#compromise

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

#compromise #fall #get #herself #impossible

Fight as hard as you can, and then understand there's going to have to be some amount of reasonable compromise. ↗

— Andrew Cuomo

#compromise #fight #going #hard #reasonable

Conciliation is not capitulation, nor is compromise to be deemed equivalent to imbalanced concession. ↗

— Jalal Talabani

#compromise #concession #conciliation #deemed #equivalent

In times of tumult, voters are likely to forgive a president, if not reward him, for compromises made in service of solutions. ↗

— Ron Fournier

#forgive #him #likely #made #president

Terrorism can never be accepted. We must fight it together, with methods that do not compromise our respect for the rule of law and human rights, or are used as an excuse for others to do so. ↗

— Anna Lindh

#compromise #excuse #fight #human #human rights

I'm a moderate. I hang out in the middle. I vote against my party with some regularity and try to compromise. It doesn't appear right now that the Republican Party is welcoming moderates any more. ↗

— Claire McCaskill

#any #appear #compromise #hang #i

If you look through history, all of the great work we've done in Congress has been around a table of compromise, when it comes to the most difficult problems. ↗

— Claire McCaskill

#been #comes #compromise #congress #difficult

When the Tea Party comes to town, compromise goes out the door. ↗

— Claire McCaskill

#compromise #door #goes #out #party

When you work in the United States Senate, and you are around people of all different ideas and beliefs, you realize that what our Founding Fathers did that was so genius, is that they made the Senate the place where compromises are supposed to happen because of the makeup of the Senate. ↗

— Claire McCaskill

#because #beliefs #compromises #did #different

Any type of operating system that I wanted to be able to hack, I basically compromised the source code, copied it over to the university because I didn't have enough space on my 200 megabyte hard drive. ↗

— Kevin Mitnick

#any #basically #because #code #compromised