Quotes About Principles

So far as I am concerned, I think more of reasons than of reputations, more of principles than of persons, more of nature than of names, more of facts than of faiths.

I had made my reputation on integrity.

The money is important in life, but the money is not everything. I don't want to sell myself for money. I don't want to sell my reputation for money.

If nations perish, it is not because of their devotion to liberty, but for their disregard of its requirements.

The American principles of democracy expresses the deepest values of the Sharia both structurally and in the government... Sharia requires us Muslims anywhere to abide by the law of the land.

To operate based on conviction and belief requires an acceptance that your actions could get you fired. This is different from pig-headed bravado, and it is different from putting the company at risk.

If budget planning requires gathering information from people who may not always have the incentive to disclose that information, then the principles of mechanism design can definitely be of use in such planning.

Human beings exist that have integrity, that know how to keep their mouth shut, that know the bigger picture, that don't sell out their friends.

Some may be different to others based off of situations that they experienced in their life, but there's no amount of money that can get me to just shut up and dribble. No, I'm not going to do that.

I try to shy away from labels and focus on the issues.

As First Minister, I will always act in the best interests of the country. As party leader, I will always act in the best interests of the party, and if that sometimes means taking difficult, unpalatable decisions, I will never shy away from that.

I want to err on the side of constitutional liberty and freedom.

My side, I am a liberal more than a Democrat.

In the rush for justice it is important not to lose sight of principles the country holds dear.

We must never lose sight of the fact that the law has a moral foundation, and we must never fail to ask ourselves not only what the law is, but what the law should be.

I could do what a lot of people are doing and that's sign the best Nicaraguan fighters and then sell them to Don King, but there's no way I'll do that.

I'd like to think I would have signed the Civil Rights bill and wouldn't have had any issues with it.

If you believe in something, you need to have the courage to fight for those ideas - not run away from them or try and silence them.

Don't ever silence your morality to be a part of anything.

May the friends of America rejoice! May her enemies be humbled and her censors silenced at the news of her noble exertions in continuance of those principles which have placed her so high in the annals of history and among the nations of the earth.

I believe - and so do most Puerto Ricans - that the ideas that will prevail in the new century will be those similar to the basic principles of commonwealth, of national reaffirmation, and political and economic integration among the peoples of the world.

Kirsten Gillibrand and I are very similar in our biographies. We're both mothers, we're both lawyers. But we couldn't be more different in our beliefs, in our principles, in our politics.

The principles behind explaining and educating the product or the elected official is similar, even though the actual execution of it is very, very different.

My homes are similar in style because the same design principles run through all areas of my work.