As quoted in "Romney guru thrives in political 'show business'" https://web.archive.org/web/20060307070315/http://www.boston.com:80/news/politics/president/articles/2005/06/12/romney_guru_thrives_in_political_show_business/?page=full (12 June 2005), by Brian C. Mooney, The Boston Globe <br class="br">2000s
Shimon Peres (1923–2016) Israeli politician, 8th prime minister and 9th president of Israel
As quoted in "Israel's Shimon Peres Calls Iran Weak", Comcast (29 November 2006) http://www.comcast.net/news/international/index.jsp?cat=INTERNATIONAL&fn=/2006/11/29/531290.html
Jason Kenney (1968) Canadian politician and 18th Premier of Alberta
On the renaming of Langevin School in Calgary to Riverside School https://globalnews.ca/news/7912688/alberta-indigenous-history-jason-kenney-cancel-culture/ (1 June 2021) <br class="br">2020s
“This is a time of great opportunity for our country.”
Al Gore (1948) 45th Vice President of the United States
Quotes, IPI speech (2000)
Context: This is a time of great opportunity for our country. Our economy is the envy of the world. Living standards are rising — and the gap between the rich and the poor is closing for the first time in 20 years. America is a powerful engine for the global economy, because we have met our responsibility to balance our budget, to begin paying down our debt, and to embrace our role in supporting free markets and economic growth among all nations.
Sean Pittman (1968)
The Associated Press. Voices from the Inauguration. The Associated Press. 20 January, 2009. 9:24am. http://www3.signonsandiego.com/stories/2009/jan/20/inauguration-voices-012009/?zIndex=40067
“Our country is strong. A great people has been moved to defend a great nation.”
George W. Bush (1946) 43rd President of the United States
2000s, 2001, A Great People Has Been Moved to Defend a Great Nation (September 2001)
Context: The pictures of airplanes flying into buildings, fires burning, huge structures collapsing, have filled us with disbelief, terrible sadness and a quiet, unyielding anger. These acts of mass murder were intended to frighten our nation into chaos and retreat. But they have failed. Our country is strong. A great people has been moved to defend a great nation.
“I think South Africa is a great country.”
Elon Musk (1971) South African-born American entrepreneur
Source: Conversation: Elon Musk on Wired Science (2007)
“My concern is the immediate future of this great country.”
Gerald Ford (1913–2006) American politician, 38th President of the United States (in office from 1974 to 1977)
1970s, Remarks on pardoning Nixon (1974)
Context: It is not the ultimate fate of Richard Nixon that most concerns me, though surely it deeply troubles every decent and every compassionate person. My concern is the immediate future of this great country.
In this, I dare not depend upon my personal sympathy as a long-time friend of the former President, nor my professional judgment as a lawyer, and I do not.
As President, my primary concern must always be the greatest good of all the people of the United States whose servant I am. As a man, my first consideration is to be true to my own convictions and my own conscience.
Michelle Obama (1964) lawyer, writer, wife of Barack Obama and former First Lady of the United States
2010s, 2016 Democratic National Convention (2016)
“You can cover a great deal of country in books.”
Andrew Lang (1844–1912) Scots poet, novelist and literary critic
