Keith Ellison Quotes

I'd like to say is that I am a patriotic, loyal American. I love my country and the values that it stands for. And I am a Muslim.

You may call me selfish if you will, conservative or reactionary, or use any other harsh adjective you see fit to apply, but an American I was born, an American I have remained all my life.

We certainly love the Muslim people. But that is not the faith of this country. And that is not the religion that built this nation. The people of the Christian faith and the Jewish faith are the ones who built America, and it is not Islam.

There are millions and millions of patriotic Muslim Americans.

The average American is nothing if not patriotic.

I am an American in every fiber of my body and in every heartbeat.

The Americans combine the notions of religion and liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive of one without the other.

I was born an American; I will live an American; I shall die an American!

I am an Orngeman first and a politician and Member of Parliament afterwards…. In the South they boasted of a Catholic State…. All I boast is that we are a Protestant Parliament and a Protestant State.

I have declared my loyalty to Americana.

First and foremost is what this country was based on: one nation under God.

You can call me whatever you want to call me, but I am an American. No one can take that away from me. No, no one can.

Bond reflected that good Americans were fine people and that most of them seemed to come from Texas.

Americans want our leaders to defend our values, our culture, our legacy of liberty and our way of life, not apologize.

Who cares about that stuff? This is America, not Jerusalem. I'm an American. Let Harry be a Jew.

I'm obviously not an advocate of Christian America or a simplistic view of America as 'a city on a hill.'

Our nation was created in ways that allow human potential to prosper, and it created the greatest nation for people in the history of humanity. Now Obama is dismantling it, because he has no appreciation for our greatness. In fact, he resents it. He blames this country for whatever evils he sees around the world.

I am pro-American.

I think Americans are very patriotic.

I'm just confused as to where we lost that in America because it is everyone's God-given right to think the way they think and that's fine. That's why our ancestors came here to America, to believe what they want, pray how they want and follow a religion with whoever they want.

The Pledge of Allegiance is an important expression of our shared values, and it should be preserved in its current form. I fully support the Pledge of Allegiance and urge my colleagues to do the same.

America is good enough for us.

Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.

I want to see the United States become a Muslim country.

This is a Christian nation.