Arthur Bloch Quotes

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

Hawks usually care about benefits; doves most about costs. Neither benefits or costs however are easily estimated in advance.

When you put emphasis on compromise rather than on principle, you end up with 2/3 of the principles being implemented.

Life is full of compromises, and whether or not you're willing to negotiate.

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

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

More often there's a compromise between ethics and expediency.

As a newly married person, as much as I would love for my husband to buy into the 'my way or the highway' philosophy, you realize it's all about compromising and finding some sort of middle ground that everyone can live with.

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

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.

In politics, there is no such thing as getting something for nothing. The payoff may involve compromises of various types that strike at the ideals and principles one has held deal all his life.

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

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

Nearly all legislation is the result of compromise.

Principles and rules are binding, but when they come into conflict they must be balanced.

Compromise is a process that seeks the path of least resistance. By its very nature, then, rarely will any idea of value be born as a result. A solution by compromise is, almost always, mediocre.

Everybody trades off in some sense or another.

… a reasonable price to pay

Compromise, compromise and compromise.

Politics is the science of the second best.

It was a remarkably reasonable compromise. It pleased nobody, but everybody signed on.

In an exercise of rationalizing competing interests, nobody usually gets 100% of what they want. That’s what multiple use is all about.

If you can’t learn to compromise an issue without compromising yourself then you better not be a legislator and you better not marry.

There is a cost to every decision, and whether or not you impose a public health order has costs to industry and the public.

Politicians are elected to reach compromise. We compromise all the time in our daily lives. Is there something dirty about that?