Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

Compromises make all of us swallow hard.

To compromise simply means that you go a tiny bit below what you know is right.

He [Theodore Roosevelt] acted upon the maxim that half a loaf is better than no bread. I believe that half a loaf is fatal whenever it is accepted at the sacrifice of the basic principle sought to be attained.... A half-way measure never fairly tests the principle and many utterly discredit it.

Politicians are elected to reach compromise. We compromise all the time in our daily lives. Is there something dirty about that?

I don't want the bottom, so I have to sacrifice the top.

When you put emphasis on compromise rather than on principle, you end up with 2/3 of the principles being implemented.

Sacrifice is a form of bargaining.

Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another - too often ending in the loss of both.

I've always said there is a boulevard that exists between compromising your principles and getting everything you want. Now, we should never compromise our principles. And I never have. Those are the things that people vote for you on, that's the core of who you are. But there's always a boulevard between that and getting everything you want.

If you compromise what you're trying to do just a little bit, you'll end up compromising a little more the next day or the next week, and when you lift your head you're suddenly really far away from where you're trying to go.

I'm willing to negotiate, but not compromise my core principles.

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.

I don't think that has to be our choice... This party was born in principle. This party will die if it doesn't stand by its decision of principle.

It's difficult when you want it all.

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

You must take the compromise to win, or else nothing. That means: you race or you do not.

I've never hidden my faith, but there are only a couple of issues I would die for. There are a few others I would dig my heels in on, and I've told my caucus that what they see is what they get.

You have to compromise all the way. The only thing that counts is the result.

In politics, there is no such thing as getting something for nothing. The payoff may involve compromises of various types that strike at the ideals and principles one has held deal all his life.

The right must ... yield to the expedient.

The price tag for principles is sometimes much higher than what’s on the table in terms of dollars and cents.

Compromise today is too often applauded simply for itself. The cost of compromise to principles and real lives doesn't seem to matter.

I am a Republican who is prepared to compromise—and contrary to the current misconceptions, compromise is not a capitulation of one’s principles

Negotiation or Compromise can get you beat.

You see every extreme position defended to the last vote, almost to the last breath by one unyielding group or another. You often see a balanced and fair approach that demands sacrifice, a little sacrifice from everyone, abandoned like an orphan without support and without friends.