William McKinley Quotes

Hopefully, we can build bridges, but we also have to draw lines.

We have differences. That’s why we’re here. That’s what Congress does.

Tolerance is as necessary in politics as it is in religion.

Ultimately, peace depends on compromise.

You don't promote the cause of peace by talking only to people with whom you agree.

If you're operating from strong principles, you can compromise when the person on the other side is operating from principles you respect.

Unless you are willing to compromise, society cannot live together.

Through mutual understanding, sincerity and goodwill, and with great wisdom and broad views, the leaders on both sides should jointly initiate new opportunities for peace, stability, cooperation and mutual benefit.

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.

You don't get unity by ignoring the questions that have to be faced.

You can like somebody without agreeing with all of their policies.

My policy is trust—peace, and to put aside the bayonet

All Democrats recognize we do have differences because we are a big family.

Every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle.

All who wish peace ought to unite in the means which may facilitate its attainment.

Pluralism ... implies disagreement and dissension within the community.

We need a lot more respect in this country for compromise…. There is in compromise a lot of integrity, especially political integrity.

We have to face the fact that either all of us are going to die together or we are going to learn to live together and if we are to live together we have to talk.

I must respect the opinions of others even if I disagree with them.

There is an appealing moral clarity in dividing the world into friend and foe. But in reality, progress in international affairs so often demands working with those with whom we do not see eye to eye.

If we can’t agree on the facts, how can we agree on the solutions?

It really is possible to disagree with someone's policies without hating them. Grown-ups can do that.

Sometimes, we find common ground; more often, we don't.

Everyone needs to understand that we were meant to live together in this country. We have to get to know one another; even if we don't agree, we have to enable each side to express itself.

The depth of this conflict, which is more than one hundred years old, requires us to find a way to communicate... so that the residents of the Middle East, Jews and Arabs alike, can live not as if they were forced to live together, but rather destined to live together.