Quotes About Compromise

I don't think that confrontation always leads to a solution.

I am certain that we need a solution completely separate from military intervention.

The key is that when we disagree, we really hear the other one out and agree that there is a more elegant solution than one of us 'winning.'

I fear a very hard Brexit, but I hope we will find a better solution.

There are no military solutions - dialogue and diplomacy are the only guarantee of lasting peace.

My message to Washington is very simple. Face reality. Be leaders. Demonstrate accountability. Engage in principle compromise. And understand your job is to find solutions.

Democracy is finding proximate solutions to insoluble problems.

As Governor, it's my job to work on behalf of everyone in Connecticut and to reach across the aisle to find commonsense, bipartisan solutions to the challenges confronting our state.

I think we should all talk to our enemies and talk to our friends. Talk! That's the only way we'll find solutions.

Both times I was in India, I could not get people to listen to each other. I had to literally tell people to listen to each other and tell them that they can't get creative and find alternate solutions if they don't listen to each other. There's a lot of arguing and justifying.

Costa Rica believes in building bridges, in looking for solutions to problems, and not clinging to positions.

We are looking for bipartisan solutions not partisan rhetoric.

In a country as large and diverse as America, compromise is how we get things done. It isn't always pretty, but we have to find solutions to our problems that, at the end of the day, most people can live with.

Both parties are so entrenched in their ideologies and a desire to score political points and hold on to power that we never seem to agree on a problem, much less find solutions.

I seek solutions, not battles.

The term bipartisanship, that's a means to an end. That's not something that I think you run on. I think you run on solutions.

I was ready and I still am to work with President Biden in good faith to find commonsense solutions to problems facing the country and to ensure the voices of Alabamians are heard.

My view is that while you do occasionally have differences you ought to have a process where you can sit down and talk about things. How else do you solve problems?

And so I think that the idea of America working with other countries to solve problems is good for us, and it is part of digging us out of the 'my way or the highway' approach that was evident in the previous eight years.

I mean, I'm a big believer in talking to people when you can and trying to solve problems when you can.

I think that people have to reward those individuals who are prepared to work across the political aisle. I don't see any other way; if you don't talk to people with whom you disagree, you're never going to solve problems.

Our position is that we can sit down and talk to try to solve our problems through dialogue.

I believe that being conservative means you try to get in to the middle of the fight and try to solve the problem.

We need to tell the far-right and the far-left to go away and have people in the center solve the problem.