Gabriel Byrne Quotes

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

American exceptionalism is the recurring character in the nation's narrative.

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.

American cinema tends to express a patriotic relationship to national identity on a regular basis.

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

I am an American in every fiber of my body and in every heartbeat.

You may as well know that one American national trait which irritates many Americans and must be convenient for our critics is that we relentlessly advertise our imperfections.

Americans generally regard themselves as belonging to an exceptional nation. And in terms of living in a religiously tolerant and enormously diverse country, Americans can certainly take some justified pride.

Americans, perhaps more than most people, have pondered the question of who they are and what their country is.

I think, at the end of the day, we're Americans: that's what we are, and we believe in America.

I'm not ashamed of being American; I'm very proud.

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

One thing that America is objectively exceptional at is overreacting whenever anyone accuses them of not being exceptional.

We are Americans, and the future belongs to us.

American people have the ability to laugh at themselves. It is one of the things that makes this country the great country that it is.

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.

There's probably more in the American tradition than people give the place credit for.

Well, I had a small degree, that little infection of skepticism about America which resides in the minds of even America's closest friends. That America can't be quite as good as it says it is. And why does it need so relentlessly to keep saying how good it is?

Actually it's great to be an American. I love my country.

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

The notion of American exceptionalism is effective in part because there is little on the face of it that is offensive.

Bond reflected that good Americans were fine people and that most of them seemed to come from Texas.

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.