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Compromise Quotes
Lines about where to bend and where to hold firm.
This set looks at compromise mostly through creative work, including a musician describing how a solo songwriting process still leaves room for others to add their own parts and argue over the result. A filmmaker's line puts it more bluntly, noting that budget limits eventually force a compromise whether or not one is wanted. Related themes continue on the Balance quotes page.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a series of splintered relationships. Why should I get married again? It's a miserable compromise at best. But I believe in marriage and still have fantasies about it.
- Conversation
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am always open to a conversation. I am always open to a bipartisan compromise.
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I first ran for Congress, I decided that I would not take pledges to vote for or against any issue. I believe the practice of taking pledges contributes to the worst of the partisan gridlock in Washington, preventing many members of Congress from even considering a reasonable compromise offered by the other side.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
The art of the compromise, which was the art of politics, is no longer valid. Compromise needs to be between citizens, not between Republicans and Democrats.
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- Nov 07, 2020
We demand that segregation be ended in every school district in the year 1963! We demand that we have effective civil rights legislation - no compromise, no filibuster - and that include public accommodations, decent housing, integrated education, FEPC and the right to vote.
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