Before you I engage myself to serve my country with the devotion and the exemplary that this post demands. I understand responsibilities of the job and as such I give a republican salute to Nicolas Sarkozy who has led France for 5 years and who deserves all of our respect.
I've had the greatest respect for my work in this country by Americans. Critics have no brains.
I respect country music because I feel like it's more about the talent and the songwriting and I put on a big show and we have a lot of stuff but I feel confident in myself enough as an artist and a singer that I can have all of those fun toys and know that we don't need all the bells and whistles either.
When I first came to Nashville people hardly gave country music any respect. We lived in old cars and dirty hotels and we ate when we could.
The politician in my country seeks votes affection and respect in that order. With few notable exceptions they are simply men who want to be loved.
I have said with respect to authorization bills that I do not want the Congress or the country to commit fiscal suicide on the installment plan.
In Lincoln's day a President's religion was a very private affair. There were no public prayer meetings no attempts to woo the Religious Right. Few of Lincoln's countrymen knew anything at all of his religious beliefs.
The world is my country science is my religion.
I think that we are at a point in our country where we're trying to decide what role should religion play in the political arena.
We establish no religion in this country nor will we ever. But we poison our society when we remove its theological underpinnings. We court corruption when we leave society devoid of belief.
We live in a great country. It's time again to get religion about it.
The United States is not a nation based upon race creed or religion - we are a nation based upon our loyalty and allegiance to our country and her principles.
Religion is run by thought police. 'Obey. Listen. This is what you do. Don't ask questions. Go die for your country.' The spirituality says 'Okay you can die for your country but know what you're doing while you're doing it.'
The importance that our society attaches to sport is incredible. After all is football a game or a religion? The people of this country have allowed sports to get completely out of hand.
A man will do more for his stubbornness than for his religion or his country.
I've had trouble now and again in Nigeria because I have spoken up about the mistreatment of factions in the country because of difference in religion. These are things we should put behind us.
After all enforced national bilingualism in this country isn't mere policy. It has attained the status of a religion. It's a dogma which one is supposed to accept without question.
I never saw heard nor read that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the religion of the country. Nothing can render them popular but some degree of persecution.
There is no surer sign of decay in a country than to see the rites of religion held in contempt.
He didn't want to tell his son what to do but told me to write the president a letter. I didn't name a country but there are many countries we have a fragile relationship with.
It is not really our country so much is the problem it's sort of the parasitic relationship that Canada and France and other countries have towards us.
The close relationship between railroad expansion and the genera development and prosperity of the country is nowhere brought more distinctly into relief than in connection with the construction of the Pacific railroads.
On the Native American front we have turned a new page in the 400-year history of the interface between the American settlers of this country and the nation's first Americans. That's included a new relationship where the sovereignty of tribes is in fact recognized.
This is a very important relationship we have with Russia the relationship over the nuclear arsenal that they have obviously is important. They're a very powerful country.