Quotes About Cooperation

The issue before us now is whether America can continue to exhibit that brand of leadership under a president who doesn't appear to attach much weight to either international cooperation or democratic values. The answer matters because, although nature abhors a vacuum, Fascism welcomes one.

With help from its friends, however, democracy can almost always be repaired, then made better.

Globally, there is hardly an economic, security, technological, environmental, or health-related challenge that any country can better address alone than through a joint effort with neighbors.

The history of Europe—and indeed the world—is stained by the blood of nations convinced that the path to glory can be found by disparaging others and going it alone.

The wise response to intolerance is not more intolerance or self-righteousness; it is a coming together across the ideological spectrum of people who want to make democracies more effective.

With people like that we needn't despair of civilisation

And as I do, even as I say it out loud—I give everyone and everything to you—my soul cooperates a good bit. I'm settling down.

Let both sides seek to invoke the wonders of science instead of its terrors. Together let us explore the stars, conquer the deserts, eradicate disease, tap the ocean depths, and encourage the arts and commerce. John F. Kennedy

Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.

Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures. And however undramatic the pursuit of peace, that pursuit must go on. [Address before the United Nations, September 20 1963]

The rising tide lifts all the boats.

We must face the fact that the United States is neither omnipotent nor omniscient, that we cannot impose our will upon the other 94 percent of mankind, that we cannot right every wrong or reverse every adversity, and that therefore there cannot be an American solution to every world problem.

No American is ever made better off by pulling a fellow American down, and all of us are made better off whenever any one of us is made better off.

Let both sides explore what problems unite us instead of belaboring those problems which divide us.

So, let us not be blind to our differences- but let us also direct our attention to our common interests and to the means by which those differences can be resolved.

Mankind must put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind.

In a time of domestic crisis men of good will and generosity should be able to unite

It is compromise that prevents each set of reformers from crushing the group at the other end of the political spectrum.

It's like football. Two sides may each want to beat the other, they may even hate each other as sides, but if someone came and told them football is stupid and not worth playing or caring about, then they'd feel together. It's feeling that matters.

There's not a chance we'll reach our full potential until we stop blaming each other and start practicing personal accountability.

We are more fulfilled when we are involved in something bigger than ourselves.

it was impossible to believe they would stay on the same side for long.

The chief alliance my sovereign desires is to live in amity with Scotland.

Doing is inherently plural, collective, choral, communal.