"Die-hard conservatives thought that if I couldn't..." - Quote by Ronald Reagan
Die-hard conservatives thought that if I couldn't get everything I asked for, I should jump off the cliff with the flag flying-go down in flames. No, if I can get 70 or 80 percent of what it is I'm trying to get ... I'll take that and then continue to try to get the rest in the future.
More by Ronald Reagan
More on Compromise
“My wife and I are both Libertarian; she was a Democrat and I was a Republican, and we both met in the middle somewhere.”
“Human life is a series of compromises, and it is not always easy to achieve in practice what one has found to be true in theory.”
“Marriage is three parts love and seven parts forgiveness of sins.”
More on Politics
“Some day I shall be President.”
“I've been struck by how hungry we all are for a different kind of politics. So I've spent some time thinking about how I could best advance the cause of change and progress that we so desperately need.”
“Right now what my job is, and I think the job of Democrats and Republicans, is to protect the middle class and working families of this country from some devastating ideas that [Donald] Trump has proposed.”