Julian Castro Quotes

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

Barack Obama wants to change America. Barack Obama wants America to be more like the rest of the world. We don't want to be like the rest of the world. We want to be the United States of America.

The 21st century is going to be the American century. Because we lead not only by the example of our power, but by the power of our example. That is the history of the journey of America.

I reject the notion that America is in a well-deserved decline, that she and her citizens are unexceptional. I do not believe America is the problem in the world. I believe America is the solution to the world's problems.

Ironically, since Obama was elected, for the first time in my life I'm sometimes not proud of my country.

Since the end of the Cold War, America has been grasping left and right for an identity.

If Obama commits thermonuclear war, I won't have to worry about November and neither will you.

I stand before you today as a disciplined conservative Texan, a committed Republican and a proud American, united with you to restoring our nation and revive the American dream.

We're red, white and blue, and President Obama, we are through with you.

Carter's hopes died when the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan and he ended up having to reverse policy and launch the military buildup that Reagan continued. Mr. Obama would be forced back into a war on terror if terrorist groups pull off enough damaging or frightening attacks to force this issue to the fore.

As an American, I grew up in an era where we led the world in everything. Everything!

George W. Bush was a very bad president. The Iraq war was a big mistake. The U.S.A. needed a political change. I hoped Barack Obama could be a good president, but I'm disappointed. He hasn't done well.

War is America's central liturgical act necessary to renew our sense that we are a nation unlike other nations.

Our nation was created in ways that allow human potential to prosper, and it created the greatest nation for people in the history of humanity. Now Obama is dismantling it, because he has no appreciation for our greatness. In fact, he resents it. He blames this country for whatever evils he sees around the world.

All great enterprises have a pearl of faith at their core, and this must be ours: that Americans are still a people born to liberty.

And so it was interesting for me to find myself very enamored of a Republican president, but Ronald Reagan was someone I thought captured the spirit of America.

If we have to start over again with another Adam and Eve, I want them to be Americans, not Russians.

America has saved the world.

We Americans are the peculiar, chosen people—the Israel of our time—we bear the ark of liberties of the world.

America is unique in the history of the world. During this last century, there was only one nation that laid down hundreds of thousands of lives of its own sons and daughters and asked for nothing for itself …. America is unique. You took no land from the Germans, no land from the Japanese. All you asked for was enough land to bury your dead.

From 1861, the Confederacy had the task of demonizing its foe as debased, abnormal, and vile. Southerners had to make themselves feel viscerally superior, and to convince themselves that their very existence depended on the formation of a separate country, free of Yankees. Confederates had to shield themselves from the odious charge of treason by fighting to preserve a core American identity that nineteenth-century northerners had “corrupted”.

America is not in decline.

Sometimes I wonder whether Washington's liberal politicians truly understand the greatness that is America.

America has long stood before the world as an exceptional country.

The State of the Union address is always a reminder of how unique America is.