Kjell Magne Bondevik Quotes

Compromise, compromise and compromise.

Compromises may not make great heroes, but they do make great democracies.

We need a lot more respect in this country for compromise…. There is in compromise a lot of integrity, especially political integrity.

Compromise is the oil that makes government go.

Compromise is part of how we get things done.

Solutions must be based on compromises.

In politics, you must let the other person have your way.

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

Diplomacy is letting someone else have your way.

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.

The art of government is the art of negotiating and compromise.

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

Conflict resolution cannot be merely about eliminating all opposition or reducing the choices in negotiating the problem to two mutually exclusive sets of rights and wrongs. Rather, it must consist of laboring to bring everybody to accept reality and then to project a future with this understanding as the foundation.

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.

I'm always ready to negotiate in good faith with others.

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

To have compromise you must first have dialog. That is the true path of democracy.

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

A peace talk is always difficult, always complicated.

We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to compromise.

I'm not looking for a battle with anybody, neither the council nor our labor partners.

Politics is compromise.

As a newly married person, as much as I would love for my husband to buy into the 'my way or the highway' philosophy, you realize it's all about compromising and finding some sort of middle ground that everyone can live with.

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