Balanced Outcome Quotes

… peace to be durable, must be founded on stipulations equally beneficial to both parties, the one claiming nothing which it is not willing to grant the other; and on this basis alone will its attainment or preservation by this government be desirable.

The ultimate case for the third way is that it works …. The third way, in the end, must lift our adversaries as well as our friends.

Forty for you, sixty for me. And equal partners we will be.

Eric Bischoff wanted to destroy Vince in the ratings, but we wanted them to stay in the game. We wanted it to be neck-and-neck. We didn't want to skunk the other team and spike the football every single time.

Don't assume that the interests of employer and employee are necessarily hostile—that what is good for one is necessarily bad for the other. The opposite is more apt to be the case. While they have different interests, they are likely to prosper or suffer together.

I think that you need all perspectives to reflect the needs of the country. If you only give people one perspective, inputting their views into the congressional process, you're going to have a skewed outcome.

Unless both sides win, no agreement can be permanent.

It's time to recognize what compromise means: no side wins or loses all.

Uncertain justice by a verdict is much better than certain injustice.