Quotes About Dialogue

If you wish to win a man"s heart, allow him to confute you.

Would you persuade, speak of interest, not of reason.

the nations that have thrived have been those, like America, that are most comfortable with the cacophony, and even occasional messiness, that come from robust discourse

You know, I said in the U.N., I said to President Abbas, 'Look, we're in the same city, we're in the same building, for God's sake, the U.N. Let's just sit down and begin to talk peace.'

Why are we talking about talking? Why negotiating about negotiating? It's very simple. If you want to get to peace, put all your preconditions on the side, sit down opposite a table, not in a studio, by the way.

You can only end a negotiation for peace if you begin it.

All stories are in conversation with other stories. —Neil Gaiman

Through talk, we tamed kings, restrained tyrants, averted revolution.

Marxism is now a world faith and must be allowed to enter into a continuous dialogue with other world faiths, including religious faiths.

President Obama was asked not long ago to reflect on any mistakes he might have made. He said, well, 'I haven't communicated enough.' He said his job is to 'tell a story to the American people' - as if that's the whole problem here? He needs to talk more, and we need to be better listeners?

Throughout the health-insurance reform process, we have had a frequent and consistent dialogue with the business community - small, medium, and large - to analyze and evaluate the impact that reform would have on them. It has been a very instructive and productive dialogue.

A disaffected America can be drawn into a civilized - but disruptive - dialogue about political change and reformation.

I refuse to make films where the audience comes for consumption. I make films where you know you are also part of the process.

Our politicians don't say anything anymore: they just refute and assert.

If you have an adversary, an opponent with an opposing point of view, give that person a platform, regardless of how extreme it may be.

When every word is parsed for ill intention, regardless of who is speaking or why, we become so afraid we'll offend that we stop trying to communicate with people we don't understand.

I'm not an extremist. And I disagree with Saudis who are calling for regime change and stuff like that.

When he was not talking about race, David Duke was a very pleasant guy to talk to. He was a very nice conversationalist. He seemed like a regular guy on the phone when the subject wasn't on race and on Jews and ethnicity.

I was always cutting dialogue out when we were rehearsing, and when I produced movies, too. I felt that people don't say things in life - they act, they do things. I always wanted my characters doing, rather than saying what they were doing - which was redundant.

When I bring people on my show, I'm not going to bring the right-wingers on that just reinforce what I have to say, and I'm not going to bring on the liberals so that I can talk over them or interrupt them because, to me, that doesn't educate anyone or inform anyone.

At home, we must reject the mistaken notion - a notion that has dominated too much of the public dialogue for too long - that ever bigger Government is the answer to every problem.

I am really interested in the way we relate to time. In particular, the way readers and writers talk to each other. Casting your voice out into the future is very beautiful to me.

I said that we stand for strong relations with India, we stand for peaceful resolution of all our problems with India, including Kashmir.

Marriage is a dialogue. But in any meaningful relationship, we should be honest, whether it is about having an affair or a fling.