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We can be civil. We can still be friends, and be Democrats and Republicans, and have different views.

Civility is not simply about manners.

Civility is not about dousing strongly held views. It's about making sure that people are willing to respect other perspectives.

As citizens we have to be more thoughtful and more educated and more informed. I turn on the TV and I see these grown people screaming at each other, and I think, well, if we don't get our civility back, we're in trouble.

Treating people fairly and with civility is not a bad thing... It would be good for our country if political leaders actually took that to heart.

We need to in this country begin again to raise civil discourse to another level. I mean, we shout and scream and yell and get very little accomplished, but you can disagree very much with the next guy and still be friends and acquaintances.

Civility is perhaps a quaint notion but civility in Parliament is something we should always strive to uphold.

My hope is that we would begin to have a dialogue in this country about the importance of civility. We can have strong differences, but it does seem to me that most of the country believes it's gone to critical mass in what I would call the professional class across the political spectrum - left and right.

Manners are the basic building blocks of civil society.

I think that's one thing that, you know, we all need to remember is that, you know, politics, even though it's been really rough, is that we are all human beings first. And that it is more important for us to have civil dialogue. And you know what? I'm conservative, but I'm not mad about it.