Arpad Goncz Quotes

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

[Addressing Congress:] The people await action. They did not send us here to bicker ... Let us negotiate soon—and hard. But in the end, let us produce.

Good governance requires working toward common ground. It isn't easy.

The Bible says that two cannot walk together unless they are agreed.

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.

Negotiations can create conditions that can lead to solutions.

Can two walk together, except they be agreed?

Whenever you accept our views we shall be in full agreement with you.

By nature, I am a unifier. I am a builder of consensus. I don't believe in sloppy compromise. But I do believe in bringing people together.

Moderation and bipartisan consensus go hand in hand.

We cannot agree on everything but we must agree on the framework.

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

Solutions must be based on compromises.

When you let someone else win an argument, often you both end up winners.

When people are divided, the only solution is agreement.

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

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

To me, consensus seems to be the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies. So it is something in which no one believes and to which no one objects.

To craftsmanship we shall add statesmanship in the capitol of peace.

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

Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.

Things happen in American politics in the political center. If the President will meet us in the center, there are things we can accomplish.

It is possible for political forces to agree.

Settle all things, both great and small, by consultation. Without prior consultation, take no important step.

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