Frame quality in business terms. "Skipping these tests saves two days now but the last similar shortcut cost us a week of production incidents and customer complaints."
Strong answers: quantify the risk of shipping without adequate testing, propose risk-based testing to focus on critical paths, use data from past incidents to justify testing time, negotiate scope rather than quality, and communicate in business terms (cost of production bugs vs. cost of testing time).
Tests communication and influence skills. QA professionals who cannot advocate effectively become rubber stamps. Look for examples of successfully negotiating testing time using data and business arguments.