As founding director of the Worker Institute, one of my main goals has been to bring together resident and extension faculty, staff, students and practitioners in common efforts - both in outreach and on the Ithaca campus.
Parliament's negotiators aim to enhance the transparency of interest representation in EU decision-making and include all three EU institutions (the European Parliament, the Council of the European Union and the European Commission) in a common effort to increase public trust in the EU decision-making process.
We must join in common effort without remorse or recrimination, without anger or rancor.
We must join in common effort, without remorse or recrimination, without anger or rancour.
It is this thread that binds us together in common effort; that runs through every memorial on this mall; that connects us to all those who struggled and sacrificed and stood here before.
For if we are flexible and pragmatic; if we can resolve to work tirelessly in common effort, then we will achieve our common purpose: a world that is safer, cleaner, and healthier than the one we found; and a future that is worthy of our children.
"For all our blind spots and shortcomings," President Obama said, in last year's State of the Union address, "we are a people with the strength and generosity of spirit to bridge divides, to unite in common effort, to help our neighbors, whether down the street or on the other side of the world".
"If we are flexible and pragmatic, if we can resolve to work tirelessly in common effort, then we will achieve our common purpose," he said.
And when that happens when people set aside their differences to work in common effort toward a common good, when they struggle together and sacrifice together and learn from one another all things are possible.
