Akihito Quotes

Nations consist of people. And with their effort, a nation can accomplish all it could ever want.

It's time to put America at the front of all of our agendas and to find ways to work together on common ground.

We are not America. We are Afghanistan.

We Nigerians must reclaim our sovereignty, our civic entitlements.

National pride is to countries what self-respect is to individuals—a necessary condition for self improvement.

I suspect that the Brits believe in British exceptionalism and the Greeks believe in in Greek exceptionalism.

It's going to take every American playing on the same team - and everyone trying to be the best version of themselves - to make America great.

It is my strong belief that the Chinese people are just as proud as we Americans are proud.

I've got nothing against America, but I went over there a couple of times and didn't really like it. I mean, not that I like England that much, but it's somewhere to live.

We are Englishmen; that is one good fact.

Japan is a great nation. It should begin to act like one.

France will always be France no matter what, but America involves striving toward an ideal.

I always say that I'm not the director, I'm part of the team.

The achievements we forge in this place and in our nation will not be those of one person or one party.

There's a civic nationalism in Britain and dozens of other countries.

I believe in American exceptionalism, just as I suspect that the Brits believe in British exceptionalism and the Greeks believe in Greek exceptionalism.

If a man is going to be an American at all let him be so without any qualifying adjectives, and if he is going to be something else, let him drop the word American from his personal description.

A team is a team.

There's intense national feeling in America that could be called patriotism.

China no longer has an ideology that makes any sense to them, but what they do have is great pride in the Chinese nation.

I prefer people to see me as an Ivorian and as a patriot.

In this war I am completely English.

Show me the race or nation without a flag, and I will show you a people without any pride.

Let us all work for the nation that is yet to be but which yet must be.

National cultures and heritages must compete for man's attention with the mind-absorbing advances of universal science.