Ron Kind Quotes

As long as we are still talking, that's progress.

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

We aren't going to agree on everything and there will be other areas where we will be working together.

[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.

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

Conflict is the pursuit of truth.

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

Jaw jaw is better than war war.

There is no conflict that can’t be solved.

It was a remarkably reasonable compromise. It pleased nobody, but everybody signed on.

Ultimately, peace depends on compromise.

When men understand what each other mean, they see for the most part, that controversy is either superfluous or hopeless.

if we stop talking at one another, and start talking with one another, we can get a lot done.

Sometimes, we find common ground; more often, we don't.

If you are willing to listen and if you are willing to sit around the table, sometimes especially with the people who you think you disagree with the most, it is still really possible to get things done.

Every family has differences.

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

When people are divided, the only solution is agreement.

Let the Dean and Canons lay their heads together and the thing will be done.

Relationships are negotiated and if you deal with ultimatums and authority all the time, then you're not going to get anywhere.

It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow's viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences.

I think that people have to reward those individuals who are prepared to work across the political aisle. I don't see any other way; if you don't talk to people with whom you disagree, you're never going to solve problems.

War is what happens when language fails.

I think there are so many problems in the world today, we have to figure out how to fix them rather than point fingers at each other.

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.