Quotes About Compromise

Congress is unable to do the work of the American people because too many politicians believe that compromise means capitulation.

Growing up in a house with six brothers and sisters is a lot like being on a tour bus. There's not a whole lot of private space, so you figure out how to make it work.

That's one of the good things about being from the political centre, you're willing to work with both side of politics.

Even if we don't agree, we should agree to work together.

An amicable divorce is like a ventilated condom; it just doesn't work.

A relationship is like another job, you know, you have to work at it all the time.

I care about the work I do. But I'm not going to say that money's not an issue.

In other parts of the country people tried to stay together for the sake of the children. In New York they tried to work things out for the sake of the apartment.

In fact, things are moving along rather well in Iraq. Nothing is perfect, of course, and freedom is messy work. The cooperation of the three major interests in Iraq has been remarkable.

This position I've held ... it pays may way and it corrodes my soul.

I think to make any relationship work it just takes a tremendous amount of effort and accepting of one another.

There are hardly half a dozen writers in England today who have not sold out to the enemy. Even when their good work has been a success, Mammon grips them and whispers: More money for more work.

Just because we didn't work out as a couple didn't mean we couldn't work together, right?

I am going to work with Tom Daschle. And I'll work with the Republican leaders and the president to try and come up with something that we can all be proud of.

My wife likes history and documentaries, but I'm not so keen on them. I generally go and do some work if there's one of those on.

With political means and always trying to work for political settlements and this is what I'm going to continue to work on with all my heart.

I think that we have to do everything we can to work together, Democrats and Republicans, and then if we go the initiative route like we have done in the past, go together.

We must all work together if we are all to live together in unity and harmony.

I don't expect to get 100 percent of what I want, but what we can't do is go back to the kind of top-down economics that doesn't work.

I have to be in a relationship where I can say what I feel even if it's wrong - so we can work through it.

My husband has no desire to work with me. He gets paid a lot of money to write giant movies. He's not into humoring me with my projects.

I believe it's time to put our best ideas on the table and work toward a bipartisan solution, with the single goal of leaving the Social Security system stronger than we found it.

It takes more than Love and Passion to make a relationship work

If it's really so wonderful that both partners have to work to make a living to pay for their house, for health insurance, someone is obviously going to get the short end of the stick.