Thomas Jefferson Quotes

It's not all about getting your own way. Sometimes there's a bigger picture.

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

Anything you do as a group is fraught with compromise... But everyone 's got to do that, right? It's part of being a good parent, or a good boyfriend, whatever.

Cooperation - To get cooperation, you must give cooperation. Always seek to find the best way rather than insisting on your own way.

I see the necessity of sacrificing our opinions sometimes to the opinions of others for the sake of harmony.

You can cooperate and not compromise your core values. But I'm a realist with the philosophy that sometimes you've got to take bites out of the apple instead of the whole apple.

Bipartisanship helps to avoid extremes and imbalances. It causes compromises and accommodations. So let's cooperate.

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

I think if you're going to get anything done in the Senate, you have to be on the same sheet of music. If you don't get people on the same sheet of music it comes out pretty horrible.

Our state is in crisis. Our people are hurting. Now is the time when we all must resist the traditional, selfish call to protect your own turf at the cost of our state. It is time to leave the corner, join the sacrifice, come to the center of the room and be part of the solution.

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

I may see a way I want to do something, and I understand when you have a team, everybody can't do their own thing. I'm willing to put my own agenda aside to do what's best for the team.

Necessity is the mother of bipartisanship.

There was a time in my career when my hackles would really get raised if someone came in and said, 'We need you to do this or that.' But the fact of the matter is, you're working in a shared universe, and all elements of the universe are, ideally, going to mesh and work together. That's my goal. I want to be on the team.

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

When times are tough, constant conflict may be good politics but in the real world, cooperation works better. After all, nobody's right all the time, and a broken clock is right twice a day.

Diplomacy is letting someone else have your way.

True bipartisanship isn’t talking about it. It’s delivering it.

If you have a coalition, you must have a little give.

Compromise, compromise and compromise.

… our common interests far outweigh our differences

It's irrelevant how I prefer to play and what I want. It's all about what works for the team.

It is good to kind of put your pride aside for the betterment of the ball club. We are all on board for that, even if you want to go another inning.

You can't expect every idea of yours to stick or even come to fruition, you have to make sacrifices for the greater good of the team.

Compromise is part of how we get things done.