There’s a certain elitism that has crept into the attitudes of some in journalism, and it played out perfectly over the issue of these little American flag lapel pins. – Brit Hume
In most countries, you have a monarch or some other principal person to whom its officers and its military swear their allegiance. Our officials in this country and our military swear allegiance to the Constitution. We say that when we say the Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag. – Edwin Meese
I’m definitely going to continue to make films in Scotland, but that doesn’t mean it will be exclusively there, and I don’t have any particular need to wave a flag. – David MacKenzie
I believe that movements to suppress wrongs can be carried out under the protection of our flag. – Mary Harris Jones
How do I let go of Maplewood? It’s like Shangri-la. It’s so culturally diverse, and all my children are adopted – a transracial family. And we’re not the freaks. Everybody flies their freak flag high in Maplewood! – Christine Ebersole
The headline is the ‘ticket on the meat.’ Use it to flag down readers who are prospects for the kind of product you are advertising. – David Ogilvy
If I was to put a little flag in everywhere I’ve been in the world, there’d be a lot of little flags. – Charles Dance
I’m not really clear what the whole deal is with flags. I like my flag, but I wouldn’t die for it. There’s issues of identity, of course. That’s going to always come in. I, for example, don’t want to be called a ‘North Britisher.’ I want to be Scottish. – Eddi Reader
A lot of folks are still demanding more evidence before they actually consider Iraq a threat. For example, France wants more evidence. And you know I’m thinking, the last time France wanted more evidence they rolled right through Paris with the German flag. – David Letterman
Our flag represents every American and it should not be hidden away as a result of property agreements. – Mike Fitzpatrick
Let it be borne on the flag under which we rally in every exigency, that we have one country, one constitution, one destiny. – Daniel Webster
I wrote the script of Patton. I had this very bizarre opening where he stands up in front of an American flag and gives this speech. Ultimately, I was fired. When the script was done, they hired another writer and that script was forgotten. – Francis Ford Coppola
People from major labels were afraid to go to Black Flag gigs throughout most of the band’s existence. They treated our gigs as something threatening. I’m sure that it probably was. They probably had reasons to be scared. – Greg Ginn
I don’t want to fly the flag for being unhealthy and overweight, but I don’t want to fly the flag for being too thin, either. – Martine McCutcheon
SST was formed to put out the first Black Flag record. Basically, there wasn’t anyone else to do it. I felt that what I was doing with Black Flag was very worthwhile, and I wanted to get it out there. – Greg Ginn
The very flag of freedom that waves over our heads is formed from material cultivated by slaves, on soil moistened with their blood drawn from them by the whip of a republican taskmaster! – Elijah Parish Lovejoy
Nowhere else in history has there ever been a flag that stands for the right to burn itself. This is the fractal of our flag. It stands for the right to destroy itself. – Ken Kesey
When I was in college there was a girls’ flag football league. The girls were extremely aggressive. – Lynn Swann
Unfortunately a Constitutional amendment that would have empowered Congress to make desecration of the United States flag illegal failed to pass by one vote. – Kenny Marchant
South Carolina, as a matter of compromise, displays the Confederate flag on a flagpole in front of the state capitol. Because I grew up in the South and believe that the Confederate flag is a very divisive symbol, I have stated publicly a number of times that I believe that South Carolina should remove the flag from the state capitol grounds. – John Edwards
Any Southern nationalist movement, especially one that wraps itself in the Confederate flag, is going to be viewed with suspicion, given the historical record. – John Shelton Reed
It’s OK to burn a Bible, that’s OK. OK to burn a flag, OK, that’s all right. But just, you know, for heaven’s sake, don’t say anything that might offend someone of the Islamic religion. – Louie Gohmert
After 1957, Israel had to wait 10 full years for its flag to fly again over that liberated portion of the homeland. – Menachem Begin
Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong. – James Bryce