Solutions must be based on compromises.
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I would love nothing more than compromise. But I would say to you that compromise that's not a solution is a waste of time.
Compromise, contrary to popular opinion, does not mean selling out one's principles. Compromise means working out differences to forge a solution which fits the diversity of the body politic.
Compromise works well in this world when you have shared goals.
These are national problems that require national solutions.
When people are divided, the only solution is agreement.
Every solution breeds new problems.
If you look through history, all of the great work we've done in Congress has been around a table of compromise, when it comes to the most difficult problems.
Sometimes compromise is painful.
We have to find compromises. That's the way it is in Norway.
All compromise is based on give and take, but there can be no give and take on fundamentals. Any compromise on mere fundamentals is a surrender. For it is all give and no take.