Compromise today is too often applauded simply for itself. The cost of compromise to principles and real lives doesn't seem to matter.
Elizabeth EdwardsI'm part of a community that holds each other up, and it's been great to be held up too.
Elizabeth EdwardsAt the end of our lives, we will not be judged by the highest public office we attained in our lifetime, if that were true the current president (George W. Bush) would hold as much esteem as Franklin Roosevelt in our country, and Nelson Mandela in his. That cannot be the case. Rather, we will each be judged by the mark we've left on others.
Elizabeth Edwards