I dearly loved Ronald Reagan but this statement is what allows Socialism to creep up on us. Socialists and Islamists play the long game most of the time, we can't see beyond the next quarterly report.
Yes, and no. There are nonnegotiable rights (freedom of religion and our individual right to keep and bear arms are on that list), and there are political issues where we cannot afford to demand purity (the budget, where I hate Trump's deficits almost as much as I hated previous huge deficits, is in this second group).