Quotes About Principles

Every country has its own requirements. The point is only that the principles would have to be the same in both cases: namely the equal good of all.

Rational self-interest is always what morality boils down to.

When candidates run on conservative principles, they win. But when we legislate conservative policies, the American people win.

The truth is that I never cared about money. Not one bit.

I've never bet in a casino; it's just not something I do.

I have never, ever in my life practised politics on the basis of caste, sect, or religion.

The left and right are not religious categories. They're often not even value categories.

I have values I believe in and certain things I stand for.

When I play, I don't cheat. I played for 490,000 in Berlin, and I'll play just as hard for 100.

Everybody knows that people cheat, but I don't.

If you have to cheat to win, it doesn't mean as much as if you did it on natural abilities and hard work.

If it's possible to cheat, let everyone do it.

I've never cheated at anything.

I don't like cheaters.

I don't like cheaters, I fight clean.

I try and do the right things most of the time and let the chips fall where they may.

I am a Christian.

The best cinema is about ethics.

The truth is that the D.C. Circuit is an admirably nonideological court that applies principles of administrative law evenhandedly.

I was even superior to the Communists and when they didn't go along with me, I quit them.

For me, if I have done my duty, the continued approbation of Congress and the Marine Committee will make me rich indeed, and far more than reward me for a life of service devoted from principles of philanthropy, to support the dignity of human nature.

Even in my most inflamed moment I never supported a racist mass murderer.

On election night 2000, I had never met then-Governor Bush, though I'd supported him for years. I believed he would be a strong, optimistic and gracious president with solid conservative principles and a big heart.

I am not, and have never been, a supporter of cockfighting or any other forms of animal cruelty.