Quotes About Nation

If we invest in the American people, the American people always bring this Nation a good return.

The nation certainly would have been better off if President Clinton could have focused on Osama bin Laden without being distracted by the Paula Jones sexual harassment case and its criminal investigation offshoots.

Iran is a nation with American blood on its hands.

In liberating Iraq, we have rid the nation and the rest of the world from the danger of Saddam Hussein.

Iraq is a small but very proud nation.

I'm a very proud Irish person, and also used to be an expat. We are a great nation, sound in fact!

I can only have admiration for the Irish as a nation.

The people of Israel are entitled, as is any other nation, to live in peace and safety.

Israel will not divide its land. We're already too small.

This issue, if not addressed, leaves any President, including George Bush, open to the criticism that they are essentially ignoring the destruction of the nation and I believe that with all my heart.

Can a film really change anything? I mean, what was the last time? Maybe the Italian neo-realists, where they became the voice and the heart and the soul of Italy, a nation that had been destroyed. I don't know.

Italy is one of the great footballing nations, with whom we have a great sporting rivalry.

Japan is a great nation. It should begin to act like one.

A nation has the capacity to choose its own capital city, and Jerusalem is Israel's capital.

I am a Jew, and I'm convinced that Israel is the homeland.

The only holiday of independence which I can never leave out is the celebration of the independence of the Jewish State of Israel.

When we fought for freedom, for the establishment of a Jewish state, we didn't send a questionnaire to the Jewish nation asking if it wanted a Jewish state.

I love the nation of Israel. I love Jewish people. My King was Jewish, and I embrace that.

It is an honor to join 'The Nation's esteemed editorial board.

I pledge allegiance to my Flag and the Republic for which it stands, one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

I pledge allegiance to my flag and to the republic for which it stands: one nation indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

We need to promote creedal national identities built around the foundational ideas of modern liberal democracy, and use public policies to deliberately assimilate newcomers to those identities. Liberal democracy has its own culture, which must be held in higher esteem than cultures rejecting democracy's values.

Successful state building is dependent, therefore, on the prior existence of a sense of national identity that serves as a locus of loyalty to the state itself, rather than to the social groups underlying it.

To propel themselves forward, such figures latched onto the resentments of ordinary people who felt that their nation or religion or way of life was being disrespected. Megalothymia and isothymia thus joined hands.