Patty Murray Quotes

I respect and value the ideals of rugged individualism and self-reliance. But rugged individualism didn't defeat the British, it didn't get us to the moon, build our nation's highways, or map the human genome. We did that together. This is the high call of patriotism.

We must care. We must all care. And while I am working, while the governments is working, so must the people also work.

The history of American patriotism is figuring out ways that we can work together to move forward and knit together the common government.

Through the outreach that I have done, through platforms, I hope to unify Singaporeans because at the end of the day, Singapore is our home. We share a common destiny, and I think all of us work together for the benefit of our country.

Let us all take more responsibility, not only for ourselves and our families but for our communities and our country.

There is no one left to fix the nation, none but all of us.

We have been partners in nation-building and take our role in building the nation very proudly.

My vision for a better Rhode Island starts with a simple idea - we are all in this together.

When the national team plays, everyone feels a part of it. Everyone comes together. And when Italians come together, we tend to do well.

another tradition to politics, a tradition (of politics) that stretched from the days of the country’s founding to the glory of the civil rights movement, a tradition based on the simple idea that we have a stake in one another, and that what binds us together is greater than what drives us apart, and that if enough people believe in the truth of that proposition and act on it, then we might not solve every problem, but we can get something meaningful done.

We need a spirit of community, a sense that we are all in this together. If we have no sense of community, the American dream will wither.

Everybody is supposed to be a part of their own community.

The nation... doesn't simply need what we have. It needs what we are.

The nation is a community. Community of individuals, community of generations.

A nation is formed by the willingness of each of us to share in the responsibility for upholding the common good.

America is a place where we all come together. It is a place of consensus.

Nations consist of people. And with their effort, a nation can accomplish all it could ever want.

Every good citizen adds to the strength of a nation.

We must not become the new puritans and reject our society. We must address and master the future together. It can be done if we restore the belief that we share a sense of national community, that we share a common national endeavor. It can be done.

Civil religion is the attempt to empower religion, not for the good of religion, but for the creation of the citizen.

Our civic society is really all we have by way of nationhood.

Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

I have always that there ought to be some kind of mandatory national service, not necessarily in the military but to show everybody that freedom isn't free, that everybody has an obligation to the nation as a community.

Chicago is one city. We shall work as one people for our common good and our common goals.

This country was founded by individuals who worked together for the common good.