John Lithgow Quotes

But this country is a great country and will always rebound.

I think Americans want to believe in this country again.

It may be the optimist in me, but I think America has a uniquely powerful and capacious glue internally. The American identity has always been ethnically and religiously neutral, so within one generation you have Italian-Americans, Irish-Americans, Chinese-Americans, Jamaican-Americans - they feel American. It's a huge success story.

We live in a great country. It's time again to get religion about it.

We're Americans - in times of crisis, we step up.

Schools exist in America and have always existed to train responsible citizens of the United States of America. If they don't do that, it's very hard to hold us together as a country, because it's shared values that hold us together.

The country is the people.

We are all Americans, sir.

When your country is in dire straits, it doesn't matter whether you're a social democrat or not.

Our nation must come together as only Americans can.

Americans are a quarter of a billion people who have almost nothing in common except for the fact they've been told they have lots in common.

America needs a big idea that plays to its strength. It should look to national service.

I truly believe we can be the greatest nation on Earth.

I love Americans, and I believe in this country.

I want people to be confident in our country again.

There's something really beautiful about people from all different walks of life... who are bound together by this big idea about American identity and American unity and American interests.

Watching everybody have such a fantastic time, loving life, loving America - I wish that was the feeling year-round, that it didn't take the Fourth of July for us to be like, 'Yeah, America is awesome.'

We can remember what brings us together as a country.

I think we all [americans] think we're a special country. But the question is, what - what call does that give us?

Things have not changed as much as we would like to think they have. Or maybe we're just in another one of the divided moments in the country. The late '60s certainly was one of them, the Civil War being another, but I'm hard-pressed to think of too many.

You can't let the debate of the day mask the fact that Canadians care deeply in their country. Including Quebecers - from all origins and language. Quebecers care deeply about their country. The idea of Canada and its unity is not something that is set in stone forever, or that is solved. We need to always work towards building this country.

I think there's going to be a tug of war in this country over who are the real patriots because at a time of national crisis, economic collapse and calamity, ecological peril and social dislocation, the American people deserve to be a partner to the American government.

Those who seem to despise half of America will never be trusted to govern any of it. Those who cherish only the country's past will not be entrusted with its future.

We have room in this country for but one flag, the Stars and Stripes!

I am not crazy. I am not a man that hates this country in which I was born. I want to see you get past what you are facing. America is facing that which will destroy her as a nation and break her power completely.