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"Conciliation is not capitulation, nor is compromise to be deemed equivalent to imbalanced concession."
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"Get it - get it better or get it worse. No middle ground of compromise."

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

"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.'"

"The swift wind of compromise is a lot more devastating than the sudden jolt of misfortune."

"When I handed over the names and compromised so many CIA agents in the Soviet Union, I had come to the conclusion that the loss of these sources to the U.S. would not compromise significant national defense, political, diplomatic interests."

"It's true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found."

"Oftentimes, when constituencies or sectors of opinion are distinct, when they are confronted with a situation where they're going to have to make a serious compromise, they react very negatively publicly, but they also recognize when they step back that this is right."

"You can't always have the best team. It's always a compromise."

"If you find yourself in a movie that you have questions about, it's not a compromise to your integrity."
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"My door will always be open to those who genuinely renounce violence and seek peaceful accommodation into our nascent democracy."

"I shall stand for freedom of thought and expression in a place where it has been trampled and penalized."

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

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

"Rather, it is through conciliation and compromise that we are building a fair Iraq, a just state for all its peoples."

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