Quotes About Compromise

We extend our hand towards peace. Our people are committed to peace. We know that peace entails painful compromise for both sides.

But there's one thing we are not going to compromise at all: when it comes to security of Israeli citizens and the State of Israel, there are not going to be any compromises - not now and not in the future.

We must as a second best, as people say, take the least of the evils.

We must as second best...take the least of the evils.

It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace.

Many women cut back what had to be done at home by redefining what the house, the marriage and, sometimes, what the child needs. One woman described a fairly common pattern: I do my half. I do half of his half, and the rest doesn't get done.

Es cierto... Hay un momento en la vida en que tenemos necesidad de ser canallas, de ensuciarnos hasta adentro, de hacer alguna infamia, yo qué sé... de destrozar para siempre la vida de un hombre... y después de hecho eso podremos volver a caminar tranquilos.

As president, Reagan worked very well with Democrats to do big things. It is true that he worked to reduce the size of government and cut federal taxes and he eliminated many regulations, but he also raised taxes when necessary.

My fellow Republicans acted like they'd been punched in the stomach. "You have them on the ropes, go in for the kill!" they said. This was my first real taste of the new Republican ideology that any compromise is a sign of weakness.

Almost no one is ever insulted into agreement.

When you start out, you have to make compromises, which include doing films of lower quality.

I don't have any qualms about selling out.

I thought eating Double Quarter Pounders with Big Mac sauce wasn't that bad, but I guess it was.

Too great a love for the presidency has caused Democrats to neglect state and local politics and to overly prize compromise and a futile quest for bipartisanship. It has made liberals too allergic to federalism and too shy about grassroots politics.

Peace is a question of will. All conflicts can be settled, and there are no excuses for allowing them to become eternal.

We are in a period when old questions are settled and the new are not yet brought forward. Extreme party action, if continued in such a time, would ruin the party. Moderation is its only chance. The party out of power gains by all partisan conduct of those in power.

If you find yourself in a movie that you have questions about, it's not a compromise to your integrity.

I've heard people say in the U.N. community among mediators they don't like women as mediators because they're too quick to compromise.

A consensus politician is someone who does something that he doesn't believe is right because it keeps people quiet when he does it.

Anything for a quiet life.

We need to quit arguing about whether the glass is half full or half empty - and instead acknowledge that there's not quite enough water to go around.

There's no road map on how to raise a family: it's always an enormous negotiation.

I think a man and a woman, on a whole array of issues, including raising children, have differences, and then you work them through.

My father ran for Congress in 2004, and I got a sense that there is no way to achieve much success without a certain amount of compromise.