It's a necessary quality of a diplomat or a politician that he will compromise. Uncompromising politicians or diplomats get you into the most terrible trouble.

I've worked as a diplomat before I became a politician.

We're confident that this decision will not compromise the high-quality training and assistance that OSHA provides employers and workers through our many other programs.

The great men of power who seek to change the nations they belong to usually are pretty terrible people.

We won't compromise on product quality, and we needed just a few more weeks.

Soldiers, when committed to a task, can't compromise. It's unrelenting devotion to the standards of duty and courage, absolute loyalty to others, not letting the task go until it's been done.