Benigno Aquino III Quotes

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

I have always believed in dialogue and in nonviolence, and if you look at my background you will see that it has always been my policy to talk to everyone.

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

Negotiations can create conditions that can lead to solutions.

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

Talk brings opponents 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.

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.

Choose the path of dialogue rather than the path of unilateral decisions.

I seek solutions, not battles.

I hope everybody will go back to the negotiating table. I've always said this is the only way forward.

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

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

Trying to negotiate getting a couple of kids to watch the same TV show requires serious diplomacy.

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

Let us move from the era of confrontation to the era of negotiation.

To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.

Consensus building doesn't necessarily fit with my experience.

Consensus isn't just about agreement. It's about changing things around: You get a proposal, you work something out, people foresee problems, you do creative synthesis. At the end of it, you come up with something that everyone thinks is okay. Most people like it, and nobody hates it.

Better talk than fight, if nothing of sovereign value is anyway lost. Dialogue has achieved more than confrontation in many parts of the world.

The best way to solve problems and to fight against war is through dialogue.

We Liberal Democrats believe in dialogue. We believe in cooperation with both sides of industry and between both sides of industry. And we believe in the language of cooperation. We reject the language of confrontation.

Through mutual understanding, sincerity and goodwill, and with great wisdom and broad views, the leaders on both sides should jointly initiate new opportunities for peace, stability, cooperation and mutual benefit.

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.

My opinion on who's wrong or who's right has nothing to do with the fact that we have to bring together people who are against each other, to transform antagonism into cooperation.