Quotes About Compromise

There aren't many idealists in politics.

In Washington, when you're a leader, you have to put aside partisan politics to do what's right for the people.

When you're in politics sometimes you step on toes and they come back and kick you in the backside.

I see the necessity of sacrificing our opinions sometimes to the opinions of others for the sake of harmony.

In politics people throw themselves, as on a sickbed, from one side to the other in the belief they will lie more comfortably.

All of us in the Senate live in an iron lung-the iron lung of politics, and it is no easy task to emerge from that rarified atmosphere in order to breathe the same fresh air our constituents breathe.

It's impossible to imagine the Democratic Party seeking a pro-life, free-trading, non-protectionist deficit hawk.

Where justice if negotiable, filthiness becomes delectable

I have never regarded politics as the arena of morals. It is the arena of interests.

Damned Neuters in their Middle way of Steering Are neither Fish nor Flesh nor good Red Herring.

The only alternative to war is peace and the only road to peace is negotiations.

In marriage it is never having my own way. It is rather discovering our way.

Negotiation is permissible for mediocrity not for excellence.

When you're in love you put up with things that when you're out of love you cite.

I believe that for peace a man may, even should, do everything in his power. Nothing in this world could rank higher than peace.

Being a man is the continuing battle for one's life. One loses a bit of manhood with every stale compromise to the authority of any power in which one does not believe.

The more centralized the power, the less compromises need to be made in architecture.

Negotiations are a euphemism for capitulation if the shadow of power is not cast across the bargaining table.

You know, kid, ethics isn't about choosing between right and wrong; it's about choosing between grey and grey. It's about choosing between two equally desirable but mutually exclusive courses of action. Freedom or security? Courage or comfort? Self-examination or blissful happiness? Column A or Column B?

Love is not blind-It sees more and not less, but because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

We don't know what we want, but we are ready to bite somebody to get it.

Constrained optimization is the art of compromise between conflicting objectives. This is what design is all about. To find fault with biological design - as Stephen Jay Gould regularly does - because it misses some idealized optimum is therefore gratuitous. Not knowing the objectives of the designer, Gould is in no position to say whether the designer has proposed a faulty compromise among those objectives.

He fought with Augustus and Peter, not with Russia or Poland. He aimed at full apologies, not conquests.

You know what the Englishman's idea of compromise is? He says, Some people say there is a God. Some people say there is no God. The truth probably lies somewhere between these two statements.