Pastoral Resources

David Brinkley was an icon of modern broadcast journalism, a brilliant writer who could say in a few words what the country needed to hear during times of crisis, tragedy and triumph.

I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.

But, sir, they have written me down upon the history of the country as worthy of expulsion, and in no unkindness I must tell them that for all future time my self-respect requires that I shall pass them as strangers.

Well, I think that as a country, we've drifted away from appreciating the importance of imagination.

True country music is honesty, sincerity, and real life to the hilt.

You're looking for players whose name on the front of the sweater is more important than the one on the back. I look for these players to play hard, to play smart and to represent their country.

If presidents can't do it to their wives, they do it to their country.

Young people have been at the forefront of every great social movement in our country's history.

You know, having been an election monitor in countries across the world, I can tell you that we would never certify another country's election if it had as many flaws in place as we had in Florida.

I come from a district where the veterans are not the richest in the country.

Is bankrupting this great country the top priority of this administration?

Black people must address itself to the causes of poverty. That's oppression in this country.

So black people all across this country are uniting. They must unite, and they must organize themselves.

The only politics in this country that's relevant to black people today is the politics of revolution... none other.

See, justice is a joke in this country, and it stinks of its hypocricy.

But black people fall for that same argument, and they go around talking about law breakers. We did not make the laws in this country. We are neither morally nor legally confined to those laws. Those laws that keep them up, keep us down.

Just as we know rationally that the time will come when each of us as individuals will perish, so we know that our country, our culture and our species cannot exist for ever. Sometime there must be an end.

Right around the end of the fifties, college students and young people in general, began to realize that this music was almost like a history of our country - this music contained the real history of the people of this country.

The real duties of an ambassador are to enter into or follow negotiations between his own government and that of the country to which he is accredited.

Well all the big companies are really panicked by the internet thing and all that, and sales went down, although sales have gone up again in this country a bit and also the big companies, because they're so big, they need big sales really so they're not really interested.