Stephen Colbert Quotes

I think I'm a good Canadian, but I'm not the greatest Canadian.

Why do Canadians sell themselves short? I've never been able to answer that question.

I don't necessarily feel like I'm American. I wouldn't know what that feels like.

We're Americans. I don't consider us to be evil, I just don't think we know any better. We're a really young culture. We're hillbillies, and the rest of the world sees us that way. I travel all over the world, and probably the only worse rednecks than us are the Australians. And they're an even younger country.

But Americans are different from everyone else in the world - except the Canadians, and Americans are more different from the Canadians than they often think.

Canadian, adj. and n. An anti-American American.

Enough of the 'Canada is a modest country' boasts. Please. Just stop.

America is unique in the world. If you don't believe that, just ask someone from another country.

Most Americans are exceptionalists; we think we live outside of history.

I've always had a complex relationship towards my identity as an American.

Privately I think that I'm not really somebody who has a network television show. Celebrities are other people - Johnny Carson and Sylvester Stallone. I'm just a kid trying to make a living is the way I feel.

American gentlemen are a cross between English and French men, and yet really altogether like neither. They are more refined and modest than Frenchmen, and less manly, shy, and rough, than Englishmen. Their brains are finer and flimsier, their bodies less robust and vigorous than ours. We are the finer animals, and they the subtler spirits. Their intellectual tendency is to excitement and insanity, and ours to stagnation and stupidity.

Canadians are the people who learned to live without the bold accents of the natural ego-trippers of other lands.

I don't think as highly of myself as some people make me out to be. I am so far from arrogant, because I have been through enough to know that everything can go away in a moment. You know, I really don't understand why anyone would want to put me on a pedestal.

I've never felt more American than I did when I moved to England. It becomes a real kind of part of your identity: "Oh, Ben. He's the American guy." I think when you say you're from New York you get a different reception then if you just say, "I'm American." So I'd always kind of make sure I was a New Yorker first.

I'm not stereotypically Canadian. I don't really follow hockey. I don't feel like anything other than myself, basically.

Well, I don't think anyone now would say that they're painting the state of the culture of America. I think that's too grand and pompous a thing for anybody to claim.

You can call me whatever you want to call me, but I am an American. No one can take that away from me. No, no one can.

I don't feel like I have to be nationalistic French because I'm afraid of losing whatever. No, no, no, no. And also I don't think we are the best.

I don't know whether it is fortunate or unfortunate, but I have no such thing as national pride. I don't feel proud that I am Iranian. I happen to be who I am.

And I think Americans are phenomenal people.

It's very important to me that people see I am an American and I was born in the States.

My parents were French and Irish and our family even has Spanish blood-and I do so love the United States and consider myself part American.

The beginning of Canadian cultural nationalism was not 'Am I really that oppressed?' but 'Am I really that boring?'

It seems to me psychologically I'm a Canadian.