Quotes About Cooperation

People want our elected officials to govern and for government to work.

What frustrates U.S. officials is that China sometimes seems more comfortable accommodating a strong United States, as it did in past decades, than partnering with an America that's less dominant.

It is not oil or the environment, it is oil and the environment. We are living in the same world. We are not enemies.

I'll probably not be the best actor in Hollywood, and I am okay with that. But I will be the hardest working one, and I'll be the one that people like to work with because I show up on time, and I don't complain.

When everybody goes into their separate corners, it's just real easy to demonize the other side instead of saying, 'Okay, how can we come together and figure out how to get done what's important for the country?'

Look around. There are no enemies here. There's just good, old-fashioned rivalry.

I try and help my team-mates as best I can, and I lead from the front, on and off the field.

Hence we did not foster competition in our school, on the contrary.

We're so interdependent, and what one country does is such an important part of what happens in the global economy.

Research in basic sciences now requires resources that no one country can provide.

My mobile rang around lunchtime one day, and it was George Michael. He wanted to come in on Friday. We were like, 'okay, if that's what you want'. And he was a very good guest. That's a real exception to the rule.

In our globalized world, what happens in one nation has a very real impact on everybody else.

We can never get around to being one nation under God if we can't even get around to being one Church under God.

One of the things that I think makes me successful is the way in which I collaborate with others. In my opinion, nothing great is ever the product of one mind. It's always a consequence of some sort of self-critical collaboration.

One of the things about Fleetwood Mac, you gotta say, is that it's not very often that you get everyone to want the same thing at the same time.

In this business, you have so little control over things, but one of the things you can control is who you work with.

We need critical mass. We need people, not just one or two. We need a lot of them.

The achievements we forge in this place and in our nation will not be those of one person or one party.

One thing is certain, You can't shake hands with a fist.

At one time, we were asked to play your own man; you're responsible for your own man. And, if you were good enough and kind of a ball hawk, you helped everyone else. Now it's really much more of a team concept defensively than it was when we played.

This isn't a one-man game. You're never going out there by yourself.

I don't see myself as a one-man show.

I'm not a one-man show. I was never that in my life, and I never want to be that.

The battle between bat and ball is a one-on-one thing. I love that stuff, but you play it in a team.