Brian Schatz Quotes

You cannot compromise unless people talk to you.

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

If you approach economic policy with the spirit of compromise, you can actually get good support.

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

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

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

If you look through history, all of the great work we've done in Congress has been around a table of compromise, when it comes to the most difficult problems.

Compromise, compromise and compromise.

Bipartisanship means you work together to work it out.

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

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.

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.

One of the ways usually that you build a bipartisan agreement is one side gives up a little, and the other side gives up a little.

We want to move forward in a bipartisan fashion to solve our problems.

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

I have long-since said that working... together and accomplishing things in a bipartisan way doesn't mean compromising your values.

I'm all in favour of talking to other parties, always have been, always will be. I'm a pluralist, talk to them, see what we've got in common, work together, fine.

I am completely in favour of dialogue and engagement. But it must be a true, open dialogue.

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

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

Two great talkers will not travel far together.

Unless you are willing to compromise, society cannot live together.

Compromise, contrary to popular opinion, does not mean selling out one's principles. Compromise means working out differences to forge a solution which fits the diversity of the body politic.

Bipartisanship helps to avoid extremes and imbalances. It causes compromises and accommodations. So let's cooperate.

And humility in politics means accepting that one party doesn't have all the answers; recognising that working in partnership is progress not treachery.