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Experience having long taught me the reasonableness of mutual sacrifices of opinion among those who are to act together for any common object, and the expediency of doing what good we can; when we cannot do all we would wish.
Sometimes there is a common threat that can produce a common interest in putting aside all the differences in trying to find a constructive solution.
England does not love coalitions.
When individuals join in a cooperative venture, the power generated far exceeds what they could have accomplished acting individually.
Our alliance is born, not of fear, but of hope. It is an alliance that advances what we are for, as well as opposes what we are against.
Partnership is the way. Dictatorial win-lose is so old-school.
This power ought to be coextensive with all the possible combinations of such circumstances; and ought to be under the direction of the same councils which are appointed to preside over the common defense.
The alternate triumphs of different parties ... make the public administration the mirror of the ill-concerted and incongruous projects of faction, rather than the organ of consistent and wholesome plans digested by common counsels.
The concept of active cooperation has taken the place of opposition to the new form of government and of dreamy resignation entranced with the beauty of times past.
That alliance may be said to have a double tie, where the minds are united as well as the body; and the union will have all its strength when both the links are in perfection together.
Remember the maxim of the Romans which states that by union and counsel we can achieve anything.
The advantages of having decisions made by groups are often lost because of powerful psychological pressures that arise when the members work closely together, share the same set of values and, above all, face a crisis situation that puts everyone under intense stress
In a politically diverse nation, only by finding that common ground can we achieve results for the common good.
The essential task of Canadian statesmanship is to discover the terms on which as many as possible of the significant interest groups of our country can be induced to work together in common policy.
We need a broad-based coalition that is way beyond the bounds of Christianity to be able to help people to understand that there is a groundswell of support for the marriage amendment and for opposition to same-sex marriages.
A committee of three gets things done if two dont show up.
Those who can do. Those who can't form a supercommittee.
At the end of the day government is about teamwork and partnership and we will be proving that by working together.
A small state increases by concord; the greatest falls gradually to ruin by dissension.
Banding together with others to achieve a common pursuit cannot help but engender a strong feeling of community, whether you're baling hay or mounting A Chorus Line in a tiny theater space.
Jubilee 2000 is a broad coalition which has moved the earth.
Under the benignant providence of Almighty God the representatives of the States and of the people are again brought together to deliberate for the public good.
Sometimes we make our alliances not by the shape and color of our flesh but by the convictions of our heart.
Together, people with good hearts and fine minds can move the world.
There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.
An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry.
Collaboration sometimes causes conflict, and sometimes it's easy, but the bringing together of great minds only adds.
This is the problem of obtaining the co-operation of each individual in the joint endeavour of controlling our society.
The power of one, if fearless and focused, is formidable, but the power of many working together is better.
People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society.
Thems cain't work together, fails together.
The strongest democracies flourish from frequent and lively debate, but they endure when people of every background and belief find a way to set aside smaller differences in service of a greater purpose.
When many work together for a goal, Great things may be accomplished. It is said a lion cub was killed By a single colony of ants.
Formation of Network of people for common purpose leads to Society with common objectives.
I have just come out of an electoral experience with the people of my country in which I invited them to join me in a partnership for governance.
In our democracy we must have a partnership of labor, of business and of government.
A fatal defect in majority rule is that by its very nature it abolishes itself. Majority rule must inevitably become minority rule: the majority is too big to handle itself; it organizes itself into committees ... which in their turn resolve themselves into a committee of one ...
We long for unity, but are unwilling to pay the price. But of course, true unity cannot be so easily won. It starts with a change in attitudes - a broadening of our minds, and a broadening of our hearts.
The clever, albeit fragile, coalition against terrorism brought together by the U.S. government might be able to advance the transition from classical international law to a cosmopolitan order.
The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
The problem is to find a form of association which will defend and protect with the whole common force the person and goods of each associate, and in which each, while uniting himself with all, may still obey himself alone, and remain as free as before.
We find two great gangs of political speculators, who alternately take possession of the state power and exploit it by the most corrupt ends
the nation is powerless against these two great cartels of politicians who are ostensibly its servants, but in reality dominate and plunder it.
Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony.
The party which is out sees nothing but graft and incapacity in the party which is in; and the party which is in sees nothing but greed and animosity in the party which is out.
Here we encounter two conflicting concepts with which we must come to grips in our time: the idea of national solidarity and the idea of international cooperation.
When you don't work together you can't emerge as a force. It becomes what some call a "lonely struggle" and individual self-destruction.
All my economic ideas as developed over twenty-five years can be summed up in the words: agricultural-industrial federation. All my political ideas boil down to a similar formula: political federation or decentralization.
Of course, running a coalition government in a country like India is a difficult task. More so when Congress leads the coalition, since most of the political parties were anti-Congress. To have a coalition, to run a coalition government, you require a lot of adjustments, a lot of flexibility.
We must work together on a common vision and a common goal.
Small endeavours obtain strength by unity of action: the most powerful are broken down by discord.
I have a lot of respect for the Concord Coalition and have done work with them over the years.
