Carrie Lam Quotes

Compromise works well in this world when you have shared goals.

… our common interests far outweigh our differences

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

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 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

Good governance requires working toward common ground. It isn't easy.

Deals really have to do with the overlap of what one side wants and the other side wants, and it's really just the discovery of where that overlap is and how you decide to get there.

We have to build a political consensus and that requires people to give up a little bit of their own ... in order to create this common ground.

No one is exempt from the call to find common ground.

Businesses that run well are almost like marriages. Everything has to be up for discussion, or there will be real problems.

There are two types of people: those who try to win and those who try to win arguments. They are never the same.

Unless you are willing to compromise, society cannot live together.

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.

As a newly married person, as much as I would love for my husband to buy into the 'my way or the highway' philosophy, you realize it's all about compromising and finding some sort of middle ground that everyone can live with.

I haven't given up on working... across the aisle on issues and maybe it'll take an election or two for that to fully ferment, maybe it you know sometimes it takes awhile for people to realize what the best path is.

Bipartisanship helps to avoid extremes and imbalances. It causes compromises and accommodations. So let's cooperate.

I think if you're going to get anything done in the Senate, you have to be on the same sheet of music. If you don't get people on the same sheet of music it comes out pretty horrible.

There comes a point, in any kind of, whether it's in your family discussions or business or whatever, where you finally have to get over the making of the points and now let's see if we can find common ground.

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

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.

It's more important to fly midpoint in deals and work together than to try to haggle for the last dollar.

Negotiations can create conditions that can lead to solutions.

Bipartisanship means you work together to work it out.

If we can’t agree on the facts, how can we agree on the solutions?

If there's no overlap between the interests of the people you sit down with, then the negotiations really can't be driven anywhere.