We've been a country for 150 years but made no progress. This should be a rich country but where has all the money gone? Corruption!
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It's 150 years ago, and it's a foreign country.
LORRAINE MCCONAGHY This country isn't a melting pot. Think of this country as a stir fry. That's what this country shou...
JANE ELLIOTT But no concrete progress has been made in the case.
AJAY KUMAR [Rasco has also served as a volunteer firefighter and first responder. He graduated from Prairie Gro...
GREG MACK Living in a rich country does't automatically make one rich,but pursuing the riches inside the rich ...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) But eradicating corruption is not enough to sustain a country.
EDUARD SHEVARDNADZE Education, and to address poverty. Most especially because of the corruption, no to corruption -- at...
FERNANDO POE, JR. This celebration has been 150 years in the making, and it's one that no other major American brewing...
NORMAN ADAMI This country isn't a melting pot. Think of this country as a stir fry. That's what this coun...
JANE ELLIOTT If rules are been broken in a country, corruption will be wide spread.
SUNDAY ADELAJA If processes are been ignored in a country, corruption will be wide spread.
SUNDAY ADELAJA Why should we be part of a force going into a country where there has been complete lawlessness? Why...
JUDY WOODRUFF I know of no other country where love of money has such a grip on men's hearts.
ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE Progress might have been all right once, but it has gone on too long.
OGDEN NASH Progress might have been all right once but it has gone on too long.
OGDEN NASH All of us are pretty outraged by what has not happened. There seems to be unlimited money for the wa...
GREG GALLUZZO Imagine a country where the vast majority of seniors live in poverty, a country where for many there...
JOHN DELANEY The people of this country, not special interest big money, should be the source of all political po...
PAUL WELLSTONE A poor mind in a rich country makes one a poor person & a poor mind in a poor country makes one a po...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) States are required to return money and other assets obtained through corruption to the country from...
ANTONIO MARIA COSTA We say the price of drugs has to be based not on how rich the country is but how rich the person is.
MICHAEL WEINSTEIN A country where there is no security of life is certainly not a country but just a slaughter house!
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN The horrific sacrifice Emmett Till and his mother made is something no family should have to make, n...
CHERYLE JACKSON For a long time, rich countries have promised to reduce poverty but have failed to match their words...
PETER SINGER We have made a sufficient progress to stop the clock. This progress has been made primarily in the n...
ED WATT A country should be ruled not by the ones, who have the more money but by the ones who have servant ...
SUNDAY ADELAJA The USA has turned into a great country to study corporate government corruption.
STEVEN MAGEE We are not race blind. Of course we still have racial tensions in this country. But the United State...
CONDOLEEZZA RICE We're ready for cross country season. We've been working all summer. This should be our best scoring...
LARRY STRADER The obscenities of this country are not girls like you. It is the poverty which is obscene, and the ...
F. SIONIL JOSé The neighbors can make it harder. It can take longer. But success is inevitable. This country has th...
ZALMAY KHALILZAD Some progress has been made but much more needs to be done.
SHARAD PAWAR We will never know peace and stability in the world without balance. And we will never know balance ...
SUZY KASSEM This year, Russia has become a different country. It is no longer a democratic country. It is no lon...
ANDREI ILLARIONOV Qaddafi is hated because he is the leader of a small country that is rich, but he uses his money to ...
LOUIS FARRAKHAN Ego, id, and superego are terms familiar to all, but for many years, Freud's psychoanalytic theo...
SIRI HUSTVEDT No country should waste wireless spectrum. Especially not India, where the cellphone has become the ...
RAM SHRIRAM The growth model the country followed for 25 years has been successful in terms of expansion and eco...
CISKA RAVENTóS I humbly accept this invitation to be an instrument of the people to seek change. Brazil is fed up w...
GERALDO ALCKMIN The public concern for the secrecy that has surrounded this project should be on full alert as infor...
LINDA GODFREY He's an individual who made the ultimate sacrifice for his country. This reflects what this country ...
FRANK DURANT This has been a terrible story, an anxious time for all the country -- all fathers, mothers of Itali...
SILVIO BERLUSCONI When you talk about the oil wealth you compare nations. There are some nations with less than five m...
GOODLUCK JONATHAN This was a common practice throughout Pakistan, but particularly in NWFP. We've been tolerating this...
