Quotes About Compromise

Shutting down the government is not how you make government work.

I will always stand firm to protect the sanctity of marriage. I believe it is important to work with people to find common ground on difficult issues.

Relationships are not tailor-made and people are flawed. You have to work around that and love the other person anyway. Our flaws are what make us unique.

I've worked with a lot of people on music and often times those things don't work out.

If a poet would work politically, he must give himself up to a party; and so soon as he does that, he is lost as a poet.

Compromise is not such ignoble and deplorable a thing as we generally think. It is rather an indispensable factor in the political strategy. Any nation that rises against the oppressors is bound to fail in the beginning and to gain partial reforms during the medieval period of its struggle through compromises.

'Style Strategy' is about shopping smart, staying chic and making it all last. It's about showing women how to shop for value without compromising style.

I've got a bit of an independent streak. I'm not afraid of bipartisan compromise on issues that are important to the nation.

Conflict, when handled correctly, strengthens.

In Denver, they just wanted me to play strictly fullback, nothing else. I wasn't too happy about the situation, but I was trying to be a team player.

'Strictly Sinatra' became a compromise between me and the producers, and neither of us liked the results much.

One good thing about being in business is you learn to compromise. And so you learn to strike a deal that maybe isn't what you were looking for but is better than what you've got.

An Obama administration desperate to strike a deal is likely to strike a bad one.

We had to pull some strings to get off of Sony.

The ledger, the distributed database - it's called a Blockchain - is held in the cloud by all the parties involved. It can't be broken by any of them. It's cryptographically too strong. You would have to compromise the entire network to take over Bitcoin.

I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle.

When Senator McCain reaches across the aisle to find Democrats to support efforts to make America stronger, he finds plenty of us standing, willing to help him and many other Republican leaders.

I feel very strongly that you can't just beat people up anymore; you have to work hand in hand and find ways to compromise, and get big business involved, because it won't happen otherwise.

I strongly believe that crossing the aisle for the good of the American people is more important than party politics.

Livability has always struck me as a consolation prize.

It seems to be the fate of idealists to obtain what they have struggled for in a form which destroys their ideals.

Roommate struggles are real.

If I'm the president, I will call in all the different political opinions to come together and to make one front to the benefit of Mexico.

Usually, even when a bill draws extreme opinions, there can be a process of expression and negotiation.