Quotes About Compromise

I kind of have to take pieces of myself to fit what it is that radio wants.

Normally, you cast a pilot, and you have to make compromises about being political about who you cast.

In any situation in order to excel and reach the pinnacle with a group of people, there have to be sacrifices.

I had to redo my last house after the pipes burst, and something was lost in the renovation. The soul of the old space was compromised.

We don't point a pistol at our own forehead. That is not the way to conduct negotiations.

We differ on several issues. And this may include settlement, the release of prisoners, the wall closing institutions in Jerusalem.

I've always been a person who tries to build bridges and not walls. Whether it's my ex-wife and my step-son, or my daughter and my ex, I'm that guy in the middle, and I try to make sure we all stay together.

You say to a brick, 'What do you want, brick?' And brick says to you, 'I like an arch.' And you say to brick, 'Look, I want one, too, but arches are expensive and I can use a concrete lintel.' And then you say: 'What do you think of that, brick?' Brick says: 'I like an arch.'

Tolerance, compromise, understanding, acceptance, patience - I want those all to be very sharp tools in my shed.

A lot of the Republicans wanted exactly what Barack Obama wanted, exactly what Nancy Pelosi wanted, exactly what Harry Reid wanted, which is to raise the debt ceiling, but they wanted to be able to tell what they view as their foolish, gullible constituents back home they didn't do it.

On one of my birthdays, I wanted to go to a disco, but Daddy refused permission. But when I insisted he finally took the entire family to the disco for five minutes.

I wanted very much to do Traffic and at one point it looked like I was going to work on it. And then, of course, Catherine Zeta-Jones had her relationship with Michael Douglas and it suddenly didn't happen.

I think the journey for a politician goes from wanting to please all the people all the time, to a political leader that realises in the end his responsibility is to decide. And when he decides, he divides.

It seems like when I was growing up there was more compromise, wanting to work with each other, and I think all of them - all of the lawmakers - have hearts to do what's right, and they all are passionate about it.

We're living in a time where I think most people are wanting someone to invite them respectfully to a policy position, not try to just slash and burn the other person.

Once you start compromising, once you start trying to keep cost lower, this is not luxury. Luxury is wanting the best and using the best materials with which to do that.

Disagreements will always occur between us, but we all approach them wanting the best for each and every one of us, for the whole people.

War makes strange bedfellows.

Making peace is harder than making war.

War settles nothing.

And he said that he didn't want to have a war or anything like that again.

A healthy degree of party unity among Democrats and Republicans has deteriorated into bitter partisan warfare.

Marrying early was a very big mistake. Everyone warned me but I felt I was in love and ignored their advice. I had to pay the price for my silly mistake when I had to compromise on my career.

For years we've been told by secretive power hoarders we need to compromise some of our hot freedom for security. Civil Libertarians have always known that hogwash claim was stinkier than week old trout jam, and we have warned about compromising liberty in the name of safety.