Ashley Jensen Quotes

It almost seems that nobody can hate America as much as native Americans. America needs new immigrants to love and cherish it.

No encouragement must be given to social and political organizations or methods which perpetuate in this country foreign ideas and customs. An Irish-American, a German-American, or a French-American vote is an intolerable anomaly.

I want to live in a Britain whose residents are determined to speak English.

In this country we have no place for hyphenated Americans.

Although I don't have anything against people from other countries, the higher the influx into England the more the British identity disappears.

My mum made a conscious decision not to teach me any Indian languages so I wouldn't talk with an accent.

California must be all American or all Chinese. We are resolved that it shall be American, and are prepared to make it so.

I don't think it is wrong, racist, immoral or anything, for a country to say 'we will decide what the cultural identity and the cultural destiny of this country will be and nobody else.’

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.

America must be kept American

We can't restore our civilization with someome else's babies.

Don Cornelius gave me an incredulous look regarding my accent. I lessened it; he gave a nod of approval. Instantly, I felt ashamed. I had made my first conscious effort not to sound ethnic.

We would like to preserve Europe for Europeans.

Koreans are worried about the Japanese right-wing people, who tend to be against foreigners. But the Koreans in Japan aren't even foreigners. They are essentially culturally Japanese. If a family has lived in Japan for three generations, it's absurd to see them as foreigners.

We will not allow to become a political issue in this country the question of Asianisation.

Go back home where you came from. This country is mine, and I intend to stay here and to raise this country full of grown people.

Try and fit in in a New Zealand playground with an Armagh accent - it doesn't work.

For a writer only one form of patriotism exists: his attitude toward language.

I'm three quarters Scottish, but I sound English. I don't really see British as a race.

The American attitude is 'We're the best'. That's why the NBA guys who come from other countries, the Europeans, all sort of stick together away from the game.

Well-meaning Europeans sometimes argue that unlike the U.S., their countries are traditionally 'homogeneous' and have little experience with immigration.

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.

There's this accent that I think everybody has when they grow up going to an international school. It's a mix of not quite English, not quite American. When I moved to L.A., it just went completely American.

It's a complicated issue, but I define myself as an American, primarily.

All my friends had grandparents who had accents. I thought all grandparents were supposed to have accents. My friends were all second-generation, as I was.