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Countries that need monies so that they can provide health care and education and shelter to their people shouldn't have to repay debts that we knowingly lent to bad regimes long since gone; and all illegitimate debts - debts lent to these terrible dictators like Saddam Hussein, like Suharto, like Marcos - must also be canceled.
‐‐ Noreena Hertz

Countries that perceive themselves to be vulnerable can be expected to try to redress that vulnerability - and in some cases, they will pursue clandestine weapons programs.
‐‐ Mohamed ElBaradei

Countries that will not tax their elite who expect us to come in and help them serve their people are just not going to get the kind of help from us that historically they may have.
‐‐ Hillary Clinton

Countries themselves need to do everything possible to remain in the euro zone.
‐‐ Mark Rutte

Countries which receive aid do graduate. Within a generation, Korea went from being a big recipient to being a big aid donor. China used to get quite a bit of aid; now it's aid-neutral.
‐‐ Bill Gates

Countries with deficit don't want to pay the bill, and they want to get more loans, and countries with superiority, they don't want to help the countries with problems, and they just want them to tighten their belts.
‐‐ Sebastian Pinera

Countries with higher levels of gender equality have higher economic growth. Companies with more women on their boards have higher returns. Peace agreements that include women are more successful. Parliaments with more women take up a wider range of issues - including health, education, anti-discrimination, and child support.
‐‐ Ban Ki-moon

Countries with lots of unmarried young men are the most vulnerable to sudden upheavals - this is what fueled the Arab Spring.
‐‐ Tyler Cowen

Country and western is ignored by the intellectuals. They don't look at it as an art form. They think it's just somebody sitting on his couch singing about his life.
‐‐ Ricky Skaggs

Country and western is the music of the devil. That's the real truth of the matter. My late Mother, bless her, loved country and western. God, I couldn't handle it.
‐‐ Rick Wakeman

Country artists have advantages all over the place. The radio support is incredible. The fanbase is rabid, all over.
‐‐ Amos Lee

Country artists, I met a lot of them when I was five, six years old. I had an uncle who was a country and western singer and I met Lefty Frizzell when I was five or six years old in those shows that would come through Toronto from Nashville.
‐‐ Rick Danko

Country fans and country listeners deserve to have something better... a song that really has something to say, something that makes you feel something.
‐‐ Zac Brown

Country fans are the most loyal in the world.
‐‐ Ronnie Dunn

Country fans need to support country music by buying albums and concert tickets for traditional artists or the music will just fade away. And that would be really sad.
‐‐ George Jones

Country ham is baked whole, usually with a glaze, sometimes studded with cloves, and served as the centerpiece of Christmas and Easter feasts.
‐‐ Kate Christensen

Country has been a wonderful outlet for me.
‐‐ Suzy Bogguss

Country is bringing in a little rock element... a little '80s element. Melody is king now. But its just in the music, its not so much in the songwriting, which is still very basic to the storytelling aspect of it.
‐‐ Lionel Richie

Country is not what you heard on the Grammys.
‐‐ Crystal Gayle

Country music belongs to America.
‐‐ Bill Monroe

Country music busts the wall between performer and audience. There's a connection because there's a vulnerability, a confessional quality, to so much of the songwriting. Those lyrics take you in.
‐‐ Hunter Hayes

Country music especially can get very formulaic - you know, you have to have your verses and a bridge and a chorus, and a lot of the songs are written as just plain and simple poetry on the road.
‐‐ Sturgill Simpson

Country music fans are extremely supportive. Once they're with you, they're with you for life.
‐‐ Faith Hill

Country music has always been about as close to R&B as you can possibly get. We're storytellers.
‐‐ Lionel Richie

Country music has always sort of been country music.
‐‐ Miranda Lambert

Country music has become the music that best represents the reality of American life.
‐‐ Brad Paisley

Country music has changed tremendously, so what now is considered country was not considered country at that time. We were doing stuff that probably could have been called country music today, but would certainly have not have fit in at that time.
‐‐ Charlie Daniels

Country music has the great stories.
‐‐ Etta James

Country music has to evolve in order to survive.
‐‐ Blake Shelton

Country music historically has been sort of middle-aged people's music.
‐‐ John Shelton Reed

Country music in the mid-'90s was a big influence on my career, and I played all the songs that are referenced in '94' back in my club days. Joe Diffie was rocking a sick mullet, and he was hotter than ever... just putting out monster hit after monster hit. It totally takes me back to those days, and it makes me smile every time I hear it.
‐‐ Jason Aldean

Country music is about new love and it's about old love.
‐‐ Jeff Foxworthy

Country music is always changing but the Opry is always there to serve as a lighthouse for what country music really is. The past, present and future is all encompassed by not only the physical structure of the building but also the radio show.
‐‐ Dierks Bentley

Country music is completely punk-rock. It's the original punk-rock.
‐‐ Neko Case

Country Music is great music because it really comes from real life experiences. It is such a great haven for reality.
‐‐ Bryan White

Country music is important to me, and I love it, but it's not my whole life.
‐‐ George Strait

Country music is just country. It's going to shift around a little bit, doing some different instrumentations, different production styles. But it will always come back to what you heard at the Opry. Nobody wants it to change.
‐‐ Steven Curtis Chapman

Country music is me, it's what I've grown up with, and it's what I do.
‐‐ Scotty McCreery

Country music is one of those places where we support each other and prop each other up.
‐‐ Chris Stapleton

Country music is so related to gospel. It seems I could go down that road pretty easily.
‐‐ Dionne Warwick

Country music is some of the best-written music in the world, so yeah, one day, I would keep my mind open to doing a country record.
‐‐ Ed Sheeran

Country music is still your grandpa's music, but it's also your daughter's music. It's getting bigger and better all the time and I'm glad to be a part of it.
‐‐ Shania Twain

Country music is the people's music. It just speaks about real life and about truth and it tells things how they really are.
‐‐ Faith Hill

Country music is three chords and the truth.
‐‐ Harlan Howard

Country music is worldwide - it's not just Nashville and Texas.
‐‐ Robin Zander

Country music originates with the colloquial, rural aspects of white America. It's really, truly, rural white America's blues.
‐‐ Dwight Yoakam

Country music tells stories, and I've always loved to tell stories.
‐‐ R. Kelly

Country music was the music I was brought up on. It's the music that's closest to my heart and the music that speaks to me the most, and it's always been a big influence on my own songwriting.
‐‐ Teddy Thompson

Country of Origin labelling is something that consumers really want, and I think it's critical to support Australian farmers.
‐‐ Christine Milne