Eric Garcetti Quotes

… if we are a national party, it must be, as I think, because we profess a truly national creed.

Every nation has a vision it lives for and is prepared to make all sacrifices. One may call it National purpose, … It is something which does not change. If it changes, a nation dies. It is supreme and therefore the nation acts and reacts with the limits laid down by it. It is the vision which allows a nation to build its future.

It is a hard and difficult thing to do to create a nation

We are all here now and we have to solve our differences and live together as Australians... I will use the title you have honoured me with to bring the Australian people together... Together we can build a remarkable country, the envy of the rest of the world.

We're Americans. We shape our own future. Let's start by standing up for President Barack Obama.

The nation... doesn't simply need what we have. It needs what we are.

Patriotism is strong nationalistic feeling for a country whose borders and whose legitimacy and whose ethnic composition is taken for granted.

Our flag is not just one of many political points of view. Rather, the flag is a symbol of our national unity.

Our belief in ourselves as a nation will perish.

Jolt a country’s pride and even the reformers will support the nation

If we want the Republic to be solid, we must first build its foundation. We need not look abroad for this foundation; we should seek it in the hearts of all the people of the nation.

We can remember what brings us together as a country.

The national team means you have the nation behind it.

We'll do it right. You'll be proud of our country again.

Stay with us, please remain in this country and constitute a nation based on national unity.

Patriotism is the secret resource of a successful society.

Anti-Americanism from abroad would not be such a problem if Americans were united in standing up for their own country.

Speaking for the nation as a whole entails understanding and feeling the pain, as well as understanding the aspiration of the different cultural, social and political make-up of the nation.

I don't believe in nationalism. I think it's a bunch of slogans. It's a bunch of poor attempts at creating pride. My problem with nationalism is that it becomes exclusionary. We start to exclude people.

The grandeur and strength or our people and democracy are as big as a forest.

A good nationalism has to depend on a principle of the common people, on myths of a struggling commonality.

Great countries are those that produce great people.

We, the people. Manifest Destiny. Conceived in liberty. Fear itself. Ask not. Morning in America. United we stand. Yes, we can. In times of great change and tumult, presidents seek to inspire beleaguered Americans by reminding them of their national identity.

To have united the purposes of an entire Nation, is the great historical achievement of the man in whose strong hands our President has placed the fate of our people.

My question about everything I do is, does it make our country stronger?