Zhu Rongji Quotes

We must think and act like a nation of a billion people and not like that of a million people. Dream, dream, dream!

Well, Australians should speak for the national interests of Australia, and whatever role former Australian prime ministers may have, one of the things you do is speak frankly about the country as you see the country's best interests, you know?

I am a subject of the British Crown, but whenever I have to choose between the interests of England and Canada it is manifest to me that the interests of my country are identical with those of the United States of America.

There's a civic nationalism in Britain and dozens of other countries.

If I'm the president, I will call in all the different political opinions to come together and to make one front to the benefit of Mexico.

I don't care what political party is controlling China right now. All I know is we are all Chinese.

Uncritical American boosterism - automatic endorsement of every government action - is myopic and self-defeating.

America is a unique place. The value part of American foreign policy is something I think is very laudable, but it is uniquely American. And it is part of what makes America special.

Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.

It is a hard and difficult thing to do to create a nation

The country is the people.

What, then, unites nations? Interest and sentiment.

Show me the race or nation without a flag, and I will show you a people without any pride.

I wish to be no less than national in all the positions I may take.

Let us abandon this narrow conception of patriotism, which consists of the doctrine, "My country right or wrong." There is a nobler doctrine, ... "My country must always be right.

The truth is that we want nothing so much as to be American. I for one would rather that we chucked it all and joined the United States and stop defying the law of politics and geography…. The reality is that Canadians are Americans already without many of the advantages.

The motherland is the common mother, the unity within which isolated the individuals penetrate and become enmeshed. It is the holy name that expresses the voluntary fusion of all interests into one interest, of all lives into one lasting and perpetual life.

A great aggregation of men, sane of mind and warm of heart, creates a moral consciousness which is called a nation

The representatives of the Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes declare a new and most categorically that our people constitutes but one nation, and that it is one in blood, one by the spoken and written language, by the continuity and unity of the territory in which it lives, and finally in virtue of the common and vital interests of its national existence and the general development of its moral and material life. The idea of its national unity has never suffered extinction, although all the intellectual forces of its enemy were directed against its unification, its liberty, and its national existence

For all the great purposes for which the Federal government was established, we are one people, with one common country, we are all citizens of the United States.

By "nationalism" I mean the habit of identifying oneself with a single nation or other unit, placing it beyond good and evil and recognising no other duty than that of advancing its interests.

A republic has been established, and our compatriots in Mongolia, Tibet, Qinghai and Xinjiang, who have always been a part of China, are all now Chinese citizens who are masters of their country.

I am against nationalists, but I am very much in favour of patriots.

Indian democracy's greatest strength is that we have always put the nation above politics.

It is my strong belief that the Chinese people are just as proud as we Americans are proud.