Indira Gandhi Quotes

If you want to bring an end to long-standing conflict, you have to be prepared to compromise. If either or both sides insist on getting everything that they want - that is to say 100 percent of their demands to be met, then there can never be a settlement.

Conflict is like cancer; early detection increases the possibility of a healthy outcome.

I am willing ... when I cannot get all I wish, to take what I can get.

You must be interested in finding the best way, not in having your own way.

I knew when seven justices could not take up a quarrel, but when the parties were met themselves, one of them thought but of an If, as, 'If you said so, then I said so;' and they shook hands and swore brothers. Your If is the only peacemaker; much virtue in If.

You have to compromise all the way. The only thing that counts is the result.

Accommodation is a willingness to maintain constructive relationship with others with whom one is in serious and even intractable disagreement. Social cooperation would come under impossible pressure if it always depended on strict agreement.

To constitute a dispute there must be two parties. To understand it well, both parties and all the circumstances must be fully heard; and to accommodate the differences, temper and mutual forbearance are requisite.

We still seek to solve conflicts with 'judgement' instead of designing the way forwards.

Compromise is a skill, and like all skills it atrophies from lack of use.

I can cope with nine of them, so they ought to be able to stand one of me. They could end the tiresomeness and stubbornness by giving me what I want.

A reasonable being might think that he and I could find some common ground; have a cup of coffee and compare our Passengers, exchange trade talk and chitchat about dismemberment techniques. But no: Doakes wanted me dead. And I found it difficult to share his point of view.

Lasting solutions are always difficult to come to. But they will have to persevere. I've been repeating ad nauseam that we in Burma we are weak with regard to the culture of negotiated compromises, that we have to develop the ability to achieve such compromises.

It's a necessary quality of a diplomat or a politician that he will compromise. Uncompromising politicians or diplomats get you into the most terrible trouble.

When an opponent comes forward, move in and greet him; if he wants to pull back, send him on his way.

I will deal with the politicians in a political way and with the nonpoliticians in a nonpolitical way.

If the screen does not make room for me in the structure of their screenplay, I'll step out. I'll step back. I'd step back. I couldn't do it. I just couldn't do it.

As a property developer, I learned a long time ago to choose your battles wisely and that, unfortunately, compromise is a given.

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

Sometimes a little compromise isn't a bad thing. You don't need to be precious about it.

The right must ... yield to the expedient.

I'm a compromiser and a maneuverer. I try to get something. That's the way our system works.

I could sit down and talk with the devil if necessary.

The Governor is not one who opposes swapping horses while crossing a stream. He will change a horse for a mule, a mule for a goat, and a goat for a shoat. If there is a mane or tail to which to cling, Franklin D. Roosevelt will not scorn to take hold so long as the beast is traveling in his direction.

In any negotiation you have a wish list but then you proceed from where you can be.