“Presidents should do whatever possible and practical to encourage an environment of cooperation and bipartisanship. And they should maintain a certain level of decorum, diplomacy and decency. But, at the end of the day, presidents get elected to enact change.” ShouldEndsCertainPresidentLevelsEnvironmentPracticalsThe End Of The DayCooperationDiplomacyDecencyDecorumBipartisanship Author:Mark McKinnon
“I know well the coequal role of the Congress in our constitutional process. I love the House of Representatives. I revere the traditions of the Senate despite my too-short internship in that great body. As President, within the limits of basic principles, my motto toward the Congress is communication, conciliation, compromise, and cooperation.” KnowsLoveWellsBodyHouseProcessPresidentPrinciplesRolesCommunicationLimitsTraditionCongressDespiteCompromiseCooperationSenateRepresentativesMottoToo ShortBasic PrinciplesMy MottoHouse Of RepresentativesInternships Author:Gerald R. Ford
“I saw my job [as president] as to try to move the world from an unstable condition of interdependence toward more integrated cooperative world community. Therefore, my approach was to cooperate wherever possible and to build institutions of cooperation, an expanded NATO, the World Trade Organization, the Summit of the Americas, the Asian Pacific Leaders, all those, the coalition to fight in Bosnia and Kosovo, to cooperate wherever possible but to act alone if we had to.” IfsWorldTryingJobsMovingFightingPresidentCommunityLeaderSawsConditionsApproachOrganizationInstitutionsTradeCooperationAsianSummitIntegratedPacificCoalitionsUnstableNatoInterdependenceCooperativesWorld TradeBosniaKosovoWorld Trade Organization Author:William J. Clinton
“We should have an army so organized and so officered as to be capable in time of emergency, in cooperation with the National Militia, and under the provision of a proper national volunteer law, rapidly to expand into a force sufficient to resist all probable invasion from abroad and to furnish a respectable expeditionary force if necessary in the maintenance of our traditional American policy which bears the name of President Monroe.” IfsShouldLawNamesForcePresidentPolicyBearsCapableShould HaveArmyTraditionalSufficientOrganizedCooperationVolunteerEmergenciesInvasionProvisionRespectableMaintenanceMilitiaMonroe Doctrine Author:William Howard Taft