Jon Kyl Quotes

If we cannot agree, then at least we ought to move on.

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.

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

We cannot agree on everything but we must agree on the framework.

It takes two sides to make a deal, two sides to negotiate and two sides to make it go bad.

Politics and more politics - that's how you work towards the building of agreements.

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

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

The thing is: in order to reach an agreement, to reach that balance, sometimes it is sort of like that old Rhinestone Cowboy lyric, 'There'll be a load of compromisin' on the road to my horizon.' For those of you who were too young, or don't recall the song, made famous by country singer Glen Campbell, it is your loss.

We aren't going to agree on everything and there will be other areas where we will be working together.

Jaw jaw is better than war war.

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

Negotiations can create conditions that can lead to solutions.

Once in a while I can agree with the enemy.

Encourage a readiness to find consensus.

Compromise, compromise and compromise.

Ultimately, peace depends on compromise.

You must have a majority to make peace, not just a good idea.

One should not maintain a dispute.

… the difficulty in bringing our people to agree upon it has ever discouraged me.

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

Heck, nobody gets along perfectly. But what we have is respect for one another. We have a system where one guy can veto anything.

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.

When the conversation started to move to the things that we disagreed on, Donald Trump moved it back to the things that we could agree on. I think that's the way you get deals done, right? You and I might disagree 80% of the time but that still gives us 20% opportunity to try to work things out.

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