Quotes About Compromise

It's necessary for Israelis and Palestinians to make the compromises that are required to get the direct talks back on track.

Whenever you can manoeuvre your characters into a situation where they both have a good argument to make, you're on the right track.

At Guantanamo Bay, we could create a West Berlin, a free small city within the Communist nation that could trade freely with the U.S. and elect its own officials.

For any trade deal to move forward, there has to be agreement.

Every country has it trade offs.

The problem with regional trade agreements is you get picked apart by the first country. Then you negotiate with the second country. You get picked apart. And you go with the third one. You get picked apart again.

Early education is the type of issue politicians nod their heads at, and then when it comes time to make a tough decision, a financial trade-off, inevitably it's about the first item tossed from the table.

I was missing out on a lot of things that my friends were doing, but in another way, they were missing things I was doing. It was kind of a trade-off I had to make.

What politicians do is they never get the rhetoric wrong, and the price they pay is they don't speak the truth as they see it. Now, I will speak truth as I see it, and sometimes I don't get the rhetoric right. I think that's a fair trade-off.

Lindsey Graham can't lead us in any direction because he traded his moral compass for petty political gain.

The president is the leader of the nation. The president brings people together, does the deals, does the trades, knocks the heads together. The president leads.

Governments and nations should sit together and resolve issues. Reforms must be reached through understanding. But others should not interfere.

We spend our lives trying to get along with people so we can keep our jobs, keep our marriages together, so that we can raise our kids properly.

A bilingual marriage, by the way, is a great way to stay together for longer than you normally would because you can't understand each other very well.

When you have two people, separate beings, trying to share one life together. That's always going to have difficulties.

We were far more civilized in our divorce than we had ever been in marriage. It seemed we'd finally found something we could do together amicably.

In the United States Senate, we cannot do great things without reaching across the aisle and working together - and I look forward to the challenges ahead.

Necessity reconciles and brings men together; and this accidental connection afterward forms itself into laws.

All my adult life I've felt drawn to ask long-married couples how they were able to stay together. All of them said the same thing: "We worked hard at it.

I'm always looking for an opportunity to bring progressive Democrats together with some conservative libertarian types, because there are places where we can agree.

All marriages are happy. It's the living together afterward that causes all the trouble.

If two people cannot live together, both should have the right to opt out of the marriage. In an ideal world, that would be an acceptable solution.

It is past time for Democrats and Republicans to join together to create a bipartisan coalition for courage and common sense.

Unless you are willing to compromise, society cannot live together.