Quotes About Compromise

The idea that people do very bad things for sometimes very good reasons, feels reasons.

Anything you do as a group is fraught with compromise... But everyone 's got to do that, right? It's part of being a good parent, or a good boyfriend, whatever.

When you are made to choose between two good things... Don't just think of what you'll get when you pick one. But think of what you'll lose when you don't choose the other.

Sometimes good people have to do terrible things.

If you don't like your definition of 'good enough', then feel free to change that, but the goal before shipping is merely that. Not perfect.

Greater good is just halfway back to Bad.

I'm a Labour politician, but, you know, I can see decent Tories with good ideas.

All we need is good will, and we have to start working in a way that considers each other's interests [with U.S]. In my view, this is a mandatory condition.

No leader can create sustainable, significant change without a reservoir of good will. Without that, you always tend to compromise with failure.

The problem to be solved is, not what form of government is perfect, but which of the forms is least imperfect.

All governments are, to a certain extent, a treaty with the Devil.

You don't want lopsided government. You don't want one side running roughshod over the other.

There are always great dangers in letting the best be the enemy of the good.

Even though some in our government may claim that civil liberties must be compromised in order to protect the public, we must be wary of what we are giving up in the name of fighting terrorism.

The British government says that for Sinn Fein to be involved in talks the guns must be left at the door.

Compromise is the oil that makes governments go.

We're not going to default. We just won't default. I mean, there are ways of not defaulting even if you don't raise the debt ceiling, and even if you don't fund the government.

A newly elected representative quickly discovers that his job in government-aside from making new laws-is to act as a broker, middleman, special pleader and finagler.

War is like government, a matter of tact.

The great thing about movies is that they're collaborative. And the worst thing is that they're collaborative.

Bargaining is a repulsive habit; compromise is one of the highest human virtues - the difference between the two being that the first is practised on the Continent, the latter in Great Britain.

I have a theory that the secret of marital happiness is simple: drink in different pubs to your other half.

Once I wanted total happiness - now I will settle for a little less pain.

Is there a price too great to pay for your own happiness? What is the price that you are willing to pay for your own happiness?