Charles Oakley Quotes

There is no conflict that can’t be solved.

I will go anywhere, anytime, to meet with anyone to find common ground.

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

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.

Costa Rica believes in building bridges, in looking for solutions to problems, and not clinging to positions.

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

To resolve problems through negotiation is a very childish approach.

Negotiations can create conditions that can lead to solutions.

I feel like I've always been a great mediator.

Compromise is part of how we get things done.

You must be interested in finding the best way, not in having your own way.

Compromise is a skill, and like all skills it atrophies from lack of use.

By mutual respect, understanding and with good will we can find acceptable solutions to any problems which exist or may arise between us.

The Fundamental Principle that governs - or ought to govern -human affairs if we wish to avoid misunderstandings, conflicts, or pointless utopias, is negotiation.

The best weapon is to sit down and talk.

There is no conflict in the world that cannot be solved.

I've spent my life navigating through sensitive issues. Not wanting to upset people.

Solutions must be based on compromises.

Intervention only works when the people concerned seem to be keen for peace.

You have to give everybody another recourse as some means other than violence, no matter how distasteful it may be to have to deal with them and what they represent.

I'm a mediator by training and inclination.

Conflict cannot survive without your participation.

We must keep on trying to solve problems, one by one, stage by stage, if not on the basis of confidence and cooperation, at least on that of mutual toleration and self-interest.

Demeanor-wise, Reagan was a conservative, but a pragmatic conservative, and he found silver linings in things. He liked to be a mediator. He didn't like to have enemies around him.