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"Conciliation is not capitulation, nor is compromise to be deemed equivalent to imbalanced concession."
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"I don't think there's anything in the compromise that means that there's a clash of ethics."

"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."

"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.'"

"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."

"If you find yourself in a movie that you have questions about, it's not a compromise to your integrity."

"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."

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

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

"We are not diplomats but prophets, and our message is not a compromise but an ultimatum."
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"A military coup needs a sacrifice and courage that you can't find in an army without morale."

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

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

"My door will always be open to those who genuinely renounce violence and seek peaceful accommodation into our nascent democracy."

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

"The Kurdish people welcome the no-fly zone protection, contrary to the Iraqi regime that is against it."

"Justice for the major perpetrators cannot be separated from the vindication of the rights of the individual victim."
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