Rory Stewart Quotes

I don't know whether it is fortunate or unfortunate, but I have no such thing as national pride. I don't feel proud that I am Iranian. I happen to be who I am.

The beginning of Canadian cultural nationalism was not 'Am I really that oppressed?' but 'Am I really that boring?'

The good thing about India is that they believe something great about themselves.

John Hartson, he speaks fluent Welsh and has the tattoos all over him to prove his Welshness. But in my own world, no one is more Welsh than myself.

I've always had a complex relationship towards my identity as an American.

I know my own heart to be entirely English.

Tell me, why is the media here so negative? Why are we in India so embarrassed to recognise our own strengths, our achievements? We are such a great nation. We have so many amazing success stories but we refuse to acknowledge them. Why?

I do consider myself as being French, I suppose.

All of nationalism can be understood as a kind of collective narcissism.

China no longer has an ideology that makes any sense to them, but what they do have is great pride in the Chinese nation.

I see myself as British, and I want to be celebrated by Britain.

My great grandparents are Scottish, and I have this very tenuous connection which I try and bump up whenever I can, because I'd much rather be Scottish than English.

I prefer people to see me as an Ivorian and as a patriot.

French are what they are without excusing themselves to be.

I am Indian, and I'm proud of it. Indian life is mythologically rich and powerful.

Chile isn't the biggest, richest or most powerful country in the world, but we should dedicate ourselves to transforming it into the best country in the world. We don't have a single minute to lose.

I'm as proud to be Chinese as I am American.

Since Reagan there has been this tradition, which has become a cliche, of promising morning in America, this fake optimism, we're the best, the city on the hill. In fact the great American task is self-scrutiny.

Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America is the only idealistic nation in the world.

No people can live in the past - not even in its own past. But if it no longer has a link with its history, it must of necessity perish. Persia, crowded with hardship and glory, ordeals and hopes. With the help of the Almighty, the lessons of the past constitute the best guide for the citizens of the future.

People who speak different languages, they are watching the movie from our language. So, I think all of us should be proud as nation and as cinema lovers.

I'm a patriot, but I'm also a European. I think the two go together.

I have Chinese blood in me... I am not ashamed to admit that perhaps the great leaders of our country all have Chinese blood.

Being British, I don't want to be all paranoid and arrogant and think people are looking at me because, really, I'm nothing.

I don't really want the kind of Englishness that I have represented.