Quotes About Collaboration

I thought we were gonna open up the world of poetry and music to all kinds of things, and yet, I can't really think of anyone who's done anything like it since.

Probably the best nonsense poetry is produced gradually and accidentally, by communities rather than by individuals.

Most people can't tell now who wrote what. I like that blurring of identities within the band. because it becomes a unified thing that can't be related to other forms of historical poetry

My novels and poems are meant to be read aloud. That's why jazz musicians have been able to adapt my stuff.

We saw a hole in the Chicago poetry scene that slam couldn't fill. I think a lot more can be done with the form than just competition.

In modern politics, even the leader of the free world needs help from the sultan of Facebookistan.

Global warming is too serious for the world any longer to ignore its danger or split into opposing factions on it.

If more politicians knew poetry, and more poets knew politics, I am convinced the world would be a little better place in which to live.

I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.

You don't tell us how to stage the news and we don't tell you how to cover it.

I think the fact is that anybody who goes into politics feels like 'I can make a difference'. But it's not one person, you need so many others

A majority is always better than the best repartee.

Politics make strange bedfellows.

An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry.

Business and politics have a wholesome and an unwholesome interface. You have to eliminate the unwholesome interface.

I'm always amazed that my wife can handle different subjects - one day politics, the next day foreign policy. And she always has so much fun doing it. We make a good team.

Politics is human beings; it's addition rather than subtraction.

You help me, I'll help you. That's politics.

If you really got the right people, and you've got them working together as a team, whether it's in business, whether it's in science, whether it's in politics, you can make a big difference.

In a time of domestic crisis, men of goodwill and generosity should be able to unite regardless of party or politics.

One of the things that could be exciting about this next phase of Canadian politics is if we could maybe have co-leaders.

So science alone cannot solve this problem [mass extinction of humans]. It's something that we can only tackle by bringing science together with culture, economics, and even politics.

We must, indeed, all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately.

I've done business with people I've met in politics, who I went to law school with, who I grew up with. Who do you do business with? People you meet in life.