part of the country, eventually it’s coming back to get everyone. – Tim Wise
Quite simply the Games are the biggest opportunity sport in this country has ever had. It is one that we must not squander. – Sebastian Coe
You don’t know what the country is ready for unless you’re pushing that envelope, and I was told that I couldn’t develop ‘Will and Grace’. – Warren Littlefield
As threats emerge – from ISIS to Russia to the Iranian nuclear program – we need a president with the resolve to defend our country and not back down. – Sam Graves
I suggest we bring some normality back to this country and say if you are carrying a knife, there must be zero tolerance. If it was up to me, everyone caught with a knife would get an automatic ten year sentence. – Simon Cowell
The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it. – Walt Whitman
I don’t ever want to stop making country, and I don’t want to stop making electronic music, either. – Zac Brown
Every country that’s ever been the most powerful country in the world ceases to be the most powerful country in the world at some point. – Steve Earle
The Afghans are probably the world champions in resisting foreign domination and infiltration into their country. – Stephen Kinzer
Pakistan has done some really terrible things, and yet they also have facilitated our military capabilities in ways that are critical to our country. – Trent Franks
Americans resident in China inform us that the ballot box in their country is greatly abused for personal ends, and Chinese admirers of the American Republic have not minutely examined its defects. – Zhang Zhidong
Before I started writing for myself, I was writing country records, and they were coming out dope. – Trevor Jackson
It is one thing to oppose a bill and say, ‘Well, I’m smarter than the other side and have more wisdom than they do,’ but it is another thing to oppose a law because it violates the very principles upon which this country was founded. – Scott Garrett
Four years earlier I had been selected, with Kay Boyle, the writer, and a number of others, to go to Cambodia and come back and prove that there were no sanctuaries in that country. – William Kunstler
I personally believe every country has the same amount of spectrum. It is not that India has less… It needs to be vacated from other places; that is what other countries have also done. – Sunil Mittal
I don’t like to boast, but I have probably skipped more poetry than any other person of my age and weight in this country. – Will Cuppy
Zimbabweans are severely malnourished, and deaths from starvation occur even in the cities. The country has not yet suffered nationwide famine only because international donors have stepped in. – Samantha Power
My last passport, I had North Korea, Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Sudan, Liberia, Guinea… I had, like, every war-torn country in there. – Shane Smith
I could not become an American citizen. I would not like to become a citizen of a country that has capital punishment. – Werner Herzog
I feel most at home in the United States, not because it is intrinsically a more interesting country, but because no one really belongs there any more than I do. We are all there together in its wholly excellent vacuum. – Wyndham Lewis
The danger of what’s happening right now in terms of using reconciliation is, the purpose of the Senate is going to be defeated. And that is to bring consensus to big issues in this country so that we have a reasoned and thoughtful approach and that the American public buys into it. – Tom Coburn
We can have no ’50-50′ allegiance in this country. Either a man is an American and nothing else, or he is not an American at all. – Theodore Roosevelt
Country music is all about telling stories, and we’re just telling a little different one. – Taylor Dye