#count

On balance, my life has been a constant stream of blessings rather than disappointments and failures and tragedies. I wish I had been re-elected. I think I could have kept our country at peace. I think I could have consolidated what we achieved at Camp David with a treaty between Israel and the Palestinians. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

#balance #been #between #blessings #camp

But we will say something else. That for far too long in this country, people who can work, people who are able to work, and people who choose not to work: you cannot go on claiming welfare like you are now. ↗

— David Cameron

#cannot #choose #claiming #country #else

I am not suggesting that all those missionary organizations working in Haiti should pack up and go home, but I am urging them to understand that Haiti does not need clever Americans with newly contrived schemes for saving their country. ↗

— Tony Campolo

#clever #contrived #country #does #go

But because we in the United States finance our current account deficit by borrowing in our own currency, we can move to a more competitive dollar without the adverse effects that followed currency declines in other countries. ↗

— Martin Feldstein

#adverse #because #borrowing #competitive #countries

A steady patriot of the world alone, The friend of every country but his own. ↗

— George Canning

#country #every #friend #his #own

I only did my duty to my country when I tried to oppose the criminal folly of Hitler. ↗

— Wilhelm Canaris

#criminal #did #duty #folly #hitler

County government can be simplified greatly by reorganizing and consolidating some of the offices, making others appointive, and reducing salaries in keeping with the salaries paid by private business for the performance of similar duties. ↗

— Arthur Capper

#consolidating #county #duties #government #greatly

My father kept me busy from dawn to dusk when I was a kid. When I wasn't pitching hay, hauling corn or running a tractor, I was heaving a baseball into his mitt behind the barn... If all the parents in the country followed his rule, juvenile delinquency would be cut in half in a year's time. ↗

— Bob Feller

#baseball #behind #busy #corn #country

There was great leadership in this country at the time of World War II. There was also unrelenting resolve at home, in America's factories and on the farms, in the cities and the country. ↗

— Bob Feller

#america #cities #country #factories #farms

Kyoto was a flawed process. There isn't one industrialized country around the world that has ratified that treaty, and so that is a non-starter. ↗

— Andrew Card

#country #flawed #industrialized #industrialized country #kyoto