Dick Gephardt Quotes

If you look through history, all of the great work we've done in Congress has been around a table of compromise, when it comes to the most difficult problems.

You don't get unity by ignoring the questions that have to be faced.

Every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle.

Our differences are policies, our agreements principles.

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

What we have to do... is to find a way to celebrate our diversity and debate our differences without fracturing our communities.

The secret of America is compromise. Compromise is a sign of weakness in any other country. In America it is a great strength.

All Democrats recognize we do have differences because we are a big family.

Pluralism ... implies disagreement and dissension within the community.

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.

Tolerance is as necessary in politics as it is in religion.

We need to stop treating our opponents as our enemies.

The cause of peace is too great for us to allow political disagreements or partisanship to stand in our way.

Our differences needn't divide us, but unity takes work.

So we should all, me included, stop fighting each other and arguing about our differences on certain policies.

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

A competition of the best ideas - that should be what Congress is about.

If you study both 'Gilligan' and 'Brady,' you will see they are based on a similar philosophy: that it's possible for different kinds of people to learn to live together, either in a family or stuck on an island with no escape.

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

I hate the fact that people think 'compromise' is a dirty word.

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

Free nations with different histories, economies and a vast amount of stubborn pride will never achieve complete agreement, even when they desire the same objectives.

The loudest voices we hear are those who advocate conflict, divisiveness.

You can never solve a problem without talking to people with whom you disagree. The United States Senate is predicated and based on consensus building. That was certainly the vision of the founding fathers.

For too long, we have focused on our differences - in our politics and backgrounds, in our race and beliefs - rather than cherishing the unity and pride that binds us together.