Putting Differences Aside Quotes

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

Tolerance is a very dull virtue. It is boring. Unlike love, it has always had a bad press. It is negative. It merely means putting up with people, being able to stand things.

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.

Let's set aside political gamesmanship and work together for the sake of our children.

This is not the time for partisan bickering. This is not the time for politics as usual. Some of us are Democrats. Some of us are Republicans. Some of us are Independents. Above all, we must be Oklahomans first.

Too often in Washington special interests urge us to fight one another just because we belong to different parties. It is time for this to stop and for Washington to focus on what needs to be done.

Sometimes the Senate really does rise above politics. It’s rare, but sometimes it happens.

We agreed that we cannot let personal political attacks get in the way of doing the very best we can for California's children.

When it's for the good of your state, you put partisan differences aside.

Sure, things could always have been done better, but I just wish people would drop their political hammers for a few weeks, as happened in 2001, and work on the problem at hand.