Quotes About Dialogue

Actually, King Abdullah, under his supervision and guidance, has established a dialogue in Saudi Arabia whereby all the population, whether Shiite or Sunnis from north, south, west or east, they can get together and exchange their views.

Those who say that the West and Islam are eternally irreconcilable have more in common with the Islam extremists than they might like to think, for it's the very same argument of course advanced by Al-Qaida. And they do have it wrong. We need to work with mainstream Islam.

I believe we don't need to widen the divide between the West and Islam. Rather, we need to build dialogue to encourage tolerance and respect.

In a Western, you talk more with your eyes and your actions than you do with big speeches. I love that.

The most powerful force when changing people's hearts and minds is a person-to-person conversation.

We need people out talking about the President, explaining, agreeing with and praising his actions.

It's disgusting that a Broadway show can't try out anymore, that no matter where they are in the world, there is this massive dialogue going on between people damning or praising it.

There are a lot of well meaning white liberals. And a lot of well meaning black liberals. But you know what? When all they do is sit around and preach to the choir it does absolutely no good. If you're not a racist it doesn't do any good for me to meet with you and sit around and talk about how bad racism is.

Do you think it's possible to discuss politics without preaching?

Every so often, progress on race and religion occur precisely because an issue surfaces.

Once you have dialogue starting, you know you can break down prejudice.

When people ask a question that is based on a false premise or a question that skips over some details... what we try to do, on our best days, is be informative, explain how a process works.

I binge write, basically. I do a lot of prep, research, setup. I'll have a pretty detailed outline. Sort of like a beat outline. And then I'll add little notes and dialogue ideas, and I'll just create a 20-page document.

We would like to ease the life of the Palestinians. I prepared a new plan that we call a positive agenda.

It is important for us to be able to meet and greet the people that we serve. And if we start having police presence everywhere we go, it's going to create a chilling effect on discourse, and it creates an incredible assault on the democratic process.

With TV presenting, I speak a lot anyway!

I loved covering presidential politics - not so much because of the candidates but because of the people it allowed me to talk to.

In every era going back to Lincoln with Frederick Douglass, presidents talk to those that were leading at that time.

The back and forth between the press and government is essential to any good democracy.

I go to the lab and in order to interact with my postdoctoral students and try to see if I can shape them to not copy but to ask questions and to think. We have to have a little dialogue because you don't pretend to be the fountain of all wisdom.

I wish people would listen rather than rush around in their own world. There's a danger that we are becoming stuck in a bubble and losing the ability to communicate.

If a character's suddenly spouting information that's supposed to bring you up to date, it can seem artificial or contrived.

I think debate is good. Everyone has an opinion, and it's definitely healthy to voice those.

See that's a goal that I think it's very good in the debate to find out who the person is.