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  • Ronald Reagan on the importance of political compromise(in his own words)

    08/07/2003 2:05:04 PM PDT · by Diddle E. Squat · 166 replies · 3,091+ views
    An American Life (his autobiography) | 8/7/03 | Ronald Reagan
    "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:...