Kim Campbell Quotes

You can't let the debate of the day mask the fact that Canadians care deeply in their country. Including Quebecers - from all origins and language. Quebecers care deeply about their country. The idea of Canada and its unity is not something that is set in stone forever, or that is solved. We need to always work towards building this country.

The country is the people.

We [French Canadians] may not assimilate, we may not blend, but for all that we are still the component parts of the same country.

Stay with us, please remain in this country and constitute a nation based on national unity.

I believe that Canadians have the common sense to see that a better future cannot be built on fragmentation.

Schools exist in America and have always existed to train responsible citizens of the United States of America. If they don't do that, it's very hard to hold us together as a country, because it's shared values that hold us together.

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

A Canadian nationality—not French-Canadian, not British-Canadian, nor Irish-Canadian: patriotism rejects the prefix ... is what we should look forward to.

We are all Americans, sir.

A country, after all, is not something you build as the pharaohs built the pyramids, and then leave standing there to defy eternity. A country is something that is built every day out of certain basic shared values.

Americans are a quarter of a billion people who have almost nothing in common except for the fact they've been told they have lots in common.

If America is an idea, which it is - we're not a nation of ethnic groups that say we're Americans because we have American blood; we have the blood of every nation in our veins - and there's something really beautiful about that, but it means that we are an idea and that we all have to buy into this idea.

Some say there is no uniquely Canadian identity, that our multicultural fabric is too varied to establish a common thread. I disagree. My grandfather came to a country that celebrates diversity, embraces strife with compassion and respects selfless idealism.

There's something really beautiful about people from all different walks of life... who are bound together by this big idea about American identity and American unity and American interests.

While people might talk about the divisions in this country, what I've seen is that across this country, we share so much in common, we share so many values, we want to take care of one another - that's what it means to be Canadian.

I am proud of the fact that, despite all the disparities that do come up often in our country, we are still Indians, and I am proud of that.

We can remember what brings us together as a country.

Canada has no cultural unity, no linguistic unity, no religious unity, no economic unity, no geographic unity. All it has is unity.

I'm going to fight to bring us all together as Americans.

I hope America manages to steer itself away from partisanship and back to patriotism; we are all Americans. And as long as I can make people laugh and feel better, I'm happy.

I have one love - Canada; one purpose - Canada's greatness; one aim - Canadian unity from the Atlantic to the Pacific.

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.

It is the State which educates its citizens in civic virtue, gives them a consciousness of their mission and welds them into unity.

It may be the optimist in me, but I think America has a uniquely powerful and capacious glue internally. The American identity has always been ethnically and religiously neutral, so within one generation you have Italian-Americans, Irish-Americans, Chinese-Americans, Jamaican-Americans - they feel American. It's a huge success story.

All my life... I believed in Malaysian merger and unity of the two territories. You know that we, as a people, are connected by geography, economics, by ties of kinship.