Quotes About Unity

Let's never forget what made us great as a nation. It's not diversity, it's liberty.

I call it people-to-people politics and thats what politics should be about, reaching out and helping one another and touching one another about what were going to do.

Politics isn't just a game of clashing parties and competing interests.

Jesse Jackson has to get back to "I am somebody" instead of "I am some color."

I feel sanguine enough to say that there has never been a better set of conditions for open democratic politics because there is no need for unified front politics.

If you do anything above party, the true hearted ones of all parties sympathize with you.

There were no politics to polarize us then, to magnify every slight. The "negroes" of Washington had their public schools, restaurants, bars, movie houses, playgrounds and churches; and we had ours.

Politics is a game of friends.

Politics, differences of religion or race, all that fades away when we are confronted with the awesome power of nature, and we're reminded that all we have is each other.

In a time of domestic crisis, men of goodwill and generosity should be able to unite regardless of party or politics.

But one immediate thing can be done right now, and that is: lower the temperature. Any way you can, and everybody. Just lower it.

One of the benefits of aligning yourself with an indistinct cluster of people is that claiming to feel their pain is often enough.

You cannot mix sports with politics.

One of the things that could be exciting about this next phase of Canadian politics is if we could maybe have co-leaders.

There are men who, by their sympathetic attractions, carry nations with them, and lead the activity of the human race.

The way your parents try to talk to you about politics and pull you to their side, that's an exciting moment in your family.

Suppose they gave a war, and nobody came? Why then, the war would come to you!

He loves basketball. And I said Obama loves basketball. Let's start there, all right. Start there.

It is from the center that leaders must lead.

I'm asking the American people to rise above the noise and the clutter of our broken politics.

...real prosperity can only come when everybody prospers.

In Washington, when you're a leader, you have to put aside partisan politics to do what's right for the people.

The first object of human association [is] the full improvement of their condition.

No matter what your politics is, we ought to be thanking people for volunteering.