Barbara Bush Quotes

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

Compromise, compromise and compromise.

compromise is the work of mature people.

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

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

In general ... I tell people not to bang their heads against the wall and to find a compromise.

When you show no willingness to compromise, then nothing ever happens.

Solutions must be based on compromises.

Unless you are willing to compromise, society cannot live together.

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

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

Once in a while I can agree with the enemy.

There is an appealing moral clarity in dividing the world into friend and foe. But in reality, progress in international affairs so often demands working with those with whom we do not see eye to eye.

If we can’t agree on the facts, how can we agree on the solutions?

I have tried to treat people on the other side civilly and look for common ground.

Compromise is part of how we get things done.

Go to find common ground; where you can't, you stand your ground.

But we have to find ways of compromising when we disagree on something. You know what compromise is, right?" "Uh-huh. It's when you don't get to have everything your way and I don't get to have everything my way, and no one's happy.

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.

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

We had many more points of agreement than we had points of difference, but we did differ, and the bigger we got, the more insistent we got that each one of us should have his way.

I'm not a politician or a political expert, but I believe that there are many ways to look at peace.

Peace comes through dealing with people. Peace doesn't come at the end of a bayonet or the end of a gun.

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

Compromise works well in this world when you have shared goals.