Christine Gregoire Quotes

We have to transcend our differences to transform our 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.

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

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

True bipartisanship isn’t talking about it. It’s delivering it.

… our common interests far outweigh our differences

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.

If we are going to do big things in our country, we're going to have to think about better ways working across our differences.

The more we pull together toward a new day, the less it matters what pushed us apart in the past.

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

I'm a strong believer in bipartisanship.

A word of truth can mobilise two peoples looking for the road to reconciliation.

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

If ever there was a time for true bipartisanship, it is today.

Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.

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

I think if you're going to get anything done in the Senate, you have to be on the same sheet of music. If you don't get people on the same sheet of music it comes out pretty horrible.

There has been enough blood in the Balkans. Serbia is offering its hand. Let us turn to the future and not deal with the past.

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

Necessity is the mother of bipartisanship.

Things in general will be conducted as of old. All parties that were run out have returned and no further effort will be made to drive them away….. A new dance house was opened Saturday night where all the warriors met and settled their past differences and everything was made lovely and serene. All opposing factions, both saloon men and gamblers met and agreed to stand by each other for the good of their trade. Not an unlooked for result.

Progress is impossible as long as nations emphasize their grievances and de-emphasize their opportunities.

Yesterday our city's votes have been divided. But today our city will be reunited. I expect nothing less and hope for even more.

If you will work in co-operation, forgetting the past, burying the hatchet, you are bound to succeed.