One of the problems the Republican Party has had is that we're too fast to compromise. You can compromise on the little stuff, but you can't compromise on your core principles.
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It's not that I'm not willing to compromise. But I won't compromise on principles.
You can compromise without violating your principles, but it is nearly impossible to compromise when you turn principles into ideology.
The fact is, you never compromise on principles. If people on the far Left, they have a principle to stand by, they should never compromise; those of us on the Right should not either.
Politics is compromise.
On some issues, Republicans and Democrats disagree so sharply that compromise is nearly impossible. Republicans are not going to support a cap-and-trade program to limit greenhouse gases, and Democrats won't support a 1,000-mile wall on the border with Mexico.
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.
If you ask me to compromise on principle, I will get out the veto pen.
I have principles and I am not going to be forced to compromise them.
Never again can the Republican Party simply write off entire segments of our society because we assume our principles have limited appeal. They have broad appeal. We need to be larger than that.
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.