Robinson was important to all blacks. To make it into the majors and to take all the name calling, he had to be something special. He had to take all this for years, not just for Jackie Robinson, but for the nation. – Willie Mays
Many Europeans are confused by the terms Roma and Romania. They wonder if it is an ethnicity or a nation of 22 million citizens. – Traian Basescu
Obama fans become more and more glum that he keeps flubbing the very role he was expected to be so good at: Therapist to the nation. The Great Comforter. – Tina Brown
Five decades ago, as India’s first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, began visibly ailing, the nation and the world were consumed by the question: ‘After Nehru, who?’ The inexpressible fear lay in the subtext to the question: ‘After Nehru, what?’ – Shashi Tharoor
We have indeed been fortunate in this country. Over the last 200 some odd years since our Nation was founded, rarely have there been attacks upon our homeland. – Virgil Goode
There are Jews who came from 102 countries and speak 81 languages – how do you consolidate them into one nation? This is where I saw my role. – Yitzhak Navon
We got into a recession because the global economy went into the recession and we’re a big exporting nation. – Stephen Harper
Even in its third century, America is still the most meritocratic nation in the world. – Victor Davis Hanson
Missile strikes – or any other such action – against a sovereign nation is an act of war. – Scott Garrett
If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be. – Thomas Jefferson
If Iran wants their money back and wants to be treated like a normal nation, they need to act like a normal nation. – Tom Cotton
None but an armed nation can dispense with a standing army. To keep ours armed and disciplined is therefore at all times important. – Thomas Jefferson
Modi has been the Gujarat chief minister for more than a decade, but there is a vast difference between controlling a state and leading a nation. – Sharad Pawar
Let sovereignty be granted us over a portion of the earth’s surface large enough to satisfy our rightful requirements as a nation. The rest we shall manage for ourselves. – Theodor Herzl
The framers understood that the president, as the head of our armed forces, must defend the nation from imminent threat. But when the mission shifts from defense to offense, congressional approval is essential. – Tim Kaine
Those who want to reap the benefits of this great nation must bear the fatigue of supporting it. – Thomas Paine
Any nation that refuses to hold intercourse with other nations must expect to be excluded from this family. – Townsend Harris
We have a number of difficulties facing our nation, but I believe fatherlessness is right at the top of the list. – Tony Dungy
The welfare of a nation can scarcely be inferred from a measurement of national income as defined by the GDP. – Simon Kuznets
We must not allow the Iranian regime to use the nation’s vast energy resource as a financial pipeline for its nuclear ambitions. – Ted Deutch
China’s many nationalities need only to be transformed into the Chinese nation and to make it a highly civilized nation; then the nationalization process will be completed. – Sun Yat-sen
In fact, there are more homeowners today than ever before in the history of our Nation and more minority homeowners than ever before in the history of our Nation. – Todd Tiahrt
We shall establish an united Chinese Republic in order that all the peoples – Manchus, Mongols, Tibetans, Tartars, and Chinese – should constitute a single powerful nation. – Sun Yat-sen
If the nation is not capable of preserving itself and reproducing, if it loses it vital bearings and ideals, then it doesn’t need foreign enemies – it will fall apart on its own. – Vladimir Putin
The god can no more exist without his people than the nation without its god. – William Robertson Smith