Barack Obama Quotes

Good discourse sinks differences and seeks agreements.

We can find common ground only by moving to higher ground.

It has been the way of Rotary to focus thought upon matters in which members are in agreement, rather than upon matters in which they are in disagreement.

You can never have unity if you want things to go your way.

I am a very committed person when it comes to finding common ground.

No one is exempt from the call to find common ground.

Even if we don't agree, we should agree to work together.

I think that's my nature, to want to bring people together rather than to try to bombard them into agreement.

At every moment of our lives we should be trying to find out, not in what we differ with other people, but in what we agree with them.

When people are divided, the only solution is agreement.

The Bible says that two cannot walk together unless they are agreed.

If you can sing together, you can live together.

Peace is a never ending process... It cannot ignore our differences or overlook our common interests. It requires us to work and live together.

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

Things happen in American politics in the political center. If the President will meet us in the center, there are things we can accomplish.

We aren't going to agree on everything and there will be other areas where we will be working together.

I choose to bring people together. I choose to seek compromise.

Can two walk together, except they be agreed?

Encourage a readiness to find consensus.

Bipartisanship means you work together to work it out.

Ultimately, peace depends on compromise.

We must reject the easy impulses of bitterness and rancor and embrace the difficult work, but the important work, the vital work of finding a path forward together.

When you hang the 'bipartisan' tag on something, the perception is that differences have been worked out, and there's a broad agreement that that's the way forward.

Moderation and bipartisan consensus go hand in hand.

Good governance requires working toward common ground. It isn't easy.