Edi Rama Quotes

Pick a sin we can both live with, is what I ask.

Compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity. It is what makes nations great and marriages happy

I would love nothing more than compromise. But I would say to you that compromise that's not a solution is a waste of time.

If someone is not happy with one thing we either tweak it until they're happy with it. We all know where that line is, where you have to be three hands up.

The thing is: in order to reach an agreement, to reach that balance, sometimes it is sort of like that old Rhinestone Cowboy lyric, 'There'll be a load of compromisin' on the road to my horizon.' For those of you who were too young, or don't recall the song, made famous by country singer Glen Campbell, it is your loss.

Conciliation is not capitulation, nor is compromise to be deemed equivalent to imbalanced concession.

Stop the fighting and find the middle ground.

Compromise, compromise and compromise.

it is no easy task to find the middle.

One should not maintain a dispute.

I think that anything in life is about the middle ground.

Settling is not necessarily a bad thing. People tend to take it as 'losing something in order to gain something else.' That does not have to be the case. Instead of using the word 'settling,' we should actually be using the word 'compromising.'

compromise is the work of mature people.

Taking sides cannot bring peace and balance.

It takes two sides to make a deal, two sides to negotiate and two sides to make it go bad.

A good compromise, a good piece of legislation, is like a good sentence; or a good piece of music. Everybody can recognize it. They say, 'Huh. It works. It makes sense.'

With negotiations, you never know what's going to happen.

That which neither weapon nor flame could accomplish will be achieved by a sweet speaking tongue in council.

It's the perfect definition of a settlement. Both parties didn't get what they wanted.

Let's just get a deal done then let's worry about expanding it.

If we cannot agree, then at least we ought to move on.

To me, consensus seems to be the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies. So it is something in which no one believes and to which no one objects.

There comes a point, in any kind of, whether it's in your family discussions or business or whatever, where you finally have to get over the making of the points and now let's see if we can find common ground.

A more significant phase should mean serious political dialogue.

I don't like a tremendous amount of conflict. I don't think that fighting and passion are the same thing.