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  • It has always been a source of serious reflection and sincere regret with me that the youth of the United States should be sent to foreign countries for the purpose of education. Although there are many who escape the danger of contracting principles unfavorable to republican governments, yet we ought to deprecate the hazard attending ardent and susceptible minds from being too strongly and too early prejudiced in favor of other political systems, before they are capable of appreciating their own.

    George Washington, Jared Sparks (1840). “The Writings of George Washington: pt. IV. Letters official and private, from the beginning of his presidency to the end of his life: (v. 10) May, 1789-November, 1794. (v. 11) November, 1794-December, 1799”, p.14
  • If one doesn't know one's own country, one doesn't have standards for foreign countries.

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

    Country   Catholic   Pope  
    Interview with Bob Colacello, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 8, 2014.
  • If the United States is promoting the development of exploits, of vulnerabilities, of insecurity in this critical infrastructure, and we're not fixing it when we find it, instead we put it on the shelf so we can use it the next time we want to launch an attack against some foreign country. We're leaving ourselves at risk.

    Source: www.pbs.org
  • The biggest challenge [for movie Agnus dei] - working in a foreign country with a predominantly Polish cast and crew - also proved to be the biggest blessing. Being surrounded by all this change , [both] culturally [and] linguistically, was a new and refreshing inspiration.

    Source: blogs.indiewire.com
  • Actually, the few good Chinese movies that foreign countries choose to import are Zhang Yimou's, and mine, a few directors, but how many movies can we make in a year? We can only make a few, while they turn them out continuously.

    Country   Years   Chinese  
  • 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.

    Source: abcnews.go.com
  • Our laws were not designed to accommodate three or four thousand refugees coming here per day. Our laws were designed for people to be screened in a foreign country, carefully catalogued, and brought here a few at a time. This just didn't happen.

    Country   Law   People  
    United States. President (1977-1981 : Carter), Jimmy Carter, United States. Office of the Federal Register (1982). “Jimmy Carter”
  • People ask if I miss it, but they don't understand that American culture is so ubiquitous that there's nothing to miss. I don't see myself moving back. It's not that I hate the United States. I just always thought it would be a shame not to live in a foreign country.

    Country   Hate   Moving  
  • I think many years from now, people will still watch television, though it will probably be 150 inches wide. What will change is the ability to get 'CSI' not only on TV but also on the Internet, even watching it in a foreign country as it's playing in the US.

    "Cbs Chief Isn't Worried About Youtube Or Google — 'as Long As We Get Paid'". Interview with Frank Rose, www.wired.com. May 16, 2007.
  • When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.

  • Being a patriot doesn’t mean prioritizing service to government above all else. Being a patriot means knowing when to protect your country, knowing when to protect your Constitution, knowing when to protect your countrymen, from the violations of and encroachments of adversaries. And those adversaries don’t have to be foreign countries.

    "Edward Snowden's interview: 10 things we learned" by Catherine E. Shoichet, www.cnn.com. May 29, 2014.
  • The principal purposes to be answered by union are these the common defense of the members; the preservation of the public peace as well against internal convulsions as external attacks; the regulation of commerce with other nations and between the States; the superintendence of our intercourse, political and commercial, with foreign countries.

    Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (2015). “The Federalist Papers: A Collection of Essays Written in Favour of the New Constitution”, p.111, Coventry House Publishing
  • Always in a foreign country, the poet uses poetry as an interpreter.

    Country   Use   Poet  
    Edmond Jabès, Keith Waldrop (1988). “If There Were Anywhere But Desert: The Selected Poems of Edmond Jabès”, Barrytown/ Station Hill Press
  • Canada and the United States have reached the point where we no longer think of each other as 'foreign' countries. We think of each other as friends, as peaceful and cooperative neighbors on a spacious and fruitful continent.

    United States. President (1945-1953 : Truman), Harry S. Truman (1963). “Harry S. Truman: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President, 1945-53”
  • Inequality provokes a generalized anger that finds targets where it can--immigrants, foreign countries, American elites, government in all forms--and it rewards demagogues while discrediting reformers.

  • The fact that we are here today to debate raising America's debt limit is a sign of leadership failure... It is a sign that we now depend on ongoing financial assistance from foreign countries to finance our Government's reckless fiscal policies.

    Barack Obama's speech Against Raising The Debt Ceiling on the floor of the US Senate, www.redstate.com. March 16, 2006.
  • In foreign countries such as Italy, the government puts strict-looking speed limit signs everywhere, but nobody ever sees them because light does not travel fast enough to catch the Italian drivers.

  • I don't have any problem with the United States acting on behalf of its own interests. That's what big powers do; that's what all countries do. I would just like to see us analyze in a serious way what really is in our interest. Sometimes we intervene in foreign countries in ways that seem successful at first. In the end, however, we wind up with unpredicted consequences that make us regret those operations.

    Source: www.guernicamag.com
  • Well I'm living in a foreign country but I'm bound to cross the line. Beauty walks a razor's edge...someday I'll make it mine.

    Country   Razors   Lines  
    Song: Shelter From The Storm, 1975
  • Titles of property, for instance railway shares, may change hands every day, and their owner may make a profit by their sale even in foreign countries, so that titles to property are exportable, although the railway itself is not.

    Country   Hands   Titles  
    Karl Marx, Samuel Moore, Edward Bibbins Aveling, Friedrich Engels (1961). “Capital: A Critical Analysis of Capitalist Production”
  • When Mrs. Clinton ran for office, she promised economic growth across New York state, to bring in more than 200,000 jobs, ... She has not. We have lost jobs to outsourcing and globalization and to sending our jobs and industries to foreign countries.

    Country   Jobs   New York  
  • My theory is that everyone at one time or another has been at the fringe of society in some way: an outcast in high school, a stranger in a foreign country, the best at something, the worst at something, the one who's different. Being an outsider is the one thing we all have in common.

  • MINISTER, n. An agent of a higher power with a lower responsibility. In diplomacy, an officer sent into a foreign country as the visible embodiment of his sovereign's hostility.

    Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.164, University of Georgia Press
  • I was thinking about being more global in my work, which means trying more foreign countries and working with foreign filmmakers, hoping they would give me a new take on my work, a new point of view, reinvent me in some way.

    Country   Mean   Thinking  
    "Nicolas Cage Gets Deadly in Bangkok Dangerous". Conference call, movieweb.com. September 09, 2008.
  • If one mistreats citizens of foreign countries, one infringes upon one's duty toward one's own subjects; for thus one exposes themto the law of retribution.

    Country   Law   Citizens  
  • Skills are called hidden treasure as they save like a mother in a foreign country.

    Mother   Country   Skills  
  • We saw farms go on the auction block while we bought food from foreign countries. Well, that's wrong.

    Country   Block   Cooking  
    Democratic National Convention Keynote Address, delivered 19 July 1988, Atlanta GA
  • One certainty when you travel is the moment you arrive in a foreign country, the American dollar will fall like a stone.

    Country   Travel   Fall  
  • If I were to arrive at a foreign country like Czech Republic, I don't have to speak Czech to understand the feeling of the local sensations through architecture. That is a kind of communication that no language can perform.

    Source: www.guernicamag.com
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