Compromise

A good compromise, a good piece of legislation, is like a good sentence or a good piece of music. Everybody can recognize it. They say, 'Huh. It works. It makes sense.'

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Politics is compromise.

- Paddy Ashdown Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Obviously, I want to make the decision as soon as I'm ready to, which should be pretty soon. It's a process. We're just working out a compromise. Both sides have been in discussions, and they'll continue to talk.

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We have not closed the path to compromise. In principle I believe some complicated international issues can be best solved through talks.

- Ali Larijani Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Of course, there's disagreement, ... We're watching a political process unfold, a process that has encouraged debate and compromise -- a constitution that was written in a society in which people recognize that there had to be give and take.

- A. Bush Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

It's a necessary quality of a diplomat or a politician that he will compromise. Uncompromising politicians or diplomats get you into the most terrible trouble.

- John Keegan Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Virtue knows that it is impossible to get on without compromise, and tunes herself, as it were, a trifle sharp to allow for an inevitable fall in playing.

- Samuel Butler Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

It was a good compromise, and were happy with it. 30-2 is not a bad vote.

- Jim Irsay Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.

- James Thurber Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

It was a good compromise. We're happy with it aa 30-2 is a good vote.

- Jim Irsay Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

He suffered unspeakable hardships in the Nazi death camps but he did not let them break his spirit or compromise his will to live ... I will always be grateful that I knew one of the greatest men of our time.

- Arnold Schwarzenegger Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Rosa Parks was the inspiration... simply by the act of her being who she was, a sweet and loving and simple child of God who refused to let anybody or anything force her to compromise her spirit.

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This may seem as an unrealistic demand, but believe me it is not. It is primarily a thing of political will, and as we all know political will is influenced by pressure from the outside. If the EU launched SAA negotiations on 5 October and Mladic was still at large, this would severely compromise any chance of that arrest happening in the near future. It could even be a 'pass' to lack of punishment.

- Carla Ponte Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

that will compromise sources or methods or abilities to win a war.

- Ari Fleischer Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The whole issue is closed. The final compromise satisfies about 90, or even 95 percent of our demands. The Czech republic will not veto the VAT deal.

- Jiri Paroubek Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

All compromise is based on give and take, but there can be no give and take on fundamentals. Any compromise on mere fundamentals is a surrender. For it is all give and no take.

- Mohandas Gandhi Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Product quality was the first priority on the first day of Vista (development) and we won't compromise on that. We needed just a few more weeks and that put us in what we would call a bubble where some partners would be impacted more than others and we decided to optimize it for the entire industry.

- Jim Allchin Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof it is a temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship.

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I believe that the Apple Shuffle is an excellent compromise among the conflicting requirements of simplicity, elegance, size, battery life, and function.

- Donald Norman Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

If we don't stop somewhere, if we don't accept an unhappy compromise, unhappy for both sides, if we don't learn how to unhappily coexist and contain our burned sense of injustice - if we don't learn how to do that, we end up in a doomed state.

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Let the Palestinians know that we were ready to allow for the realization of some of their dreams even at a heart-rending price, ... But let the Palestinians realize we too have dreams. We too have national interests that we cannot compromise -- the security of Israel, unity of Israel and our sacred values.

- Ehud Barak Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

If the Republicans had been willing to come to the middle and compromise and reach a consensus on the budget then we could have gotten the budget balanced last year, we could have done it the year before.

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The Agra summit (2001) failed because we were not ready to make any compromise on that stand.

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The-18 month period is a compromise between the feeling that two years is a little bit too long for non-contested cases and that one year seems a little bit short to reflect on matters properly.

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Both sides worked hard for several years to find a solution that would improve the environment. We think this is a reasonable compromise for all sides.

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