Narendra Modi Quotes

The best weapon is to sit down and talk.

The best way to solve problems and to fight against war is through dialogue.

I think we can work through a lot of these issues.

Our position is that we can sit down and talk to try to solve our problems through dialogue.

Negotiations can create conditions that can lead to solutions.

There is no conflict that can’t be solved.

I don't think that confrontation always leads to a solution.

I've grown up a little bit. I understand the importance of the negotiation. It is a collective act.

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

When you have a conflict, that means that there are truths that have to be addressed on each side of the conflict. And when you have a conflict, then it's an educational process to try to resolve the conflict. And to resolve that, you have to get people on both sides of the conflict involved so that they can dialogue.

Talk is over-rated as a means of settling disputes.

Why are we talking about talking? Why negotiating about negotiating? It's very simple. If you want to get to peace, put all your preconditions on the side, sit down opposite a table, not in a studio, by the way.

Jaw jaw is better than war war.

Only negotiations can resolve long standing grievances.

What matters is not whether one talks to adversaries but what one says to them, which strategies of engagement are set in place, and how competently they are executed.

Talk brings opponents together.

There is never any military solution to any problem. Even when you have total victory you still have to go in and talk to people.

Conflict resolution cannot be merely about eliminating all opposition or reducing the choices in negotiating the problem to two mutually exclusive sets of rights and wrongs. Rather, it must consist of laboring to bring everybody to accept reality and then to project a future with this understanding as the foundation.

The more people talk directly to each other, the better. Dialogue is the way of solving issues.

I mean, I'm a big believer in talking to people when you can and trying to solve problems when you can.

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.

You gotta get into some confrontations sometimes to get the right result on the floor, but I think the bulk of our membership wants us to work out problems before a bill comes to the floor.

I believe that Attorney Fortuno has some styles that it seems to me are going to foster dialogue and good communication, and I hope I am not mistaken.

I believe the answers to most problems that confront us around the world can and should be approached by engaging both friend and foe in dialogue. No, I don't naively think that dialogue always works, but I believe we should avoid the rigidity of saying that dialogue never works.