Sol Campbell Quotes

You cannot shake hands with a clinched fist.

Understanding the other person's viewpoint is the beginning of polical wisdom,

What I've learned - after working for, I guess, some time now - is when you're approaching a relationship like that, like, any working relationship, it's good to be open. To know that someone might have a different way of doing things and listen to them. And hopefully, you come to a common understanding.

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

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

I believe you can work with anybody.

I played on teams with 24 guys pulling the rope one way and one guy pulling the other. I've seen how destructive it can be. I tell them, 'If 13 of you are insanely successful and one fails, we all lose.'

In politics, you must let the other person have your way.

Sometimes a little compromise isn't a bad thing. You don't need to be precious about it.

The President so far has struck me as a man who is trying hard to keep his balance. He certainly has been very receptive to all my efforts in these directions.

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.

I have a good relationship with the world. But I don't know what the trick is to maintaining it.

Boards and myself get along somehow.

Diplomacy is letting someone else have your way.

A policy that can be accurately, though perhaps not prudently, defined as one of “peaceful co-existence.”

If you can't get along with the head of the government with which you are working, you won't get anything done—nothing!

Carrying our successful diplomacy is difficult if you do not have ears for things you do not want to hear.

Leaders alone can rarely make peace. They have to bring people along.

We cannot always do what is absolutely best. Those with whom we act, entertaining different views, have the power and the right of carrying them into practice

In campaigning, you want to slay your opponent. In governing, you want to make love to your opponent.

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

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

If you want help from partners, that means listening to them every once in a while.

This is what we call smart power. Using every possible tool and partner to advance peace and security. Leaving no one on the sidelines. Showing respect even for one's enemies. Trying to understand, in so far as psychologically possible, empathize with their perspective and point of view. Helping to define the problems, determine the solutions.

I have tried to treat people on the other side civilly and look for common ground.