Barack Obama Quotes

I was no party man myself, and the first wish of my heart was, if parties did exist, to reconcile them.

We aren't as divided as we think we are. We're not just Republicans sitting in one corner, and Democrats sitting in the other corner.

It is the desire of the good people of the whole country that sectionalism as a factor in our politics should disappear...

If we mean to support the liberty and independence which has cost us so much blood and treasure to establish, we must drive far away the demon of party spirit and local reproach.

We're unifying the party and hopefully we're going to be able to unify the country. It's very important to me.

I'm always suspicious of politics dividing people instead of bringing them together.

I believe in pulling together to make the country better right rather than pulling, tearing it apart for partisan reasons. I think the country comes first.

Sure, things could always have been done better, but I just wish people would drop their political hammers for a few weeks, as happened in 2001, and work on the problem at hand.

Folks are really tired of this rabid division between Republicans and Democrats. Folks want people to come together and solve the problems and the challenges of America.

If I'm the president, I will call in all the different political opinions to come together and to make one front to the benefit of Mexico.

Our two-party system has served us well over the years, but never better than in those times of great challenge when we came together not as Democrats or Republicans, but as Americans united in a common cause.

There are some in Congress who would rather see their opponents lose than see their country win. That has got to stop…. They must find a way to put country ahead of party.

On certain issues, one has to rise above party politics for the country to run.

As a politician, I worked very, very hard in order to maintain the unity of our country. That was my aim.

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

When a country is at war we want Congressmen, regardless of party, to back up the government of the United States.

Democrats and Republicans should get together and unite for the good of our country and for the good of the American people.

We are one America. If we work together across party lines, there's no problem we can't solve and the 21st century will be America's greatest century.

I expect the ruling and opposition parties to work together for the future of Taiwan.

There is nothing wrong with our country, there is something wrong with our politics...When this country is operating off a common ground, nobody can stop us. But when we're divided, then we end up having a whole lot of self-inflicted problems.

The only thing dumber than a Democrat or a Republican is when those pricks work together. You see, in our two-party system, the Democrats are the party of no ideas and the Republicans are the party of bad ideas. It usually goes something like this. A Republican will stand up in Congress and say, 'I've got a really bad idea.' And a Democrat will immediately jump to his feet and declare, 'And I can make it sh*ttier.'

I think it is important that we go and bring both of the parties together. The more we go to the left, the more we go to the right, I believe of what President Eisenhower said, "Politics is like the road. The left and the right represents the gutter, and the middle is drivable."

In this House, we may belong to different parties, but we serve one country.

I think that the important thing to know is, which is great about this country [the USA], when it comes to domestic issues, we all battle it out and fight it between the parties and all those kind of things to get things done, but when it comes to foreign issues, overseas kind of things, then we all speak with one voice.

Tories must end tribalism and divisions.