Quotes About Principles

For me, I don't have a loyalty to a set of ideals.

I have a clean conscience and ideals that I am willing to defend.

I identify, I guess, as a conservative Catholic.

I am much more interested in defending my ideas than defending my identities.

I will never change my ideologies for anyone.

The essence of conservative ideology is its being anchored in the divine order of things.

Ideology has consequences.

I don't accept ideologies that are not a product of consensus. I don't have an ideology, but I do have a sense of what's right and what's wrong.

Being considered a dirtbag is not illegal.

I think people learn best and are more engaged when it's just normal relatable situations that illustrate the principles they're discussing.

For too long, our immigration system has failed to live up to the ideals and principles our nation was founded on.

I try not to do anything that's immoral.

Asking someone else to do something immoral is immoral.

Trump's foreign policy is not so much immoral as it is amoral.

I know some people believe impartiality is key, and it's necessary in some situations, but in others - if something is so fundamentally wrong, why do we have to make out we're impartial?

I'm never going to take the view that I should say whatever I need to say in order to achieve something. Because that implies a level of dishonesty.

Ethics are more important than laws.

When you are not in power for 20 years and several leaders are in the race, it is tough to put forth one face. The most important things are our policies and principles.

In my opinion, some of the hip-hop records that come out, people are willing to compromise. I'm not.

I know the good from the bad, also the in-between, but I was never political.

Don't get diverted by trying to do things for your own advancement. In other words, don't be lured into responding to incentives.

Our founding fathers made no mistake when they included the right to peaceably assemble among the first tenets of democracy.

There's an ethical dimension to my life and all of our lives, from the time we get up in the morning to the time we sleep, including what we sleep on. So I don't separate my choices from ethical choices at any time.

We are not willing to compromise our values in order to increase our market share.