Neil Sheehan Quotes

There's an appeal to the American sense of exceptionalism, that we're morally superior, as way to not be self-critical. I think that's a bit dangerous.

We’ve been an arrogant country.

Americans must outgrow the unbecoming arrogance that leads us to assert that America somehow owns a monopoly on goodness and truth - a belief that leads some to view the world as but a stage on which to play out the great historical drama: the United States of America versus the Powers of Evil.

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?

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

This self-congratulatory notion Americans have that their country is Number One is borne of ignorance and bad manners.

America is good enough for us.

Being an American means never having to say you're sorry.

We don't have to apologize for American exceptionalism or western values.

I'm a better American than 99% of the guys in the White House.

We're constantly told that all cultures are equal, and that every belief system is as good as the next. And it led to a kind of - and generally, that America was to be known for its flaws rather than its virtues.

The greatest thing that we can do for the world is be America.

Being proud and being nationalistic are, for me, completely different things.

I believe in America. I'm one of those silly flag wavers.

When you think of what Americans accomplished, building these amazing cities and all the good it's done in the world, it's kind of disheartening to hear so much hatred of America, not just from abroad, but internally.

I spend a good portion of my dinner-party conversation defending America because no matter what the political agenda, it's still a fantastic, amazing place.

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.

We ought to be beating our chests every day. We ought to look in the mirror, stick out our chests, suck in our bellies, and say, 'Damn, we're Americans,' and smile.

Americans believe with all their heart, the vast majority of them, and the vast majority of Floridians, that the United States of America is simply the single greatest nation in all of human history.

I am pro-American.

One of the great things and one of the horrible things about the American character is this extraordinary optimism and arrogance that everything will continue to be great and keep looking up.

Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.

If we have to start over again with another Adam and Eve, I want them to be Americans, not Russians.

Of all spells that could be cast on a nation, that of believing itself invincible was perhaps the one most profitable broken …

The United States is the only country with a known birthday. All the rest began, they know not when, and grew into power, they know not how. If there had been no Independence Day, England and America combined would not be so great as each actually is. There is no "Republican," no "Democrat," on the Fourth of July—all are Americans.