BUSHRA GOHAR They made good progress but the houses were no where near livable.
COLLEEN COOKE We've never made progress in this country or in this state by lowering expectations.
MAGGIE HASSAN We need business to understand its social responsibility, that the main task and objective for a bus...
VLADIMIR PUTIN This is an attempt to attack the opposition, but it should be seen as a wider assault on all the dem...
LOVEMORE MADHUKU To be rich in spirit is free, not to be mistaken as a cheap gift or a simple insight of no consequen...
JON CHRISTOPHER GARLAND Progress might have been alright once, but it has gone on too long.
OGDEN NASH The reality is for 50 years in this country, federal law has required people that are illegal - or t...
TRENT FRANKS You are not going to get rich doing it, but you can make 150 or 200 bucks a week. It's pretty good s...
EMRY DILDAY No country ever has enough resources to do all she desires,but the big question is,does your country...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) We played ever so well but Danny has been the best midfielder in the country by a mile since the sea...
ALAN CURBISHLEY America - it is a fabulous country, the only fabulous country; it is the only place where miracles n...
THOMAS WOLFE America - It is a fabulous country, the only fabulous country; it is the only place where miracles n...
THOMAS WOLFE For the last 27 years, Iran has been the only country that has had a fundamentalist regime in power,...
ZOLAL HABIBI A poor country is a rich country without ideas.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) I don't know a country in the entire world that has made faster progress from war, let alone such a ...
PADDY ASHDOWN A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
GEORGE SANTAYANA In a matter of months, not years, the character of governance has been changed dramatically and perm...
BALDWIN SPENCER It took us 150 years to reach the point where church and state are really separate in this country, ...
DAVID SAPERSTEIN The moon and other celestial bodies should be free for exploration and use by all countries. No coun...
LYNDON B. JOHNSON It may be the only country in the world where the rich are sometimes brilliant
LILLIAN HELLMAN A country should be defended not by arms, but by ethical behavior.
VINOBA BHAVE Considering the amount of talent that comes out of this country, it should have been done 20 years a...
OZZY OSBOURNE I had immigrant grandparents who came to this country and came for religious freedom and loved it, n...
DAN ROSENSWEIG Secondhand smoke kills, it is a proven fact. This country has been moving in the direction of moving...
ADRIAN FENTY Our country has become an affluent country. Recalling defeat 60 years ago, I paid homage and respect...
SHINZO ABE It is one thing to work in a partially free country such as Russia was six years ago. But it is quit...
ANDREI ILLARIONOV No country which has cricket as one of its national games has yet gone communist.
WOODROW WYATT This country has no energy plan, no vision for the future, ... We give more tax breaks and money for...
BRIAN SCHWEITZER Country music has been here forever, but for years a lot of people who listened to country music wer...
LORETTA LYNN The courts of this country should not be the places where resolution of disputes begins. They should...
SANDRA DAY O'CONNOR The courts of this country should not be the places where resolution of disputes begins. They should...
SANDRA DAY O'CONNOR There is no reason why a king should be rich or a rich man should be a king, no reason at all.
GERTRUDE STEIN Pakistan is rich in sporting talent, but the only thing needed is to have sincere and honest adminis...
JAHANGIR KHAN We've only been wealthy in this country for 70 years. Who said we ought to have all this? Is it orda...
JACK WELCH In any country where talent and virtue produce no advancement, money will be the national god. Its i...
DENIS DIDEROT The president has no right to talk about freedom and democracy in a country where human rights have ...
DAVID GAMKRELIDZE We will never know peace and stability in the world without balance. And we will never know balance ...
SUZY KASSEM What I'm really worried about is war. Will the former rich countries really accept a completely ...
HANS ROSLING I would encourage you all to focus on what is positive in terms of what is going on positively in th...
ALBERTO GONZALES All transitions are hard. We took over a country beaten down by lies and corruption.
MAURICIO MACRI The country has gone cricketing mad and it's great for the game,
MATTHEW HOGGARD There is absolutely no reason this should be a poor country. Ellen has contacts and enormous credibi...
HARRY GREAVES I admire all the cross-country skiers from countries where there is no cross-country skiing.
ANDRUS VEERPALU Because you might just get there and turn around and want to leave again. I'm not going to ping-pong...
