Charles Kennedy Quotes

I find no contradiction between being a Highlander, a Scot, a citizen of the U.K. and a citizen of the European Union at one and the same time.

Like a lot of expatriate Scots, when you want to be called Scottish, it's useful. I see myself as being without nationality, as a European: my region is Scotland; my nationality is European - isn't that a very Alex Salmond thing to say?

But I don't think of myself as a foreigner or a Frenchman! I just think of myself as a director. Whether I'm French or Australian or whatever, it's really not important.

I've never felt British. I'm just not interested in national identity. I don't know why.

I am neither German or French but European.

We Europeans will always have two fatherlands. One is Europe, and the other is our own country. It is unified in its diversity—this Europe.

I'm a patriot, but I'm also a European. I think the two go together.

I have two passports because I have to have at least one, and I really don't know how I define myself. And I feel that as I get older, I feel very fortunate to have, on paper, a dual nationality.

I'm not British. I'm not American. I'm not French. Whatever thing they practise, that is their business. I am an African. I am Rwandese.

I'm proud to be Canadian. But I identify as being a British mum.

If pressed, I would say I feel British. It's where I grew up and where I choose to live, the culture that I love, but I feel perfectly at home in America, I don't feel like a tourist or anything.

I'm proud of being from Hawaii, and I'm proud of being Hawaiian, but I'm more than that, too.

I'm three-quarters Russian, so I've always felt an outsider. But I don't think you can be in a play with John Of Gaunt's 'This sceptred isle' speech and not feel proud to be British.

It's my country but I don't want to know about France - I was born there but I feel English.

I don't know whether it is fortunate or unfortunate, but I have no such thing as national pride. I don't feel proud that I am Iranian. I happen to be who I am.

My parents were French and Irish and our family even has Spanish blood-and I do so love the United States and consider myself part American.

I am a citizen of the world, and also a citizen of Ukraine.

I'm 50% Asian actually, so yes I was born in Paris but I feel more international than French so I can't talk about French women.

But I don't think of myself as a foreigner or a Frenchman! I just think of myself as a director.

I see myself as British, and I want to be celebrated by Britain.

I love the 6 Nations rugby. I feel very Scottish then. I feel very Scottish now, sitting in the middle of Chelsea. But that's part of our heritage - being part of Britain, part of Europe. I love being European.

I don't feel that I'm strictly Danish; I don't feel that my sense of humor is strictly Danish or my human sensibility is strictly Danish.

Therefore one should speak at the same time of national citizenship and wider European citizenship.

I'm more Filipino than I am German. I guess I shouldn't be ashamed to say that.

We are in Europe, and we want a Europe that does few things and does them well, one that recognizes people's identities, languages, etc.