“There was no use for me to say yes because I am not a politician. Say, for example, I was elected and a situation came up where I was told I had to compromise. I could never do that; I can't compromise.”

Address at Bennington College (30 October 1984) http://www.nytimes.com/books/97/09/28/reviews/malamud-reflections.html as published in "Reflections of a Writer: Long Work, Short Life" in The New York Times (20 March 1988); also in Talking Horse : Bernard Malamud on Life and Work (1996) edited by Alan Cheuse and ‎Nicholas Delbanco, p. 35
Context: If I may, I would at this point urge young writers not to be too much concerned with the vagaries of the marketplace. Not everyone can make a first-rate living as a writer, but a writer who is serious and responsible about his work, and life, will probably find a way to earn a decent living, if he or she writes well. A good writer will be strengthened by his good writing at a time, let us say, of the resurgence of ignorance in our culture. I think I have been saying that the writer must never compromise with what is best in him in a world defined as free.

November 5, 2002 Times Newspaper http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,7-469593,00.html
2000s

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

From Her Books, I Have Chosen To Stay And Fight, FOLLOWING YOUR DREAMS

Prime Minister's monthly press conference http://www.number-10.gov.uk/output/Page5691.asp, 22 April 2004.
2000s

Controversy
Song lyrics, Controversy (1981)

2010s, 2016, August, Speech at rally in Wilmington, North Carolina (August 9, 2016)

Letter to his children (9 January 1836)