Maxime Bernier Quotes

The ideals that bind us together are as old as our nation, but so are the forces that pull us apart.

The modern idea of citizenship goes some way to accommodating the tension between solidarity and diversity. Citizenship is not an ethnic, blood-and-soil concept, but a more abstract political idea - implying equal legal, political and social rights (and duties) for people inhabiting a given national space.

Republicans can win without capitulating to multiculturalism.

Predictions of a disappearing political center are a warning of a bleak future that we can avoid only by adhering to our nation's founding principles.

The emergence of a strong Muslim identity in Britain is, in part, a result of multicultural policies implemented since the 1980s, which have emphasized difference at the expense of shared national identity.

You can't let the debate of the day mask the fact that Canadians care deeply in their country. Including Quebecers - from all origins and language. Quebecers care deeply about their country. The idea of Canada and its unity is not something that is set in stone forever, or that is solved. We need to always work towards building this country.

The Mussulmans are not a Minority. The Mussulmans are a nation by any definition.

A great aggregation of men, sane of mind and warm of heart, creates a moral consciousness which is called a nation

A common language is critical to cohesion and national identity in an ethnically diverse society

The first requisite for the progress of a nation is the brotherhood and unity amongst sections of the society.

Britishness has got to be the foundation of the multicultural society in this country. Anything less than this is farcical and treacherous.

How to Turn Democrats & Republicans Into Americans

Building a state and fostering a national identity take time and good leadership—bold ideas, initiative, and the willingness to compromise.

I've spent my entire adult life encouraging minority communities to get involved in mainstream society, civic society.

Liberal criticism of George W. Bush's minority cabinet and staff selections reveals just how much the left has come to rely on the manipulation of group identity in America as a means to political power.

We need a national service that throws us all together, the urban with the rural, the Fox News types with the MSNBC crowd. That way, Americans can get to know Americans and learn - as previous generations did - that we are all Americans.

Europe has grown to 27 member states, encompassing an amazing diversity and richness. Some argue this is part of the problem: Europe is simply too big and culturally disparate to be managed properly. But look to India for an example of how social unity can be forged within a culturally, linguistically, and ethnically complex nation.

Welcome to the brave new world of American multiculturalism. From a nation of diverse peoples united by a common culture, we have become a people divided by a common malady.

Anybody that believes that a country can be maintained that has no ethnic core to it or no linguistic core to it, I believe, is naive in the extreme.

In the American 'melting pot,' identity politics wants to smash that pot - to bring us back to the Dark Ages, when collaboration was sparse.

We need a strong civil society where the connection between different people and groups is firm and vibrant, not brittle and divided.

We should get to the business of providing at least one million opportunities each year for young Americans to spend a service year with peers who are different from them - by race, ethnicity, income, politics and religious belief.

Immigrants have to adopt our values, not the other way around.

When you have a highly divided society, it's hard to come together to make investments in the common good.

Reconciliation is a national decision that has to be debated and a consensus made among Colombians.