“I'm not big on compromise. I understand compromise. Sometimes compromise is the right answer, but oftentimes compromise is the equivalent of defeat, and I don't like being defeated.”

— Donald J. Trump

Life, Vol. 12 (January 1989), p. iii
1980s

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