Exceptional Nation Quotes

#1. Affirming belief that America is an exceptional nation has become a test of patriotism in American politics.

Michael Ignatieff

#2. President Obama has made it his mission that we welcome our troops home with care and concern and the respect they deserve. That is how an exceptional nation says thank you to its most exceptional men and women.

John F. Kerry

#3. It's a path that grows government, restricts freedom and liberty and compromises those values, those Judeo-Christian, Western civilization values that made us such a great and exceptional nation in the first place.

Paul Ryan

#4. America is still the land of opportunity for most, but it is not a land of opportunity for all. If we are to remain an exceptional nation, we must close this gap in opportunity.

Marco Rubio

#5. Americans consider the United States an exceptional nation; so do the Chinese people think of their Middle Kingdom.

Patrick Mendis

#6. What makes America exceptional are the bonds that hold together the most diverse nation on earth.

Barack Obama

#7. A contract for better for worse is a contract that should not be tolerated.

George Bernard Shaw

#8. You see, as Americans we're not defined by class, and we will never be told our place. What makes our nation exceptional is that anyone, from any background, can climb the highest of heights.

Rick Perry

#9. No matter how many precautions we take, none of us are truly in control. Only God can claim that kind of authority. All we can do is use the good sense he provides and trust him to guide us.

Karen Witemeyer

#10. American exceptionalism? Exceptional at what? Waging wars against innocent people for fake reasons? Exceptional at what? Being addicted to pharmaceutical drugs that have people's minds wasted? Exceptional at what? Eating more junk food and becoming the most obese nation on Earth?

Gerald Celente

#11. My family members are vegetarians, but I like mutton and chicken seekh kebabs.

Suresh Raina

#12. I don't care what mistakes I made or what mistakes you made. I'd make every single one again, if that was the only way to be with you

Mary E. Pearson

#13. That's the way you have to be with boys," said Betsy. "Beam about their old football when you're dying to know whether they're going to take you to a party.

Maud Hart Lovelace

#14. One way in which Americans have always been exceptional has been in our support for education. First we took the lead in universal primary education; then the 'high school movement' made us the first nation to embrace widespread secondary education

Paul Krugman