Quotes About Compromise

Of course, the E.U. were never going to welcome Brexit. Some sour grapes were inevitable. That's why we worked hard to leave on positive terms, extending the arm of friendship.

I'm a moderate. I hang out in the middle. I vote against my party with some regularity and try to compromise. It doesn't appear right now that the Republican Party is welcoming moderates any more.

I felt that what you should do is really take the best from each party's agenda and come to a solution somewhere above the positions of each party. So from the Left, take the idea that we need day care and food supplements for people on welfare. From the Right, take the idea that they have to work for a living and that there are time limits.

After two years of fighting, government shutdowns and little to no agreement on anything except welfare reform in 1996, President Clinton was re-elected and decided it was time for compromise.

In a common project, we can bring together well-meaning people from the Left and the Right.

I would hear stories about Steve Jobs and feel like he was at 100 percent exactly what he wanted to do, but I'm sure even a Steve Jobs has compromised. Even a Rick Owens has compromised. You know, even a Kanye West has compromised. Sometimes you don't even know when you're being compromised till after the fact, and that's what you regret.

To me, both the Declaration of Independence and the Communist Manifesto contain underlying truths, but the West doesn't permit a middle road.

At Camp David in 2000, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak offered the Palestinian leader Yasir Arafat 94 percent of the West Bank; ten years later, Ehud Olmert offered Abbas 93.6 percent with a one-to-one land swap.

I'm not pro-fracking. But sometimes there's got to be some pragmatism.

I cannot revere compromise; I cannot revere pragmatism; I long for ideologues.

I'm well aware of the pragmatism of politics.

In the end, pragmatism requires a workable compromise. But none exists on Brexit.

Our platform is crafted by Democrats but it is not about partisanship, its about pragmatism.

Sometimes a little compromise isn't a bad thing. You don't need to be precious about it.

If you want to bring an end to long-standing conflict, you have to be prepared to compromise.

We would like to ease the life of the Palestinians. I prepared a new plan that we call a positive agenda.

Israel is prepared for a compromise. The majority of Israelis understand this compromise will be serious, will be meaningful, and will be painful.

President Johnson offered the middle of the road.

Rhetorically, President Obama is a champion of bipartisanship. In practice, though, he is almost always its enemy.

I think it was absolutely a mistake for President Obama and Harry Reid to force a government shutdown.

In order for President Obama, Hillary Clinton, and Joe Biden to be moderates, they just have to present themselves between the extremes of Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul's isolationism and Florida Sen. Marco Rubio's hawkishness - the difference between living in a cave or conducting ourselves so that we're in need of one.

I worked for President Bush and President Obama. I had Democratic bosses and Republican bosses. I believe in order to actually get things done, we do need to buckle down and often reach across the aisle.

Despite overwhelming and irrefutable evidence to the contrary, President Obama continues to believe that he can negotiate with Republicans.

I look forward to working with President Trump. I've worked with him many times in the past, but we disagree.