Barack Obama Quotes

Bargaining makes you come up with the best ideas.

I don't think it works to just be mad at them - Maxine Waters out ranting and kicking down the doors. It would be so easy to dismiss you and marginalize you.

In general ... I tell people not to bang their heads against the wall and to find a compromise.

I'm willing to sit down with anybody and have constructive criticism.

I don't feel burdened, but I do feel a little frustrated. Because I see the problem, and I can see the solution - but there are two strongly different points of view on this - like the Republicans and Democrats.

Everybody in the world has to compromise. I don't know one person that gets everything they want, so the politicians are going to have to figure that out and stop pointing out, "He shook hands with a Democrat in 1989. He ate with a Republican last week." It's petty high school, even junior high stuff going on. It's junior high politics going on, so it's a shame.

Let's end the political games. Stop the finger pointing and do the work the American people sent us here to do.

You don't know how many times I was in the huddle, asking my teammates to help me call a play.

You gotta get into some confrontations sometimes to get the right result on the floor, but I think the bulk of our membership wants us to work out problems before a bill comes to the floor.

I believe the answers to most problems that confront us around the world can and should be approached by engaging both friend and foe in dialogue. No, I don't naively think that dialogue always works, but I believe we should avoid the rigidity of saying that dialogue never works.

Unfortunately, I am not the typical, old-school, 'Yes dear, you're right,' just to get out of a situation. I am more of the type to work it out until you think I'm right or I think you're right.

If there are differences of views or divergence of ideas, they can be resolved through discussion and dialogue.

If you're making enemies along the way, you're going to limit the ability for yourself to be successful in advancing your causes.

We want to move forward in a bipartisan fashion to solve our problems.

I wanted to demonstrate that Deathstroke does not need to solve every problem with his fists.

You could have one idea in your mind, and afterwards you could be working with a team with different players, and you may not be able to achieve what you want to, so you need to adapt.

Conflict resolution, all those things, are important. When you're in a group environment, you have to have those. If you don't, things fester. Have the conversation. Resolve it. Move forward.

Anything to make a difference and to seek consensus on an issue is something that I feel strongly about.

Dealing with political things, it's not for me. It makes me crazy. I want to buy, you want to sell. Please make it simple.

I don't think that confrontation always leads to a solution.

Failing to engage in conflict is a terrible decision, one that puts our temporary comfort and the avoidance of discomfort ahead of the ultimate goal of our organization.

Negotiation is empathy. It's almost trite to say that if you can't put yourself in the seat of the other person you're speaking with, you're not going to do well. It's not about being a bully, not about making offers people can't refuse.

Compromise is part of how we get things done.

In football, as in life, as in business, everything can be talked about and discussed.

I have a certain sympathy with politicians having lived with one. I've seen how no matter how earnest or driven or energetic they are, it's still difficult to change things. I have been encouraged to go into politics, but I don't think I could make a contribution, it suits me better to be sniping from the sidelines.