Quotes About Compromise

My mother wanted a conservative, secure life, and she has been married to my father since she was 18... A lot of hard work went into that marriage and a lot of not getting what you want.

If you start very far to the left, it's harder to get to the middle.

I think it has done us more harm believing in the huge differences between left and right, Democrat and Republican.

I think our Founding Fathers, they would disagree, but they weren't disagreeable. They didn't hate each other; they didn't want to kill each other off.

There were days when I hated politics. But I fought against hating the people on the other side because we were all in the same business - the business of building our country's future.

Politics is not a healthy lifestyle.

If I had to give up cheese or chocolate, I'd give up chocolate in a heartbeat.

Deal with the Devil if the Devil has a constituency - and don't complain about the heat.

You can't have your kayak and heat it.

The government was built on compromising. And it's frustrating as hell.

Bipartisanship helps to avoid extremes and imbalances. It causes compromises and accommodations. So let's cooperate.

Back when the powerful 19th-century senator Henry Clay was called 'the great compromiser,' achieving a compromise really was considered great.

Heroism in a bad cause.

In a divided government, you can't just say, 'It's my way or the highway.'

Most people want to be good, but not that good and not all the time.

Ideology knows the answer before the question has been asked. Principles are something different: a set of values that have to be adapted to circumstances but not compromised away.

At times, they're so Right and I'm so Left, we agree.

No, I know all the war rhetoric, but it's all aimed at achieving peace.

It was a good reminder that Congressmen from opposite parties could put their differences aside and enjoy each other's company.

Individuals entering into society, must give up a share of liberty to preserve the rest.

Much was to be done by prudence, much by conciliation, much by firmness.

He didn't choose between me and you, Julia: it was between me and ruin.

I always agree on trivial points,' replied Francis. 'It saves trouble.

Few things are more boring than fruitless arguments!