Ed Rendell Quotes

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.

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

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

Now we have black and white elected officials working together. Today, we have gone beyond just passing laws. Now we have to create a sense that we are one community, one family. Really, we are the American family.

Think about just how much we'd get accomplished if we collectively viewed the people with whom we came into contact as just an American and not an American with a prefix.

If we are going to do big things in our country, we're going to have to think about better ways working across our differences.

We must embrace unity, not separation - sharing, go back to small, caring communities. Unity, not separation, is what has to happen.

We are a pluralistic Nation composed of very distinct groups, each bound together by ethnicity, race, or religion - each group proud of its identity and committed to its faith and traditions. Yet despite these differences, we can be bound together into a broader community.

Americans know that we have more in common than we do differences.

We dream of nation-building. We cannot achieve this by fomenting social divisions.

You've got to stop dividing yourselves. You got to organize.

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

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

Our nation must come together to unite.

For too long, we have focused on our differences - in our politics and backgrounds, in our race and beliefs - rather than cherishing the unity and pride that binds us together.

In a politically diverse nation, only by finding that common ground can we achieve results for the common good.

America is not anything if it consists of each of us. It is something only if it consists of all of us.

E Pluribus Unum, the Latin phrase on the great seal of the United States literally translated means one from many. We need to reattach pluribus to unum—the many to the one.

Don’t divide the world into “them” and “us.”

The first requisite for the progress of a nation is the brotherhood and unity amongst sections of the society.

In the history of the human race, those periods which later appeared as great have been the periods when the men and the women belonging to them had transcended the differences that divided them and had recognized in their membership in the human race a common bond.

Our country must be strong enough to solve problems, and that means we must learn how to work together again.

We have to transcend our differences to transform our future.

No matter who we are or what we look like or what we may believe, it is both possible and, more importantly, it becomes powerful to come together in common purpose and common effort.

I do think we need to find common ground on some of these major issues facing our nation.