Barack Obama Quotes

There were days when I hated politics. But I fought against hating the people on the other side because we were all in the same business - the business of building our country's future.

In the heat of our campaigns, we have all become accustomed to a little anger and exaggeration. Yet, on the whole, our political process has served us well.

It's not about division. It's not about politics. My concern is how do we come together?

For too long, we have focused on our differences - in our politics and backgrounds, in our race and beliefs - rather than cherishing the unity and pride that binds us together.

Our national well-being is in inverse proportion to the sharpness and extent of our theoretical differences.

All Democrats recognize we do have differences because we are a big family.

As a country, we still have a lot of work to do. We need to agree on some basic rules for civil discourse.

The truth is that searching for our commonality instead of our differences could transform our dysfunctional politics.

We have to build a political consensus and that requires people to give up a little bit of their own ... in order to create this common ground.

If I could leave this body with one wish, it would be that we never give up that search for common ground, .. The politics of common ground will not be found on the far right, or on the far left. That is not where most Americans live. We will only find it on the firm middle ground, based on common sense and shared values.

All the media and the politicians ever talk about is things that separate us, things that make us different from one another

There are plenty of people over there who understand the difference. And there are plenty of people over here who understand the difference. It's still one world and it has been for a long time.

We have to build a political consensus and that requires people to give up a little bit of their own turf in order to create this common ground.

(Howard) Dean is a raving nut bag...a raving, sinister, demagogic nutbag...I and a few other people saw that he should be destroyed.

We all have much more in common than we have difference. I would say that about people all over the world. They don't know how much in common that they have

People are coming together - Democrats, Republicans, Independents - all of us to reject hate and division.

But all our differences hardly measure up to the values we all hold in common.

Beware of the differences that blind us to the unity that binds us.

What Lincoln did is he gathered people around him the way that I believe President Obama is doing by calling Republicans, talking to them, trying to work with them. And when that happens, big things get solved.

Go back to - my first campaign for the United States Senate. I got a bunch of people now talking about inequality. But back then they sure weren't. Back then, folks were saying I was preaching class warfare. Now it's suddenly their campaign platform.

Mitt Romney is talking about the fact that Republicans and Democrats alike have to find common ground to address very real challenges we face as a country. It's a message that's uplifting, it's optimistic. It's about how America can be great again. I think that's the right closing message and I think frankly it's what we need to do as a country after this election regardless of what happens.

I'm always astounded at the way we automatically look at what divides and separates us. We never look at what people have in common.

I will avoid demonizing people who don't agree with me about this election.

Barack Obama and his followers and his adorers have decided he can bring us all together, that he can reach across aisles, he can reach across oceans. Who knows, he might be able to reach across galaxies, bring people together, to find common ground from the mountaintop, and so, my friends.