Top 1200 Foreign Country Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

There is the National Flag. He must be cold, indeed, who can look upon its folds rippling in the breeze without pride of country. If he be in a foreign land, the flag is companionship and country itself, with all its endearment...The very colors have a language which was recognized by our fathers; white is for purity; red, for valor; blue, for justice. And altogether, bunting, stripes, stars, and colors, blazing in the sky, make the flag of our country, to be cherished by all our hearts, to be upheld by all our hands.

My identity and my background still remain with me when I go to a foreign country. I have kept my nationality.

Both my parents moved here from Argentina before I was born, so they were in a foreign country.

When I go to a foreign country I want to explore and get lost, discover the real place.

Hillary Clinton and her husband set up a private foundation called the Clinton Foundation. While she was secretary of state, the Clinton foundation accepted tens of millions of dollars from foreign governments and foreign donors. Now y'all need to know out there, this is basic stuff, foreign donors and certainly foreign governments cannot participate in the American political process.

You cannot expect a foreign country to be more Catholic than the pope for you.

The reality is, is that the military is full of native nomenclature. That's what we would call it. You've got Black Hawk helicopters, Apache Longbow helicopters. You've got Tomahawk missiles. The term used when you leave a military base in a foreign country is to go 'off the reservation, into Indian Country.'

The interference of a foreign country in our elections is an assault on the government of the United States.

I can't really characterize any country, except to say that we work well with a number of our foreign counterparts.

I am aware how almost impossible it is in this country to carry out a foreign policy not approved by the Jews.

War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.

We already get more energy from Canada than from any other foreign country.

The Lindsey Graham via foreign policy is going to beat Rand Paul's libertarian view of foreign policy. It will beat Barack Obama's view of foreign policy. It will beat Hillary Clinton's view of foreign policy.

This pride of race is a quality which the German, fundamentally, does not possess. The reason for this is that for these last three centuries the country has been torn by internal dissension and religious wars and has been subjected to a variety of foreign influences, to the influence, for example, of Christianity-for Christianity is not a natural religion for the Germans, but a religion that has been imported and which strikes no responsive chord in their hearts and is foreign to the inherent genius of the race. (13th February 1945)

Whoever is running the country should not be in the pay of a foreign interest. The best way is to see tax returns.

I would replace most foreign aid with a tax credit for businesses to invest. I think U.S. bureaucrats giving foreign bureaucrats money is a guaranteed failure. And we've had about 50 years' experience at failing with foreign aid.

Actually, if you look at the essence of ISIS, how it came about, it's the product of foreign invasion. Foreign invasion in Iraq led to removal of Saddam Hussein, and we're not unhappy with that, but the point is that foreign presence in any territory has created dynamics. And you cannot avoid those dynamics.

One certainty when you travel is the moment you arrive in a foreign country, the American dollar will fall like a stone.

In the past, people didn't necessarily want their king to be kind. If a foreign power was threatening the country, they wanted him to fight.

The foreign-language Oscar is something that doesn't go to the producer or the director; it goes to the country.

If we have a foreign country, which it appears that we do, interfering in an election in any way, we need to know that, and we need to do everything we can to make sure that never happens again. If the bigger questions of collusion or whatever from this administration are true, this country needs to know it and action needs to be taken.

It could be another election where the alignments between Republicans and Democrats are different than they were this time and who a foreign country prefers.

No other country ties its hands in deporting foreign criminals as Britain does.

The State Department desperately needs to be vigorously harnessed. It has too big a role to play in the formulation of foreign policy, and foreign policy is too important to be left up to foreign service officers.

Skills are called hidden treasure as they save like a mother in a foreign country.

After a foreign invasion, there has to be a sort of feeling of musical inadequacy in the country.

You have chosen to risk your lives for the defense of this country. I will not insult you by saying that you are dedicated to selfless service--it is not a virtue in my morality. In my morality, the defense of one's country means that a man is personally unwilling to live as the conquered slave of any enemy, foreign or domestic. This is an enormous virtue.

