William P. Leahy Quotes

Hold on. It’s not a fight. It’s a discussion.

We cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another

One thing that education can do is it can provide us with an opportunity to understand one another better, and so while I've spent a lot of my time in the world of politics, I've always felt that it is really not politics that will solve this for us.

I don't mind have an uncomfortable conversation if those uncomfortable conversations can lead to a bigger dialogue and help us get to a better understanding of whatever it is we are discussing.

Dialogue can be held with everyone. It is not necessary to be like-minded to hold talks, but it is compulsory to be right-minded.

We're so divided as a world that we don't often have the opportunity to sit down and talk to people who are different to us. We're so ready to always be right that we sometimes forget it's OK to listen.

It's a very important thing to learn to talk to people you disagree with.

If you have learned how to disagree without being disagreeable, then you have discovered the secrete of getting along - whether it be business, family relations, or life itself.

Communication is an issue where we can improve, and if I can do anything to help, I am happy to.

My own experience is use the tools that are out there. Use the digital world. But never lose sight of the need to reach out and talk to other people who don't share your view. Listen to them and see if you can find a way to compromise.

The motto should not be: Forgive one another; rather understand one another.

We must all learn a good lesson - how to live together.

I want people to talk to one another no matter what their difference of opinion might be.

Throughout my life I have always been amazed that people couldn't listen to other people, that they couldn't hear their best intent, that there seemed to be an enormous need to demonize.

It has been said that love is a function of communication. I believe that to be true. I believe, by extension, that human understanding is a function of communication. And the better human beings understand one another, the higher the level of functioning.

If we learn to understand each other, we will have a better understanding of ourselves.

People respond in accordance to how you relate to them. If you approach them on the basis of violence, that's how they'll react. But if you say, 'We want peace, we want stability,' we can then do a lot of things that will contribute towards the progress of our society.

Genuine dialogue, not rhetorical bomb-throwing, leads to progress.

We cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another - until we speak quietly enough so that our words can be heard as well as our voices.

Our inability to relate to one another is very, very, very important. When we don't have it, we get situations like Bosnia.

Let us not be blind to our differences, but let us also direct attention to our common interests and to the means by which those differences can be resolved.

We need to stop treating our opponents as our enemies.

I'm not asking you to be tolerant of each other. Tolerance is for cowards. Understand each other.

In order to practice dialogue, you need to be able to set aside your assumptions and try to listen more than you want to talk. It's not always politically correct to be able to do that, but it can give you a better sense of the reality.

Once you have dialogue starting, you know you can break down prejudice.