Quotes About Compromise

It's time for the IRA to go out of business.

Rather, it is through conciliation and compromise that we are building a fair Iraq, a just state for all its peoples.

We have seen at first hand that upholding the Good Friday Agreement while also avoiding a hard border in Ireland is the key to unblocking the Brexit logjam.

Let everyone leave all the guns - British guns and Irish guns - outside the door.

The way it's supposed to work is you pass a bill out of the House, you pass a bill out of the Senate, you go to conference on it, and you iron out the differences.

When you have a girlfriend, there are many things that are irritating every day, every night. I'm sure it's different for everyone, but when you fight, it gets really annoying.

Israel was seen as having demonstrated unmistakably it wanted peace, and the reason it wasn't available, achievable was because Arafat wouldn't accept it.

What I am trying to say to Israel is, 'Listen, borders is something that we need, and hopefully, peace is something that we need.'

We want the Israelis to leave. They want to leave - so let us let them leave.

I never tried to convince my wife to move to Italy. She wouldn't have liked that.

Elvis might have compromised his musical style a bit towards the end, but that doesn't mean that artists from the rock n' roll/folk-roots culture - of which he was not really a part - shouldn't get better as they get older, like the great jazz or blues artists.

I would do whatever I could to make Jeremy Corbyn more electable, but you've got to give me something to work with, mate.

Jim had a spirit that was incapable of compromise.

When you try to battle with John Ford, you have to give in.

Because unity in faith is a gift, dialogue can never be a search for compromise, never have as a goal a negotiated agreement like a business contract.

Old, he included himself in his scorn for those who young want the opposite of this earth then settle for more of it.

Most of the things we decide are not what we know to be the best. We say yes, merely because we are driven into a corner and must say somethign.

One thing I have learned in my time in politics is that if one of the parties is shameless, the other party cannot afford to be spineless.

She had a deeper conviction that procedures and attitudes could be evolved that extracted the poison from disagreement. She had a fantasy that there was always a formulation which could give painless compromise, if one only had the time.

America still sees itself as essential and as destiny's instrument. And each splinter group within our culture—left, right, conservative, liberal, religious, secular—sees itself as morally, even "theologically," superior to its rivals. It is not just about politics. It is about being better than one's evil opponent. We don't just disagree, we demonize the "other." And we don't compromise.

Most of the time, I was biting my tongue. If I wanted to be invited back, I couldn't go on the 700 Club and tell people that the host was a lunatic. I couldn't go on Dobson's Focus on the Family and tell the truth: The host was a power-crazed political manipulator cynically abusing his followers. And I couldn't tell my Hollywood producers that they were full of shit when they cast their girlfriends to star in their movie. I wanted the next job!

A bargain is something you don't need at a price you can't resist.

if you don't argue, you can't give in...

In the fight between you and the world, back the world.