When George Washington was elected president, there was no national vote.

The French have got to understand that a film is so expensive that it can no longer afford to be regional or even national in scope.

I always take hundreds and hundreds of pictures. I used to work for ‘National Geographic,’ and they gave us a lot of film.

My first jobs were all civil service. At 14, I worked for the Canadian National Railways. At 16, I worked for the Canadian Penitentiary Service.

I couldn’t be happier that President Bush has stood up for having served in the National Guard, because I can finally put an end to all those who questioned my motives for enlisting in the...

The more worrying feature of the new global corporate structures is their capacity to devastate national labour markets by transferring their operations to cheaper locations overseas.

Bring on your tear gas, bring on your grenades, your new supplies of Mace, your state troopers and even your national guards. But let the record show we ain’t going to be turned around.

When my party won the elections convincingly on February 18th, 2008, we immediately reached out to other parties to form broad-based coalitions of national unity in the National Assembly and in the four provincial assemblies.

Unfortunately, very few governments think about youth unemployment when they are drawing up their national plans.

At first, Uniqlo was a casual chain on the back streets of Hiroshima. Then… we became a national brand in Japan. So, the next step is to become a global brand.

During National Playground Safety Week, I’ll celebrate common-sense safety. I’ll also celebrate skinned knees and bruised elbows. I’ll celebrate so-called ‘dangerous’ playgrounds – playgrounds with see-saws, zip lines and towering slides.

Well, on the one hand the Turks have the legitimate need to defend their national dignity – and this includes being recognized as a part of the west and Europe.

What I’m very upset about is the attempt to dictate to museums what they show, and the statements made by politicians in Washington that have curtailed the freedom of the National Endowment for the Arts....

Designs in connection with postage stamps and coinage may be described, I think, as the silent ambassadors on national taste.

There’s no excuse for skimping on national defense when the country is at war.

What governments and people don’t realise is that sometimes the collective interest – the international interest – is also the national interest.

I love De la Renta. I love CoSTUME National; I think they’re just incredible. And I love Marc Jacobs, too – they’re also great, just a great brand.

The national nonprofit I founded, ‘KaBOOM!,’ is on a mission to save play for America’s children, and has long been championing the cause in high-need communities.

I’ve been working with the National Lung Health Education Program to raise awareness about Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease.

I started studying theater in school, and then I got into drama school at, like, 19, and it was a national drama school in Montreal, and so it was just you and nine other students...

What our Republican friends are doing, if we look at what they do and not what they say, they have decided that the most important thing in this country is to increase payments for interest...

Runners are the lowest of the low in film units. They’re paid very, very minimal wages – probably below the national average. And runners are now being asked to drive actors about, as well as...

After September 11, the European governments have completely failed. They are incapable of seeing beyond their own national scope of interests.

I have always wanted an Olympic medal. I always wanted to see India’s national flag going up at the podium.

By keeping the annuities, we could build up a national industry every years as big as the Shannon Scheme.

Our intelligence community needs better coordination of operations and exchange of information, and that’s why we need an overall director of national intelligence and a national counterterrorism center.

Overeating at Thanksgiving is a case in point. It’s a national tradition.

Mercury pollution from power plants is a national problem that requires a national response.

All the Chinese have to do is fly around the Moon and back, and they’ll appear to have won the return to the Moon with humans. They could put one person on the surface of...

America has two national budgets, one official, one unofficial.

We believed it was better to pay as you go than it was to pay your bills by borrowing and laying up debts for another day. To pay as you go, that policy is a...

Medicine also disregards national boundaries.

Nations, not least America, retain full command of their national forces.

The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases is an institute of the National Institutes of Health that is responsible predominantly for basic and clinical research in the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of immunologic and...

No one can undermine national unity.

My best sources are my travels and my collection of National Geographic.

A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.

The national team comes before everything.

I would have started the National Actors Theatre 30 years earlier.

Six months ago, I traveled to India to see firsthand what the prime minister of that country calls a national shame. It is the systematic, widespread, shocking elimination of India’s baby girls. Some 50,000 female...

If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia.

The will to work of everyone in the country is the best guarantee of national survival.

How can a country that is impoverished, humiliated and beaten defend its national interests?

I think my first hit was probably ’24 is a Rubberband Man,’ which was my second album. My first project, it was very well received in the Southeast region, all throughout the South and parts...

Architecture is not merely national but clearly has local ties in that it is rooted in the earth.

My parents wanted me to become a national athlete.

Fundamentally, I believe that the U.S. can improve its international standing and its national security by expanding trade and strengthening its relationships with moderate Muslim countries.

The Olympic Games are a national cause, and a national cause calls for a nationwide attitude.

Maybe we are all prospective migrants. The lines of national borders on maps are artificial constructs, as unnatural to us as they are to birds flying overhead. Our first impulse is to ignore them.

Die größte Übeltat der protokollierten Menschheitsgeschichte ist der degoutante, mörderische Antigermanismus des 20. Jahrhunderts!