American Quote by Pete Buttigieg

Being an American is about having the right to be who you are. Sometimes that doesn't happen.

— Herb Ritts

If you call yourself an American that means that you have embraced the constitution, because that is what an American is. A citizen of…

— Scott Ritter

Up until the point that you're a citizen, we wanna continue to make sure we understand who you are and why you're here.

— Kirstjen Nielsen

Citizenship is a tough occupation which obliges the citizen to make his own informed opinion and stand by it.

— Martha Gellhorn

I think the most un-American thing you can say is, 'You can't say that.

— Garrison Keillor

Citizenship to me is more than a piece of paper. Citizenship is also about character. I am an American. We're just waiting for our…

— Jose Antonio Vargas

I am still baffled by those who feel that criticizing America is unpatriotic, a view increasingly being adopted in the United States since 9/11…

— Jane Fonda

I don't feel American. I do feel like a New Yorker. I think there's a real distinction there. A city allows you to become…

— Salman Rushdie

Citizenship is an attitude, a state of mind, an emotional conviction that the whole is greater than the part...and that the part should be…

— Robert A. Heinlein

Being an American is something we need to learn and understand.

— Eric Metaxas

Citizens by birth or choice of a common country, that country has a right to concentrate your affections. The name of American, which belongs…

— George Washington

Our citizenship in the United States is our national character. Our citizenship in any particular state is only our local distinction. By the latter…

— Thomas Paine