For many of us who were born and raised in this country, including me, it's sometimes easy to forget how special America really is.

I believe our inability to achieve victory stems mainly from having lost sight as a nation of what it means to win.

There were no strategic mistakes that could affect Russia's history and its further development. No, there were no such mistakes. Tactical errors were made in some less significant options, problems,...

We Italians are always criticising ourselves.

Americans are really harsh about British people's teeth.

The English are crooked as a nation and honest as individuals. The contrary is true of the French, who are honest as a nation and crooked as individuals.

God has made Canada one of those nations which cannot be conquered and cannot be destroyed, except by itself.

I love our shared island, our shared Ireland and its core decency. I love it for its imagination and its celebration of the endless possibilities for our people.

Looking at the history of our country, we have been and we are pro-immigrant, but we aren't going to be much of a country if we don't take care of our own people first and if we don't observe the rule...

I'm asking the Israelis to choose their nationality. It doesn't mean that if they don't choose French nationality, they have to leave.

Territory is but the body of a nation. The people who inhabit its hills and valleys are its soul, its spirit, its life.

Israel needs to change direction, and this is not just political. We're becoming more closed-in, more isolated, more scared. Those who talk tough are making the State of Israel very weak, very...

American art ought to be monumental, in keeping with American life.

If I had a Portuguese passport but no relationship with Portugal... or if it was Italy or Spain where I didn't have much of a connection with the national team, I don't know if I would play for them.

My countrymen have commissioned a bust of the Republic. It will be placed on the fountain of my native town.

In America, we have holidays and monuments that celebrate heroes from our past, most of whom have legacies that are settled.

You can't underestimate how patriotic the people of this country are.

Nigeria has always been my choice if called up, and when they did, I was happy.

Making an Irishness to be proud of in a real Republic. It is the vision of a real Republic where life and language, where ideals and experience have the ring of authenticity which we need now as we go...

I am fully aware that cricket is like a second religion in Pakistan.

A nation is an organic thing.

Democracy in Yemen did not stop, instead it is in a continuous development, there is no other way to follow rather than democracy, it is our national way for building up our country, it was not...

India of the ages is not dead nor has she spoken her last creative word; she lives and has still something to do for herself and the human peoples.

I look upon Switzerland as an inferior sort of Scotland.

There is, of course, only one chosen nation. But Abraham Lincoln would call America 'an almost chosen nation' because he believed that America had a providential role to play in history, inspired by...

There is much to justify Turkey's reverence for Ataturk. He is the force that allowed Turkey to rise from the ashes of defeat and emerge as a vibrant new nation.

It was not long before I was struck with the idea that baseball was just the game for a national sport for Americans.

When I talk to another Afghan I am his or her equal and that moves me to tears.

I'm resigned to the fact that the corseted history of America is not as exciting as that of Britain.

We are in really bad shape as a country. We are not respected around the world. We are not respected in our own country.