“Leaders shouldn't attach moral significance to their ideas: Do that, and you can't compromise.”
Peter F. Drucker
“Germany must be a country which generates political ideas and leadership, which is capable of compromise, which is sovereign and yet knows that it needs its partners on both sides of the Atlantic.”
Horst Koehler
“The idea that something has to be a certain way is not American. There just wasn't a lot of compromising going on.”
Roger Wilko
“I said we are ready for any new ideas to reach to some compromise on this issue. They are supporting some kind of nuclear apartheid which is not acceptable to us.”
Manouchehr Mottaki
“[EU leaders] reached a compromise that still leaves Europe significantly protected against imports.”
Vicky Pryce
“By way of compromise, the leaders have reached a formula by which Sudan may take the chairmanship next year.”
Gamal Ibrahim
“It was delivered to the spiritual leader, who went berserk, ... It compromised the Saudis, because it was clear from the letter that the Saudis had told us about the Iranians.”
Louis Freeh