Richard Holbrooke Quotes

I truly appreciate the special qualities that America and American national myths offer me.

I love the American way of life.

The United States is a giant island of freedom, achievement, wealth and prosperity in a world hostile to our values.

What the world needs now is more Americans. The U.S. is the first nation on earth deliberately dedicated to letting people choose what they want and giving them a chance to get it.

I have grown up in the bright light of America.

What is worst about America was acted out. What is best in America doesn't export.

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

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.

Only Americans can say, My homeland is freedom.

This is the story of America. Everybody's doing what they think they're supposed to do.

We don't need a new idea; the idea is called America, and it still works.

America's greatness is not found in the size of its government. America's greatness resides in the hearts and the minds of the people.

For me, the country where I feel good, where I feel in harmony with the lifestyle and fundamental values, is the United States - more than any other country.

This is the America we know because we built it.

The spirit of America has nurtured responsibility and community unlike any other country.

Our Founding Fathers would be proud of all that America has achieved, and will continue to achieve, in the coming years.

I have great faith in the United States. It's the only country I would ever live in.

I am privileged to be a citizen of the single greatest society in all of human history.

I'm not an American but I have always had the outsiders' respect for the American people and the American way.

America, I like the spirit. Because American people here believe in something. I like that spirit.

I guess you could say I'm what this country is all about.

The strength of America is not in Washington.

Throughout the world, our insistence on individual freedom and opportunity has been at the bottom of what people think when they hear the very word 'American.'

America is not to be Rome or Britain. It is to be America.

Don’t apologize for your values. Tell the world why you are proud of America …. Being American means being free …