Top 1200 Foreign Land Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

We have landowners, small growers. We have people who are holding onto land that was acquired by their families after slavery. They need to produce some of the food we eat, so they can pay the taxes and hold onto the property. Taxes keep going up. We, and by we I mean black people, are rapidly becoming a landless people. Our ancestors, coming out of slavery, acquired more than 15 million acres of land. Today, we're probably down to less than 2 million acres.

I've only been to these foreign countries: Canada, L.A. and Miami.

Donald Trump is a phenomenon that foreign countries haven't seen.

Photography is a foreign language everyone thinks he speaks.

I speak the truth but I guess that's a foreign language to ya'll!

Foreign aid breeds kleptocracies, or governments of thieves.

I have looked at public opinion polls in France in the late 1940s and early 1950s during the height of Marshall Plan aid. They had a very negative attitude towards the United States then. There were negative attitudes towards the United States because of Vietnam. There were negative attitudes about the United States when Reagan wanted to deploy intermediate range ballistic missiles. I don't think the president should base his foreign policy on American public opinion polls, let alone foreign public opinion polls.

I was a member of the Politburo for seven years, a foreign minister.

The greatest threat to America is not foreign terrorists, its domestic morons.

Your boys are not going to be sent into any foreign wars.

The American temptation is to believe that foreign policy is a subdivision of psychiatry.

I suppose I should learn Lisp, but it seems so foreign.

Issues of foreign policy have a place in every election for President.

The thriller genre in general, it's total foreign ground for me.

Symptoms are the body's mother tongue; signs are in a foreign language.

Foreign aid must be viewed as an investment, not an expense.

The immigration must be limited, that is, first and foremost the foreign cultural one.

The language of the law must not be foreign to the ears of those who are to obey it.

Iraq is not occupied, but there are foreign forces on its soil, which is different.

I don't spend on expensive brands. I don't need foreign holidays.

The case of Johnson v. M'Intosh is exactly why Congress can pass legislation as it did with the Rio Tinto land mine deal because Congress took the land from the tribes, ignores their sacred connections to it, their cultural connections and does whatever it wants with it. Congress terminated tribal status for more than 100 tribes. Basically said, you're not a tribe anymore and we're not going to pay attention to the treaties. The Supreme Court has held that when Congress breaches a treaty with an Indian tribe it's not judicially reviewable. It's called a political question.

So there is a foreign intelligence purpose for every one of our FISA warrants.

Marble flooring is to a Punjabi what a foreign degree is to a Tamilian

A foreign country can best be understood through its literature.

We cannot have foreign governments interceding in our elections.

In the Senate, there is a wide spectrum of views on foreign policy.

One can see from space how the human race has changed the Earth. Nearly all of the available land has been cleared of forest and is now used for agriculture or urban development. The polar icecaps are shrinking and the desert areas are increasing. At night, the Earth is no longer dark, but large areas are lit up. All of this is evidence that human exploitation of the planet is reaching a critical limit. But human demands and expectations are ever-increasing. We cannot continue to pollute the atmosphere, poison the ocean and exhaust the land. There isn't any more available.

Foreign relations is an open book-- generally a checkbook.

European Parliament should not be involved in foreign politics.

Direct access to sea is an essential part of foreign policy.

I was one of the first foreign players coming in to the Premier League.

I've never learned to speak a foreign language with ease.

The force of a language does not consist of rejecting what is foreign but of swallowing it.

A divided government doesn't have to be a death blow to foreign policy.

Now there is a cultural change under way in the Foreign Service.

There's no national strategy to deal with combating terrorism and foreign fighters.

The Palestinians have no other land. They are absolutely right about this. The Israeli Jews also have no other land and they are absolutely right about this. It is a tragedy of two peoples claiming the same very small country - very small, about the size of New Jersey. And both of them are right. Both of them have no other homeland as peoples. As individuals, maybe, but not as a people.

Foreign policy is conducted for the convenience and enjoyment of people in Washington.

(A Foreign Secretary) is forever poised between the cliche and the indiscretion.

I wish to be clear: all foreign investments will be safe in Zimbabwe.

Foreign investors are looking for a consistent and stable policy in India.

How can I play baseball when I'm worried about foreign policy?

This is still a big barrier for me and it is for a lot of foreign actors.

Playing golf is like learning a foreign language.

I was studying to get into the Foreign Services. I did my Masters from P.U.

We don't want a president who fails at domestic and foreign policy.

If one doesn't know one's own country, one doesn't have standards for foreign countries.

I don't much believe in bumper sticker characterizations of foreign policy.

One of the challenges, I think, is that Americans are not sufficiently vested in foreign policy.

Everyone has a right to pronounce foreign names as he chooses.

Bush humble foreign policy was hijacked into nation-building.

You got some cheap foreign labor to protect Lissa?

You will see the constitution of the United States almost destroyed. It will hang like a thread.... A terrible revolution will take place in the land of America.... [T]he land will be left without a Supreme Government,... [Mormonism] will have gathered strength, sending out Elders to gather the honest in heart... to stand by the Constitution of the United States.... In these days... God will set up a Kingdom, never to be thrown down.... [T]he whole of America will be made the Zion of God.

Trade is an integral part of our foreign policy.

Cooperation with the U.S. is the basis on which all Israeli foreign policy is built.

I couldn't settle in Italy - it was like living in a foreign country.

Embarrassment and awkward situations are not foreign things to me.

Capitalist production does not exist at all without foreign commerce.

Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.

The soul inside me is the last foreign language I'm learning.