Madeleine M. Kunin Quotes

Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another - too often ending in the loss of both.

Compromises make all of us swallow hard.

To govern is always to choose among disadvantages.

I think most people are not willing to make the tough choices.

We all have choices we have to make, and with those choices come certain sacrifices.

Even peace may be purchased at too high a price.

Compromise today is too often applauded simply for itself. The cost of compromise to principles and real lives doesn't seem to matter.

Sometimes you need to make difficult choices.

Sometimes to get what you want the most, you have to do what you want the least.

Sometimes good people have to do terrible things.

It's difficult when you want it all.

We love peace, but not peace at any price.

Parts of you die with every decision you have to make. It becomes about making decisions between bad decisions and worse decisions.

You are going to make choices and decisions that sometimes aren't going to always work in your favor and they are going to upset some other people.

We want to resolve this peacefully but if we can’t, there are some things worth fighting for.

I could sit down and talk with the devil if necessary.

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

It’s less important to have unanimity than it is making the right decisions and doing the right thing, even though at the outset it might be loathsome.

Sometimes ‘tis necessary to be cruel in order to be kind.

If the war, which daily demands fresh sacrifices, is not to be indefinitely prolonged and to last until all nations are utterly exhausted, one of the belligerent Powers must extend the hand of peace

Britain and France had to choose between war and dishonour. They chose dishonour. They will have war.

Ultimately all the options are ugly… These decisions are very, very difficult

If you really want to help your country, sometimes you have to make uncomfortable decisions.

War is far more spectacular than peace. Peace, on the other hand, requires patience, discretion and determination in the face of seemingly insurmountable odds.

You have to understand that people have to pay a price for peace. If you dare to struggle, you dare to win.