The face of nature and civilization in this our country is to a certain point a very sufficient literary field. But it will yield its secrets only to a really grasping imagination. To write well and worthily of American things one need even more than elsewhere to be a master.

My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived.

I'm not just a big-haired redhead country singer who dresses flamboyantly has this wicked sense of humor and wears rhinestones.

I tried to go out for theater or theater arts but I was too scared or too intimidated. But I had a lot of friends on the cross country team that had great senses of humor.

I was sort of in denial about doing country for awhile but I sort of grew up and realized who I was what I wanted to say. I think country music is the best music in the world and I'm glad to be doing a country album. I hope people will love it as much as I loved making it.

I tried to use words that were dealing with the emotional quality that any human being could recognize in the way that they felt about their country. It's to do with the world we live in. That world is a brutal one and full of war. It's also full of many wonderful things and love and hope.

My hope is that we will turn Greece into maybe the most transparent country in the world with everything on the web.

We're in an emergency situation. The United States has become an absolutely terrifying country and I would hope that I could participate in some way in stopping the horror and the brutality.

It's true that General Musharraf opposes my return seeing me as a symbol of democracy in the country. He is comfortable with dictatorship. I hope better sense prevails.

As I travel across the country speaking about MS perhaps I can offer others comfort and hope.

Hope is like a road in the country there was never a road but when many people walk on it the road comes into existence.

On what rests the hope of the republic? One country one language one flag!

I am a beneficiary of the American people's generosity and I hope we can have comprehensive immigration legislation that allows this country to continue to be enriched by those who were not born here.

If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.

I hate the idea of causes and if I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.

I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.

Brazil is where I belong the place that feels like home. They love their family their country and God and are not afraid to let anybody know it.

My mother is a special story. She went through so much to bring us up four men at home especially when our country was going through really difficult times.

I've now been in this country for thirteen years since I was seventeen. So this is my second home.

Believe me you can get into a lot of trouble being sixteen years old in a foreign country with no adult telling you when to come home.

The first presentation of my show was given in May 1883 at Omaha which I had then chosen as my home. From there we made our first summer tour visiting practically every important city in the country.

A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher but he who goes from country to country guided by the blind impulse of curiosity is a vagabond.

I am not suggesting that all those missionary organizations working in Haiti should pack up and go home but I am urging them to understand that Haiti does not need clever Americans with newly contrived schemes for saving their country.

Social topics may hit too close to home for people but then again if you pull a heartstring then that's what country music is. It's not just songs about getting drunk and leaving your girl.