I grew up in an apolitical household. I never left the country. When I became an adult, I started traveling and became interested in politics, and I probably talked about things in a silly, ignorant way. – Jesse Eisenberg
The United States is not a nation based upon race, creed, or religion – we are a nation based upon our loyalty and allegiance to our country and her principles. – Jim Ryun
First of all, this whole idea of this one percent versus the 99 percent, it’s a false statistic. There’s nobody that is wealthy saying, let’s go get the people that aren’t. First of all, there’s no versus. He’s creating a false class warfare in a country where there is no class structure. – Jon Lovitz
Policy makers who have never served in the military continue to use the military to lead social change in this country. – James Mattis
One of the regime’s most important tactics is the creation of a third force in the country. – Joe Slovo
It’s beyond belief that any Australian could be so stupid as to carry drugs into any country in Asia. – John Howard
All I can say is Mike Lee is an embarrassment to the state of Utah. He’s been a tremendous embarrassment to our family, to our state, to our country to have him as a U.S. senator. – Jon Huntsman, Sr.
Language kills, and inflamed rhetoric of the kind that spews almost daily from the lips of Donald Trump, Ben Carson, Mike Huckabee, and others running for public office in this country should be condemned. – Jay Parini
By temperament and disposition and emotions, I’m a liberal; but in my beliefs about what’s best for the country, I’m a centrist. – Jonathan Haidt
Whoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce. – James A. Garfield
My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country. – John F. Kennedy
I still feel the impulse to give young writers a hearing, and I believe I have played more unpublished compositions than any other band leader in the country. – John Philip Sousa
There isn’t much in the way of pure communist spirit, because the whole nation seems to be engaged in capitalistic enterprises. Much of the country still operates under government control. – Iris Chang
Nobody should have the right to eavesdrop, or you become a totalitarian state – the kind of state I escaped as a kid to come to this country where you have democracy and freedom of speech. – Jan Koum
There isn’t much discussion of ruling class in America even in Boston, probably one of the most class-conscious cities in the country? – Iris Chang
If I were an innocent individual, flown to a foreign country and held for several years and tortured, I’d become a terrorist, too. I’d go to war against the U.S. – Jesse Ventura
Bin Laden, who was in his country, attacked and damaged our Pentagon, and killed our soldiers right out here at the Pentagon. But his pentagon no longer exists. It is rubble. – Jeff Sessions
France was an occupied country, a country that surrendered and was left without the right to choose. – Jean-Marie Le Pen
I am not one of those people who string their exes along. Instead, I run and hide: under the covers, behind my computer screen, on opposite coasts of the country. – Jami Attenberg
When we first invested in Colombia, we were buying a lot of coal from Colombia. We were dealing with them daily. I knew their guys at the port, I knew their guys at the mine, I had a feel of the country. – Ivan Glasenberg
People call me wild. Not really though, I’m not. I guess I’ve never been normal, not what you call Establishment. I’m country. – Johnny Cash
Many of Bush’s defenders have praised him for keeping the country safe since Sept. 11, 2001. He deserves that praise, and I’m perfectly happy to defend most of his surveillance, interrogation and counterterrorism policies against his critics. – Bill Kristol
Now we are using the body scanner to scan the pilots. They became the dangerous people of this country? – Isaac Yeffet
Pound Ridge is about five miles from our country house. When you go every weekend for the last ten years without fail, well, that starts to feel like a home. – Jean-Georges Vongerichten
