Quotes About Compromise

One political party must behave goodly with another political party, whatever is possible within the political jurisdiction.

We now have a political process, we've had a period of parties that have been fighting each other quite literally with bombs and bullets, talking to each other, and having sat together in the assembly and sharing government with each other.

In a politically diverse nation, only by finding that common ground can we achieve results for the common good.

People are always going to disagree politically, because we all come at the law from a different perspective with different needs.

The politically correct illiberal left far too often side with the extremists.

The career of a politician mainly consists in making one part of the nation do what it does not want to do, in order to please and satisfy the other part of the nation.

We realize there is no political party or politician who fully takes into consideration the issues the church is about. This is nothing new to us.

Politicians never say never to anything.

When philosophers try to be politicians they generally cease to be philosophers.

It has been the great fault of our politicians that they have all wanted to do something.

I will deal with the politicians in a political way and with the nonpoliticians in a nonpolitical way.

Sometimes you get politicians who dig their feet into the sand and aren't willing to listen to another voice.

There might be some serious fun in politics.

The Vice-Presidency is sort of like the last cookie on the plate. Everybody insists he won't take it, but somebody always does.

Everything is politics.

Dialogue is the essence of parliamentary politics.

Politics is the art of the next best.

Great leaders find a way to rise above politics while at the same time keeping their party's loyalists in the fold.

Nitin Gadkari requested me not to fight Lok Sabha polls. I told him how it is possible? I head an independent political party which has mass support. Gopinath Munde too met me and requested me to adjust.

There's a few movies I wanted to do, and I didn't get to do them partly because they wanted me to be part of the horse and pony show, getting the money, and I'm just not doing that. There's a few movies that people wanted me to do, but they were too safe.

Jack wasn't my type at all. I thought he was too young and too posh, and I told him that. Plus, I couldn't deal with his dodgy bowl-cut. But he wore me down.

In any leadership position, you're always going to be disappointing somebody.

But my question is, am I compromising by adapting my words for the audience and where is the line beyond which I am not adapting words, but changing my position?

Disagreement on issues doesn't mean 'dissension.' All it means is that honest men can differ in their approach. You lay out your positions, and president makes a decision.