Quotes About Compromise

It was one of the compromises of the Constitution that the slave property in the Southern States should be recognized as property throughout the United States.

And I gave this directive to them, that if they free our assets in the United States, that would be a sign of goodwill. I have the same idea this time.

You have 435 people in the United States House of Representatives trying to get along.

A major driver of the cost of healthcare in the United States is a compromise that was reached with the American Medical Association in the 1960s when Medicare was first established.

When you work in the United States Senate, and you are around people of all different ideas and beliefs, you realize that what our Founding Fathers did that was so genius, is that they made the Senate the place where compromises are supposed to happen because of the makeup of the Senate.

We must stop the Tea Party before the United States Senate falls into the hands of extremists and ideologues who leave no room for reason or compromise, who don't recognize common ground even when they're standing on it.

I wasn't looking for a hobby. If I were looking for a hobby, it wouldn't be the United States Senate. That's one of the toughest jobs I'd probably ever do. I just felt there wasn't enough compromise going on: People were too far to the left, too far to the right, with no one trying to build a compromise.

More than a few Republicans in the United States Senate seem to have contracted a severe case of what Harry Truman called 'Potomac Fever' (wanting to go along to get along in Washington).

We try and stay out of the corporate side of it. The band has never compromised. At some point in our career we could have made a certain type of record and sold millions of units, as they are called.

You can never have unity if you want things to go your way.

Jim Crow segregation was bipartisan. The refusal of women suffrage was bipartisan. The denial of the basic dignity of members of the LGBTQ community has long been bipartisan. The Three-Fifths Compromise was the creation of a punitive national unity at the expense of black people's basic humanity.

In a unity government, it's very difficult to move anything at all.

Everyone has this universal understanding of roommate drama.

Many women get involved with a man that you pretty much know isn't suitable and you're kind of breaking your rules, but he's attractive in some unknown way. And then he doesn't even realize what a sacrifice you're making by being with him and he dumps you!

I do believe that in order to be a successful negotiator that as a diplomat, you have to be able to put yourself into the other person's shoes. Unless you can understand what is motivating them, you are never going to be able to figure out how to solve a particular problem.

Women upset everything. When you let them into your life, you find that the woman is driving at one thing and you're driving at another.

What should all men know about women? That we are always right and you should just agree.

Many women my age have known the experience of giving up crucial parts of themselves to please the man they love.

Men often do things for women that they don't want to do, so that women will do things for men that they don't want to do.

Sooner or later you end up making deals with women. It's an injustice, really.

Studies have been done showing that there really are gender differences, that women do bring more congeniality and compromise to the table.

Only professional diplomats, inveterate idiots and women view diplomacy as a long-term substitute for war.

Men were put into the world to teach women the law of compromise.

I must be the mate of the man I had chosen; and if he would not come to my level, I must go to his.