Mario Monti Quotes

You know, I'm Australian, and we have got the worst sense of humor. We are cruel to each other.

When I was growing up, I despised Irishness. I felt our music, our television and our books were just poor imitations of what came out of Britain and America. I was all set to abandon it entirely.

Come on, I'm from Iceland; I don't do hip-hop.

Our strength lies in the free development of national cultures. True internationalism is possible only if one has a profound respect for the dignity, honor, culture and history of each people.

A man's ethnic identity has more to do with a personal awareness than with geography.

The greatest guarantee for the preservation of a person’s identity is language and faith, and all Armenians must carry these two values.

We want American customs, habits, manners, dress, manufactures, modes of thought, modes of expression, and language. We should encourage national and even State peculiarities; for there are peculiarities and differences in the wants and situations of all people, that require provincial and national, not cosmopolitan, institutions and productions.

We used to have a view that to really be a good Australian, to love Australia, you almost had to cut your links with the country of origin. But I don’t think that was right and it never was right.

The greatest guarantee for the preservation of a person’s identity is language and faith, and all Armenians must carry these two values.

The fact is, I loved being English. I was very happy to be turned into an English schoolboy.

Being British, I don't want to be all paranoid and arrogant and think people are looking at me because, really, I'm nothing.

Growing up in Wales, there was a lot of fervour about being Welsh. But the more that I travelled, I realised that people aren't always interested in where you're from, but who you are.

We're Americans. It's a culture. We should defend that culture, and we should reinforce that culture.

National identity does not figure in the Tamil way of thinking.

When Pakistan beat England at cricket, my Pakistani cousins remind me how English and British I am. When they say, 'You're one of the Queen's advisers,' for them it's, 'Wow - anything's possible in the U.K.'

It is my strong belief that the Chinese people are just as proud as we Americans are proud.

When you're being earnest, people think you're being sarcastic, and when you're being sarcastic, they think you're being earnest. The moral in all this, of course, is that people should never attempt to communicate.

If I go to England, they know I'm not an Englishman, but most Americans think I'm English.

I find it very lucky to be an Indian and living in India.

It would be absurd to say I'm not British - you can hear it when I speak.

I grew up in an environment with virtually no Hispanics where you see only people in your culture in custodial jobs. I had a messed up image of what we bring to this nation. My father was known as a pioneering figure in Cuban music, but I still associated him with everything that was negative in my neighborhood. I could not have been more mistaken.

The 'garra charrua' is something we're proud of, even if other people sometimes misunderstand it.

I am extremely proud of my heritage, and I would never use being Dutch as an excuse but rather an explanation of our cultural differences.

I have the Mexican blood. I'm proud to be Mexican.

I feel totally French - I don't feel half-French because of my dual nationality. For me, dual nationality just means I don't deny my roots.