Quotes About Cooperation

It was only by hitching my wagon to something larger than myself that I was ultimately able to locate a community and purpose for my life.

Ultimately, tonight's not about the disagreements Governor Romney and I may have. It's what we have in common, beginning with our unusual names. Actually, Mitt is his middle name. I wish I could use my middle name." (Obama, Barack Hussein, D-Ill., U.S. president; Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation dinner; New York, N.Y.; 10/18/2012.)

I saw the possibility of practicing the values my mother had taught me; how you could build power not by putting others down but by lifting them up. This was true democracy at work—democracy not as a gift from on high, or a division of spoils between interest groups, but rather democracy that was earned, the work of everybody.

Cooperate with the Obama administration at your own peril. And if you have to shake his hand, make sure you don't look happy about it.

President Bush would end up doing all he could to make the eleven weeks between my election and his departure go smoothly.

For all their talk about wanting politicians to get along, American voters rarely reward the opposition for cooperating with the governing party.

we will learn to live together, cooperate with one another, and recognize the dignity of others, or we will perish.

we will learn to live together, cooperate with one another, and recognize the dignity of others, or we will perish. And so the world watches America—the only great power in history made up of people from every corner of the planet, comprising every race and faith and cultural practice—to see if our experiment in democracy can work.

how you could build power not by putting others down but by lifting them up. This was true democracy at work—democracy not as a gift from on high, or a division of spoils between interest groups, but rather democracy that was earned, the work of everybody.

Unless we could recognize one another's reality, I'd argue, we would never solve the problems America faced.

After 9/11, counterterrorism took center stage. In pursuing each of these goals, we'd made autocrats our allies. They were predictable, after all, and committed to keeping a lid on things. They hosted our military bases and cooperated with us on counterterrorism efforts. And, of course, they did lots of business with U.S. companies.

That evening, after she'd run me through an exhaustive list of U.S. foreign policy errors that she insisted needed correcting, I suggested she might want to get out of the ivory tower and work with me for a spell.

What binds us together is greater than what drives us apart.

And I don't think you're helpless. But it's okay to let someone help you once in a while.

la persona que sabe trabajar en equipo es, por definición, alguien "positivo". Alguien que siempre luce una sonrisa, que no se queja, que no les da demasiadas vueltas a las cosas, y que se somete con buen humor a lo que le pida el jefe.

The rule of fishes is the same as the rule of people: if the shark comes, they will all escape, and leave you to be eaten. They share a single jumpy heart that drives them to move all together, running away from danger just before it arrives. Somehow they know. Underneath

our best task is to move forward without insisting others slide backward.

you always write about individualism vs. community, and that you see independence as stupidity and instead celebrate dependency.

White men tell us: Vote, bantu! They tell us: You do not all have to agree, ce n'est pas nécessaire! If two men vote yes and one says no, the matter is finished. Á bu, even a child can see how that will end. It takes three stones in the fire to hold up the pot. Take one away, leave the other two, and what? The pot will spill into the fire.

The wisteria vines on their own would just barely get by…but put them together with rhizobia and they make miracles.

the most remarkable feature of human culture is its capacity to reach beyond the self and encompass the collective good; yet

Like a mule team in harness.

It was fascinating, how people could be so reluctant to recognize blackmail, how eager they could be to convince themselves it was something else, even something fundamentally mutually cooperative. And sometimes it seemed the more powerful the individual, the greater the capacity for self-deception. He

It was a symbiotic division of labor that would have made a classical economist flush with pride.