Margaret Thatcher Quotes

Whenever you accept our views we shall be in full agreement with you.

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

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.

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

The art of politics is to find something in the middle that satisfies most.

All legislation is founded upon the principle of mutual concession.

Encourage a readiness to find consensus.

Compromise, compromise and compromise.

Our differences are policies, our agreements principles.

Bipartisanship means you work together to work it out.

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

Moderation and bipartisan consensus go hand in hand.

One of the ways usually that you build a bipartisan agreement is one side gives up a little, and the other side gives up a little.

I have long-since said that working... together and accomplishing things in a bipartisan way doesn't mean compromising your values.

To me consensus seems to be - the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies in search of something in which no-one believes, but to which no-one objects - the process of avoiding the very issues that have to be solved, merely because you cannot get agreement on the way ahead. What great cause would have been fought and won under the banner "I stand for consensus"?

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.

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.

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

The Bible says that two cannot walk together unless they are agreed.

Compromise, contrary to popular opinion, does not mean selling out one's principles. Compromise means working out differences to forge a solution which fits the diversity of the body politic.

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

And as long as your cats is loyal to what y'all are standing for, and they know how to play the game, it should be no way you can lose. It's about compromising; it's about respecting one another's position, and about going with your heart as far as what you believe in.

It's not about division. It's not about politics. My concern is how do we come together?

I sure tried to help deliver compromise, consensus, bipartisanship.

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