Compromise Agreement Quotes

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

Washington isn't utterly dysfunctional.

Strong men know when to compromise.

In politics ... retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons.

I think that both parties should declare the debt limit as a political weapon of mass destruction which can't be used. I mean, it is silly to have a country that has 237 years building up its reputation and then have people threaten to tear it down because they're not getting some other matter.

I don't think the news department will have to lie down and play dead like it has in the past. By and large the network has been understanding, but then so have I.

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

If a producer goes to the censor at the last minute, just before the film releases, then he often settles with cuts because he cannot afford to lose any more time.

I have learned how to take votes where I had to hold my nose because I had to compromise - something that you learn to do, especially when you have been in the minority.

Let no one think that flexibility and a predisposition to compromise is a sign of weakness or a sell-out.

One good thing about being in business is you learn to compromise. And so you learn to strike a deal that maybe isn't what you were looking for but is better than what you've got.

We have promised to do better, and no Republican concern should ever be enough to filibuster our own bill.

Solutions must be based on compromises.

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

Congress is unable to do the work of the American people because too many politicians believe that compromise means capitulation.

Congress doesn’t quite speak clearly much of the time.

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

This legislation is in the President's interest, if only the President could be brought to see it.

Americans tend to go for it all. In international politics you can’t have it all. You have to compromise.

In fact, I think - our view of this is that while the agreement, the compromise did not achieve the kind of super-sized deficit reduction that we sought, it did end the uncertainty around the perception, the possibility that the United States might default on its obligations for its first time. That was a good thing.

For many years I have known a good deal about international arbitrations and I have never known of one in which both nations in controversy did not benefit more from having the question between them settled than either gained from a favorable judgment or lost by an unfavorable one.

I don't propose to let either the NAM [National Association of Manufacturers] or labor unions hand me a bill and say: "Take it or leave it.

When two nations have competing national identities, the solutions are either imposed though force by one side over the other or require a new conception of identity that allows for compromise.

Maybe the Tory party might, instead of telling the Brexit Party what to do, make an approach to the Brexit Party and say I'll tell you what, we'll stand aside in certain areas. That would be a very positive thing for me, let's work together for a new kind of politics.

You watch television and see what's going on on this debt ceiling issue. And what I consider to be a total lack of leadership from the President and nothing's going to get fixed until the President himself steps up and wrangles both parties in Congress.