Quotes About Cooperation

our common humanity made it possible to find common cause in the midst of competition and that peace depended on our own virtue and ethical behavior.

We need the rich today to do their modest part to enable all of society to share in prosperity. By passing that hurdle, we would reduce the need for long-term transfers from rich to poor in the future. The

A new governing majority will depend on two breakthroughs. The first is that voters, not big money, once again determine election outcomes. We need to break out of the money-politics-media trap. The second is that government be able to translate increased revenues into effective public services and infrastructure. We need, in short, a return to civic virtue, in which Americans recommit to contributing to the common benefit and to cooperating for mutual gain.

We had rarely seen our fathers in work boots before, toiling in the earth and wielding brand-new root clippers. They struggled with the fence, bent over like Marines hoisting the flag on Iwo Jima. It was the greatest show of common effort we could remember in our neighborhood, all those lawyers, doctors, and mortgage bankers locked arm in arm in the trench, with our mothers bringing out orange Kool-Aid, and for a moment our century was noble again.

I think that men and women, shoulder to shoulder, will work together to make this a better world. Just as I don't think that men are the superior sex, neither do I think women are.

Fortunately, all it takes for us to be of one mind is some buttercream frosting.

Has no one suggested we lock Congress in the employee breakroom and not let them out until they can be nice and find a way to work with each other?

The short-term, dopamine-driven feedback loops that we have created are destroying how society works—no civil discourse, no cooperation, misinformation, mistruth. —Chamath Palihapitiya, former Facebook VP of user growth

Aunt Maria would mildly observe that, next time Uncle Podger was going to hammer a nail into the wall, she hoped he'd let her know in time, so that she could make arrangements to go and spend a week with her mother while it was being done.

That's Harris all over—so ready to take the burden of everything himself, and put it on the backs of other people.

In a boat, I have always noticed that it is the fixed idea of each member of the crew that he is doing everything. 

Throw the lumber over, man!

When you substitute the "I" for the "we" even illness becomes wellness

Non-proliferation will only work if all states are willing to cooperate, and that will only happen if all feel they are being treated fairly.

We must seek, above all, a world of peace; a world in which peoples dwell together in mutual respect and work together in mutual regard.

You can sell a lot more books if you work with other authors than if you try to do everything all by yourself.

Sensible people have got to work together.

If we are ever going to save this society and the world, there has got to be a way for us to work together. That may be more than we can ever hope to achieve, just because of human nature.

We collaborate together. We work with other people. We work by ourselves.

There will be more coming afterwards if we don't re-empower politicians to get organized and work together.

The president [Barack Obama] did introduce a jobs bill that could not clear Congress. The Republicans simply would not work with him.

I think [John Larroquette] did a great job. I really do. And he's so wonderful and generous to work with.

I wanted to work with people from the world, with different minds and different visions.

We are what we are because of the hard work, insights and achievements of countless others.