Bill Scott Quotes

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

We cannot agree on everything but we must agree on the framework.

The two parties should be turning to each other rather than on each other.

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

Even if we don't agree, we should agree to work together.

It may happen sometimes that a long debate becomes the cause of a longer friendship. Commonly, those who dispute with one another at last agree.

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.

Bipartisanship means you work together to work it out.

If we can’t even agree on the facts, it will be very difficult for us to lock arms and deal with these problems.

Ultimately, peace depends on compromise.

… our common interests far outweigh our differences

Good governance requires working toward common ground. It isn't easy.

The more reasons for people to be willing to put their differences aside, the better.

The most important thing is you should not be split or fighting each other.

Heck, nobody gets along perfectly. But what we have is respect for one another. We have a system where one guy can veto anything.

You can never have unity if you want things to go your way.

I'm not an 'opponent.' I don't believe I should be treated as an opponent.

I have long-since said that working... together and accomplishing things in a bipartisan way doesn't mean compromising your values.

I'm all in favour of talking to other parties, always have been, always will be. I'm a pluralist, talk to them, see what we've got in common, work together, fine.

We have to build a political consensus and that requires people to give up a little bit of their own ... in order to create this common ground.

I am a very committed person when it comes to finding common ground.

When the conversation started to move to the things that we disagreed on, Donald Trump moved it back to the things that we could agree on. I think that's the way you get deals done, right? You and I might disagree 80% of the time but that still gives us 20% opportunity to try to work things out.

We can find common ground only by moving to higher ground.

We have to build a political consensus and that requires people to give up a little bit of their own turf in order to create this common ground.

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