#concessions

The way you have bipartisan negotiations, you sit down across the table, as we did with Ted Kennedy, as I've done with many other members, and you say, 'OK, here's what I want, here's what you want. We'll adhere to your principles, but we'll make concessions.' ↗

— John McCain

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Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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The more rational an institution is the less it suffers by making concessions to others. ↗

— George Santayana

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