BUT APRIL I want to make sure it is out of there for good. Whatever it is, there is a shark floating in there ...
BUT BURNETT Something wasn't right. It's pretty frustrating. I feel about two inches tall.
BUT BURNETT Well? I mean, I know fatherhood isn't your strong suit, but I thought maybe you'd evolved a little s...
BUT APRIL Last time I heard, she was still pregnant, and you were still in the running for daddy.
BUT APRIL It's a tragic waste of resources because we could probably be feeding a small country with all this ...
DARRY SRAGOW A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
GEORGE SANTAYANA I can't say an agreement was reached but certainly a lot of progress has been made.
DALIA ITZIK Petty deviance is encouraged
JKRAK This country has a very long memory. The question of reforming the labor code is now on ice for year...
ELIE COHEN [DeLay himself drew the line sharply the day after the 2004 elections.] The Republican Party is a pe...
TOM DELAY Frank came to this country with $150 in his pocket. Here is where Frank is really different -- he ha...
DENNIS MILLS This country cannot afford to be materially rich and spiritually poor.
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JEANETTE LEBLANC It may be that you are settled in another place it may be that you are happy but the one who took yo...
JEANETTE WINTERSON History is a madman's museum.
JEANETTE WINTERSON Life…we understand it differently at different stages. It’s what is interesting about getting ol...
JEANETTE WINTERSON I spin worlds where we could be together. I dream you. For me, imagination and desire are very close...
JEANETTE WINTERSON For my part, I think we need more emotion, not less. But I think, too, that we need to educate peopl...
JEANETTE WINTERSON True stories are the ones that lie open at the border, allowing a crossing, a further frontier. The ...
JEANETTE WINTERSON When I touch her, my fingers don’t question what she is. My body knows who she is. The strange thi...
JEANETTE WINTERSON I broke his Bible box into bits and lit a fire and laid his body beside it and felt where the bones ...
JEANETTE WINTERSON There are two questions: where have you come from, and where are you going? But the brain doesn't ha...
JEANETTE WINTERSON moss that is concentrating on being green.
JEANETTE WINTERSON There’s a planet,’ said Spike, ‘made of water, entirely of water, where every solid thing is i...
JEANETTE WINTERSON Pulsar: a dying star spinning under its own exploding anarchic energy, like a lighthouse on speed. A...
JEANETTE WINTERSON Women are just planets that attract the wrong species.
JEANETTE WINTERSON She is a maze where I got lost years ago, and now find the way out. She is the missing map. She is t...
JEANETTE WINTERSON I kissed her and forgot death.
JEANETTE WINTERSON There’s a planet called Echo. It doesn’t exist. It’s like those ghost-ships at sea, the sails ...
JEANETTE WINTERSON The trouble with babies is that they are made like a safe- no way to see what's inside and no guaran...
JEANETTE WINTERSON I can't believe that we have reached the end of everything. The red dust is frightening. The carbon ...
JEANETTE WINTERSON Every second the Universe divides into possibilities and most of those possibilities never happen. I...
JEANETTE WINTERSON Strange to dream in the right shape and build in the wrong shape, but maybe that is what we do every...
JEANETTE WINTERSON Women always bring it back to the personal,' said Handsome. 'It's why you can't be world leaders.' JEANETTE WINTERSON Human beings often display emotions they do not feel. And they often feel emotions they do not displ...
JEANETTE WINTERSON I don't know which is worse: to be wrongfully accused or mistakenly understood.
JEANETTE WINTERSON Love is an intervention.
Why do we not choose it?” (205)
JEANETTE WINTERSON Every word written is a net to catch the word that has escaped.
JEANETTE WINTERSON I looked out across the Ocean, and determined to drown myself.
I was up to my chin when the sho...
JEANETTE WINTERSON Loneliness isn’t about being by yourself. That’s fine, right and good, desirable in many ways. L...
JEANETTE WINTERSON …only a poet could frame a language that could frame a world.
JEANETTE WINTERSON Much of what I have done is left unfinished- not because I left it too soon, not because I was lazy,...
JEANETTE WINTERSON The truth is that I’ve spent all my life with my binoculars trained on the Maybe Islands, a pristi...
JEANETTE WINTERSON