I know firsthand from my experience working counterintelligence investigations for the FBI that kicking a diplomat out of the country is no small thing.
Many of Bush's defenders have praised him for keeping the country safe since Sept. 11, 2001. He deserves that praise, and I'm perfectly happy to defend most of his surveillance, interrogation and counterterrorism policies against his critics.
I live in Loudoun County, and the counties surrounding Washington, D.C., have the highest per-capita income in the country. Not because they create wealth, but because they suck wealth from the rest of the country, and that system needs to be shaken up.
There is no week nor day nor hour when tyranny may not enter upon this country, if the people lose their roughness and spirit of defiance.
If we are marked to die, we are enough to do our country loss; and if to live, the fewer men, the greater share of honor.
I was definitely very much a country boy.
I don't like crying. I'm a country boy, and we're the product of our upbringing. As a boy, I was told that men don't cry.
I'm a country boy, and we're the product of our upbringing. As a boy, I was told that men don't cry.
I'm really just a country boy.
I grew up as a country boy.
The filth and noise of the crowded streets soon destroy the elasticity of health which belongs to the country boy.
I'm a country boy.
I am a country boy and proud of it.
I am a country boy at heart.
I'm a country boy. I'm from Georgia.
I'm a real big country boy.
I'm very much half city and half country boy.
For a country boy, poor as I was, whose constant worry was to be able to have enough to eat, the Army guaranteed one's survival.
At the end of the day, I remain a country boy inside.