Compromise Quotes

There is a thin line between peace of the brave and peace of the hostage... between compromise - even calculated risk - and irresponsibility and capitulation.
Ehud Barak

Peace, Brave, Between

Whether I get adequate attention or not, people here do know the work I have been doing systematically and without compromise for over 40 years. I get tired of people making excuses for guys who don't continue the art because they can't make a living.
Bill Dixon

Work, Art, Tired

The Senate needs 60 votes to pass anything. They have to compromise with liberal Democrats to spend more money. Even though arguably we have control of the Senate, we really don't.
Steve Chabot

Money, Control, Though

There can be no compromise with war; it cannot be reformed or controlled; cannot be disciplined into decency or codified into common sense.
Jeanette Rankin

War, Cannot, Sense

And what it depends on, of course, is whether the story itself is worth the ethical compromise it requires and whether the competition is onto the story.
Roger Mudd

Worth, Story, Whether

Ultimately, there is no compromise. Westerners will either retain their civilization, including the right to insult and blaspheme, or not.
Daniel Pipes

Insult, Either, Including

Feeling is the consciousness of the resulting conditions - of success, failure, equilibrium, compromise or balance, in this continuous rivalry of ideas.
James M. Baldwin

Success, Failure, Feeling

As a former lifelong Republican, it pains me to tell you that today's Republicans - and their standard-bearers, Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan - just aren't up to the task. They're beholden to 'my way or the highway' bullies, indebted to billionaires who bankroll ads and allergic to the very idea of compromise.
Charlie Crist

Today, Tell, Idea

In fact, I think - our view of this is that while the agreement, the compromise did not achieve the kind of super-sized deficit reduction that we sought, it did end the uncertainty around the perception, the possibility that the United States might default on its obligations for its first time. That was a good thing.
Jay Carney

Time, Good, End

If you want to do anything, do it now, without compromise or concession, because you have only one life.
Gao Xingjian

Life, Concession

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

Clear, Privileges

I hope it goes beyond meeting with them to a willingness to listen and compromise on issues.
Dennis Moore

Hope, Listen, Goes

Being in a band is always a compromise. Provided that the balance is good, what you lose in compromise, you gain by collaboration.
Mike Rutherford

Good, Lose, Balance

We are opposed to the line of compromise with imperialism. At the same time, we cannot tolerate the practice of only shouting against imperialism, but, in actual fact, being afraid to fight it.
Kim Il-sung

Time, Fight, Same

One of the things I realized early in my career is that you do what you believe, in knowing that if you don't, you will never like yourself. When you compromise out of fear or ambition, it eats inside you.
Samuel Dash

Fear, Yourself, Career

I felt that to do this drug, I had to become someone totally different than I was. I had to compromise my integrity, my value system. I knew it was so wrong.
Kelli White

Someone, Integrity, Different

When it comes to the cause of justice, I take no prisoners and I don't believe in compromise.
Mary Frances Berry

Justice, Cause, Prisoners

As a woman, my style defines my leadership. It's a gentler, more compassionate approach. I consult, I listen and I compromise where it's in the best interest of the citizens.
Kamla Persad-Bissessar

Leadership, Best, Woman

I rise today to discuss the National Intelligence Reform bill. I commend my colleagues in both Houses for their hard work in coming to an agreement. As with any conference, each voice is heard, but none can dominate and compromise must be achieved.
Ted Stevens

Work, Today, Hard

It's not that I'm not willing to compromise. But I won't compromise on principles.
Ann Marie Buerkle

Won, Willing, Principles

It's a matter of pride to me to get the film done fast, to get it done well. I understand the need for compromise. There is no such thing as a perfect shot, a perfect film. The purpose of film is not to make a monument to oneself.
Irvin Kershner

Done, Understand, Perfect

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

Nature, Product

I want to live a good life and pay my taxes. 'The Killing' was a blessing. It was two wonderful years. But I had reached a point in my life, especially with a young son, that I was no longer willing to compromise my life for the sake of a paycheque. I was no longer willing to move where the tax credits are strong.
Kristin Lehman

Life, Good, Strong

Ecosystems are holy. The word "environmental" is a deadly compromise itself. It's a policy word that lives only in the head, and barely there.
David James Duncan

Word, Lives, Holy

There is no compromise when it comes to corruption. You have to fight it.
A. K. Antony

Fight, Corruption

Compromise: An agreement between two men to do what both agree is wrong.
Lord Edward Cecil

Men, Two, Wrong

When I handed over the names and compromised so many CIA agents in the Soviet Union, I had come to the conclusion that the loss of these sources to the U.S. would not compromise significant national defense, political, diplomatic interests.
Aldrich Ames

Political, Union, Loss

I don't recognize any law but the Sharia of Islam. There is no compromise.
John Walker Lindh

Islam, Law, Recognize

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