Compromise Quotes - Page 16

• Enough of these little kitty cats we keep sending to Washington. David Dewhurst will compromise every day in the U.S. Senate... It's what he's done every day in state government.

  Ted Cruz

  Cat, Government, Littles

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• When you have to start compromising yourself and your morals for the people around you, it's probably time to change the people around you.

  John Spence

  Life Changing, Thinking, People

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• Constrained optimization is the art of compromise between conflicting objectives. This is what design is all about. To find fault with biological design - as Stephen Jay Gould regularly does - because it misses some idealized optimum is therefore gratuitous. Not knowing the objectives of the designer, Gould is in no position to say whether the designer has proposed a faulty compromise among those objectives.

  William A. Dembski

  Art, Knowing, Design

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• The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision. Each side should know that frequently uncertainty, compromise, and incoherence are the essence of policymaking. Yet each tends to ascribe to the other a consistency, foresight, and coherence that its own experience belies. Of course, over time, even two armed blind men can do enormous damage to each other, not to speak of the room.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Believe, Men, Essence

  "The White House Years". Book by Henry Kissinger, 1979.

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• I'm a moderate. I hang out in the middle. I vote against my party with some regularity and try to compromise. It doesn't appear right now that the Republican Party is welcoming moderates any more.

  Claire McCaskill

  Party, Trying, Welcome

  "Battle for the Senate on 'Fox News Sunday'". "Fox News Sunday With Chris Wallace", www.foxnews.com. October 17, 2010.

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• Mind, even more deadly to empires than to individuals, erodes them, compromises their solidity.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Mind, Erode, Empires

  "History and Utopia". Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1960.

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• Art is the only thing you cannot punch a button for. You must do it the old-fashioned way. Stay up and really burn the midnight oil. There are no compromises.

  Leontyne Price

  Art, Oil, Buttons

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

  Amy Hill

  Television, Knows

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I suggested a compromise to give the banks a year's time and see if they succeed in showing us that nationalization wasn't necessary. The year went by and we realized it hadn't done any good, that the money still ended up in the hands of the rich industrialists or friends of the bankers. So I concluded that it was necessary to nationalize the banks. And we did. Without considering it a socialist gesture or an antisocialist gesture, just a necessary one. Anyone who nationalizes only so as to be considered on the left to me is a fool.

  Indira Gandhi

  Hands, Years, Giving

  Source: sangam.org

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• When it's impossible, it's better to stoop to compromise, without resisting and without complaining. People who complain are selfish.

  Indira Gandhi

  Selfish, People, Complaining

  Interview With Oriana Fallaci, sangam.org. December 24, 2014.

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• What mattered to me was that I didn't compromise my soul in order to try to achieve a kind of popularity. The only thing you can do is just live your life.

  George W. Bush

  Order, Live Your Life, Soul

  Source: www.aarp.org

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• Hillary Clinton's such a classic Democratic political figure and believes so much in institutions and in gradualism in the old way of reaching compromises with the opposition in the back rooms. That's what she did in Congress. It's what I imagine she'll try to do in the White House.

  George Packer

  Believe, White, House

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Normally I don't compromise at all but it felt important to give that song the chance to be heard.

  Kate Bush

  Song, Giving, Important

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I think as a mature artist, you're probably always trying to undo the compromises of one's self [in general]. It's not necessarily to do with youth.

  Kate Bush

  Artist, Thinking, Self

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Senator McCain is all for John Kerry. Do you know they're buddies? McCain is in favor of Kerry being secretary of state. Somebody the other day suggested, maybe it was just today, a bipartisan compromise and nominate Colin Powell to be secretary of state again. What would be bipartisan about that? He's not a Republican.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Would Be, Favors, Today

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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

  Barack Obama

  Political, Crisis, Confrontation

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• My understanding about nutrition is not what I'd like it to be, so for a long time my dieting strategy was very crude. It's only very recently that I started to accept different ideas like using vegetables and natural seasonings that don't compromise the sodium and caloric value of the food while at the same time giving it some flavor. I'm still evolving; everybody is or at least should be in bodybuilding.

  Kai Greene

  Bodybuilding, Vegetables, Ideas

  Source: www.awesome-body.club

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• The Germans, for example, have some kind of compromise between single-member and broader districts. In Israel, you have nothing, you have only a national election. You have no local districts at all. And that's because of the idea that in addition to other ideological differences, locality matters. The question is does the congressman represent his district and the interests of his district? And as I said there's quite a variety of systems the democratic world. The implications need to be examined.

  Kenneth Arrow

  Israel, Ideas, Differences

  Source: electology.org

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• India seeks friendly relations but without compromising on its interests.

  Narendra Modi

  Friendly, India, Relation

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.in

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• [Barack] Obama doesn't disappoint me, because all during the campaign he said, I'm a pragmatic, middle-of-the-road, compromising politician.

  Bill Ayers

  Campaigns, Politician, Middle

  Source: thepointmag.com

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• The left are not bipartisan. Somebody give me an example of left-wing bipartisanship. They don't even define it the way we do. Bipartisanship, as they define it, as in we cave on our core beliefs and agree with them. That is bipartisanship. There is no compromise.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Wings, Giving, Way

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I like to take CEOs into consumers' homes to see the "real world." CEOs have privileged lives with big incomes, lots of help, access to just about anything they wish. The average consumer lives on $53,000 a year and has daily tradeoffs and compromises that must be made. I took a CEO into a trailer park so he could observe first-hand - and understand - how consumers use his product.

  Michael J. Silverstein

  Real, Home, Average

  Interview with Bob Morris, bobmorris.biz. November 28, 2015.

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• George W. Bush's position on illegal immigration is a perfect example of a political compromise. A true conservative would have built a border fence, dug a moat and stationed troops on the border long ago.

  Jeff Gannon

  Long Ago, Perfect, Political

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• I am tired of fighting state by state, county by county, city by city, for fractions of equality. I am tired of compromises and I am tired of the strategy that divides us from each other. It is time for us to unite across state boundaries in a truly nationwide movement to win full, actual equality, which can only come from the federal government. That's not my opinion. That's a fact.

  Cleve Jones

  Tired, Fighting, Winning

  Source: www.bilerico.com

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• Do not submit. It is extremely critical that repression be met full head-on and that it be resisted with every fiber in our being. There is just absolutely no compromise that can be made with it.

  Harry Belafonte

  Fiber, Being There, Made

  Source: www.yesmagazine.org

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