I don't recall who posted that Reagan quote for the first time. But later someone else recognized its value and posted it as a separate thread. That's where I go to find it, when I need it -- which is quite often. :)
Ronald Reagan on the importance of political compromise(in his own words)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/960104/posts
""When I began entering into the give and take of legislative bargaining in Sacramento, a lot of the most radical conservatives who had supported me during the election didn't like it.
"Compromise" was a dirty word to them and they wouldn't face the fact that we couldn't get all of what we wanted today. They wanted all or nothing and they wanted it all at once. If you don't get it all, some said, don't take anything.
"I'd learned while negotiating union contracts that you seldom got everything you asked for. And I agreed with FDR, who said in 1933: 'I have no expectations of making a hit every time I come to bat. What I seek is the highest possible batting average.'
"If you got seventy-five or eighty percent of what you were asking for, I say, you take it and fight for the rest later, and that's what I told these radical conservatives who never got used to it."
Thanks, FO. So what say you, RM? Is this quote really Ronald Reagan or is it some Hollywood imposter with a persona bigger than life?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/960104/posts
Follow that thread and you'll, also, find that RR campaigned for the Brady Bill.
"When I began entering into the give and take of legislative bargaining in Sacramento, a lot of the most radical conservatives who had supported me during the election didn't like it." - Gives you a tingly feeling doesn't it, RM.