Michael Gerson Quotes

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

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.

I have confidence that we can form this kind of national community.

Americans divide most sharply over what brings them together.

We need a president that can heal, that can bring people together, that can get us back. We have so much common pain in this country that can get us back to a sense of common purpose and common cause.

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

We have to truly become a united people of the United States of America, and divisiveness cannot make that happen.

What unites us, is much greater than what divides us.

There's not a liberal America and a conservative America - there's the United States of America.

There is too much disagreement for disagreement's sake. In a time of persistent challenges that still call into question our most sacred aspirations as a country, we cannot afford shallow callous divisiveness in our public debate.

The nation... doesn't simply need what we have. It needs what we are.

The nation is a community. Community of individuals, community of generations.

I think what's wonderful is that 'Community' has always had its voice, has always had it's vision, and that started from the very beginning.

As the nation watches, Democrats and Republicans should reflect the interspersed character of America itself. Perhaps, by sitting with each other for one night, we will begin to rekindle that common spark that brought us here from 50 different states and widely diverging backgrounds to serve the public good.

We are a people in a quandary about the present. We are a people in search of our future. We are a people in search of a national community.

We've got to unite our country again, because we're stronger when we are united and we are weaker when we are divided.

For my part, I make this pledge to all of you: The politics of division, of pitting east against west, urban versus rural, region against region, and people against people will have no place in my Administration.

We need to rekindle those values, those strengths as a nation and as a people... And we must do so as one people with one goal.

Our nation must come together to unite.

We must remember that North Carolina is more than a collection of regions and people. We are one state, one people, one family, bound by a common concern for each other.

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.

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.

In America, by and large, in the middle of the road you find us, we the people.

Washington is a city which drives us all to the lowest common denominator.