Nick Sagan Quotes

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

Too many prefer to cling to the thing that divides us, and precious few are willing to come together over the thing that unites us.

We can bring people together in an era rife with partisanship and divide.

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.

This union has been divided in like a civil war - brother against brother - sister against sister. And I'm pulling it together. We've already seen evidence of that in New York, in Pennsylvania, in California. The first thing is we have to get on the same page. We have to be united in one cause.

We cannot allow events that might divide us in a small way to distract from the common values and the common interests that unite us in big ways.

We simply must find ways both to bridge the differences that still seem to divide us and focus on the things that we share.

We are a nation divided, but that's what makes us, in a way.

Those who seek to profit by division don't stand a chance.

But until Democrats and Republicans, blacks and whites, liberal activists and conservative activists decide division is no longer the most valuable unit of currency, there will be no solutions of any kind.

I'm focusing on the issues that bring people together and build broad majorities.

A war can perhaps be won single-handedly. But peace - lasting peace - cannot be secured without the support of all.

I do not expect the Union to be dissolved - I do not expect the house to fall - but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other.

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

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.

The loudest voices we hear are those who advocate conflict, divisiveness.

We aren't as divided as we think we are. We're not just Republicans sitting in one corner, and Democrats sitting in the other corner.

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

What good is to be expected from creating division when engaged in war …?

Yesterday our city's votes have been divided. But today our city will be reunited. I expect nothing less and hope for even more.

Americans divide most sharply over what brings them together.

Men build too many walls and not enough bridges.

We cannot be a house divided - divided in will, divided in interest, divided in soul. We cannot be a house divided and live.

With all the fighting we do and all the skirmishing we do, the reality is that New Yorkers can come together when they have to.

After a long period of division, I will unite Israel.