Matteo Salvini Quotes

'Singaporeans first' is different from saying 'Singaporeans only.'

I am proud to be Italian because I was born in Italy, I grew up in Italy, I went to school in Italy and I have worked in Italy. I'm Italian.

I have the Italian flag embroidered onto all my dress-shirt cuffs. I am very proud to be Italian.

I sing the Italian anthem with all my soul, with my whole body.

The unattractive thing about chauvinism is not so much the aversion to other nations as the love of one's own.

The nationalist has a broad hatred and a narrow love.

There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism…. The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities.

National glory is a deceiving seducer. When it reaches a certain height, it clasps the head with an iron band. The enclosed sees nothing in the mist but his own picture; he is susceptible to no foreign impressions.

No car with my name on the hood is going to have a Jap engine inside.

America must be kept American

Italy should be great, respected, and feared.

The reality is when you make 'America First' a bumper sticker and pump it overseas, what you're telling them is 'America Only'.

A waning United States would likely be more nationalistic, more defensive about its national identity, more paranoid about its homeland security, and less willing to sacrifice resources for the sake of others' development.

Why is Mexican nationalism a good thing, but putting American interests first needs defending?

People who think of a nationalist party sometimes think 'inward-looking and parochial.' The kind of nationalism I represent is the opposite of that.

There is a lot of learned material written about nationalism - scholarly books and papers, histories of it, theories of it - but most of us understand that nationalism, at its heart, at its very deepest roots, is about a feeling of superiority: We are better than you. Our country is better than your country.

I recognize only one community: the national one.

The citizens of Israel come first.

I am proud of my Italian heritage, and nothing I have said should be interpreted as an attempt at minimizing its value.

I was really upset because I was branded as an enemy alien when I'm an American.

I believe we should always put our country first.

I sound like a racist, a benighted man or a xenophobe, but I'm motivated by love for my country and the knowledge that I don't have another country.

For some people, the definition of who is and who isn't an American defies logic, historical accuracy, common sense, decency, good manners, the milk of human kindness, enjoyment in the good things in life, and love of good food.

If saying 'Italians first' is xenophobic, then I don't know what to say.

Xenophobia is dangerous, but patriotism is a good thing.