Quotes About Cooperation

In politics and in society, we can use our reason to rise above our parochial natures. Too bad that our elected officials don't choose to do so more often.

Part of diplomacy is to open different definitions of self-interest.

I have no problem with bands using participant financing schemes like Kickstarter and such. I've said many times that I think they're part of the new way bands and their audience interact and they can be a fantastic resource, enabling bands to do things essentially in cooperation with their audience. It's pretty amazing, actually.

Just as the mind emerges from the actions of individual neurons and their cooperation, the success of an organization emerges not only from its individual participants, but also from the interplay between them.

War doesn't need more participants. It needs fewer participants.

The TMPG is the place where market participants recognize and address their responsibilities to each other.

There are some common problems in the Balkans in the settlement of which Bulgaria should also participate.

Scientists under all forms of government must be able to participate fully in international efforts.

When women participate in peace-making and peace-keeping, we are all safer and more secure.

If you are gonna participate in a band, you've got to be a band member in good standing, and you've got to think about the needs of the whole.

We need to get involved in things that are important to other countries, just as we expect them to participate in things that are important to us.

Our global atmosphere does not respect national boundaries, and the international commitments under the Paris Agreement cannot be met without the full cooperation and participation of multiple countries.

Obviously every one of them was special to that particular team, all the people that were involved with it.

But if we can work with people in other parties to get the right answer for the country we'll do that.

If the parties get too close together they lose their identities, if they get too far apart you're not going to get a whole lot done because you almost always need to have some folks on the other side of the aisle to accomplish anything.

I believe any time that both parties are talking, it's a good thing.

We will face the challenges head on. We will work with both parties, across the aisle, to make our state better.

If politicians of both parties would spend more time legislating and less time attacking each other, we would all be better off.

Our elected officials must understand that we, the American people, expect them to perform the duties of their office, even when that means working with other elected officials from different parties.

We need elected officials who overcome partisan politics to really help people.

I have also come to understand Congress' need for a bipartisan as well as a partisan capacity.

There's no such thing as a partisan base.

When it's for the good of your state, you put partisan differences aside.

Making people's lives better is not a partisan issue.