National Embarrassment Quotes

I'm terrified at the prospect of Donald Trump becoming president. I think he's disgusting, he's offensive. I think that it would be embarrassing for our country to have him sit down with world leaders and try and have a conference or even take a photo op. So we'll see what happens, but it's a very pivotal time in the U.S.

Because of the Republicans, I'm not ashamed of being an American. I'm embarrassed!

Berlusconi is no longer fit to lead our country.

The most demeaning experience any country ever had to bear.

I feel, for the first time, ashamed to be an American because we elected [Donald Trump].

Sweep from the nation’s capitol that foul blot upon our nation.

Donald Trump is an embarrassment to our nation. I mean, every single day you see something else that is an embarrassment to our nation. We can't allow that to happen, because it really is an affront on our democracy and we really do need to move forward.

As long as American liberals are going to keep announcing that they're embarrassed for their country, how about being embarrassed by our public schools or by our ridiculous trial lawyer culture that other countries find laughable?

Personally, I think what's happening in my beautiful country is embarrassing, but I also know that Trump doesn't speak for the majority of us.

I'm a Republican, but if I had my choice of running or having Obama - or somebody, but Obama, even Barack Obama - be a great president, the greatest president ever, I'd be so happy for the country. He doesn't have the capability to be a great president, and the world is laughing. We're like a joke. As a country, we're becoming like a joke. Everybody is ripping us off.

The failure to invest in our public transportation and public life, I think, is a scandal and a shame, and it should be a national embarrassment.

He is still the object of national ridicule ... nothing about him rises above the ordinary.

I will not resign, I will not commit suicide, I will not leave the country.

I feel non-stop Brit shame!

Classification is used, not to protect the national interest but to prevent national embarrassment.

It is an embarrassing time to be an American. It really is. It's humiliating.

The cheek of every American must tingle with shame as he reads the silly, flat, and dish-watery utterances of the man who has to be pointed out to intelligent foreigners as President of the United States.

The state of some of our roads is a matter of national embarrassment.

Well, Harry Reid and other members of congress, they're just furious over this Olympic uniform deal. He says we should burn the uniforms, and it's an embarrassment and a disgrace. Not as embarrassing as congress constantly borrowing money from the Chinese, but still embarrassing.

Obama is not embarrassing. The country is embarrassing.

Politicians often refuse to talk about things on the grounds of national security. Most of the time it’s not national security; it’s national embarrassment.

The Cowboys were never America's team any more than Anthony Weiner was America's congressman.

Not only have our citizens endured domestic disaster, but they've lived through one international humiliation after another, one after another. We all remember the images of our sailors being forced to their knees by their Iranian captors at gunpoint.