Barack Obama Quotes

Don't sell America short.

I suspect that the Brits believe in British exceptionalism and the Greeks believe in in Greek exceptionalism.

Be proud, proud, proud to be an American.

I think, at the end of the day, we're Americans: that's what we are, and we believe in America.

You can't kill America. We're more than a nation. We're a notion. We're an idea. The American Dream. You never heard of the Afghanistani Dream have you. Except by bearded hermetic recluses with a fetish for uneducated women dressed as giant shuttlecocks.

Well, I had a small degree, that little infection of skepticism about America which resides in the minds of even America's closest friends. That America can't be quite as good as it says it is. And why does it need so relentlessly to keep saying how good it is?

I believe the United States is the greatest country on Earth. I really do.

Actually it's great to be an American. I love my country.

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

Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.

Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.

It's a deft trick to turn American exceptionalism into an exceptional political tactic.

I believe in American exceptionalism, just as I suspect that the Brits believe in British exceptionalism and the Greeks believe in Greek exceptionalism.

I am pro-American.

… all that loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism.

A country soon tires of the glories it has wrought.

We must be now and forever for Americanism and Nationalism and against Internationalism.

To stabilize America first To safeguard America first To prosper America first To think of America first To exalt America first To live for and revere America first.

You never can say too much in praise of your country and its inhabitants. Two nations in Europe are really almost ridiculous in their own exaggerated praises of themselves; these are the English and the French.

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

The less justified a man is in claiming excellence for his own self, the more ready he is to claim all excellence for his nation, his religion, his race or his holy cause.

We must return to the French the pride of being French.

I'm a Ford, not a Lincoln ... I am proud—very proud—to be one of 200 million Americans.

America has long stood before the world as an exceptional country.

I don't want to be another country. I want to be the United States of America, the greatest country in the world.