Suleyman Demirel Quotes

This sort of thing may be tolerated by the French, but we are British, thank God.

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

Anti-Americanism from abroad would not be such a problem if Americans were united in standing up for their own country.

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

I was a lot more cultured than the other kids in my high school. Because I traveled, I understood different cultures and had a more worldly view. Most of the people I went to high school with had never been outside of California.

People in the United Kingdom and outside the United States share my bemusement with the United States that America doesn't share with itself.

I believe in any country, matters that relate to its territory would, of course, provoke strong sentiments amongst the people of that country.

I really don't feel any strong allegiance to any country.

This is just the United States. All the rest of the countries, all over the world, are proud of Michael. It's here we have the most trouble out of them.

We travel to learn; and I have never been in any country where they did not do something better than we do it, think some thoughts better than we think, catch some inspiration from heights above our own.

Foreigners see in our society virtues that we have not seen and problems that we have not seen.

A nations loses its soul and spirit if it cannot act to protect its most basic interests and values.

Are we Uncle Sam or Uncle Sucker?

A nation is a body of people united by a corporate sentiment of peculiar intensity, intimacy and dignity, related to a definite home-country.

When the United States of America does things in its best interests, it is hated. I'm sorry, that just ticks me off.

I didn't realize how interesting the place I come from is until I left home and saw how other cultures handled things differently.

When I was a kid in my neighborhood, there was nobody that supported Belgium. It was impossible and unthinkable because there was nothing they could relate to.

I always needle a bit when people say I'm a champion of the Poles, because I've always had a very multinational view of Poland.

I think that may be the biggest difference between Americans and people elsewhere. Unlike Americans, Canadians know that there are places just as real as Canada. It's a self-centeredness that's a very strange thing.

There's just something about being English. When you travel the world you feel more grateful.

I think a lot of the time people assume that their values are universal. And they don't understand which aspects of their values are actually universal and which aspects are very specific.

America should do a reverse Columbus. The world no longer needs to discover America; but America urgently needs to discover the world's view of America.

Becoming involved in sports and traveling the world and seeing how people of color were treated around the world, and America being such a great nation, probably the greatest nation in the world, I think that the thing that would destroy this nation more than anything is the inequality that we have amongst people of color.

Americans don't speak foreign languages, by and large. Their interest in anything beyond the borders of the country is limited. A European of any cultivation has to speak a couple of languages; he inevitably without being very thoughtful about it gets to understand what other people think about him.