Country Comparison Quotes

Different countries have different kinds of financial structures.

Obviously it's easier to grow faster when you are a less developed country than when you are where the U.S. is.

Every day we're told that we live in the greatest country on earth. And it's always stated as an undeniable fact: Leos are born between July 23 and August 22, fitted queen-size sheets measure sixty by eighty inches, and America is the greatest country on earth. Having grown up with this in our ears, it's startling to realize that other countries have nationalistic slogans of their own, none of which are 'We're number two!

Indonesia is rich in natural resources. Indonesia is rich in manpower with its 103 million inhabitants - not like Malaysia with its 10 million.

Latin American culture is conservative, and the rural areas are tremendously conservative. I don't believe that's just a Chilean thing.

First of all, when you live in a country like Canada, it's quite different from America in the sense that it's very tied to traditions that were born in Britain.

They are two different countries.

The United States historicaly has had its military more closely connected with new technology than any other coutnry.

The country that is more developed industrially only shows, to the less developed, the image of its own future.

Canada's the best country in the world.

I mean, Iceland is Iceland. It can't do damage to anybody unless you're Icelandic. But the United States can drag down the entire western economy. And I think what we are seeing is simply a reflection of reality. This is not, I'm sorry, but this is not a AAA nation.

If some countries have too much history, we have too much geography.

Germany, Italy and France appear to possess less dynamism than do the U.S. and the others.

America is unique in the world. If you don't believe that, just ask someone from another country.

There is much that remains mysterious about why some countries grow rapidly and some grow slowly.

America, ladies and gentlemen, has done more for me financially than Britain ever has, or ever could have done.

Brazil has no future as a China with fewer people.

Sweden is the Saudi Arabia of feminism.

Medical care for the entire country seems to me a basic right. If every other country in the West can do it, why can't we?

The notion of 'world leadership' is a curiously archaic one. The very phrase is redolent of Kipling ballads and James Bondian adventures. What makes a country a world leader? Is it population, in which case India is on course to top the charts, overtaking China as the world's most populous country by 2034?

France is different from the U.S.A.'s El Dorado, American Dream image.

China is a much richer country than any part of Europe.

Denmark is a small, homogenous nation of about 5.5 million people. The United States is a melting pot of more than 315 million people. No question about it, Denmark and the United States are very different countries.

When America installs a minimum income, it's going to be doing it in a very different historical context than Switzerland or Sweden or Germany, or any other country might do it. And we're doing it in a context where it has the potential, I think, for much better consequences than in those other countries.

In some things, we Americans leave to other countries the carrying out of the principle that stands at the head of our Declaration of Independence.