Cory Booker Quotes

President Obama celebrates diversity, yet instinctively seeks common ground and builds on that common ground to make progress.

We have to transcend our differences to transform our future.

You need a lot of different types of people to make the world better.

For my part, I make this pledge to all of you: The politics of division, of pitting east against west, urban versus rural, region against region, and people against people will have no place in my Administration.

It is time for us to turn a corner and come together, put our differences behind us and focus on the future.

While significant differences between our governments continue, the progress of the last two years reminds the world of what is possible when we are defined not by the past but by the future we can build together.

No matter who we are or what we look like or what we may believe, it is both possible and, more importantly, it becomes powerful to come together in common purpose and common effort.

I hope that people understand in order for things to change in our country, we all have to come together and do it together.

The more reasons for people to be willing to put their differences aside, the better.

In my previous career as a chief executive of high-tech companies, I experienced firsthand the endless possibilities when people from diverse backgrounds work together. They get to know one another and quickly learn that they share more in common than they originally thought.

Let's work together to keep our country open, tolerant, respectful, and progressive.

Together we are building a new Mexico.

When it all boils down, it's about embracing each others' stories and maybe even finding that synergy to collaborate for the common good.

Everybody is sitting around saying, 'Well, jeez, we need somebody to solve this problem of bias.' That somebody is us. We all have to try to figure out a better way to get along.

There is too much at stake for us to surrender to the politics of polarization.

As the nation watches, Democrats and Republicans should reflect the interspersed character of America itself. Perhaps, by sitting with each other for one night, we will begin to rekindle that common spark that brought us here from 50 different states and widely diverging backgrounds to serve the public good.

I kind of feel like we're all humans; we all live on this planet. I kind of always wish there was more of a partnership - a really healthy relationship between people, working together to do things and make it good and change.

It brings people together. It brings the races together. It brings religions together.

It's time to put our differences aside and find ways to work together to move Wisconsin forward.

I've danced all over the world, and people are people. We cannot cut off from each other in life. In order to lead, you can't do that.

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.

We will not agree on every issue. But let us respect those differences and respect one another. Let us recognize that we do not serve an ideology or a political party; we serve the people.

In a politically diverse nation, only by finding that common ground can we achieve results for the common good.

Don’t divide the world into “them” and “us.”

… our common interests far outweigh our differences