Country quotes

“We must resist the Western powers by becoming powerful ourselves. Our army and our economy must be strong.”
Masato Harada - Omura

“I might not know who I am but I know who I'm not, I'm not someone who lets her country down.”
Salma Hayek - Sara Sandoval

“I had to get out of Beverly Hills! I sold my home there because I do like to drink a bit, but my neighbors were far too health conscious. Most of them hypocrites. We moved to Miami, where parties and drinking socially are a way of life. In California, people drink secretly, behind closed doors.”
Sir Michael Caine

“Iraq is dope. I'm thinking about getting a place there.”
Jonah Hill - Efraim Diveroli

“You left your mark on this country, Mrs. Kennedy. These past few days, that the story. Losing a president is like... It's like losing a father. And you were a mother to all of us, and that's a very good story.”
Billy Crudup - The Journalist

“That's what's great about this country. If you want it bad enough, you can make it back. Hmm? In this city, on this island, we don't go to work, we go to war! And if somebody takes something from you, you take it back. And more.”
Ed Harris - David Englander

“If Esperanza gets on that plane and makes it to a country that has no extradition treaties, we're fucked.”
Bruce Willis - John McClane

“Tell me you didn't betray your country.”
Peter Firth - Harry Pearce

“- Efraim Diveroli: Jordanian customs seized our Berettas.
- David Packouz: What? Why?
- Efraim Diveroli: I don't fucking know, David! I dropped out of high school before they covered international diplomacy!”
Jonah Hill - Efraim Diveroli
Miles Teller - David Packouz

“- Emmett: Could have been the Russians, aliens, maybe the South Koreans.
- Michelle: You mean North Koreans?
- Emmett: Is that the crazy one? Then yeah.”
John Gallagher Jr. - Emmett
Mary Elizabeth Winstead - Michelle

“All those things you see in your pajamas, are a long-range forecast for your farmers.”
Donny Osmond - Joseph

“- Avner: You people have nothing to bargain with. You'll never get the land back. You'll die old men in refugee camps waiting for Palestine.
- Ali: We have a lot of children. They'll have children. So we can wait forever. And if we need to, we can make the whole planet unsafe for Jews.”
Eric Bana - Avner
Omar Metwally - Ali

“We need inspiration Francois. Because in order to build our nation we must exceed our own expectations.”
Morgan Freeman - Nelson Mandela

“- Julie Plummer: I trusted you... Howard trusted you... you betrayed us... and you betrayed your country.
- Capt. Bill Fawcett: Guess what? North Korea pays better.”
Faith Ford - Julie Plummer
Chris Potter - Capt. Bill Fawcett

“Some states are trying to abolish the death penalty... my states puttin in an express lane.”
Ron White - Ron White

“In California, I guess you belong to the state; you don't even belong to your parents. It's an old Spanish law.”
Bo Derek

“- Tuptim: If we stay, death. If we go to Burma, death. We have no country to go to.
- Prince Chululongkorn: We make our own country, in jungle.”
Armi Arabe Abiera - Tuptim
Allen D. Hong - Prince Chululongkorn

“- Lt. Melvill: You didn't really have to choose between your country and the Zulu, did you?
- Lt. Vereker: Um, and a damn close thing it was too.”
James Faulkner - Lt. Melvill
Simon Ward - Lt. Vereker

“- Theresa von Rodeck: Somebody has been asking questions about us.
- Col. Stewart: Who?
- Theresa von Rodeck: A man called Peter Shelley. What would your General Patton say if he knew you had a German mistress?
- Col. Stewart: Oh, come on, Theresa. Half the American army are living with German girls.”
Birgit Bergen - Theresa von Rodeck
Ed Bishop - Col. Stewart

“- Becker: Well, you tell me. Is that the Australian sound? I mean do we have the Australian sound here?
- Kim: I'd say that's easily as Australian as... well, a barbed-wire canoe. As Australian as... a shit sandwich.”
Eric Roberts - Becker
Chris Haywood - Kim

“Borneo. For most of you, Borneo doesn't exist. An imaginary name on a map, like Tibet or Tierra del Fuego. The ends of the earth. But I know the island exists. You see, I was there near the end of the second world war. My war. My youth. I was a botanist before. I've been a botanist ever since.”

Nigel Havers - Botanist

“- Nicky: This is a free country. Buenos Aires is a free country, right?
- Pretty Woman: No, Buenos Aires is a city.”
Will Smith - Nicky

“Alaska is a Third World country. It's just one we happen to own.”
Shari Shattuck - Liles

“Each day we lose a little bit more of our separate, sovereign ability to determine our own futures. And each day the world comes a little bit closer to that terrible moment when the beating of a butterfly's wings unleashes a hurricane God himself cannot stop.”

Alan Bates - Dressler

“The strength of a kingdom is not based on the strength of the king, but on the strength of its people.”
Pierce Brosnan - King Arthur