Quotes About Compromise

Politics is more difficult than physics.

Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.

The history of American politics is littered with bodies of people who took so pure a position that they had no clout at all.

All politics takes place on a slippery slope. The most important four words in politics are up to a point.

In politics there's never a magic wand.

Let us not forget that we can never go farther than we can persuade at least half of the people to go.

In politics, nothing is contemptible.

The Senate is a place filled with goodwill and good intentions, and if the road to hell is paved with them, then it's a pretty good detour.

A politician is not as narrow-minded as he forces himself to be.

No America without democracy, no democracy without politics no politics without parties, no parties without compromise and moderation.

Through talk, we tamed kings, restrained tyrants, averted revolution

What good would politics be, if it didn't give everyone the opportunity to make moral compromises.

Politics is, for me, forgive and -as you may have heard- sometimes forget.

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

Politics is not about justice, but about solutions.

If people have to choose between freedom and sandwiches they will take sandwiches.

By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he's been bought ten times over.

So, what I say to people is that politics has got to be about principle and values above all. Of course, there are times when you have to make accommodations.

Politicians neither love nor hate. Interest, not sentiment, directs them.

Good politics are often inextricably intertwined.

Political necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes.

Politics will sooner or later make fools of everybody.

Politics make strange bedfellows.

Nothing is irreparable in politics.