Al Horford Quotes

I'm asking the Israelis to choose their nationality. It doesn't mean that if they don't choose French nationality, they have to leave.

It's a complicated issue, but I define myself as an American, primarily.

I am not an African. I am an American.

We [native-born] could not choose, but they [immigrants] could and did choose to be Americans.

I was born in the U.S. This is my country.

It was very hard for me, for most of my life, to feel American, or call myself American, and that is a very complicated topic that would require a very long conversation.

I am so proud to be Ukrainian, and I'm also so proud to be an American.

I'm English. I've never said the opposite. I'm 100 per cent English. In Portugal it happens that a lot of Brazilians play for Portugal and they're not Portuguese.

I'm American by birth, but I consider myself Canadian.

China cannot pull in the best and brightest from all over the world. It's an ethnically defined nation, the opposite of an immigrant nation. You don't see a lot of American engineers trying to be Chinese citizens.

I've never felt British. I'm just not interested in national identity. I don't know why.

I don't think my work does reflect my nationality - I don't like the idea of nationalism.

Whether our forebears were strangers who crossed the Atlantic or the Pacific or the Rio Grande, we are here only because this country welcomed them in and taught them that to be an American is about something more than what we look like, or what our last names are, or how we worship.

The Africans know I'm not an African. I'm an American.

I am still an Indonesian citizen.

I love my country. And I would have to renounce my Spanish citizenship to become a U.S. Citizen.

I have a British passport, but the rest of my family have Indian passports, and I am Indian.

One of these days every person in Canada will be a Canadian.

A Canadian nationality—not French-Canadian, not British-Canadian, nor Irish-Canadian: patriotism rejects the prefix ... is what we should look forward to.

Nations have lost their old omnipotence; the patriotic tie does not hold. Nations are getting obsolete, we go and live where we will.

We can't restore our civilization with someome else's babies.

Tolerance has to be shown by those who come to this country for a new way of life. If you are not prepared to become Australian and give this country your undivided loyalty, obey our laws, respect our culture and way of life, then I suggest you go back where you came from.

I'm like half Brazilian and half American now.

I'm happy being Canadian and I'm proud of where I come from. So I'll keep my passport.

When I became an American citizen, nothing's changed because I'm still Asian.