Quotes About Compromise

I have principles and I am not going to be forced to compromise them.

A Louisiana politician can't afford to let his animosities carry him away, and still less his principles, although there is seldom difficulty in that department.

I don't compromise my principles for politics.

The fact is, you never compromise on principles. If people on the far Left, they have a principle to stand by, they should never compromise; those of us on the Right should not either.

One of the problems the Republican Party has had is that we're too fast to compromise. You can compromise on the little stuff, but you can't compromise on your core principles.

If you're operating from strong principles, you can compromise when the person on the other side is operating from principles you respect.

Compromise for compromise sake is never good, unless it is grounded in principles.

Gender equality is one of the principles we will never compromise at Accenture.

Our country was founded upon the principles of debate and compromise.

If you believe in free markets, I don't want to make any compromise with my principles and I think that's the right policy for Canadians and for Canadian consumers.

I am not a person to compromise on my priorities and family just for a show.

Otherwise, to be a movie star, it's a lot of compromise and also a lot of headaches. You can't do what you want. You become a prisoner of your fame. This happened to me in France and I don't want it.

You can't have a pristine house with ten dogs, and I'd rather have the ten dogs.

When differences of view emerge, as they are bound to do from time to time, they should be resolved privately and whenever appropriately, collectively.

I think that anything that has privileges have responsibility and all people that is clear about their responsibility has compromise.

Marriage is marriage. Everybody has problems.

We must have the strictest adherence to security procedures to protect against compromise by hostile foreign powers.

Naturally our Government would not consent to such terms, and so the war had to proceed.

When I did 'Mimic,' it was such a difficult experience to try to make. Believe it or not, I did try to make a really adult giant bug movie. And then, in the course of the process, it kind of died a horrible death and gave birth to the movie that exists now, which now, in retrospect, I like. But it's not the movie I set out to do.

Government likes committees... a lot. Committees kill all the really good ideas and generally all the really bad ideas. They produce middle-ground mush.

I really expected things to be different. But being in Bad English was too much of a compromise. Instead of being true to the artistic side, there was this incredible pressure to keep producing the same kind of hits.

This product is a compromise, and the nature of compromise is that you don't get everything you want.

I definitely had some heated but extremely productive chats with screenwriter Justin Monjo, but while it's my story, it's their movie, so I have to allow for compression and poetic license.

In all circumstances in the world - even the most difficult circumstances - we need to push for dialogue.