Dee Dee Myers Quotes

In campaigning, you want to slay your opponent. In governing, you want to make love to your opponent.

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

I am not made for politics because I am incapable of wanting or accepting the death of the adversary.

The most important thing in an argument, next to being right, is to leave an escape hatch for your opponent, so that he can gracefully swing over to your side without too much apparent loss of face.

In politics, you must let the other person have your way.

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

Statesmanship is harder than politics. Politics is the art of getting along with people, whereas statesmanship is the art of getting along with politicians.

I've been repeating ad nauseam that we in Burma, we are weak with regard to the culture of negotiated compromises, that we have to develop the ability to achieve such compromises.

Compromise is an underrated virtue. The world is awash with dead people because politicians would not compromise.

The Senate is a place filled with goodwill and good intentions, and if the road to hell is paved with them, it's a pretty good detour.

The politician says: "I will give you what you want." The statesman says: "What you think you want is this. What it is possible for you to get is that. What you really want, therefore, is the following.

He who cannot agree with his enemies is controlled by them.

Strong men know when to compromise.

Compromise is the oil that makes government go.

There is an appealing moral clarity in dividing the world into friend and foe. But in reality, progress in international affairs so often demands working with those with whom we do not see eye to eye.

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

I think with the right leadership on both sides and the right president, we can get a lot done.

We need a government, not politics. Because there's too much politics. Of course there should be debate. But there seems to be so much pettiness and not enough good faith. It is civilized to agree to disagree, and this idea is slowly disintegrating. The great statesmen of the past knew this, and I think it helps drive civilization.

It's a necessary quality of a diplomat or a politician that he will compromise. Uncompromising politicians or diplomats get you into the most terrible trouble.

The Senate is a place filled with goodwill and good intentions, and if the road to hell is paved with them, then it's a pretty good detour.

A prime minister has to keep a certain balance when dealing with sensitive issues.

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

Sharon is capable of making peace.

I did look for compromise. I worked in a bipartisan way.

The one thing I'm convinced George W. Bush is good at is bipartisanship. It's clearly something he enjoys personally.