John Dingell Quotes

compromise is the work of mature people.

Stop the fighting and find the middle ground.

You can never have unity if you want things to go your way.

Compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity. It is what makes nations great and marriages happy

When you let someone else win an argument, often you both end up winners.

We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to compromise.

I hate the fact that people think 'compromise' is a dirty word.

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

Peace itself is not made by documents. Peace is made by good will among men.

Compromise, compromise and compromise.

One of the ways usually that you build a bipartisan agreement is one side gives up a little, and the other side gives up a little.

Everyone always says that conflict is drama, and I agree, but I also don't think you need drama everywhere. Or conflict everywhere.

If you're operating from strong principles, you can compromise when the person on the other side is operating from principles you respect.

Compromise is part of how we get things done.

All sides must learn to respect one another.

I see the necessity of sacrificing our opinions sometimes to the opinions of others for the sake of harmony.

We can find common ground only by moving to higher ground.

Peace depends upon compromise among peoples who must live together long after our speeches are over, long after our votes have been tallied.

To have compromise you must first have dialog. That is the true path of democracy.

I absolutely think that it's possible for us to find common ground.

I would love nothing more than compromise. But I would say to you that compromise that's not a solution is a waste of time.

When human beings live together, conflict is inevitable. War is not.

Solutions must be based on compromises.

Social peace requires reciprocity.

We have to find compromises. That's the way it is in Norway.