Alexis Tsipras Quotes

I am proud of being a Greek of the diaspora.

I'm Greek, and we're conspiratorial by nature.

Africa's not a color - it's a place.

The country is the people.

Italy is a geographical concept.

My mother is from Greece: she comes from Vrahos, a small village in Kastoria.

It is great to be Greek, because I have one of the best heritages in the world.

I was born into a Greek family, and it was instilled in me not only to be passionate about the culture but also to be freaky loyal.

People often presume I'm from whatever country they're from. So Americans presume I'm American and the British presume I'm British. And they're surprised to discover I actually am Australian. And actually some Australians are surprised too.

Our nation's multiculturalism is what makes us so special as a nation.

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

Florida is a great microcosm of the country.

Representing Spain is very important.

Everybody since the '60s has been saying the nation is a fiction - the nation is an imaginary unity - but people didn't connect the dots and say all human endeavours sprang from the same principle.

I always say I represent my family when I'm in my country, but I represent my big family, which is Georgia, when I'm outside of my country.

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?

We have this powerful ideological basis to the country that I don't think any other country in the world quite can brag about. It's a very complicated nation, and it's very fertile.

I'm a Zionist who believes that every person has to have a country of their own.

Every nation has a flag.

Kenya is rapidly developing its industry and manufacturing, and its cultural identity as a new country. We had a humongous history pre-British, and when we were colonized and violently reshuffled, we had to decide who we were again. We couldn't rest on the stories and the cultures of our great-grandparents.

Donald Trump understands sense of belonging. And a lot of people think globalization, any time you make any particularity, you're sort of offending some other group. And a lot of people in this country think they belong to America anymore, and he at least appeals to some sense of belonging. I like the idea that we belong to Western traditions, so I'm glad he appeals to that sort of thing.

The Constitution is more than literature, but as literature, it is primarily a work of the imagination. It imagined a country: fantastic. More fantastic still, it imagined a country full of people imagining themselves.

It's the culture, not the blood. If you can go anywhere in the world and adopt these babies and put them into households that were already assimilated in America, those babies will grow up as American as any other baby with as much patriotism and love of country as any other baby. It's not about race. It's never been about race. In fact the struggles across this planet, we describe them as race, they're not race. They're culture based. It's a clash of culture, not the race. Sometimes that race is used as an identifier.

Freedom and diversity guard each other, and if a country could form the whole of one's character, Napoleon III and Victor Hugo would have been the same person... if national identity means anything, it means something that comes with you wherever you go, and stays with you no matter how long you stay away.

What is China but a people and their stories?