Colin Powell Quotes

In South Africa, we kind of like looking for things that unite people in big, big groups.

We can remember what brings us together as a country.

We are all here now and we have to solve our differences and live together as Australians... I will use the title you have honoured me with to bring the Australian people together... Together we can build a remarkable country, the envy of the rest of the world.

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.

Canadians have this weird way about them where we really stick together.

The country is the people.

Country is not a mere zone of territory. The true country is the idea to which it gives birth ... the sense of communion which united in one all the sons of that territory.

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

I think sports can help any country get together.

Patriotism is love of country. But you can't love your country without loving your countrymen and countrywomen. We don't always have to agree, but we must empower each other, we must find the common ground, we must build bridges across our differences to pursue the common good.

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

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.

When you don't have sport, it's like, oh, what do we fall back onto? And I think Nelson Mandela was the first person to really say that: sport unites people in a way that nothing else does. And if you take sport away, then I don't know really what we have.

Over the course of the last quarter century I've learned a lot. And the main thing I've learned is that we're better together and that our society needs inclusion - right? - not exclusion.

When it all boils down, it's about embracing each others' stories and maybe even finding that synergy to collaborate for the common good.

When a nation is filled with strife, then do patriots flourish.

Society is unity in diversity.

One thing that stands out throughout the entire year was that in South Dakota we are much more united than we are divided. Now the divided part creates news, but the united part is what moves us forward.

Our national purpose, not our party differences, must define the American Brand. We must change the conversation from one centered around what defines our differences to one that hangs a lantern on what binds us, supports our collective well being and makes us all stronger and more productive as a result.

Let there be no illusions about the difficulty of forming this kind of a national community. It's tough, difficult, not easy. But a spirit of harmony will survive in America only if each of us remembers that we share a common destiny.

No one can undermine national unity.

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

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

In our personal ambitions we are individualists. But in our seeking for economic and political progress as a nation, we all go up or else all go down as one people.

It brings people together. It brings the races together. It brings religions together.