Quotes About Compromise

Finally, I told them I'd drop out of the management program if they'd give me an entry-level job in the newsroom for union wages, about fifty dollars a week.

If you always wanted to wait for something better, you'd never buy anything, right?

We waited a long time to get married. He came with his baggage. I had mine. While we sorted our issues we got a chance to know one another better.

I'll be at the table, as I've been, willing to talk to any Republican who says, 'Look, my country is more important, this pile of bills is not going to go away, the challenges that we have is not going to disappear, we need to cross that divide.' I'm ready. I'm waiting.

We've been sitting at the compromise table for a long time. We're just waiting for that cold chair to be warmed up by the Republican leadership. They still have time to do the right thing and be responsible. They just seem to be moving further and further away from it.

Conscience is the most dangerous thing you possess. If you wake it up, it may destroy you. To live a life of total moral rigor is not necessarily the way to go. It's the path for very few people. Most people need to come up with some kind of middle ground that satisfies their practical, moral, and philosophical esthetic needs.

Negotiating isn't about getting what you want or giving in to what the other party wants. It's not an 'either/or situation.' It's about having both parties walk away satisfied. Over the years in both business and life, I've had to learn this hard lesson.

Freeing hostages is like putting up a stage set, which you do with the captors, agreeing on each piece as you slowly put it together; then you leave an exit through which both the captor and the captive can walk with sincerity and dignity.

As prime minister, I was the Israeli leader who walked the greatest distance in his offers to the Palestinians.

He who walks in the middle of the roads gets hit from both sides.

Nobody walks away with everything they want in politics.

There is a theory that China will tend to push, and if you bend, they will push some more.

It's hard when you're writing for someone else. You obviously always want to do your best work, but sometimes you write and have a song idea and you're like, 'Oh, it's so good I want to keep it for us.'

If you don't agree, present what you think is a better way.

I suppose that every relationship I have been in has had a lot of arguments. I find it very hard to keep things at the bickering level.

I believe in working in a bipartisan manner.

One of the ways usually that you build a bipartisan agreement is one side gives up a little, and the other side gives up a little.

I'm a strong believer in bipartisanship.

The system requires bipartisanship.

I'm a believer in bipartisanship.

We're often blinded by romance; we decide to not see things we don't want to see, and put up with behavior that we shouldn't put up with.

I don't want the bottom, so I have to sacrifice the top.

My boyfriend and I like to fight a lot. I have a lot of problems. He has a lot of problems. Somehow, we always work them out and find a way back to each other.

Marriages break up over renovating a house. Really, they do.