Quotes About Nation

Where we are as a nation is due to having an openness to the people of the world. It's incredibly important. I firmly believe that we cannot shut our borders to immigrants. I think a fair and just immigration policy is good for our country and good for our society.

I believe that if we are to continue to strengthen the social and economic fabric and future of this nation, we cannot tolerate laws that drive some of our best talent to choose between living in their country or with the person they love.

America is a grateful nation. We cannot allow anything or anyone to get in the way of that. The words 'veteran' and 'backlog' should never appear in the same sentence.

Scotland is not a region of the U.K.; Scotland is a nation, and if we cannot protect our interests within a U.K. that is going to be changing fundamentally, then that right of Scotland to consider the options of independence has to be there.

We dream of nation-building. We cannot achieve this by fomenting social divisions.

We cannot separate Judaism from the Jewish State; we have to decide how to live with it.

There's no excuse in 2019, with the wealth we have as a nation, with the technology we have as a country, that we cannot clean this water, ensure that all communities have clean drinking water.

We cannot allow the Trump administration to invalidate our nation's health care law.

It was a weak spot in any nation to have a large body of disaffected people within its confusion.

A weak, insecure nation needs sporting heroes, players larger than life on the cricketing field, who can transcend the limitations of their country and team.

No government can be strong and flourishing while the national character is weak and degraded. A government must flourish and decay with its subjects; and, when a prince makes a law or performs an action which has a tendency to injure the character or prosperity of the nation, he injures himself.

As separate people, we are weak, but we could be a peaceful, powerful nation.

Stand-your-ground laws are a favorite of the NRA gun lobby and their push to weaken our nation's gun laws.

Our Constitution gave us rights as citizens of a free democratic nation, but also placed on us the responsibility to always adhere to the central tenets of our democracy - justice, liberty, equality and fraternity.

The fact is that we are, compared to most other places, a very liberal country.

We're not planning for the future. If we continue to spend ourselves into oblivion, we are going to destroy this nation.

If elected, Bill Shorten and his team would hit the ground running, implementing Labor's plans and setting the nation up for a stronger economic future.

Lady Bird Johnson did more than plant flowers in public places. She served the country superbly by planting environmental values in the minds of the nation's leaders and citizens.

The Pledge of Allegiance says, 'liberty and justice for all'.

In our pledge every day, we pledge one Nation under God with liberty and justice for all.

Poems, novels - these things belong to the nation, to the culture, and the people.

The job of nation building, the job of nation leadership in a difficult, complex coalition has worked.

It is in many circumstances a troubling thing to belong to the advanced class of a backward nation. One surrenders coherence and begins a difficult process of choice which ends, often, in an eclectic idiosyncrasy.

I'm excited to work with my colleagues to advance President Trump's policies and advance the needs of our state and the nation.