Quotes About Civility

People are pretty respectful for the most part.

At the end of the day, we can talk about anything but we have to be respectful.

I am super respectful.

I try to be respectful.

You treat a person the right way and you get the same respect given back to you.

I reprimand people, even those working with me, for littering the roads.

To be rude to someone is not my nature.

People are rude in general.

I have never really encountered anybody that was rude to me. Well, not to my face anyway.

Rudeness, I think, is the worst.

It is almost the definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.

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

In the old way of doing business, it was fine to disagree and then go to dinner. Now it's personal and more partisan, and a disagreement on one issue leads to a disagreement on another issue.

Partisan politics is not my passion.

If ever a man and his wife, or a man and his mistress, who pass nights as well as days together, absolutely lay aside all good breeding, their intimacy will soon degenerate into a coarse familiarity, infallibly productive of contempt or disgust.

I loathe litterbugs and Im pretty vocal if I see someone do it.

We need to recognize our agreements and disagreements with whomever is chosen as president, but we can't continue to just stall out in Washington just because it's not who I voted for. We have still an obligation and duty to challenge and to work through.

When you see Obama and Trump shake hands and seem to show respect to one another - that is what we need.

I'm not very much of a 'name it and shame it' kind of guy.

People ask, 'How do you work with the other side?' Well, I start by not saying bad things about them.

If we want our politics to be different, we need to be different.

Social media, to me, has got out of hand. Why can't we all be nice to each other?

I think it's an important lesson for a child. How to behave humanely toward another human being.

The cost of partisanship for partisanship's sake—of seeing politics as blood sport, where the kill is the only object of the exercise—was, Livingston said, too high for a free society to pay.