Dick Durbin Quotes

The beauty of the Democratic Party is in the mix.

We must see the pluralism of the world, and not bind it by seeking common denominators.

We are a country where people of all backgrounds, all nations of origin, all languages, all religions, all races, can make a home. America was built by immigrants.

I'm in the most diverse Cabinet.

Since I learned the truth in Mecca, my dearest friends have come to include all kinds - some Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Hindus, agnostics, and even atheists! I have friends who are called capitalists, Socialists, and Communists! Some of my friends are moderates, conservatives, extremists - some are even Uncle Toms! My friends today are black, brown, red, yellow, and white!

I enjoy mixed audiences, not one particular group. Short, tall, scientists, Jews, gentiles, whatever, as long as they breathe and like to laugh.

What I loved the most about Oakland was that all of my neighbors came in as many colors, ideas, and religions as there are people on the planet. How lucky I was to know so many people that were so different and yet so much alike!

In Europe, the big word is tolerance. You tolerate everything.

As president of Iraq, I shall strive to represent the diversity of a country that has too often in the past denied difference.

I grew up in Manhattan, and I've always had all kinds of people around me. I've always had a very 'live and let live' point of view.

No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive.

I grew up in New York City, a town with different races, religions, and peoples. It breeds tolerance.

Some writers like to boil down headlines of liberal newspapers into fiction, so they say there shouldn't be communal riots, everybody should love each other, there shouldn't be boundaries or fundamentalism. But I think literature is more than that; these are political views which most of us hold anyway.

I've just always been a proponent of having a lot of diversity in the shows I've done. I just think that's the world we live in.

One of the reasons I came to Berkeley was because I saw so many students of all different colors speaking so many different languages and ferociously presenting all these different views. I thought, this is the 21st century and I want to be here!

You will always have politics being pushed towards multiracial politics because you have to field a team.

I don't want to get rid of the typical Dutch tolerance.

Britain is an amazing multicultural place to live in, and that should be celebrated and represented.

I think it's important to have as diverse of a feed as possible.

Justin Trudeau is always saying diversity's our strength. It is not our strength.

I have been in dialogue with my family about what can actually be done. We've come up with this philosophy that in a truly multicultural society, the only way to have liberty and justice for everybody is to have multiple parties. And by multiple parties, I mean 50 parties, not one or two.

There is room for everyone; there is room for every culture, race, language and point of view.

We cannot be divided either by the languages we speak, by the faiths we profess or by the political views we choose.

This is America, where a white Catholic male Republican judge was murdered on his way to greet a Democratic Jewish woman member of Congress, who was his friend. Her life was saved initially by a 20-year old Mexican-American gay college student, and eventually by a Korean-American combat surgeon, all eulogized by our African American President.

One of the very hallmarks of our nation is the ideal of E Pluribus Unum. It is a concept that richly flows from the highest ideals of our nation.