Country Decline Quotes

We are in really bad shape as a country. We are not respected around the world. We are not respected in our own country.

Mexico has lost its leadership, and a lot of that has to do with its poor performance and the lack of better results in our country.

Politicians are never going to turn this country around. Our country's a mess. The politicians are going to destroy this country. They're weak and they're ineffective.

The Founding Fathers and our fathers are rolling over in their graves as this great country voluntarily abandons its dreams of equal opportunity, achievement and prosperity and sows the seeds of its own destruction.

Like many of my friends in the Pakistani diaspora - and many of my friends in Pakistan itself, for that matter - I have sometimes looked at the country of my birth and wondered whether its future will be one of steady and sad decline.

We just can't stay in a safe Republican seat and sit back and watch while this country goes down the wrong path.

The time is going to come when [people] are going to really regret this, and they're gonna want to be within [Donald] Trump's orb at some point, 'cause this country's gonna take off.

As far as the low-information segment of the population - the vast, vast, vast majority of which votes Democrat - if you are a progressive as Barack Obama is and you want to sell the direction you're taking this country, it's okay to call it great now 'cause you've got it moving in the direction of decline.

Long, long ago the country bore the country-town and nourished it with her best blood. Now the giant city sucks the country dry, insatiably and incessantly demanding and devouring fresh streams of men, till it wearies and dies in the midst of an almost uninhabited waste of country.

What makes this harder is that it is my party that is ruining the country.

A revolution is sometimes necessary, but if revolutions become habitual the country in which they take place is going down-hill

Would it not be better to go home and live at the family park all the year round, and hunt, and attend Quarter Sessions, and be able to declare morning and evening with a clear conscience that the country was going to the dogs? Such was the mental working of many a Conservative who supported Mr. Daubeny on this occasion.

Our country is slowly but surely moving - and I've seen it over and over again in many instances in government - toward a culture of mediocrity.

We're going to take on the big media, big business, and big donors that are bleeding our country dry. We're losing our jobs.

Their removal is sensibly felt in this country—The prevalent humor of industrious Protestants withdrawing from this once flourishing corner of the kingdom seems to be increasing …. Where the evil will end, remains only in the womb of time to determine.

I'll tell you, Nashville ruined country music.

Canada appears content to become a second-tier socialistic country, boasting ever more loudly about its economy and social services to mask its second-rate status.