“You know, you don’t get to survive that long without making some compromises.”

There is nothing normal about removing the FBI director, as a general matter. It’s an extraordinary measure. This is an office that is typically served for a term of years, 10 years, to be precise.

As a general matter, if the president wants to withdraw from a treaty, he simply gets to do that. And that’s part of the powers of the office.

Asking journalists to denounce leaks because of their deleterious effects on the functioning of government is as hopeless as asking an airline to denounce jet fuel because of its impact on the environment.

Recommended additon to the Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights: “A right to not have your data rise up and attack you.”

When somebody promises to do something, you have to think about whether that’s something that you would be willing to see happen because the powers are simply too vast.

Comey really spent an enormous amount of energy in the period in which both he and Trump were in office trying to protect the FBI from political interference from the White House.

The real story is that I am very free, that I’ve managed to be who I wanted to be without compromising.

For us, compromise never means surrender, but a step forward and some rest. That is all and nothing else.

If you’re my woman, you’re somebody I give emotions to that I don’t give to nobody else. You’re my safe space. I don’t want my safe space to be compromised.

Love is ever evolving and it takes compromise, work and patience.

Those who are inclined to compromise never make a revolution.

In marriage, compromise nurtures the relationship.

Art is something to be proud of. Art is no compromise. As an actor, you’re giving it up, you’re at the mercy of so many other people.

There’s no democratic state that’s not compromised to the very core by its part in generating human misery.