Doug Ducey Quotes

We're so bitterly divided these days, the appearance of a true 'other' might be the best chance of bringing us all together.

President Obama celebrates diversity, yet instinctively seeks common ground and builds on that common ground to make progress.

It's not about division. It's not about politics. My concern is how do we come together?

I hope you'll find that my campaign was a reflection of how I plan to govern - bringing people together, building coalitions, and finding common ground.

I'm going to try to unite all Americans.

The issue for us is rebuilding a governing majority that is comfortable with differences that can transcend the divisiveness and unify behind the principles that we know our party has succeeded on.

We must govern from the middle, or we will not be able to govern at all.

I think it's really, really important to grow the consensus and to realize that there is always some value that can be shared with another American, on any issue. Starting from those points of common belief and shared values is very, I think, important to forging the consensus that allows these issues to more forward.

For my part, I make this pledge to all of you: The politics of division, of pitting east against west, urban versus rural, region against region, and people against people will have no place in my Administration.

I know Barack Obama. And I believe that as president, he'll pursue the common good by seeking common ground rather than trying to divide us.

No doubt unity is something to be desired, to be striven for, but it cannot be willed into being by mere declarations.

All Democrats recognize we do have differences because we are a big family.

My goal is to unite the party, to bring it together.

When I travel the country, I am often struck by how much we actually have in common. It's much more powerful than how much there is that's reported that divides us.

We don't need more divisive language or programs and policies that are going to tear the fabric of the nation apart.

There is more that unites us than divides us.

Rather than shutting down free speech, we need to broaden it, to make it possible for young people to say even the things we dislike so we can talk them down. And we need politicians to articulate a picture of the future that includes all of us. Not British values but shared human values.

My message is more about unity, solving problems and trying to bring the American people together around a notion of common purpose in terms of what we've got to do to build a better future.

I'm a huge fan of bipartisanship and working together to get things done.

All the media and the politicians ever talk about is things that separate us, things that make us different from one another

The way to go from discord to harmony is to go from concentrating on differences to concentrating on similarities.

I have always believed that what brings us together is stronger than what pulls us apart.

No one is exempt from the call to find common ground.

The forces that divide us are not as strong as those that unite us.

I don't think you can bring the races together by joking about the differences between them. I'd rather talk about the similarities, about what's universal in their experiences.