Compromise Quotes - Page 16

If power corrupts, weakness in the seat of power, with its constant necessity of deals and bribes and compromising arrangements,corrupts even more.

A political candidacy built around hope and change and compromise would eventually become a presidency of crisis and confrontation.

Compromise now, because you'll have to later, anyway, only then you'll have gone through things you'll wish you hadn't.

If you want to bring an end to long-standing conflict, you have to be prepared to compromise.

I'm not ready to do any compromises for my work.

I was shocked when I tried to articulate this to someone who had posted the film and asked them to remove it for a few months, and I actually told them that after that they could put it back up and they were just completely unwilling to compromise - you'd think I was Rupert Murdoch or something.

Compromise cannot be allowed in cases where the exact truth is ascertainable.

Barack Obama is the kind of guy who likes to do things by inches, he's the kind of guy who likes to build consensus and compromise.

It's not that I'm not willing to compromise. But I won't compromise on principles.

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

If there was compromising material that had a shot at actually making Trump behave the way the Russians wanted him to, I would imagine it would be something financial - illegal, dirty dealings, or something with legal import.

I can absolutely tell you that the FSB are rigged up to collect as much compromising information against any target they consider to be valuable. So when Trump was there in Russia, would they have collected against him? I think the answer is yes.

Now, you always know there's going to be some compromise when you're doing something for television, and especially network television.

I'm a great believer in compromise. I know it's not popular among young idealists.

I'm a great believer in compromise. I know it's not popular among young idealists. Compromise is not popular. It's not at all popular among young people who these days call themselves "activists." They think compromises are dishonest, opportunistic, humiliating. Not in my vocabulary. In my vocabulary, the word "compromise" is synonymous to the word "life".

I think it's a great quality to the movie, Ondine, that it's so authentic, and it didn't go for a compromise, like speaking with clearing accent.

There could be no greater calamity than a permanent discord between us and the Arab people. Despite the great wrong that has been done us, we must strive for a just and lasting compromise with the Arab people Let us recall that in former times no people lived in greater friendship with us than the ancestors of these Arabs.

You will never please everybody. Some men will say you have gone too far. Other men will say you haven't gone far enough. I just compromise and say I won't please anybody.

We are sent to bless the world, but we are never told to compromise with it.