Quotes About Compromise

Federalism should be a meeting point of all groups.

I have a mindset that says bipartisanship ought to consist of Democrats coming to the Republican point of view.

At the end of the day, if it looks like you're not going to get paid, you might be willing to compromise to make sure that budget actually comes out. It's not all about your extreme point of view.

The only way to conduct an effective collaboration is to debate the things upon which you disagree. If one doesn't manage to bring the other around to his point of view, then whichever collaborator feels the most passionate about the thing being debated ought to get his way.

I am good at persuading people. In convincing the other, I try to start from their point of view so it's easier for me to find a common denominator.

I'm too much of a Libra. I too often see the other person's point of view and capitulate, even though I have strong political convictions. It's just my liability. Maybe I'm too empathetic. That's the actor in me.

Citizens and those elected to serve must also understand the point of view, the goals and the fears of those with whom we disagree.

If you come out of the gate with a finger pointed, then you really aren't opening the door to any sort of resolution to whatever the problem may be. Whether it's about race or sexual orientation or religion, if you can't empathize with the opposing party, then you can't really meet in the middle.

We had many more points of agreement than we had points of difference, but we did differ, and the bigger we got, the more insistent we got that each one of us should have his way.

There comes a point, in any kind of, whether it's in your family discussions or business or whatever, where you finally have to get over the making of the points and now let's see if we can find common ground.

I am not a monetarist, and I am not a Keynesian. On certain points I agree with each.

When the war closed, I buried the hatchet, and I won't fight now unless I'm put upon.

I know the pain of coalition government.

It's not that I can't collaborate. It's just that I don't know how to say no to people. If someone's like, 'Let's write a song together,' it's like, 'You'll write the song, and I'm gonna okay everything.' It's very hard to think that their ideas work with what I'm trying to do.

I'm someone that wants to reach across the chasm to make sure that we can collaborate with one another by race and by party.

From collaborating with other people, you make concessions, and those concessions are great because sometimes you are definitely wrong.

I mean, something has to give. You can have it all at work, you can have it all at home, but you can't have it all completely combined.

At some point, I'll do more McDonald's commercials if I have to.

It's really, really hard to get in rooms with people you don't usually work with and try to find common ground.

You need people that are willing to talk to the other side, or you're never going to get anything done. You need to be willing to expand your ground. There's always usually a place on issues where you can find common ground.

Sometimes, we find common ground; more often, we don't.

I have tried to treat people on the other side civilly and look for common ground.

A leader's job is to find common ground.

I think I used to do everything and then people had a problem with that within the band, so we're doing more of a communal thing.