While White House aides can provide familiar talking points on gestures of cooperation across party lines, the fact of the matter is on all three occasions, the principal thrust of Bush's policies was toward polarization rather than conciliation. We are now living in the shadow of nearly five years in which that has been the dominant political message coming out of the White House.
Quotes about conciliation (12 Quotes)
Franklin may ... be considered one of the founding fathers of American democracy, since no democratic government can last long without conciliation and compromise.
We will take a firm stance. Taiwan's identity should be given priority over conciliation in dealing with China over the next two years and a half. That is the message from President Chen.
The main object of conciliation lies in reaching a solution to a case based upon morals and with a warm heart
Rather, it is through conciliation and compromise that we are building a fair Iraq, a just state for all its peoples.
Underlying our Liberal philosophy is a conciliation of two great human ideals individual freedom and equal opportunity. I propose we add another a healthy environment.
A political convention is after all not a meeting of a corporation's board of directors it is a fiesta, a carnival, a pig-rooting, horse-snorting, band-playing, voice-screaming medieval get-together of greed, practical lust, meeting, feud, vendetta, conciliation, of rabble-rousers, fist fights (as it used to be), embraces, drunks (again as it used to be) and collective rivers of animal sweat.
By religion, then, I understand a propitiation or conciliation of powers superior to man which are believed to direct and control the course of nature and of human life.
I appeal to all Irishmen to pause, to stretch out the hand of forbearance and conciliation, to forgive and forget, and to join with me in making for the land they love a new era of peace, contentment and goodwill.
The door of conciliation and compromise is finally closed by our adversaries, and it remains only to us to meet the conflict with the dignity and firmness of men worthy of freedom.
That is why if Lebanon concludes a peace agreement with Israel and brings that accord to the Parliament our deputies will reject it; Hezbollah refuses any conciliation with Israel in principle.
Conciliation is not capitulation, nor is compromise to be deemed equivalent to imbalanced concession.