Blase J. Cupich Quotes

I have a great belief in the future of my people and my country.

Change is a process: future is a destination. People want a sense of hope, possibility and pride about Britain.

I tend to be a great optimist when it comes to the United States and the American way of life, I think precisely because I wasn't born into it.

I'm interested in what it means to be an American. I'm interested in what it means to live in America. I'm interested in the kind of country that we live in and leave our kids. I'm interested in trying to define what that country is.

France will always be France no matter what, but America involves striving toward an ideal.

There's a civic nationalism in Britain and dozens of other countries.

I am convinced we shall succeed. I have faith in this country, because I have faith in its people.

I am an optimist about America.

I'm optimistic about the country; I'm optimistic about the American people.

Americans... still believe in an America where anything's possible - they just don't think their leaders do.

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.

Show me the race or nation without a flag, and I will show you a people without any pride.

Nationhood is not founded on religion but blood ties, a common culture and homeland.

No one’s ever made money betting against America.

A nation is a body of people united by a corporate sentiment of peculiar intensity, intimacy and dignity, related to a definite home-country.

We Americans have always felt a special kinship with the future.

The U.S. is an optimistic nation. No candidate has ever won the American presidency by speaking primarily to people's deepest fears and by manufacturing a sense of apocalypse - that our leaders 'can't do anything right,' that things are utterly falling apart.

Some days, I don't recognise my country, and other days, I see people being vocal and passionate, and I think, 'There's my country.'

We're a nation of hope, of high ideals.

Americans, perhaps more than most people, have pondered the question of who they are and what their country is.

This country has a wonderful spirit.

I believe in America. I believe in Americans.

There's no question I am an idealist, which is another way of saying 'I am an American.'

God bless the America we are trying to create.

I am proud of Russia and I am sure that the vast majority of Russian citizens have great love and respect for their Motherland. We have much to be proud of: Russian culture and Russian history. We have every reason to believe in the future of our country. But we have no obsession that Russia must be a super power in the international arena. The only thing we do is protecting our vital interests.