Quotes About Compromise

When presidents decide to litigate an issue to protect their policy decisions, they are more likely to act judiciously, and with an eye toward compromise, because they can see the larger implications for the legacy of their office.

If he'd been negotiating Obamacare, Lincoln would have made the infamous 'Cornhusker Kickback' deal - $100 million in Medicaid funds for Nebraska to secure a Senator's vote - in a heartbeat, even if the press howled as it did when Barack Obama agreed to it, forcing its cancellation.

Force is not inevitable. Diplomacy is still the desired means. Pressure is an element of the means.

This game of pretending that to be Never Trump doesn't lead to a President Hillary Clinton has to end.

I've been pretty good at negotiating.

I think it's best to date someone who doesn't do what you do.

I really do not make deals.

A debate can only be a debate if you have balance.

The Sandinistas are dedicated Communists, and if they are going to make a compromise with democracy, it's going to be under pressure.

I don't know of any of us that want to see any kind of default happen.

I sure tried to help deliver compromise, consensus, bipartisanship.

It would be very difficult for me to stay in a marriage with a Republican at this point. Not that there's anything wrong with Republicans, but I happen to be a Democrat.

Democrats have a history of backing away, backing down.

If I don't get along with Democrats, I'm sort of, like, out of business.

There is no ground on which House Republican leaders should compromise until Democrats are finally ready to give up their spending addiction.

Having three kids at home is sometimes like dealing with Democrats and Republicans when you're choosing a restaurant.

Here's the way Static-X has always worked: I write all the songs by myself - totally and completely by myself - I give demos to the other guys, and then they add their parts to it, and then we argue about stuff and compromise and it turns out being Static-X.

I think that democracy has a lowest common denominator thing going on, so it might be the best of a bad bunch of political systems; but as a way of making art, actually, its not always that great, because it boils everything down.

Sleep deprivation can be a serious problem in romantic relationships.

I'm not going to compromise and settle for what I feel is less than I deserve or less than anyone deserves.

I am a person with no desperation and I live on hope, but the difference is that I do not compromise on hope.

I have to see a definitive cut of the film before I even start thinking about the music, I tell the director what my feelings are and what I would like to do. He accepts what I say or discusses it or destroys it. Eventually, we have to find a compromise.

The desire to be right can be very destructive in relationships.

The devil is compromise.