Quotes About Diversity

If you create something that is asking for people to respond as they're going to respond, you have to allow them to respond as they're going to respond. Some of the people are going to be uninterested and some people are going to be mad for some reason, which is their business. That's just the way the world is.

Obviously, there is diversity, but Europe is a union of diversity.

Among the friends of Union, there is great diversity of sentiment and of policy in regard to slavery and the African race among us.

I find no contradiction between being a Highlander, a Scot, a citizen of the U.K. and a citizen of the European Union at one and the same time.

We don't want protectionism at the heart of the European Union.

I think that every state in the union should recognize same-sex marriage.

It disturbs me when Obama says in the State of the Union address that he wants to make dropping out of school at 18 illegal, because people learn differently and before there are forms of learning for every type of person in the world, we shouldn't be condemned for leaving.

We have to accept the idea that Europe will be made on a two-speed basis, with a union based on solidarity and differentiation.

I represent the concept that pluralism is essential, union pluralism. I made an oath about this.

At its best, American music is the soundtrack of our long - and often painful - march toward a more perfect union.

But the European Union does not have a concept of national identity. It was set up to abolish that idea, not to abolish German national identity because that was trying to save itself.

Call me tacky, but I love the union of sweet and sour, even in some now-unloved Oriental dishes incorporating pineapple and ketchup.

I have lived in Toledo, Ohio, off and on throughout my entire life, and I have plenty of friends who are union members. Sometimes we agree politically and sometimes not, but it has never kept us from being friends.

I'm cynical by nature, but I am also very hopeful because I see people from the Left and the Right showing up to these tea parties. You have people, bikers, union members and guys in three-piece suits showing up to these things.

Not all Republicans are rich, dress in three-piece suits, and have $200 haircuts. I'm somebody who's lived from paycheck to paycheck. I'm focusing on my blue-collar roots - I've worked side by side with union people.

The European Union arose on an economic foundation, and it turns out that even this is not a solid base. Cultural identity has been neglected.

I arrived in New York in 1986, when I was 28. The market here was nothing. In the Union Square farmers' market, it was a couple of potatoes, everything from California. So the only place I was comfortable shopping was in Chinatown, because it all came from Hong Kong.

We're a country that allowed waterboarding and indefinite detention, and we're a country where the NYPD Intelligence Division has police files on what Muslims think of the State of the Union address.

The thing I enjoy is that I have come to league as a union player, and I have to adapt to different situations I am facing.

Gay and lesbian people have families, and their families should have legal protection, whether by marriage or civil union.

There are some folks at the teacher's union who aren't big fans of mine, in part, because I have been open and want to make sure everybody is sitting at the table as we talk about education.

If the European Union wants to be an address where civilizations meet, it must take Turkey in.

I am a unionist. But I'm a unionist up to the point of, if other people don't want to be in a union with me then, well, fine.

I believe that the fact and the reality of homosexuality and heterosexuality and of opposite and same-gender unions should be taught in our public schools without a value judgement system also being offered.