The strength of collective decision making and political responsibility is not only a question of recognizing other people's ability. It is also recognizing one's own limitations.
If you want to be a government in a minority Parliament, you have to work with other people.
Best way to gain greater credibility, clout and success: involve unexpected allies, ardently united around something specific that you all believe is meaningful.
Terrorism and trade cannot be the only issues on which the world unites. We must commit ourselves to a global coalition to deal with exclusion, too.
Where two Greeks are gathered together, there will be at least three political parties represented, and possibly more.
There are certain natures of which the mutual influence is such, that the more they say, the more they have to say. For these out of association grows adhesion, and out of adhesion, amalgamation.
congress of angels.
The experienced, wise, energetic, intelligent individual functioning in a loose coalition with others in a wide network is far more effective than he is in a tightly organized group.
Collaboration is multiplication.
But for 30 years, Orthodox leaders have tipped the balance between hawks and doves, and have been in a position to determine who forms a coalition and who runs the country.
Collective will supplants individual whim
Building Union among people not cooperation between states
The issue for us is rebuilding a governing majority that is comfortable with differences that can transcend the divisiveness and unify behind the principles that we know our party has succeeded on.
I dont work with collectives. I don't consult, i don't co-operate, I don't collaborate.
Alliances and partnerships produce stability when they reflect realities and interests.
On the market, all is harmony. But as soon as intervention appears and is established, conflict is created, for each may participate in a scramble to be a net gainer rather than a net loser - to be part of the invading team instead of one of the victims.
We must abandon the notion that the people govern. Instead, we must adopt the theory that, by their occasional mobilisations as a majority, people support or oppose the individuals who actually govern.
I think we have got to start thinking about banding together in terms of interested groups.
A government held together by the bands of reason only, requires much compromise of opinion.
The importance of building relationships among colleagues, of trying to create coalitions behind the issues that you are championing, was not something I ever had much insight into until I was elected and started serving in the Senate.
There is only one power and one dictatorship whose organisation is salutary and feasible: it is that collective, invisible dictatorship of those who are allied in the name of our principle.
Insofar as it represents a genuine reconciliation of differences, a consensus is a fine thing; insofar as it represents a concealment of differences, it is a miscarriage of democratic procedure.
All legitimate government is a mutual insurance company, voluntarily agreed upon by the parties to it, for the protection of their rights against wrong-doers. In its voluntary character it is precisely similar to an association for mutual protection against fire or shipwreck.
When you assemble from your several counties in the Legislature, were every member to be guided only by the apparent interest of his county, government would be impracticable. There must be a perpetual accomodation and sacrifice of local advantage to general expediency.
When we fracture our potential for united action and divide ourselves along social, political, economic, or religious lines, we diminish our power.
The Democratic and Republican parties, two apparently distinct political entities feeding at the same corporate trough.
Individuals who could not form cooperative alliances, on average, died sooner and left fewer children. And so we are the descendants of the successful cooperators.
When people come together, they become much more productive.
In most vital organizations, there is a common bond of interdependence, mutual interest, interlocking contributions, and simple joy.
Our power as individuals is multiplied when we gather together as families, teams, and communities with common goals.
What is the structure of government that will best guard against the precipitate counsels and factious combinations for unjust purposes, without a sacrifice of the fundamental principle of republicanism?
A power has risen up in the government greater than the people themselves, consisting of many and various and powerful interests, combined into one mass, and held together by the cohesive power of the vast surplus in the banks.
A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn.
They wish for a general government of unity, as they see that the local legislatures must naturally and necessarily tend to retard the general government.
Is the result of cooperation the seizing of power? Not so: cooperation mysteriously creates more power than there was before, so that the more we work together the more power we discover is available to us.
Divide and Conquer.
The new co-operation government will do the best it can to address the country's problems, and I believe that with the co-operation of all - and the new government stresses this - and the unity of all, we will achieve that.
A group of people who individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done
Men, once enemies, are now jointly governing in Northern Ireland. And although there have been several hitches, by and large it's working well.
Parties on the back of Parties, at war with the world and with each other.
Collaboration begins with focusing on the collective good rather than personal gain.
A great strategy meeting is a meeting of minds.
Yesterday, the president met with a group he calls the coalition of the willing. Or, as the rest of the world calls them, Britain and Spain
We are moving from sharing to cooperation to collective action.
These are challenging times at home and around the world. We will have to work together in a bipartisan spirit and with our international partners if we are going to achieve progress and peace now and for future generations.
The play of conflicting interests in a framework of shared purposes is the drama of a free society. It is a robust exercise, and often a noisy one. It is not for the faint-hearted, or the tidy-minded.
Have the right people in the right places, working together
I propose that there is another kind of power based not on resources, things, or attributes, but rooted in the social and cooperative relations in which people are enmeshed by virtue of group life.
[The greatest barriers to forming alliances] are not figuring out what would make others want to join with you. Assuming that what excites you excites others. Spend more time assuming people have good reasons for what they do or say and then figure out those good reasons.