Lee Hsien Loong Quotes

I'm not looking for a battle with anybody, neither the council nor our labor partners.

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

I've learned that in order to achieve what I wanted, it made more sense to negotiate than to defend the autonomy of my work by pounding my fist on the table.

The two sides should … stop blaming the other side and instead step back and consider what in their own behavior has contributed the derailment..

It ought not to be beyond the intelligence of even the most hidebound local politician to see the benefits of imaginative compromise.

The partnerships between Schmidt and Giscard, Kohl and Mitterrand, and even between Chirac and Schroeder, have proved that political differences do not mean that we cannot work together.

I think AMD is at our best when we're working with a customer and allowing them to do something they couldn't do before.

I don't ever talk about red lines whether in coalition negotiations with other partners or in Europe. It is important that we listen to others and find a way forward.

If the auto plants in Detroit would just sit around the table and say, 'What do we gotta do to make this thing work?' Instead of, 'I want this and I want that.' They might make it.

If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.

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.

We should seek by all means in our power to avoid war, by analysing possible causes, by trying to remove them, by discussion in a spirit of collaboration and good will.

Violent statements and threats cannot provide a solution to the problem. They can only exacerbate feeling and make a clash of forces inevitable.

Genuine dialogue, not rhetorical bomb-throwing, leads to progress.

We want everybody to act like adults, quit playing games, realize that it's not just my way or the highway.

We experience problem-solving sessions as war zones, we view competing ideas as enemies, and we use problems as weapons to blame and defeat opposition forces. No wonder we can't come up with real lasting solutions!

You don’t have to be confrontational of aggressive to get to where you want to be or get people to do what you want to do.

Negotiations can create conditions that can lead to solutions.

In a partnership, it is good to have two partners who have complementary means of action, under the assumption that these two partners sufficiently talk to each other to find out what they want to do together

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.

While significant differences between our governments continue, the progress of the last two years reminds the world of what is possible when we are defined not by the past but by the future we can build together.

There's certain things that we do work with Russia on, and then there's certain things when they do something wrong, I have no problem calling them out on it.

Camaraderie doesn't happen by accident; developing a strong sense of trust, accountability, and togetherness around team goals requires intentional effort.

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.

When people realize they're being heard, and have a seat at the table, things seem to work out.