Country Size Quotes

It's never easy to be a small country next to a big neighbor.

If you look at the United States, most of the country is pretty much uninhabited.

Small countries such as Belgium would be well-advised to rally to the side of the strong if the wish to retain their independence.

When Lebanon started its resistance it was a small and divided country.

It’s a big country; it needs a lot of regulation.

Of course as a small country you're not necessarily in the strongest negotiating position unless you're negotiating with other small countries.

The notion that we won the war against Iraq is like saying we won a war against Arizona. I mean, the fact of the matter is it's not that big of a country. Nobody, I don't think, had any notion that we would do anything but win it.

We are, if territory and population be looked at together, one of the great countries of the world - a monster country, one might say, along with others such as China, India, the recent Soviet Union, and Brazil. And there is a real question as to whether "bigness" in a body politic is not an evil in itself, quite aside from the policies pursued in its name.

I was born in Switzerland. Everyone thinks I'm Swiss, but I'm actually German. I'm from Germany. It's a small country. You don't have as many great actors there, of course.

A small country like Israel has compulsory military training. But countries like India, that are so much bigger, have no compulsory military training, so people don't understand how the military functions. They have no knowledge of how it works, no respect for it.

All small countries have the same problems and concerns about being protected from larger countries and their influences.

Obviously we don't have 300 million people. We haven't got a big army. We don't have Hollywood. We're a medium small-sized country. We have to do what medium small-sized countries do, which-even though we're not smarter than other people-is to make ourselves seem to be smarter. We have to work harder and know more than other people.

What you have to remember about Belarus is that it's a small state - it has a population of less than 10m people - and like many small states, it has to be very careful about its relationships.

In a vast & huge country like India, e-governance is the only way for effective delivery unto the last.

Poland is not a very large country, but it's also not a small country.

I'm moderately optimistic. We Americans are an enormous country with more than 300 million people so there's reason for optimism.

Somebody once said that the ideal size of a country for democracy to work is around 10 million people - and that kind of makes sense if you think of it in very crude terms. In a smaller country, I guess it's easier to maintain some kind of common ground.I do think the Swedish system of government works really well. Obviously, everything doesn't work perfectly, but I like the principle of it.

Americans tend to feel satisfied within the wide boundaries of that huge, big country.

Any North American state is more important than Uruguay, in dimensions, in its economic force.

In Western Europe there are now only small countries—those that know it and those that don't know it yet.

Israel's a small country but both the audience and programme-makers are very sophisticated.

Russia is the biggest country in the world. It would be very difficult to surround it, and the world is changing so fast that it would basically be impossible, even in theory.

Mexico is much bigger than NAFTA.

A couple times a year, I get in the car, and I'll drive 1,000 miles cross-country, going through side streets. I'll stay off the highways as much as possible. And I realize it's a huge country, and for us to be in so many places in the country is an amazing thing.

What's amazing is - I actually have problems getting it into my head - Canada is so big, right? And Ireland's small, you know; you drive from coast to coast in three hours.