Alfred Maurice de Zayas Quotes

My own rhetoric is not so 'us versus them.' I don't like fighting.

When we face problems or disagreements today, we have to arrive at solutions through dialogue. Dialogue is the only appropriate method. One-sided victory is no longer acceptable. We must work to resolve conflicts in a spirit of reconciliation and always keep in mind the interests of others.

Bargaining makes you come up with the best ideas.

If the auto plants in Detroit would just sit around the table and say, 'What do we gotta do to make this thing work?' Instead of, 'I want this and I want that.' They might make it.

Sometimes you need conflict in order to come up with a solution. Through weakness, oftentimes, you can't make the right sort of settlement, so I'm aggressive, but I also get things done, and in the end, everybody likes me.

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.

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

I think that people have to reward those individuals who are prepared to work across the political aisle. I don't see any other way; if you don't talk to people with whom you disagree, you're never going to solve problems.

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.

I think there are so many problems in the world today, we have to figure out how to fix them rather than point fingers at each other.

I think we can work through a lot of these issues.

Costa Rica believes in building bridges, in looking for solutions to problems, and not clinging to positions.

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.

Our position is that we can sit down and talk to try to solve our problems through dialogue.

We want everybody to act like adults, quit playing games, realize that it's not just my way or the highway.

Peace is a never-ending process, the work of many decisions by many people in many countries. It is an attitude, a way of life, a way of solving problems and resolving conflicts.

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.

Boards and myself get along somehow.

Majority rule is not the norm for solving issues or problems.

Negotiations can create conditions that can lead to solutions.

A policy that can be accurately, though perhaps not prudently, defined as one of “peaceful co-existence.”

You cannot shake hands with a clinched fist.

We cannot always do what is absolutely best. Those with whom we act, entertaining different views, have the power and the right of carrying them into practice

Ultimately, peace depends on compromise.

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