Benny Gantz Quotes

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

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

I sure tried to help deliver compromise, consensus, bipartisanship.

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.

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

By nature, I am a unifier. I am a builder of consensus. I don't believe in sloppy compromise. But I do believe in bringing people together.

When you hang the 'bipartisan' tag on something, the perception is that differences have been worked out, and there's a broad agreement that that's the way forward.

You need people that are willing to talk to the other side, or you're never going to get anything done. You need to be willing to expand your ground. There's always usually a place on issues where you can find common ground.

Moderation and bipartisan consensus go hand in hand.

I think it is possible to meet people in the middle, to have a discussion even though you may not agree on solutions, and find some common ground and get to consensus.

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.

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.

We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to compromise.

I think if you're going to get anything done in the Senate, you have to be on the same sheet of music. If you don't get people on the same sheet of music it comes out pretty horrible.

Compromise works well in this world when you have shared goals.

You cannot compromise unless people talk to you.

The main purpose of dialogue is to come to an agreement on how the two parties can work together, realize their mutual interests, and avoid conflict as much as possible

Once in a while I can agree with the enemy.

Encourage a readiness to find consensus.

Compromise, compromise and compromise.

Bipartisanship means you work together to work it out.

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

Republicans - well, we're all part of the same family. We need to have some good disagreements with each other; we need to debate, but in the end, it's all about uniting, not dividing.

We want to move forward in a bipartisan fashion to solve our problems.

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