“Be right so long as there is something left.”
Gigno
“If you act crazy enough, people will leave you alone.”
Jaime Contreras
“Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf is better than a whole loaf.”
G. K. Chesterton
“Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship.”
James Russell Lowell
“No America without democracy, no democracy without politics no politics without parties, no parties without compromise and moderation”
Clinton Rossiter
“We don't want any delays. ... It's time for compromise. That's what politics is about.”
Donald Rumsfeld
“If they refuse to put their political pieces together, if they don't make those compromises, ... it seems to me it's obvious that we're going to have to consider that timetable for reduction and withdrawal.”
Carl Levin
