Raphael Saadiq Quotes

Whenever you accept our views we shall be in full agreement with you.

I think the danger is to try and please everyone.

Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.

The common agenda both sides seem to share is: Whatever works.

There is nothing wrong where we reach a point where maybe everybody could claim a victory. I think it would be good for the American people, which should be our first priority.

The Bible says that two cannot walk together unless they are agreed.

To me, consensus seems to be the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies. So it is something in which no one believes and to which no one objects.

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.

You can't please everybody all the time, but you can please a majority.

In a politically diverse nation, only by finding that common ground can we achieve results for the common good.

Our national well-being is in inverse proportion to the sharpness and extent of our theoretical differences.

A verdict satisfies one, but reconciliation satisfies two.

Decisions will be made to the contentment of all parties.

I've always navigated my way around the comedy writing rooms because I didn't want to cater to this side and that side; I just wanted to be liked by everybody.

It's incredibly difficult to make sure that everybody's happy.

You're never going to satisfy everybody.

Good discourse sinks differences and seeks agreements.

We can find common ground only by moving to higher ground.

Even if we don't agree, we should agree to work together.

I had rather have everybody on my side than be armed to the teeth.

I absolutely think that it's possible for us to find common ground.

I'm all in favour of talking to other parties, always have been, always will be. I'm a pluralist, talk to them, see what we've got in common, work together, fine.

We should always be looking for the unity in things instead of the differences.

To me consensus seems to be - the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies in search of something in which no-one believes, but to which no-one objects - the process of avoiding the very issues that have to be solved, merely because you cannot get agreement on the way ahead. What great cause would have been fought and won under the banner "I stand for consensus"?

The person who agrees with you 80 percent of the time is a friend and an ally - not a 20 percent traitor.