Paul Mooney Quotes

I truly appreciate the special qualities that America and American national myths offer me.

I'm an all-American girl.

You may call me selfish if you will, conservative or reactionary, or use any other harsh adjective you see fit to apply, but an American I was born, an American I have remained all my life.

Actually it's great to be an American. I love my country.

In a sense I've made the same film over and over again. In all of them I've asked, 'Who are we as Americans?

The most American thing in America

I want America to be more like America, if you will. I want the songs, that patriotism we have.

Americans, perhaps more than most people, have pondered the question of who they are and what their country is.

I can tell you the flag we get behind. It's the American flag.

To me, there's two symbols for Team U.S.A.: the national anthem and the American flag.

My fiction occupies, actually, the very heart of American culture: this eternal question and struggle of what it means to be an American.

[Donald Trump] is his own man - distinctly American. And where else would an independent spirit like his find a following than in the land of the free and the home of the brave?

The American way of life is not negotiable.

The true meaning of America, you ask? It's in a Texas rodeo, in a policeman's badge, in the sound of laughing children, in a political rally, in a newspaper... In all these things, and many more, you'll find America. In all these things, you'll find freedom. And freedom is what America means to the world. And to me.

The American flag is the symbol of our freedom, national pride and history.

I just bought a Jeep painted like an American flag. No one better question how patriotic I am.

You can call me whatever you want to call me, but I am an American. No one can take that away from me. No, no one can.

I'm an American, and always will be. I happen to love that big, awkward, sprawling country very much - and its big, awkward, sprawling people.

I'm basically a homegrown American.

We, the people. Manifest Destiny. Conceived in liberty. Fear itself. Ask not. Morning in America. United we stand. Yes, we can. In times of great change and tumult, presidents seek to inspire beleaguered Americans by reminding them of their national identity.

This is the America we know because we built it.

It's very important to me that people see I am an American and I was born in the States.

I believe in America. I'm one of those silly flag wavers.

What makes America special is that people come here, assimilate and become American with all of the rights and responsibilities citizenship bestows.

America is the sum of all our journeys as we search for our national community and our national culture.