Quotes About Compromise

BATNA—your Best Alternative To a Negotiated Agreement?

Increase your negotiation power is by improving your walk-away alternative. An attractive BATNA is a strong argument with which to persuade the other side of the need to offer more.

Understanding is not agreeing.

As useful as looking for objective reality can be, it is ultimately the reality as each side sees it that constitutes the problem in a negotiation and opens the way to a solution.

the ongoing relationship is far more important than the outcome of any particular negotiation.

Like it or not, you are a negotiator.

The owners don't win by having a lockout. Shutting down your business is not good for anybody and it's certainly not good for the players, it's certainly not good for the fans. And that's most important to us.

And let's not forget "Dane-Geld": It is always a temptation to a rich and lazy nation, To puff and look important and to say: "Though we know we should defeat you, we have not the time to meet you. We will therefore pay you cash to go away." And that is called paying the Dane-geld; But we've proved it again and again, That if once you have paid him the Dane-geld You never get rid of the Dane.

You see, we cannot draw lines and compartments and refuse to budge beyond them. Sometimes you have to use your failures as stepping-stones to success. You have to maintain a fine balance between hope and despair.' He paused, considering what he had just said. 'Yes', he repeated. 'In the end, it's all a question of balance.

democracy is a see-saw between complete chaos and tolerable confusion

I would disagree with fight or flight. That leaves no room for compromise and understanding.

If two parties with two sets of bad ideas cooperate, the result is not good policy, but policy that is extremely bad. What we really need are correct economic and politcal ideas, regardless of the party that pushes them.

But why is it that when you win you must also lose?

Furthermore, as evangelical pastor and Republican candidate for Congress in 2018 Robb Ryerse says: "To vote for him because he sees the political expediency of supporting restrictions on abortion [Trump supported abortion before he ran for president] is a Faustian deal with the devil that is ultimately more likely to exact greater cost than reward.

The problem with making a deal with Trump wasn't that evangelicals shouldn't engage in politics. The problem was who they made a deal with, and the way in which they justified that deal.

Damn it, Pierre, what do you want me to do We'll go sit with empty chairs to get those guys back to the table. (To Pierre Trudeau, prime minister of Canada)

Die-hard conservatives thought that if I couldn't get everything I asked for, I should jump off the cliff with the flag flying-go down in flames. No, if I can get 70 or 80 percent of what it is I'm trying to get ... I'll take that and then continue to try to get the rest in the future.

There is a difference between compromise and compromising. One allows for negotiation. The other undermines who you are.

Flexibility, negotiation, and compromise are at the heart of loving relationships.

Any judge knows there are many kinds of justice—for instance, ideal justice as opposed to the best-we-can-do justice, which is what we end up with in making so many of our decisions.

The only way to fight the righteous was to present an argument that would make giving him what he wanted seem the only righteous thing to do.

I was willing to take being second best if it meant I could still . . . you know. Be with him.

For every gain there is a sacrifice, and the removal of the parasite sometimes entails removal of the host.

Let's face it. Our ass is in a crack. We're gonna have to let this nigger bill pass. [Said to Senator John Stennis (D-MS) during debate on the Civil Rights Act of 1957]