Cyril Ramaphosa Quotes

If you can sing together, you can live together.

We aren't going to agree on everything and there will be other areas where we will be working together.

You cannot shake hands with a clinched fist.

The more reasons for people to be willing to put their differences aside, the better.

We can find common ground only by moving to higher ground.

I absolutely think that it's possible for us to find common ground.

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.

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

Peace is a never ending process... It cannot ignore our differences or overlook our common interests. It requires us to work and live together.

We are not going to toy with our religion or any other. Nor are we going to barter. We are here to extend our hands to build peace and harmony.

I may see a way I want to do something, and I understand when you have a team, everybody can't do their own thing. I'm willing to put my own agenda aside to do what's best for the team.

I choose to bring people together. I choose to seek compromise.

Bipartisanship means you work together to work it out.

In face of political differences, contradictions and struggle, the Church preaches peace and co-operation among people holding various political views

Ultimately, peace depends on compromise.

No one has to agree with everything that someone else says. But in state-to-state relations, we have to understand that we can help each other much more doing it that way. We have to be more generous.

A collaboration, you have to collaborate, meet in the middle, yield to the other collaborator, and that's a wonderful thing.

You try to do what you can to bring harmony wherever you go.

In the past, leaders of both parties have been able to reach across the partisan divide. They succeeded by retaining their own humanity and recognizing the same in their political opponents.

Sometimes, we find common ground; more often, we don't.

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

All sides must learn to respect one another.

I will go anywhere, anytime, to meet with anyone to find common ground.

If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling in the world.

I see the necessity of sacrificing our opinions sometimes to the opinions of others for the sake of harmony.