Aung San Suu Kyi Quotes

A huge amount of negotiations and diplomacy has nothing to do with bartering or arguing but is just trying to get everyone [doing the negotiating] on the same page. It takes yours, days, even weeks sometimes.

I believe any time that both parties are talking, it's a good thing.

When men understand what each other mean, they see for the most part, that controversy is either superfluous or hopeless.

A peace talk is always difficult, always complicated.

We will not change in matters of policy until such time as dialogue has begun.

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

To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.

The time is right for a political solution and the way is negotiations.

If we cannot agree, then at least we ought to move on.

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.

What you need to do in conflict resolution is to bring the people who believe that the answer to their political ambitions will be achieved through violence into a frame of mind that they accept that their political ambitions will be delivered by politics.

I say that to my colleagues, by the way, in the internal Cabinet meetings, I say, 'Look, I want to be very clear about what I want.' I just - I don't want a peace process, I want a peace result.

Jaw jaw is better than war war.

Negotiations can create conditions that can lead to solutions.

Only negotiations can resolve long standing grievances.

Negotiations take time.

Jaw-jaw is better than war-war.

Compromise, compromise and compromise.

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

There is no better way to make peace than to talk in each other's home. Avoiding such talks is a denial of the purpose of the negotiations.

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.

If there are differences of views or divergence of ideas, they can be resolved through discussion and dialogue.

Choose the path of dialogue rather than the path of unilateral decisions.

I must have dialogue with the Chinese government, and dialogue requires compromise. Therefore, I'm speaking for genuine self-rule, not for independence.

I haven't had a chance to talk, but I'm confident we'll get a bill that I can live with if we don't.