Gene Siskel Quotes

I don't twist arms. I shake hands.

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

Do we have to talk in order to agree or agree in order to talk?

I hope it goes beyond meeting with them to a willingness to listen and compromise on issues.

I choose to bring people together. I choose to seek compromise.

The chairman of a committee should be in harmony with the majority who constitute it.

Negotiations can create conditions that can lead to solutions.

Can two walk together, except they be agreed?

Encourage a readiness to find consensus.

Ultimately, peace depends on compromise.

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

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.

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

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've got to take confrontation out of the centre of politics. With fighting, no one wins; with dialogue, everyone wins.

All sides must learn to respect one another.

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

I think that's my nature, to want to bring people together rather than to try to bombard them into agreement.

I had rather have everybody on my side than be armed to the teeth.

I absolutely think that it's possible for us to find common ground.

Mutual forbearance and reciprocal concessions: thro' their agency the Union was established - the patriotic spirit from which they emanated will forever sustain it.

Politics and more politics - that's how you work towards the building of agreements.

Peace rules the day, where reason rules the mind.

If you have learned how to disagree without being disagreeable, then you have discovered the secrete of getting along - whether it be business, family relations, or life itself.

Moderate doesn't mean that you're a wimp - far from it. It means that you've chosen a path because you believe that's the only way for global harmony and peace.