Jalal Talabani Quotes

The thing is: in order to reach an agreement, to reach that balance, sometimes it is sort of like that old Rhinestone Cowboy lyric, 'There'll be a load of compromisin' on the road to my horizon.' For those of you who were too young, or don't recall the song, made famous by country singer Glen Campbell, it is your loss.

Negotiations can create conditions that can lead to solutions.

Stop the fighting and find the middle ground.

Ultimately, peace depends on compromise.

Everyone always says that conflict is drama, and I agree, but I also don't think you need drama everywhere. Or conflict everywhere.

It's not compatible to expect multilateralism to work and, at the same time, to expect to walk out with everything you wanted. This is a recipe for failure. If we prize the system, we have to come knowing that we will need to make compromises. Sometimes painful compromises.

It takes two sides to make a deal, two sides to negotiate and two sides to make it go bad.

We are hopeful that the North Koreans can show a little bit more realism, a little bit more flexibility.

Engagement is not appeasement. Engagement is not surrender.

I would love nothing more than compromise. But I would say to you that compromise that's not a solution is a waste of time.

When human beings live together, conflict is inevitable. War is not.

Alliance does not mean love, any more than war means hate.

There is a thin line between peace of the brave and peace of the hostage... between compromise - even calculated risk - and irresponsibility and capitulation.

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

In dancing with the enemy one follows his steps even if counting under one's breath.

We're all negotiators.

It's the perfect definition of a settlement. Both parties didn't get what they wanted.

If someone is not happy with one thing we either tweak it until they're happy with it. We all know where that line is, where you have to be three hands up.

You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

Compromise in colors is grey.

The capability of negotiating... is something that means you not only have to understand fully what you believe and what your national interests are but in order to be a really good negotiator, you have to try to figure out what the other person on the other side of the table has in mind.

I don't like a tremendous amount of conflict. I don't think that fighting and passion are the same thing.

We're not losing the peace.

Jaw jaw is better than war war.

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