I enjoy very much being in a foreign country, in a new country, new place. And I enjoy also beginning a new book. It's like being someone else.

All of the threat streams that we have, from all aspects, militarily, economically, supply chain issues, foreign investment, technologically, cyber issues, cyber warfare, 5G, telecommunications - China is in all of those and they are the only country to be in that space and the only country that threatens America supremacy.

Every time we sign a treaty with another country, the treaty (should) include prisoner transfer provisions.... Under these provisions, the country in which the crimes were committed could demand that the convicts' country of origin incarcerate the prisoners for the terms to which they were sentenced.... Foreign felons in U.S. prisons are exacerbating out budget and law enforcement problems.... We will never get countries to take back their prisoners unless we have some leverage. NAFTA gives us that opportunity.

Hillary Clinton is pretty much what we would call a foreign-policy realist, someone who thinks the purpose of American foreign policy should be to adjust the foreign policies of other countries, work closely with traditional allies in Europe and Asia towards that end.

Men like women who write. Even though they don't say so. A writer is a foreign country.

For me, it's more about being there, bearing witness to history, bearing witness to what's happening, what our country, the position our country is taking overseas. I want policy-makers to see the fruits of their decisions, basically, and to try and influence foreign policy.

I don't know of a single foreign product that enters this country untaxed, except the answer to prayer.

Buy a house in a foreign country and, it seems, that anything which can go wrong usually does.

Fortifications, artillery, foreign aid - will be of no value, unless the ordinary soldier knows that it is HE guarding his country

Foreign aid is taking money from the poor people of a rich country and giving it to the rich people of a poor country.

I couldn't make it work, in the end, in Tulsa or Dallas - in the middle of this foreign country without my support system.

The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one.

England is a very popular foreign country to visit because the people there speak some English.

There is not a single international foreign TV channel that is doing something other than promotion of the values of the country that it is broadcasting from.

When a sixth of the population of a nation which has undertaken to be the refuge of liberty are slaves, and a whole country [Mexico] is unjustly overrun and conquered by a foreign army, and subjected to military law, I think that it is not too soon for honest men to rebel and revolutionize. What makes this duty the more urgent is the fact that the country so overrun is not our own, but ours is the invading army.

The Mexicans bowed down when we talked about removing their foreign aid, and then they began cooperating with our country.

It's always nice to have somebody with the same accent when you're working in a foreign country.

There was an intervention of the foreign states in the Russian Far East, Archangel of the West border of Russia. The foreign troops were participating in the attempts to stamp out the revolution. It's not just propaganda, because there are mounds of documents in the archives relating to these events and to the foreign espionage cases.

I have a vast variety of sources where we get our news. Alaska isn't a foreign country.

Managing in a foreign country will be a once-in-a-lifetime experience that doesn't come along that often

Where in the Constitution does it say that because we don't like a foreign country's leader, we should go in and topple the dictator?

A true world outlook is incompatible with a foreign imperialism, no matter how high-minded the governing country.

The best way to learn a language may be an episode of jail in a foreign country.

Moral restrictions tend to become lax in a foreign country, since the fear of social opinion disappears.

But, Christ, there's a difference between exotic and foreign, isn't there? Exotic means you know how to use your foreignness, or you make yourself a little foreign in order to appear exotic. Real foreign is a little scary, believe me.

Sometimes, when I come back to Washington from Indiana, I feel like an ambassador to a foreign country.

I look back on my years as a Wall Street lawyer as time spent in a foreign country.

Public television goes dark only in two circumstances: when a country is occupied by foreign forces or when there is a coup.

The Afghans are probably the world champions in resisting foreign domination and infiltration into their country.

Jennifer Morrison is the person I want to spend the rest of my life with, in a foreign country.

Many Americans have no idea of what has been the foreign policy of their country. If you don't know about something, you can't understand what is going on.

Everyone depending on foreign fuels are all too inclined, it seems, to let jobs leave this country.

The country is indebted, cloaked by an instability that discards the possibility of development and leaves it hostage to foreign financial markets.