Compromise Outcome Quotes

The compromise will always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it is compromising.

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

Passionately defending one's principles is crucial. Representing your district is fundamental. But refusing to entertain the common ground - with no other cost but giving the other guy a political 'win' - is a disservice.

Nearly all legislation is the result of compromise.

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.

All legislation of any consequence is a compromise. You have to recognize that.

Compromises make all of us swallow hard.

Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no loaf. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf is better than a full loaf.

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.

If you start with a compromise, you live with a compromise for a long time.

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

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

Compromise disappoints those who buy into the most ambitious and simplistic populist slogans.