“Finding compromise and working towards common goals are the things tha...” — Laphonza Butler Quote

“Finding compromise and working towards common goals are the things that I that I want to continue to be a part of, and making a real difference in getting important work done.”

“I hope I live a long life of public service and I tell my daughter to never say never.”

“My first job ever was in sales and customer service at a company called Wireless One when I was in college in Mississippi. It was trying to bring cable and satellite television to places in the rural south.”

“I'm the granddaughter to Carrie, a sharecropper from Louisiana, crippled at a young age by polio. The granddaughter to Lettie Ruth, a maid who had to take her children to the homes of the white families for whom she cleaned and children she cared for even as she worked to get her certificate as a nursing assistant.”

“The same politicians working to restrict the right to have control over our own bodies are the ones making it harder for people to vote, and they do this knowing that we cannot have the right to make decisions about our own bodies without our most fundamental right to vote.”

“The political Right is particularly vehement when it comes to compromise. Conservatives are now strongly swayed by the Tea Party movement, whose clarion call is a refusal to compromise regardless of the practical consequences.”

“I feel that I'm someone who can compromise, can work with the other side.”

“The compromise will always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it is compromising.”

“I cannot revere compromise; I cannot revere pragmatism; I long for ideologues.”

“Every time I've made a big decision in my life, it's been about letting in the possibility that maybe I could do something that I actually wanted to do and not letting people tell me that I should compromise or that it's too big of a dream.”

“Why would I compromise my morals and ethics for more money when I have money, something about that is so cringe, to me personally.”