Gray Davis Quotes

Arnold has succeeded at every level, and I believe he is the only person that can unite the people of this state and lead California from its current dysfunctional condition to the bright future that all residents long for.

A nation divided against itself cannot stand.

The division of Whig and Tory... is the most salutary of all divisions and ought, therefore, to be fostered instead of being amalgamated; for take away this, and some more dangerous principle of division will take its place.

The Constitution was framed under the dominion of a political philosophy... It was framed upon the theory that the peoples of the several states must sink or swim together, and that in the long run prosperity and salvation are in union and not division.

War alone can bring together the various States, and give a new importance to Congress.

I want to figure out how we put California and America back on track - how we bridge this partisan divide that is so polarizing.

Without unity, the country will face disaster.

You cannot do politics by breaking the society into pieces or creating hatred.

Without harmony in the State, no military expedition can be undertaken; without harmony in the army, no battle array can be formed.

Is there anything worse for a state than to be split and disunited? or anything better than cohesion and unity?

We cannot move forward or will not move forward if we are divided.

Every time somebody opens their mouth they have an opportunity to do one of two things - connect or divide.

Are some flowers more beautiful than others? The garden is beautiful. Do I prefer brother over brother? Comparisons are part of this political world. Where there is one, there is no conflict. Where there is two or more, there is conflict. Two is the devil. Conflict begin with the devil. We count 0 to 1, then back to 0. It is a circle.

I do just want to do jokes. I don't want to be a divisive figure.

I think we need to find more reasons to unify rather than divide each other.

There is a growing sense in America that being disconnected is not good. And there's also some people that are staying in their silos and not coming out, but we have to pull them out, and we have to pull ourselves together at some point, I think.

I'm always astounded at the way we automatically look at what divides and separates us. We never look at what people have in common. If you see it, black and white people, both sides look to see the differences, they don't look at what they have together. Men and women, and old and young, and so on. And this is a disease of the mind, the way I see it. Because in actual fact, men and women have much more in common than they are separated.

There is no democrats or republicans, right or left, red state or blue state. We are all one. And we are all unified against Mexicans.

Your best players have to unite and inspire the group... otherwise, they'll divide the group

I don't say that the West is united, I don't suggest that.

The greatest curse that can befall a free people, is civil war.

We do not need more division. We certainly do not need something as complex and emotional as Vietnam reduced to simple campaign rhetoric.

Cut that in Three, which Nature hath made One , Then strengthen hyt, even by it self alone, Wherewith then Cutte the poudred Sonne in twayne, By length of tyme, and heale the woonde againe. The self same Sunne twys yet more, ye must wounde, Still with new Knives, of the same kinde, and grounde; Our Monas trewe thus use by natures Law, Both binde and lewse, only with rype and rawe, And ay thanke God who only is our Guyde, All is ynugh, no more then at this Tyde.

Today is the great day of one of the revelations of this world. The interrelationships of these individual realms were illumined as by a flash of lightning; they burst unexpected, frightening, and joyous out of the darkness. Never were they so strongly tied together and never so sharply divided.

Pride is the great enemy of unity