Barack Obama Quotes

We need to stop treating our opponents as our enemies.

I have disagreements with some and more agreements with others. But that doesn't mean I cannot listen to those I disagree with.

Yeah, you can disagree with someone and still be cool - that's a thing!

There is a way to disagree with someone, but it doesn't have to be threatening.

You can disagree without being disagreeable.

Just because somebody happens to disagree with you about something doesn't mean that they become your mortal enemy and that you should try to destroy them and destroy their life and destroy their family.

It's a very important thing to learn to talk to people you disagree with.

I enjoy being around people who disagree with me; and I enjoy being in non-political contexts and activities.

If you have learned how to disagree without being disagreeable, then you have discovered the secrete of getting along - whether it be business, family relations, or life itself.

And I think both the left and the right should celebrate people who have different opinions, and disagree with them, and argue with them, and differ with them, but don't just try to shut them up.

We can be fervent in our disagreements without being factitious with our beliefs.

No matter how much we disagree with people, demonising them doesn't get us anywhere; it merely indicates a closed mind.

To disagree, one doesn't have to be disagreeable.

What the nation's built on is discussion, contradiction and growth, and at the moment you can't discuss anything. If you do start to discuss it, you get criticized. If people hate us, you have to find out why and try to solve that problem.

If I have my opinion about something, you have your opinion about something, we don't have to fight over it. And we can have a conversation. We can also disagree without being disagreeable, and we can just disagree, which is fine. It doesn't mean that I don't like you, or you don't like me. We just disagree.

I've learned by hanging out in Hollywood, where I disagree politically with most people, that most people's hearts are in the right place, and the only thing we have to argue about is the way to solve the problems.

We may disagree on some things, but we can do so without being disagreeable.

I think that you can disagree with people and debate over their positions with issues without engaging in the politics of personal destruction.

You don't get unity by ignoring the questions that have to be faced.

Moral teaching should always be used as a gift and not a cudgel.... It is important that we all be able to share our moral viewpoints without hurting each other. That is what is wrong with political discourse today.

Our civilization is becoming less civil. You don’t have the right to demonize somebody just because they disagree with you.

We can argue and we can disagree, but we don’t need to poke our fingers in each other’s eyes in order to get our points across.

You don't promote the cause of peace by talking only to people with whom you agree.

When I am contradicted it arouses my attention, not my wrath. I move toward the man who contradicts me: he is instructing me. The cause of truth ought to be common to both of us.

I think it's important to understand people can disagree on things, and still move forward.