Marco Rubio Quotes

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

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

compromise is the work of mature people.

The term negotiation implies compromise; painful concessions on the part of both parties.

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

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

When men understand what each other mean, they see for the most part, that controversy is either superfluous or hopeless.

When I say compromise I do not mean capitulation. When I say compromise I definitely do not mean what Jesus Christ meant when he offered us to turn our other cheek to our enemies. Compromise means, try to meet the other somewhere half-way. And, this can only happen if the other is willing to go half-way in order to meet you. That is the very strict line between compromise and capitulation.

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

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.

Solutions must be based on compromises.

We extend our hand towards peace. Our people are committed to peace. We know that peace entails painful compromise for both sides.

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.

We're all negotiators.

Whenever there's negotiations, there's things that you absolutely love, and there's things that you accept.

Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.

I learned firsthand that there would simply be no wars if people engaged in real conversation.

If we don't stop somewhere, if we don't accept an unhappy compromise, unhappy for both sides, if we don't learn how to unhappily coexist and contain our burned sense of injustice - if we don't learn how to do that, we end up in a doomed state.

Be part of the solution and answer to the problem versus part of the problem and continuing argument around it.

Well, you can't argue with somebody that won't argue back.

Do you know what the root of mediation is? Mediocrity!

Peace in the Middle East isn't going to be created by another war or violent act on the other side.

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

I can do whatever I want. They will tell me if what I am doing is stupid or a total waste of time. I may tell them that they are wrong, and we will come to an agreement.

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