P. Chidambaram Quotes

Affirming belief that America is an exceptional nation has become a test of patriotism in American politics.

By a Party, With a Party, but for the Country.

I no longer know of political party, I only know Germans

The BJP doesn't believe in vote-bank politics. We believe India is above everything.

I haven't written too many political lyrics. Nor have I written any pro-Canada lyrics, any kind of jingoistic, nationalistic cant... That stuff doesn't interest me and I don't even know if I could write that if I tried because I don't really feel it.

I know it is very hard to rise above the influences of party prejudice. Often, it almost drowns the sentiment of patriotism. Party rancor and party hatred are the last serpents which the genius of patriotism can crush.

From being a patriotic myth, the Russian people have become an awful reality.

I'm surprised that we've gotten to a point where we don't put our country first and put our party first.

The only people I've ever heard saying that disagreeing with Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld is un-American or treasonous are people who disagree with Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld.

My commitment to the Republican movement was pure and simply patriotism, a love of Australia... a desire or passion that all of our national symbols should be unequivocally and unambiguously Australian.

I'm much more concerned about America than the Democratic Party.

I only follow one party: the Vietnamese party.

Democratic leaders always seem to blame America first.

But presidential approval also became a surrogate measure of national unity and patriotism.

Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.

It’s a little strange, this obsession with the flag. It’s incomprehensible to someone who comes from a country where the flag has, so to speak, disappeared, where any nostalgia and concern for it is a sign of an attachment to the past…

Liberalism is today charged in the mind of most Americans with nothing less than national, racial and spiritual treason.

It is nationalism which engenders nations, and not the other way round.

It is important not to confuse the national spirit with that of the faction which presently dominates…

The problem with some of our noisier exponents of 'American exceptionalism' is that they lack Reagan's moral maturity.

It's not always clear where a healthy patriotism shades into a dangerous nationalism.

I'm not BJP's servant.

My fidelity is to my country, not my political party. Country first.

You can't say you love your country and hate your government.

We have a secret weapon...it is called Nationalism