Robbie Robertson Quotes

Designs in connection with postage stamps and coinage may be described, I think, as the silent ambassadors on national taste.

We cannot put the face of a person on a stamp unless said person is deceased. My suggestion, therefore, is that you drop dead.

You won't see my parents honored on any stamps.

It is obvious I shall have to abandon my hopes of getting the Queen's head off the stamps.

It's almost un-American to say that you want to change football.

Bottom line: this is the United States. And we speak English here.

It's not a hard sell to be asked to do something in Ireland.

I'm so tired of people saying you have to look a certain way to be American.

I'm sure there's some sort of cynicism or fatalism in Ireland and England. We are fatalistic here, and sometimes we need to be shaken out of that.

In America, we may acknowledge Washington and Lincoln as great men, and probably Franklin and Jefferson and maybe Franklin Delano Roosevelt and possibly even several more, but we would probably disagree about precisely what it was that made them great, what it was that enabled them to give a lasting direction to the course of events.

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

'Authentic' is one of my least favourite words because in such a diverse country, whose authenticity are you talking about?

I don't aspire to be a sex icon, I don't know why anyone would. It's an uncomfortable position to put yourself in... it's something that we all haven't really made our minds up about, and that's why we find it all so interesting.

Americans are locked into our traditions.

We live in a society that has ever-changing values and ever-changing standards and ever-changing criteria to determine who is a superstar or not. If you want to be a superstar, if you want to main event, if you want to profit in the entertainment business, you have to go with those trends and spearhead new trends.

I think it's a disgrace that we're allowing extreme voices in this country to erase our proud heritage.

I think it's a disgrace that some would allow extreme voices in this country to erase our proud heritage.

America has no monuments to ideas; her monuments are erected to individuals.

Every country is different, every league is different - all the culture.

Washington and Lincoln mean as much to us as any two men could mean to a civilization, a people, and age, but I told Mr. Coolidge when he dedicated this monument that this rock is being carved with a monument that will outlive our government.

I think too many obituaries have been written about me.

Every country has its own culture and sensitivities.

My problem is that I'm negative - I come from Romania. Romanians are a little bit negative in thinking. Everyone knows that. That's normal here.

The president is the high priest of what sociologist Robert Bellah calls the 'American civil religion.' The president must invoke the name of God (though not Jesus), glorify America's heroes and history,quote its sacred texts (the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution), and perform the transubstantiation of pluribus unum.

Why are stamps adorned with kings and presidents? That we may lick their hinder parts and thump their heads.