Argentina Quotes

If I have to apply five turns to the screw each day for the happiness of Argentina, I will do it. (Evita Peron)
Latins are tenderly enthusiastic. In Brazil they throw flowers at you. In Argentina they throw themselves. View quote
Marlene Dietrich
I always thought I wanted to play professionally, and I always knew that to do that I'd have to make a lot of sacrifices. I made sacrifices by leaving Argentina, leaving my family to start a new life. I changed my friends, my people. Everything. But everything I did, I did for football, to achieve my dream. View quote
Lionel Messi
We arrived in Argentina with a lot of injured players, including our goalkeeper. Also we were unlucky to be drawn in the same group as the two tournament favourites Italy and Argentina. View quote
Michel Patini
If you're a Kennedy and you go to Italy or you go to Argentina, you're treated as royalty. And in the United States, we're endlessly fascinated by the family. View quote
Douglas Brinkley
I was born in Argentina, June 13, 1943. I brought up my parents very well, so they let me come to America to study at Princeton University. View quote
Emilio Ambasz
Argentina is a marvelous place. Argentines are great bankers of information. They import information; if someone sneezes in Milan or in New York, they clean their faces very fast there. View quote
Emilio Ambasz
I have an office in Argentina, I go there every day, so I work. View quote
Gabriela Sabatini
Argentina has the best bird shooting in the world. View quote
W. E. B. Griffin
The Peruvian faces are completely different from that faces in Argentina and in Brazil. View quote
Walter Salles
Argentina will maintain its freedom of action to protect the nation's interests and honor, which will not be negociated... Argentina is not willing to renounce its historical rights over the islands and withdraw from what is hers the armed forces who are and represent the people of our nation. (Leopoldo Galtieri)
The flag of Argentina is raised here. For all the respect I have for the English people, Great Britain should understand that history has gone by, that centuries have passed, the world has evolved and certain things from the past cannot return. View quote
Leopoldo Galtieri
As I looked out on the crowd, I was witnessing things I had witnessed in the Plaza de Mayo in Argentina or in squares in Belgrade... it breaks my heart when I see it in my country. View quote
Chris Hedges
The serious lesson of the antics in Argentina, then, is that the big issues of monetary economics--fixed vs. flexible exchange rates, whether countries should have independent currencies at all--are still wide open. It's an eternal controversy, and not even the pope can resolve it. View quote
Paul Krugman
On July 18, we will mark the 12th anniversary of the senseless loss of 85 lives in the bombing of the Jewish Cultural Center in Buenos Aires, Argentina. View quote
Tom Lantos
I've always given everything for every team I've played for so that the ordinary fans, the people in the stadium, could identify with me. I owe a lot to the fans of Roma, Fiorentina and Argentina. They were the reason I played, my inspiration. I always worked hard to improve my game, to prove to myself that I could be one of the best for as long as possible. To be honest, I couldn't care less what the others think. View quote
Gabriel Batistuta
If I could apologise and go back and change history I would do. But the goal is still a goal, Argentina became world champions and I was the best player in the world. View quote
Diego Maradona
Everybody in Argentina can remember 'the hand of God' in the England match in the 1986 World Cup. Now, in my country, the 'hand of God' has brought us an Argentinian pope. View quote
Diego Maradona
My thoughts on veganism are that it's a wonderful thing to do. I just can't do it. I tried. Casey Affleck and I made a movie in the desert in Argentina like 12 years ago and he's a vegan and I tried to eat vegan and I lasted like two days. I just, I literally can't do it. And I know...that might be bad. View quote
Matt Damon
English: "Before the watch of God and the testimony of History, I want to proclaim: Argentina, get up and walk!" View quote
Carlos Menem
The tango is really a combination of many cultures, though it eventually became the national music of Argentina. (Yo-Yo Ma)
Long live Germany. Long live Argentina. Long live Austria. These are the three countries with which I have been most connected and which I will not forget. I greet my wife, my family and my friends. I am ready. We'll meet again soon, as is the fate of all men. I die believing in God. View quote
Adolf Eichmann
Eichmann... found all bureaucracy by definition tiresome. This was what staff were for. "These matters to do with bureaucracy," he explained to Sassen [in Argentina], "I just relied on my civil servants for them". He deployed these "living articles," like Ernst Moes and Fritz Wöhrn, as "bureaucratic brakes." View quote
Adolf Eichmann
León Krauze: I am sure that you know about this topic: various leftist governments, especially the populists, are in serious trouble in Latin America. The socialist model in Venezuela has the country near collapse. Argentina, also Brazil, how do you explain that failure? Bernie Sanders: You are asking me questions... Krauze: I am sure you're interested in that. Sanders: I am very interested, but right now I'm running for President of the United States. Krauze: So you don't have an opinion about the crisis in Venezuela? Sanders: Of course I have an opinion, but as I said, I'm focused on my campaign. View quote
Bernie Sanders
These days, the American dream is more apt to be realized in South America, in places such as Ecuador, Venezuela and Argentina, where incomes are actually more equal today than they are in the land of Horatio Alger. Who's the banana republic now? View quote
Bernie Sanders