To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
That is still the case in this country for too many students, the soft bigotry of low expectations. If you don't expect them to learn, if you don't expect them to succeed - then it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.
I grew up in a very small country town in Victoria. I had a very normal, low-key kind of upbringing. I went to school, I hung out with my friends, I fought with my younger sisters. It was all very normal.
Even as we ought to accept that each country would progress with a different method and speed toward that goal, the standard for the expected end-state should not be lowered.
A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle and patriotism is loyalty to that principle.
I'm a very lucky guy to play for my country, and I'm very happy and lucky to have this country.
Sometimes I wonder if I got lulled into not wanting things because I grew up black in this country.
I mean, look, we're living in a country where you can't have a non-denominational response. If you're slightly critical of either party, all of the partisans jump on you like you're a lunatic.
Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.
I have a lot of respect for Martin Luther King. I think he was one of the greatest orators that the country ever produced.
The idea that science is just some luxury that you'll get around to if you can afford it is regressive to any future a country might dream for itself.
I love karaoke. I love maudlin country ballads. In another life, I'd be Loretta Lynn.
I grew up on Loretta Lynn and Dusty Springfield. I remember lying about it; it wasn't cool to listen to country when I was 12.
I think country music is Lynyrd Skynyrd. I think a lot of the country music is what we do, but I don't think rock & roll is dead at all.
We're definitely a hodgepodge of influences. Mine, most heavily, would be Southern rock - the Allman Brothers, Lynyrd Skynyrd and stuff like that. Hillary is more from the country side - her mom is Linda Davis, a country singer. Dave, he's a big fan of the Eagles and like that.
'Tailgate Blues' is kind of a lyrical masterpiece of a country song.
That's why we do this. In country music, we do this for this very reason... to impact people lyrically, to be a part of their lives.
Madam Speaker, it is time to halt illegal entry into this country. It is time to halt the flow of illegal drugs and weapons into this great Nation, and it is time to secure our borders.
Our economy creates and loses jobs every quarter in the millions. But of the net new jobs, the jobs come from small businesses: both small businesses on Main Street and many of the net new jobs come from high growth, high impact businesses that are located all across the country.
I think it's a natural fit, major league baseball and country music.
