504 Quotes About Countries

  • Author Doug Miller
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    The issue is we produce so much grain. We have to export it. We don't have a level playing field. We think our subsidies are bad, but they're a fraction of what the (European Union) countries and Japan pay their farmers.

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  • Author Fred Mitchell
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    We are countries of large ambitions and though we are different, we are similar, ... Our ambitions lead us to improve the material and spiritual wealth of our peoples and to promote decency, good governance and human rights throughout the world.

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  • Author Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
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    You have 60 countries in the world with a terrorist problem. That's two-thirds of the world. We have this group in Basilan, which is a small island in the far south of the Philippines, and the island itself has a population of - what? - 300,000.

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  • Author Gunnar Myrdal
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    During the three decades of its existence, the effectiveness of the United Nations has, on the whole, tended to decrease, particularly in the field of peace and security and, more generally, all issues in which the developed countries feel they have important stakes.

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  • Author James Matthew
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    For the first time, in countries like Canada, France, Korea, Mexico, and the United Kingdom, year-end bonuses for this group are the norm and not the exception.

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  • Author John Major
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    It's now up to all of us to turn cease-fire into peace, to turn peace into a lasting settlement and the countries of former Yugoslavia into a stable and prosperous part of the European family,

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  • Author Kevin Moley
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    It would be too easy for countries that are habitual violators of human rights to get onto the Human Rights Council.

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