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"Compromise, n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and is deprived of nothing except what was justly his due."
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"I don't think there's anything in the compromise that means that there's a clash of ethics."
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"I'll bet Shakespeare compromised himself a lot; anybody who's in the entertainment industry does to some extent."
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"You can't always have the best team. It's always a compromise."
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"Get it - get it better or get it worse. No middle ground of compromise."
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"If you ask me to compromise on principle, I will get out the veto pen."
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"Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer."
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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."
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"A good compromise, a good piece of legislation, is like a good sentence; or a good piece of music. Everybody can recognize it. They say, 'Huh. It works. It makes sense.'"
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"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."
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"We are not diplomats but prophets, and our message is not a compromise but an ultimatum."
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