Buruma is wise to recommend a balance of concessions and…

[The Dalai Lama] told me some years ago, "I've made every concession to China, and I've been as open and tolerant as I could,…

— Pico Iyer

It is not a process of bargaining or give-and-take. The peace process is not about giving concessions. We will not allow any step which…

— Recep Tayyip Erdogan

We need only think of the number of talented men who sooner or later make their apologies and concessions to philistinism, so as to…

— Georg Brandes

We accept it as normal that people who have never been on the land, who have no history or connection to the country, may…

— Wade Davis

I make no concessions to conformism.

— Emmanuel Macron

In a contest with a weaker party it is more honorable to yield than to force concession. Magnanimity becomes the strong.

— Christian Nestell Bovee

The division of the spoils between the victors will also provide employment for a powerful office, whose doorsteps the greedy adventurers and jealous concession…

— John Maynard Keynes

If we are to reach a situation of true peace, real peace, peace for generations, we will have to make painful concessions. Not in…

— Ariel Sharon

“... I'd like to get along with them, but in practice, I don't want to have to make concessions to be the kind of…

— Sanjena Sathian

Nobody gets to threaten the full faith and credit of the United States just to extract political concessions.

— Barack Obama

The Constitution itself, plainly written as it is, the safeguard of our federative compact, the offspring of concession and compromise, binding together in the…

— James K. Polk

When dealing with Canadians, it is advantageous to seem to be negotiating from a position of weakness, for when faced with an abject opponent,…

— 1st Baron St Helens Alleyne FitzHerbert

I believe that I am more conservative than George W. Bush. However, it is important to note that he has had to govern, which…

— Jeff Gannon

Capitalism is chronically unstable.Boom and bust has always marked capitalism in the United States. There were panics in 1785, 1791, 1819, 1857, 1869, 1873,…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

From her concession speech: Although we weren't able to shatter that highest, hardest glass ceiling this time, thanks to you, it's got about 18…

— Hillary Clinton