Gina Raimondo Quotes

When you let someone else win an argument, often you both end up winners.

Can two walk together, except they be agreed?

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

Deals really have to do with the overlap of what one side wants and the other side wants, and it's really just the discovery of where that overlap is and how you decide to get there.

There is nothing wrong where we reach a point where maybe everybody could claim a victory. I think it would be good for the American people, which should be our first priority.

I think if you're going to get anything done in the Senate, you have to be on the same sheet of music. If you don't get people on the same sheet of music it comes out pretty horrible.

Compromise works well in this world when you have shared goals.

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

You can never have unity if you want things to go your way.

What's important for that person on the other side of the table, and what's important for the client?

Our mission and task has always been to find a pragmatic balance among competing interests that will serve the greatest common good.

Everything is a negotiation. Everything is a little bit of give and take.

Deals work best when each side gets something it wants from the other.

Business deals are successfully negotiated every day throughout America. The common thread is a mutual desire to reach an accord. And the media business is no different.

Partnership is the way. Dictatorial win-lose is so old-school.

The common agenda both sides seem to share is: Whatever works.

Consensus isn't just about agreement. It's about changing things around: You get a proposal, you work something out, people foresee problems, you do creative synthesis. At the end of it, you come up with something that everyone thinks is okay. Most people like it, and nobody hates it.

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

It has been the way of Rotary to focus thought upon matters in which members are in agreement, rather than upon matters in which they are in disagreement.

I like that sense of we're all on the same page and trying to get the job done.

Without accepting the other person's thinking, you cannot further your own interest. You need the other's help to get results.

Unless both sides win, no agreement can be permanent.

If people aren't in sync, things won't work out well.

Politics is compromise.

Do we have to talk in order to agree or agree in order to talk?