Federal government Quote by Neil Gaiman

“the only things that give it the illusion of being one country are the green-back, The Tonight Show, and McDonald’s.”

— Neil Gaiman

Different nations have different ways of forming their national identity. In America, for instance, the model was one of homogeneity breaking from different backgrounds,…

— Kabir Bedi

A nation is the same people living in the same place.

— James Joyce

Everybody has their own America, and then they have pieces of a fantasy America that they think is out there but they can't see.

— Andy Warhol

Culture Clash is a national treasure.

— Philip Kan Gotanda

We really are 15 countries, and it's remarkable that each of us thinks we represent the real America. The Midwesterner in Kansas, the black…

— Maya Angelou

A country is made not by policy alone, but by its music, its entertainment shows, all of it.

— Glenn Beck

You see a lot of people out there that say they're country, and they do their little things that are stereotypical country things, but…

— Luke Bryan

There's a lot going on in country music, with indie-label hipsters and underground bloggers arguing their interpretations of what country is, and pop-country stars…

— Sturgill Simpson

Anyway, culture and nation are partners, inextricable from each other. National culture and nation, they are reciprocities.

— Mark McMorris

Nationalism as we know it, is the result of a form of state-sponsored branding.

— Anonymous

For the most part, Americans speak of culture and politics as if they were two separate realms.

— Ellen Willis