Nick Harkaway Quotes

Here's an idea: How about just 'Americans?' That has a nice ring to it, if you ask me. Placing undue emphasis on our 'separateness' is a step backward. Bring back the melting pot.

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

For the state of our union to be strong, we need to place value in Americans.

There is not a liberal America and a conservative America - there is the United States of America. There is not a black America and a white America and latino America and asian America - there's the United States of America.

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

I was dismayed by ... the terrible divisiveness isolating so many citizens from the great American community that makes us a people rather than an assortment of factions.

We can have a new vision, one even greater than the system they gave us after World War II. Everyone can pursue happiness and freedom and peace.

Diversity, it is good. This country has been built by diversity. But diversity in sharing of values? For me, it's not good.

Together with this Brazilian people, we will build a new nation.

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

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

I will work to bring peace to everyone - whatever economic level - as long as you are Haitian.

Ireland has made its choice for the future and it has chosen the version of Irishness it will build. I know, and I will work with head and heart to be part of it with all of you in creating that future one in which all of us can be part of and part of us too.

Personally, I believe in self-determination, but in the context of one South Africa - so that my self-determination is based in this region, and with my people.

My connection was we never want to put ourselves in a position as a nation where we pit group against group.

America rests on shared values rather than shared ethnicity.

Citizenship rights is about making all Iranians feel they are part of one nation, one identity, under one umbrella they can feel proud of.

While we may be of different faiths, we have a strong sense of faith, family, community. We hold the values of freedom and human rights very high and I think that those are all a part of a very strong quilt that binds us together.

The vision of a nation formed from many different peoples bound together by a common love of freedom was staked out long before our lifetimes or even our parents' or grandparents' lifetimes.

Solidarity is the basis of my politics.

America is a great country. We are so wealthy. But our one remaining challenge is to fulfill the potential of all our people. And the only way we can do that is to try to bring everybody together to a higher place.

What is it that unites, on the left of British politics, George Orwell, Billy Bragg, Gordon Brown and myself? An understanding that identity and a sense of belonging need to be linked to our commitment to nationhood and a modern form of patriotism.

America is a place where we all come together. It is a place of consensus.

We can take full comfort in realizing the continuing strength of our nation. America's lands remain radiantly rich with diversity, and freedom still reigns.