Quotes About Cooperation

If you treat China like a foe, surely she will become one.

We stay as a team. I might be England captain, but that doesn't mean I get treated differently.

You hear these horrible stories about the FBI just doing all these nasty things to people. And you know what? In my case, I didn't experience any of that, probably because the way I treated them. I was like, 'Okay, what do you want to know?' So I kept going back to their offices on a regular basis.

Nations keep agreements, keep their treaties so long as they continue to do them good.

The people are fed up with their elected officials playing the blame game and treating their political counterparts as enemies.

I had a hard time treating my field as if it's horse racing, putting actors in competition against each other. I see how the industry and the studios feel it's important, but I don't really have a feeling for being in competition. I want to feel sympathetic and close to others, not opposed to them.

As leader of the House, I seek to do exactly that, treating all members of Parliament with courtesy and respect.

What we need now is a Treaty of the World not a Treaty of Rome.

For the United States to be a global leader, we have to have a very tight relationship with Europe. And we've held that relationship since 1949 when we established the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, NATO. NATO is the bond. It's a security bond.

Perhaps the strongest signal of reengagement with Southeast Asia was the U.S.'s accession to the Southeast Asian Treaty of Amity and Cooperation.

We've made some good beginnings with the New START Treaty, but a lot more can be done.

A phone tree isn't an ancient form of political organizing, but you have to call every person.

'Star Trek' episodes always insisted that humanity is on its bumpy way to what will be a glorious future in the 23rd century, in which we will have left most of our old selfishness - and old hatreds and prejudices - far behind us.

In fighting the debt crisis, E.U. countries have enhanced co-operation and carried out reform with tremendous courage. This is laudable.

We benefit tremendously from the E.U. Britain does very well in getting back E.U. money for the amount it puts in.

Humanitarian response, sustainable development, and sustaining peace are three sides of the same triangle.

For the triangle to really work, everybody needs to be on the same page and know how to play it.

Above all, we must avoid the pitfalls of tribalism. If we are divided among ourselves on tribal lines, we open our doors to foreign intervention and its potentially harmful consequences.

My own special knowledge is about the Abenaki people and, to some degree, my Iroquois neighbors. But whenever I write anything about another tribal nation, I always get a lot of help. Not just from books, but from people who belong to that tribal nation.

As an anthropologist, I believe strongly in our common humanity. We can rise above the tribal divisions that have caused so much anguish and real damage in the past.

I'm perhaps not the most tribal of politicians. Working in a mature and adult way where you recognise what your shared goal is and you manage to work towards that... that is not something which I think would be particularly more difficult with Labour than it is with the Conservatives.

I'm so bored of tribal politics. That's part of the problem. I'm so bored of it. I'm not a tribalist. That's not what turns me on.

Every human being has to feel a part of a tribe. It's programmed into us. And you have to feel that you're contributing to something.

Regardless of what tribe people think they're in, we don't work in isolation as human beings, we want to do what's right.