Marie Alexandra Victoria Quotes

Why in every instance should we be represented in any part of this world by any man who is not an American citizen?

When you begin to speak for a nation as big as ours, it seems to me that any one individual is undertaking an extremely difficult piece of work.

When you won that title you should know now that you are representing a whole country or nation with your actions and you are now in a glass house or under a microscope and you better be ready to make your people proud.

Quite simply, quite plainly, just by virtue of his being, Obama is America. The first true American to lead our nation.

Where is the true-hearted American whose cheek does not tingle with shame to see our highest and most courted foreign missions filled by men of foreign birth to the exclusion of the native-born?

The presidency is, in many ways, America's comment on itself; our collective national costume. In the occupant of our sole nationwide elected office, we see who we think we are, or who we want to be.

I've written before that the president is our national avatar - a stand-in for what we believe we are, or want to be.

The government should only have one voice so the country knows what we stand for, so the world knows what we stand for.

An ambassador is not simply an agent; he is also a spectacle.

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

I must represent France, and I want to be elegant, and I want the French people to be proud of me, you know.

You will never see President Bachmann step one toe out of the United States and apologize for this country.

The problems with First Ladies is that you have to set the standard. My role is to be both star and slave.

When the United States media is paying attention, that's when you're really representing your country.

The great men of a nation reach out to all mankind. They are unifying, not divisive; internationally conciliating and still great nationally.

The reason why I'm here today is to explain why I am running and what I will do if you give me the honor and the privilege of representing you in the United States Senate. Now I'm running for the United State Senate for a simple reason, and that is... I want to win a Nobel Peace prize.

You are not speaking for yourself, but for Ireland.

It's not enough to say that the Olympics is an athletic contest outside of politics, because it's not. The Chinese clearly are using the Olympics to recreate how they are viewed in the world and how they view themselves.

Why employ intelligent and highly paid ambassadors and then go and do their work for them? You don't buy a canary and sing yourself.

You’re Andy Hardy. You’re the United States. You’re a symbol. Behave yourself!

The thing I want most in an ambassador is that when he picks up the phone, you'll take the call.

When you first leave Uganda for Europe you think, ‘At last, I'm free to do what I want’. But when you arrive there, you become an African for the first time, in a sense. Because you are responsible for Somalia! They call you up and say, ‘What do you think about Somalia?’ And you can't say, ‘I'm Ugandan, I have nothing to say about Somalia’. You have this big, huge chunk of experience to defend --and you will defend it, because nobody else is defending it. You become some sort of an ambassador and for the first time you become conscious of what Africa means.

Politics is about wanting to be loved.

At home you always have to be a politician. When you're abroad you almost feel yourself a statesman.

Our great presidents have been stewards, men who broadly identified with the whole of America.