Chuka Umunna Quotes

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.

Leaders at the highest levels of our government are undertaking a deliberate and systematic effort to redefine our government, our economy and our country.

I think if you live in a country, basically you share the dominant values of a country although you may disagree on issues all the time.

Speaking for the nation as a whole entails understanding and feeling the pain, as well as understanding the aspiration of the different cultural, social and political make-up of the nation.

Citizens, regardless of their political inclinations, carry a devout sense of their shared culture and its temperament - and, having contributed to it all their lives, hold decent and reasonable hopes for its continued integrity.

It is the responsibility of all the Sudanese, especially the political leaders and the media, to strengthen social cohesion through the proper understanding of the dynamics of unity, if they really want our country to remain united.

My government, a government of national unity, will make all necessary structural reforms.

If politicians continue to promote separatism in Australia, they should not continue to hold their seats in this parliament. They are not truly representing all Australians, and I call on the people to throw them out.

We must unify Taiwan; we cannot afford to have our society being divided in half.

Nonetheless, we continue to be obsessed with finding or inventing a European nation which, as in the nation state, guarantees homogeneity and thus an appropriate form of democracy and centralized government.

Sudan has been an experiment that resonated across Africa: if we, the largest country on the continent, reaching from the Sahara to the Congo, bridging religions, cultures and a multitude of ethnicities, were able to construct a prosperous and peaceful state from our diverse citizenry, so too could the rest of Africa.

In the area of macroeconomic policies, I think we'll see more centralization, like in the budgetary sphere.

We will make every effort to unify all ethnic groups, to strengthen belief in Taiwan and to persist in reform.

The U.S. fiscal union has worked, in no small part, by enabling subsidies to the Mississippis without requiring the approval of the Minnesotas. It creates an important form of insurance.

I'm willing to work with all parties to reform Indonesia.

If the communists can bring together 300 million Russians and China almost a billion Chinese, we ought to be able to get together with Alabama.

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

A nation need not be a mob of slaves, clinging to one another through fear, and for the most part incapable of self-government, and begging to be led; but it might consist of vigorous self-reliant men, knit to one another by innumerable ties, into a strong, tense, and elastic organization.

'Canadian society' or the 'Canadian nation' cannot decide anything, because no one is in charge.

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

A government, to afford the needful protection and exercise proper care for the welfare of a people, must have homogeneity in its constituents. It is this necessity which has divided the human race into separate nations, and finally has defeated the grandest efforts which conquerors have made to give unlimited extent to their domain.

Democracy and economic reform go together.

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

In the space of just 18 months from 1999 to 2001, one of the world’s most centralized nations [Indonesia] burst apart to become one of its most decentralized.

After eight years as your president, I still believe that there is much more that unites us than divides us.