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Compromise Quotes
"No party has a monopoly on wisdom. No democracy works without compromise. But when Governor Romney and his allies in Congress tell us we can somehow lower our deficit by spending trillions more on new tax breaks for the wealthy - well, you do the math. I r"
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Barack Obama
"When it comes to human dignity, we cannot make compromises"
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Angela Merkel
"Those are my principles and if you don't like them well I have others"
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Groucho Marx
"We may not agree on everything, but we have to agree on something to get things done"
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Joe Biden
"A good compromise is when both parties are dissatisfied"
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Larry David
"It's time to put away the harsh rhetoric, lower the temperature, see each other again, listen to each other again"
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Joe Biden
"The only way to deal with this problem is through dialogue, through negotiation, and through compromise, which will bring us all together"
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Kofi Annan
"Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer"
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Robert Louis Stevenson
"Man is not logical and his intellectual history is a record of mental reserves and compromises"
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John Dewey
"There are no solutions; there are only trade-offs"
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Thomas Sowell
"Don’t let the little things divide you when your agreement on the big things can bind you."
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Ray Dalio
"Habit is a compromise effected between an individual and his environment."
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Samuel Beckett
"Most dreams die a slow death. Drowned by practicality"
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Dean Karnazes