Vladimir Putin Quotes

We have to find compromises. That's the way it is in Norway.

You cannot work with men who won't work with you.

In campaigning, you want to slay your opponent. In governing, you want to make love to your opponent.

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

Conflict resolution cannot be merely about eliminating all opposition or reducing the choices in negotiating the problem to two mutually exclusive sets of rights and wrongs. Rather, it must consist of laboring to bring everybody to accept reality and then to project a future with this understanding as the foundation.

Legislating is a very human experience in which trust and mutual respect play critical roles.

Solutions must be based on compromises.

If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.

Businesses that run well are almost like marriages. Everything has to be up for discussion, or there will be real problems.

I'm not looking for a battle with anybody, neither the council nor our labor partners.

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

When you find somebody who doesn't give and take, you go, 'Remind me never to work with you again.'

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.

A constructive approach to diplomacy doesn't mean relinquishing one's rights. It means engaging with one's counterparts, on the basis of equal footing and mutual respect, to address shared concerns and achieve shared objectives.

Politics is compromise.

As a property developer, I learned a long time ago to choose your battles wisely and that, unfortunately, compromise is a given.

As a newly married person, as much as I would love for my husband to buy into the 'my way or the highway' philosophy, you realize it's all about compromising and finding some sort of middle ground that everyone can live with.

One thing I learned particularly at Yale was how to work with others. Having studied so long trying to master myself, the biggest challenge was learning about the other person's work.

We aren't going to agree on everything and there will be other areas where we will be working together.

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

The capability of negotiating... is something that means you not only have to understand fully what you believe and what your national interests are but in order to be a really good negotiator, you have to try to figure out what the other person on the other side of the table has in mind.

Compromise is an underrated virtue. The world is awash with dead people because politicians would not compromise.

Negotiations can create conditions that can lead to solutions.

I don't twist arms. I shake hands.

The art of government is the art of negotiating and compromise.