Donald W. Shriver Jr. Quotes

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

Compromise, compromise and compromise.

Ultimately, peace depends on compromise.

Compromise is an underrated virtue. The world is awash with dead people because politicians would not compromise.

Bipartisanship is “the oil of national government.”

Bipartisanship means you work together to work it out.

He who cannot agree with his enemies is controlled by them.

There is an appealing moral clarity in dividing the world into friend and foe. But in reality, progress in international affairs so often demands working with those with whom we do not see eye to eye.

Legislating is a very human experience in which trust and mutual respect play critical roles.

If you're operating from strong principles, you can compromise when the person on the other side is operating from principles you respect.

We've got to take confrontation out of the centre of politics. With fighting, no one wins; with dialogue, everyone wins.

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

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

Through mutual understanding, sincerity and goodwill, and with great wisdom and broad views, the leaders on both sides should jointly initiate new opportunities for peace, stability, cooperation and mutual benefit.

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

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

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

There's no room for petty grievances in politics.

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

I don't twist arms. I shake hands.

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

Peace itself is not made by documents. Peace is made by good will among men.

In accommodation with other Powers, differences of opinion must be looked for, even those most agreed on the same general views.

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.

Compromise is the oil that makes government go.