Ben Nelson Quotes

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.

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

Jaw jaw is better than war war.

You must have a majority to make peace, not just a good idea.

One should not maintain a dispute.

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.

For any trade deal to move forward, there has to be agreement.

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

First fight. Then fiddle.

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

A peace talk is always difficult, always complicated.

When people are divided, the only solution is agreement.

We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to compromise.

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

Let us move from the era of confrontation to the era of negotiation.

The time is right for a political solution and the way is negotiations.

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.

It may happen sometimes that a long debate becomes the cause of a longer friendship. Commonly, those who dispute with one another at last agree.

A more significant phase should mean serious political dialogue.

War may be made by one party, but it requires two to make peace.

I say that to my colleagues, by the way, in the internal Cabinet meetings, I say, 'Look, I want to be very clear about what I want.' I just - I don't want a peace process, I want a peace result.

Negotiations can create conditions that can lead to solutions.

[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.

Surely diplomacy is needed when there is conflict, not when there is harmony.

Stop the fighting and find the middle ground.