Compromise Solution Quotes

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

I have this idea of a Taiwan Consensus, which means people in Taiwan have to get together and form a consensus of their own and that they turn around to talk to the Chinese to form a cross-strait consensus so we can build a relationship on that consensus. And in my view, that is the right order to do things.

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.

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

Laws are like medicine, they cure an evil by a lesser or transient evil.

“Consensus” … is only another way of describing the issues that have been taken off the table.

Obama, like Carter, is reacting to warning signs by seeking to split the difference between dispirited Democrats and increasingly radicalized Republicans.

What is a compromise? It is a work of mutual concession --- an agreement in which there are reciprocal stipulations --- a work in which, for the sake of peace and concord, one party abates his extreme demands in consideration of an abatement of extreme demands by the other party: it is a measure of mutual concession --- a measure of mutual sacrifice.

The political equivalent of an immaculate conception: a [legislative] compromise that materializes without any politician having to take the blame.

“If we don’t get our way, we will shut the Government down.” You and that attitude is a luxury this country cannot afford.

What is a moderate interpretation of the text? Halfway between what it really means and what you'd like it to mean?

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, n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and is deprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

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

Compromise, compromise and compromise.

Compromise is the oil that makes government go.

It's the perfect definition of a settlement. Both parties didn't get what they wanted.

Assad wanted Israel to capitulate in advance to all his demands. Only then would he agree to enter into substantive negotiations. I couldn't agree to this.

I want very much to see some sort of compromise reached in the area of immigration... so that we could move on to other issues.

When you logically think about it, what the BCS people have done, which obviously we're all part of it, I think it was great for a while. I think it took an imperfect system and did the best you can without a playoff.

My Republican colleagues say, Let's do the cuts first. The Democrats say, Let's do spending first. I'd like to do both simultaneously.

There's a way that we can deliver a Brexit that works for our country, and the really interesting thing is the amount of Tory MPs working with Labour MPs, forming that consensus.

It turns out that if you optimize the performance of a car and of an airplane, they are very far away in terms of mechanical features. So you can make a flying car. But they are not very good planes, and they are not very good cars.

I assure the ex servicemen that One Rank One Pension has been accepted in principle but it is in talks. We want to get a solution which is acceptable to all. Discussions have come to the final leg, we hope for a positive result.

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