Chen Shui-bian Quotes

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.

… the bare possibilities that our being two nations

A government, to afford the needful protection and exercise proper care for the welfare of a people, must have homogeneity in its constituents. It is this necessity which has divided the human race into separate nations, and finally has defeated the grandest efforts which conquerors have made to give unlimited extent to their domain.

The ideals that bind us together are as old as our nation, but so are the forces that pull us apart.

The majority of Taiwan people cannot accept Taiwan becoming a second Hong Kong, nor can we accept Taiwan becoming a local government of the People's Republic of China or a Special Administrative Region of China.

In Washington, the translation of E Pluribus Unum has been lost. The belief that we are one nation - united in purpose - caring about and for one another is no longer the practice.

I think that there is a relatively small number of people who are pushing for independence in Taiwan.

But presidential approval also became a surrogate measure of national unity and patriotism.

I believe in the stability of my country. I believe in unity.

We are totally committed to ending partition and to creating the conditions for unity and independence.

A flag should unite those over whom it flies.

Diversity is what is destroying the country.

The union of so many states will be seen in the eyes of the world—a wonder.

In a highly diverse and fragmented society like Iraq, the military...is one of the few national institutions that stresses national unity as an important principle. Tot ear apart the army in the war’s aftermath could lead to the destruction of one of the only forces for unity within the society.

I no longer know of political party, I only know Germans

Nationalism is the most powerful force on earth today.

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

As an American, I want to see our nation recapture the strength and unity it once had when we fought the enemy instead of ourselves.

Americans divide most sharply over what brings them together.

For a divided, balkanized America, it might take the looming-up of a rival power, the rise of a dark but all-too-plausible alternative, to remind us of who we are, and what we do not want to be.

A country cannot develop without a strong identity.

We hear every damn day about how fragile our country is - on the brink of catastrophe - torn by polarizing hate, and how it's a shame that we can't work together to get things done, but the truth is we do. We work together to get things done every damn day!

We remain more than a collection of red states and blue states. We are and forever will be the United States of America.

To divide along the lines of section or caste or creed is un-American.

One can unite the French only under the threat of danger. One cannot simply bring together a nation that produces 265 kinds of cheese.