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"Conciliation is not capitulation, nor is compromise to be deemed equivalent to imbalanced concession."
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"They say it is better to be poor and happy than rich and miserable, but how about a compromise like moderately rich and just moody?"

"Sometimes a little compromise isn't a bad thing. You don't need to be precious about it."

"If you ask me to compromise on principle, I will get out the veto pen."

"We are not diplomats but prophets, and our message is not a compromise but an ultimatum."

"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."

"Otherwise, to be a movie star, it's a lot of compromise and also a lot of headaches. You can't do what you want. You become a prisoner of your fame. This happened to me in France and I don't want it."

"I cannot compromise or inhibit my independence."

"But to put out a greatest hits on one CD was totally impossible, I just couldn't do it. The best compromise was to put out two CDs - Early Days - which is what it is - and Latter Days."
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"My door will always be open to those who genuinely renounce violence and seek peaceful accommodation into our nascent democracy."

"This will be Iraq for all without discrimination among Iraqi citizens, or ethnic or sectarian discrimination."

"Democracies, unlike dictatorships, are forgiving and generous, but they cannot survive unless they fight."

"As president of Iraq, I shall strive to represent the diversity of a country that has too often in the past denied difference."

"A military coup needs a sacrifice and courage that you can't find in an army without morale."

"We believe that an Iraqi founding national assembly, freely elected, must decide the future of Iraq."

"The Kurdish people have the right of self-determination like every other nation in the world."

"We must provide all kinds of freedom, personal and economic, to all Iraqis. I will fight for that."
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