National Quotes

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.

George W. had a plan. He arranged to join the Air National Guard in Texas, which meant he would not be sent to Vietnam.

I'm doing comedy development at National Lampoon.

Let us not suffer from a national amnesia that causes us to forget who and what we are.

Prescott National Forest is right on the edge of my home in Arizona.

Medicine also disregards national boundaries.

The tango is really a combination of many cultures, though it eventually became the national music of Argentina.

Bullying is a national epidemic.

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.

I look at ANWR (Artic National Wildlife Refuge) as a poison pill in the energy bill.

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

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

U.K. citizens fleeing the Middle East and Japan have been allowed to take their animal companions with them on evacuation flights. The U.S. is not so civilized, and that's a blot on our national copybook.

I've been fortunate over my career to make a little history on the 16th hole at Augusta National.

Republicans have called for a National African-American Museum. The plan is being held up by finding a location that isn't in their neighborhood.

The area of climate change has a dramatic impact on national security.

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

National languages are all huge systems of vested interests which sullenly resist critical inquiry.

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

We believe that an Iraqi founding national assembly, freely elected, must decide the future of Iraq.

It's a national concern, I mean how we dispose of nuclear waste in a safe way, how we deal with this incredible amount of nuclear waste we have created over the years.

My very first magazine cover was the National Enquirer.

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

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 fetuses are aborted every month in India.

So-called defense now absorbs sixty per cent of the national budget, and about twelve per cent of the Gross National Product.

Almost anything is better than three network TV outlets completely controlling the national discourse with their nightly broadcasts. We've moved a long way from that, and that's important.

We don't need a nation that has national identity cards.

How we continue to fund Medicare and Medicaid into the future is a pressing issue of national concern.

The world organization debates disarmament in one room and, in the next room, moves the knights and pawns that make national arms imperative.

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

There is a segment of the American population that has been excluded from the national myth, and that should be redressed.

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

My government, a government of national unity, will make all necessary structural reforms.

More and more major businesses and industries are being run on software and delivered as online services - from movies to agriculture to national defense.

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

U.S. assistance provides the Jordanian government needed flexibility to pursue policies that are of critical importance to U.S. national security and to foreign policy objectives in the Middle East.

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

I grew up on the edge of a national park in Canada - timberwolves, creeks, snow drifts.

I submit all my plays to the National Theatre for rejection. To assure myself I am seeing clearly.

The Intelligence Committee will also examine present counterintelligence programs for the Department of Energy, the National Laboratories, and the Department of Defense.

According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the first use of alcohol typically begins at age 12.

Relinquishing apparent national sovereignty does not have to entail a loss of national sovereignty, but can actually be a benefit.

At least six Bayern players, who have won almost everything, are in the national squad.

It's with them that we have constituted a liberation front and brought our logistic support to armies to help their countries come out of colonialism and establish a national internal regime.

Emigration, forced or chosen, across national frontiers or from village to metropolis, is the quintessential experience of our time.

Our cultural diversity has most certainly shaped our national character.

It's up to the national associations and their leagues to limit the entry of foreign players.

What we have to do is to find a solution that the interests of the national teams are respecting the interests of the clubs. And also the clubs they shall respect the interests and the aspirations of national teams.

The National Flood Insurance Program is a voluntary program. If a community really feels that the building insurance requirements are too burdensome, they don't have to participate.

For weeks after 9/11 you could smell the dust and pulverised concrete in New York, and the National Guard came in, so there was a military presence on the streets. It was intense. Overwhelming. Heartbreaking.

My coach told me if I broke the national record for the 200, I could run a 100.

Everybody pursues their national interests. The only one who gets blamed for it is the United States.

As the Senator from Vermont was kind enough to note, I did have the experience of being commander in chief of our National Guard in Missouri for 8 years.

National Socialism and Christianity are irreconcilable.

The 9/11 Commission strongly recommends that the National Intelligence Director be fully in control of the budget, from developing it to implementing it, to ensuring that the National Intelligence Director has the clout to make decisions.

I have reaffirmed my political will to work towards national unity.

Two thirds of a century ago, we were given a national policy. It was made to fit the conditions of the day.

Most national correspondents will tell you they rely on stringers and researchers and interns and clerks and news assistants.

The Danish glee: the national version of cheerfulness.

The men and women of the CIA are a national treasure.

American League teams don't bunt very often. National League teams bunt a lot.

If I was going to make one rule change, I would bring the DH in the National League.

Vietnamese must be made to feel that they are racial inferiors with no right to national identity.

Our national drug is alcohol. We tend to regard the use any other drug with special horror.

I don't know if I'm a national education figure.

From protecting our natural resources to providing maritime security and national defense, the Coast Guard's duties are broad in scope, and the performance of those duties has never been more important.

We must make children and families a national priority.

The Covenant of the League of Nations had envisaged sponsoring only the protection of certain categories of men: national minorities and populations of territories controlled by other countries.

It was not long before I was struck with the idea that base ball was just the game for a national sport for Americans.

It will be a war of national liberation. We believe the people reject totalitarianism.

Recognizing Quebec as being different, recognizing our history, recognizing our identity, has never meant a weakening of Quebec and has never been a threat to national unity.

Early on, New York already had a national and even international identity.

I engage with local politics because it affects people I love. And I engage in national politics because it affects people I love.

Although biodiversity loss continues globally, many countries are significantly slowing the rate of loss by shoring up protected natural areas and the services they provide, and in expanding national park systems with tighter management and more secure funding.

I've never been more nervous in my life than singing the national anthem at the Super Bowl.

In the scheme of our national government, the presidency is preeminently the people's office.

Two new reports indicate that, under Bush, the Army is overstretched and under enormous strain. The National Guard and reserves have been weakened and we are experiencing numerous recruiting problems.

Some of our national heroines were defined by the fact that they never nested - they were peripatetic crusaders like Susan B. Anthony, Clara Barton, Sojourner Truth, Dorothy Dix.