Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

Compromise, compromise and compromise.

Solutions must be based on compromises.

It's time to recognize what compromise means: no side wins or loses all.

Compromise is an underrated virtue. The world is awash with dead people because politicians would not compromise.

It’s going to take some give and take from the House Judiciary Chairman who doesn’t like to give and only likes to take.

Negotiation or Compromise can get you beat.

I don't understand the art of compromise, and it's a shame the politicians don't understand that as well, you know, we might have a better, clearer world. But then saying that, we might also get a lot of Donald Trump's running left right and centre.

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

Campaigns often make standing on principle the highest of virtues - and listening to your opponents a sure sign of weakness. It's the virtual opposite of what it takes to succeed in office. Squaring the circle takes a powerful combination of skills. But presidents who can campaign and compromise are generally the most successful.

A series is filled with compromises.

A statesman wants courage and a statesman wants vision; but believe me, after six months' experience, he wants first, second, third and all the time - patience.

In politics, you must let the other person have your way.

Sometimes a little compromise isn't a bad thing. You don't need to be precious about it.

One thing I've learned - and I've said this to Republicans and Democrats - is, bees cannot sting and make honey at the same time. They have to make a choice. Either they are going to be a stinger or a honey-maker, and I contend that honey is a symbol of legislation and, the nuclear language used by members is the stinger, and you can't do both.

The art of politics is to design a solution that feels painless to all.

All legislation of any consequence is a compromise. You have to recognize that.

The only way to deal with gridlock is compromise. And if we compromise, it means we’ll have a confused policy.

As to such of them as you cannot prevail with to concur you are to endeavor at least to soften them in their opposition or to get them to be absent.

In any negotiation, my goal is to be the most unreasonable person in the room.

All legislation is founded upon the principle of mutual concession.

The political equivalent of an immaculate conception: a [legislative] compromise that materializes without any politician having to take the blame.

Sometimes, concessions in strategy that we thought undesirable had to be made to our allies.

Every statesman must attempt to reconcile what is considered just with what is considered possible.

International negotiation has a nasty tendency to remind its practitioners that the laws of gravity affect them, too, and that international life is a two-way street in which one may have to give in order to get.

We need a lot more respect in this country for compromise…. There is in compromise a lot of integrity, especially political integrity.