Chiang Pin-kung Quotes

Negotiations can create conditions that can lead to solutions.

When you let someone else win an argument, often you both end up winners.

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.

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.

The main purpose of dialogue is to come to an agreement on how the two parties can work together, realize their mutual interests, and avoid conflict as much as possible

Only negotiations can resolve long standing grievances.

The win-win situation is the basis for America's entire business world. Instead of wasting our time attempting to defeat each other, let's find a way that will make both of us gain and go home satisfied. In Israel, it doesn't work because the only meaning of victory is seeing your rival's body lying trampled on the floor.

We've got to take confrontation out of the centre of politics. With fighting, no one wins; with dialogue, everyone wins.

All world conflicts will be resolved if people listen to my advice.

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

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

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.

I have only been seeking to get them to the negotiating table and, thank God, that's where they are.

I hope it goes beyond meeting with them to a willingness to listen and compromise on issues.

I believe any time that both parties are talking, it's a good thing.

The art of government is the art of negotiating and compromise.

The fact that talk may be boring or turgid or uninspiring should not cause us to forget the fact that it is preferable to war.

Talk brings opponents together.

Ultimately, peace depends on compromise.

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 don't promote the cause of peace by talking only to people with whom you agree.

A huge amount of negotiations and diplomacy has nothing to do with bartering or arguing but is just trying to get everyone [doing the negotiating] on the same page. It takes yours, days, even weeks sometimes.

No one has to agree with everything that someone else says. But in state-to-state relations, we have to understand that we can help each other much more doing it that way. We have to be more generous.

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.