Jim Courier Quotes

No nation is so lost to pride as to submit the conduct of its internal affairs to the arbitrament of foreign powers.

I'll always be American in my world view and allegiance. American in the naive way I go to other countries and tell them how they should treat their poor or clean their water.

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.

So you had to rev your engines, to beat the Russians and I think more than anything, if the Soviet team would win, or the Soviet athletes would win, you would see and hear and read about that. Quite frequently. So they would make a big issue of it.

Japan is a great nation. It should begin to act like one.

I feel like the people from Iceland have a different relationship with their country than other places. Most Icelandic people are really proud to be from there, and we don't have embarrassments like World War II where we were cruel to other people.

As a people, we know what we can do, we know how to do it, and we just want to get on with it. How? By ensuring that Canada's place in the world is one of influence and pride.

Each particular society begins to feel its strength, whence arises a state of war between different nations.

Anytime you've played in a place and you get a win against your old team, it feels good.

There tends to be a jealousy in England towards countries that are successful.

It's like Canada is the little brother to the United States and one day they are going to show the world they're just as cool as their successful big brother.

I've been proud to be national champion. I've really enjoyed it. I have very little opportunity to remind people that I'm British and it's a nice way of staying in touch. I'm going to defend it fiercely. I want to keep it.

It's not enough to say that the Olympics is an athletic contest outside of politics, because it's not. The Chinese clearly are using the Olympics to recreate how they are viewed in the world and how they view themselves.

America is good enough for us.

There's a lot of egos in these countries, like the French, the Germans, et cetera, and so they keep funding and rehabilitating Yasser Arafat.

I never apologize for the United States of America. I don't care what the facts are.

You do not understand the honor of France!

Russia doesn’t like it when it is humiliated, when it is pressured.

It is from the pride and ambition of rulers and the ignorance of the people that wars arise.

Are we Uncle Sam or Uncle Sucker?

There can be no such thing as offending national honor. One may offend national pride or injure national interest.

Peace and harmony with all nations is our sincere wish; but such being the lot of humanity that nations will not always reciprocate peaceable dispositions, it is our firm belief that effectual measures of defense will tend to inspire that national self-respect and confidence at home which is the unfailing source of respectability abroad, to check aggression and prevent war.

how very warlike the French are … if once roused, they will not listen to the calm reasoning of those who wish for peace, or think of the great risk they run of losing by war, but only of the glory and of revenging insult, as they call it.

Sports are trivial compared to matters of war and peace, but some parallels apply.

I don't respond well to the Olympic noise, which is the noise of nationalistic triumphalism.