Walter Isaacson Quotes

I don't know how you can govern without ever compromising.

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

I sure tried to help deliver compromise, consensus, bipartisanship.

Democracy is that fine art of compromise.

Compromise is the oil that makes government go.

Solutions must be based on compromises.

The job of a leader, the job of a governor, the job of a president, is to get the people in the room and bang enough heads together and rub enough arms and cajole enough to have them put the country and the state's greater interest ahead of their own personal partisan interest. That's what we did in New Jersey and that's the model for America.

The art of government is the art of negotiating and compromise.

Compromise, compromise and compromise.

'Compromise' isn't supposed to be a dirty word. It is, in fact, how representative democracy works.

In politics, you have to compromise from morning to evening. Democracy is the art of compromise.

I have seen throughout my professional career that the robust exchange of ideas and bipartisan compromises can bring about the best policy results.

I believe in friendly compromise. I said over in the Senate hearings that truth is the glue that holds government together. Compromise is the oil that makes governments go.

Compromise, contrary to popular opinion, does not mean selling out one's principles. Compromise means working out differences to forge a solution which fits the diversity of the body politic.

I haven't given up on working... across the aisle on issues and maybe it'll take an election or two for that to fully ferment, maybe it you know sometimes it takes awhile for people to realize what the best path is.

Bipartisanship helps to avoid extremes and imbalances. It causes compromises and accommodations. So let's cooperate.

Politics is about a lot more than winning and losing. I think politics at its best is about compromise, shades of grey and about issues.

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

I believe any time that both parties are talking, it's a good thing.

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.

My father ran for Congress in 2004, and I got a sense that there is no way to achieve much success without a certain amount of compromise.

The main purpose of dialogue is to come to an agreement on how the two parties can work together, realize their mutual interests, and avoid conflict as much as possible

When you are President you have to get something done, and that often means compromise.

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

All legislation is founded upon the principle of mutual concession.