Barack Obama Quotes About Working Together

• My Administration is committed to creating an unprecedented level of openness in Government. We will work together to ensure the public trust and establish a system of transparency, public participation, and collaboration. Openness will strengthen our democracy and promote efficiency and effectiveness in Government.

  Barack Obama

  Government, Effectiveness, Creating

  "Open Government Directive: Obama Moves On Transparency Promise" by Rachel Weiner, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

• The best education I received was working with people in the community on a grassroots basis. Because what it taught me was that ordinary people, when they are working together can do extraordinary things.

  Barack Obama

  People, Community, Working Together

• I don't believe that the American people want us to focus on our job security. They want us to focus on their job security. I don't think they want more gridlock. I don't think they want more partisanship. I don't think they want more obstruction. They didn't send us to Washington to fight each other in some sort of political steel-cage match to see who comes out alive. That's not what they want. They sent us to Washington to work together, to get things done, and to solve the problems that they're grappling with every single day.

  Barack Obama

  Jobs, Believe, Fighting

  Barack Obama's remarks at GOP House Issues Conference in Renaissance Baltimore Harborplace Hotel, Baltimore, Maryland, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. January 29, 2010.

• What is important is that we make sure to work together, that we understand our strength comes from unity and not division.

  Barack Obama

  Unity, Working Together, Important

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

• E.U. need to be nurtured and cultivated and protected and fought for because the achievements that we've seen on this continent, in contrast to a divided Europe of the previous century, are ones that remind us of how important it is that we work together.

  Barack Obama

  Europe, Achievement, Working Together

  Source: time.com

• To sustain a governing majority, that requires an ability for Republicans and Democrats to find some common ground. And right now, the structure of the system is such where it makes it really hard for people to work together.

  Barack Obama

  People, Working Together, Majority

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

• I believe we [americans] are strongest as a nation, when the president and Congress work together.

  Barack Obama

  Believe, Safe Haven, Working Together

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

• America is a strong and resilient country. And I know we will succeed, if we put aside partisanship and politics and work together as one nation.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Strong, Together

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

• Americans coming home, an Iran that has rolled back its nuclear program and accepted unprecedented monitoring of the program -these things are a reminder of what we can achieve when we lead with strength and with wisdom, with courage and resolve and patience. America can do and has done big things when we work together.

  Barack Obama

  Home, Iran, America

  "President Obama Gives Statement About U.S.-Iran Deals This Weekend". "Weekend Edition Sunday", www.npr.org. January 17, 2016.

• If you want to right-size executive power relative to the other branches of government, the best way to do that is to have a healthy Congress in which the two parties are debating, disagreeing, but also occasionally working together to pass legislation.

  Barack Obama

  Party, Two, Government

  "NPR's Exit Interview With President Obama". Interview with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org.

• It continues to be my strong belief that the way we are going to make sure that everybody feels a part of this global economy is not by shutting ourselves off from each other, even if we could, but rather by working together more effectively than we have in the past.

  Barack Obama

  Strong, Past, Working Together

  "President Barack Obama Holds a News Conference". ye.usembassy.gov. November 14, 2016.

• I have the authority to address the threat from Isil, but I believe we are strongest as a nation when the president and Congress work together. So I welcome congressional support for this effort in order to show the world that Americans are united in confronting this danger.

  Barack Obama

  Believe, Safe Haven, Order

  Statement by the President on ISIL, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. September 10, 2014.

• What the Paris agreement now does is say to China and India and other countries that are potentially polluting, come on board. Let's work together so you guys do the same thing.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Agreement, Paris

  "President Barack Obama Holds a News Conference", ye.usembassy.gov. November 14, 2016.

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