President Clinton ushered the leaders into the presidential retreat where he hopes for a "principled compromise."

If we can't reach a principled compromise, they'll understand it.

But we are getting closer to, I think, a principled compromise.

What I ask you to do is to make a principled compromise on Jerusalem.

Here there is no alternative to principled compromise, in giving up old grudges in order to get on with life.

We can put people first and make a principled, honorable compromise.

I believe the only way forward is to embrace a spirit of principled compromise.

Rights theory therefore provides a basis for a principled compromise between reductivism and retributivism.

"What does not change with this new balance of power is the need for principled compromise," Mr. Daschle said.