Other countries have been founded by ‘accidents of force.’ America is a creation of thought.

There are countries that prefer to think that they’re buying comfort at the cost of others, but I don’t think that’s the way you can act in this world. There are no neutral groups.

Europe is a collection of free countries.

For 200 years, the dominant powers have also been the colonial powers: the European countries, the U.S. and Japan. They have never been required to pay their dues for what they did to those whom...

Ordinary men earns responsibility towards their family, extraordinary men earns duty towards their nation.

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

Asia is an entertainment, Europe is a dream, America is an imprisonment and Rest is a nightmare.

The sea always offers up incredible stories of survivors’ fortitude. Myths of a lot of countries have variations on that.

We must break up the eurozone. We must set those Mediterranean countries free.

When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that...

The world, viewed philosophically, remains a series of slave camps, where citizens – tax livestock – labor under the chains of illusion in the service of their masters.

Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.

There’s no such thing as a favorite investment. But I think I tend to invest in Asia in promising countries, in equities, in real estate, and I own precious metals, obviously.

The people were just so lovely and accommodating and had really interesting questions and it was just interesting to see how the show is actually received in so many different countries.

I have never believed you go to war in Iraq, you go to war in Afghanistan, and believe that you can deal with those battlefields, those countries, in microcosms, or narrow channels.

We have a relationship with Syria, an old relationship. We also have good relations with the people of Syria, with all segments of the population. This is the situation as well in Iraq and other...

Don’t let your next decision threaten the world’s peace.

Finland, and all the other European countries, we are too dependent on imported energy. We should be using a broader variety of energy resources.

To those who are gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transgender—let me say—you are not alone. Your struggle for the end to violence and discrimination is a shared struggle. Today, I stand with you. And I call...

The beautiful thing about L.A. is that you have 50 countries in one county. Diversity brings power and muscle.

The U.S. routinely ranks lower than other countries in health outcomes such as infant mortality.

The greater ignorance towards a country is not ignoring what its politicians have to say, it is ignoring what the inmates in its prisons have to say.

I see Turkey’s future as being in Europe, as one of many prosperous, tolerant, democratic countries.

In most of the European countries – France stands out in its resistance to this particular form of American cultural imperialism – the national film industries were forced onto the defensive after the war by...

My own perception is that there are two tiers of countries, one, the original ASEAN, and then the new members. The new members are in various stages of development.

I never did very well as an immigrant. I’ve lived in several countries and been a disaster everywhere.

It is totally unacceptable that there are countries with no paediatric cardiac surgeries.

Over the years, dozens of American companies have filed papers to trade in their U.S. corporate citizenship for citizenship in tax haven countries like Bermuda.

Nationalism does nothing but teach you to hate people you never met, and to take pride in accomplishments you had no part in.

Tír gan teanga, tír gan anam. A country without a language is a country without a soul.