Laura Bush Quotes

The only valid starting point is to understand what we all share - we have to find what we can all agree on.

The way to go from discord to harmony is to go from concentrating on differences to concentrating on similarities.

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.

A politics that defines itself by difference holds no appeal for me.

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.

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.

We are a big-tent party, but we have to come together as a caucus and say 'These are the things we can agree on' and push forward.

Nor, in truth, is it of little importance to prevent the suspicion of any difference having arisen between us from being handed down in any way to our posterity; for it is worse than absurd that parties should be found disagreeing on the very principles, after we have been compelled to make our departure from the world.

We are more inclined to hate one another for points on which we differ, than to love one another for points on which we agree.

Good discourse sinks differences and seeks agreements.

I can guarantee you one thing, we will never agree on anything as we agreed on Elvis.

I will admit that we are attracted to issues that unify people rather than divide them.

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.

We must work together as Americans in a bipartisan fashion.

Sometimes, we find common ground; more often, we don't.

Americans know that we have more in common than we do differences.

A leader's job is to find common ground.

My job is to make sure our caucus and our movement is united. That means not bringing up divisive issues that would divide even our own party.

There have always been different opinions on some elements of our sanction policy. It will probably stay that way... What is important is that we keep this unity and decide all together.

It's only now that I see the bigger picture: Our ways to attain spirituality may be different - through diverse religious, customs and traditions - but they're modeled on similar principles and ideologies. That's what ties us all together.

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

I'm all in favour of talking to other parties, always have been, always will be. I'm a pluralist, talk to them, see what we've got in common, work together, fine.

We should always be looking for the unity in things instead of the differences.