Najib Mikati Quotes

By "nationalism" I mean the habit of identifying oneself with a single nation or other unit, placing it beyond good and evil and recognising no other duty than that of advancing its interests.

It is not worth it to sacrifice the interest of the country for the sake of my son.

To have acted otherwise ... would have been the betrayal of the interests of the United States.

If the way to do good to my country were to render myself popular, I could easily do it. But extravagant popularity is not the road to public advantage.

The true patriot is motivated by a sense of responsibility and out of self-interest for himself, his family, and the future of his country to resist government abuse of power. He rejects the notion that patriotism means obedience to the state.

I come from election, I come from the people. I owe gratitude to our people. I do everything for the good of the country and the people.

Whatever initiatives we launch, we must always put the interests of Singaporeans and Singapore first.

Here's a little newsflash for those reporters and commentators: I'm not going to Washington to seek their good opinion. I'm going to Washington to serve this great country.

I am Lebanese, and I know the interests of my country.

My approach to politics is that I'm not a Democrat or a Republican. I'm an American and I always support candidates I think are great for the country.

Publicity and openness, honest and complete -- that is the prime condition for the health of every society, and ours, too. The man who does not want them in our country is indifferent to his fatherland and thinks only about his own gain.

We prefer the well-being of our country over the well-being of an individual or group.

Public before private and country before family.

The politician, who measures the interests of his country by her preponderance in the scale of empire, regards all consideration of individual happiness as a weakness.

… my kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its office-holders. The country is the real thing, the substantial thing, the eternal thing; it is the thing to watch over, and care for, and be loyal to; institutions are extraneous.

Let our object be, our country, our whole country, and nothing but our country.

I am against nationalists, but I am very much in favour of patriots.

I believe all of us want to do good for our country.

None of us has any personal interest above the interests of the country. Our country is more important than our careers.

I can assure you that my first and foremost interest is my country.

If you're asked, you've got to serve - put aside any reservations based on campaign rhetoric... and figure out what's best for the country.

I'm going to put the interests of the nation first.

My job is to do the best possible job for my country, and I wouldn't want someone else telling me what I should be doing in Canada.

South Africa must come first in everything we do.

Captain America is an interesting character because it makes you ask those questions in yourself as a writer. What do we want as a nation, what do we mean as a nation, what is our role in the world as a nation? What are our strengths and weaknesses as a country?