Political Quotes

“Madam President, in his inaugural address, President Biden said his ``whole soul'' was in the cause of ``Bringing America together. Uniting our people. And uniting our Nation''--very worthy things to speak and especially in an inaugural address. He also recognized that Americans have serious disagreements. Everyone knows that our country is deeply divided politically. I know from his time in the Senate that President Biden understands that people of good will can have honest disagreements about policy. So he knows that unity does not mean dropping deeply held beliefs and accepting his own policy agenda. As he said--and I have two quotes here--``Every disagreement doesn't have to be a cause of total war'' and ``Disagreement must not lead to disunion.'' Real unity requires rediscovering what binds us together as Americans even when we have strongly disagreed politically. As I have often said, our Nation is unique in human history in that it was founded not on the basis of common ethnic identity or loyalty to, let's say, a Monarch but on certain enduring principles. Those principles are best articulated in the simple but elegant words of the Declaration of Independence. And you all read these regularly, I am sure. We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.…”