Politics is compromise.

Paddy Ashdown
Some Similar Quotes
  1. To sell your soul is the easiest thing in the world. That's what everybody does every hour of his life. If I asked you to keep your soul - would you understand why that's much harder? - Ayn Rand

  2. Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate. - John F. Kennedy

  3. Still it might be nice, once in a while, not to have to choose between evils. Just once, couldn't I choose the lesser good? - Laurell K. Hamilton

  4. Compromise is a stalling between two fools. - Stephen Fry

  5. I can accept anything, except what seems to be the easiest for most people: the half-way, the almost, the just-about, the in-between. - Ayn Rand

More Quotes By Paddy Ashdown
  1. The greatest failure is that although we have created institutions, we have not created a civil society.

  2. I don't think Bosnia is ready for reconciliation, but I do think it is ready for truth.

  3. Politics is compromise.

  4. Bosnia is under my skin. It's the place you cannot leave behind. I was obsessed by the nightmare of it all; there was this sense of guilt, and an anger that has become something much deeper over these last years.

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