Tony Tan Quotes

I was not elected to serve one party but to serve one nation.

I can no longer be called the President of a party. I am now the president of the whole people.

I serve a nation, not a party or a person. Nor to any branch of government.

I'm willing to work with anybody that will put the country first.

Let's just do what is right for the American people. And those of us who are involved in politics and government know that our responsibility is to the American people, that we have a responsibility to find our common ground, to seek it and to find it.

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.

I applaud anyone who wants to take on the load that comes with being President of the United States. You really have to love your country to place yourself in that position.

Running a country is much more difficult than running a campaign.

I believe people want a President for all Americans. And so I'm out there talking about what we can do for every single American.

I am making every effort to reach out to all party leaders with one clear message: Israel is bigger and more important than any one leader.

When you have a new government assume power, everyone, without exception, has to work for the benefit of the common good.

I will be president for all South Koreans.

It doesn't matter to me if someone is a Republican or a Democrat, I'm going to be the governor for all Marylanders.

I wanna be a president for everyone in America. That's my goal, this what I will do, that's what I've done in my past.

Whoever is president, my first priority is the same - as always. I look for what's best for West Virginia and the nation as a whole.

I'm going to try to unite all Americans.

I will work in partnership with the Government, all political parties, and civil society to safeguard and advance the future of all Singaporeans.

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.

We simply must look beyond partisan goals and find common ground as Americans. It is imperative that the Members of Congress recognize that partisanship will not serve the American people.

It is the utmost necessity that this congress be a congress of unity.

I don't care who the president is - it ain't just all about who's black or who's white or who's Republican or Democrat, it's about who is for the betterment of people, period.

The job of a leader, the job of a governor, the job of a president, is to get the people in the room and bang enough heads together and rub enough arms and cajole enough to have them put the country and the state's greater interest ahead of their own personal partisan interest. That's what we did in New Jersey and that's the model for America.

What we won when all of our people united must not be lost in suspicion and distrust and selfishness and politics. Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as president.

Unity is Obama's theme.

It is to be hoped that the leaders of this movement will place the nation above the party.