Quotes About Principles

The truth of anything doesn't matter anymore. What's right doesn't matter. What makes economic common sense doesn't matter. I'm blue in the face over it.

You must tell the truth. You must be truthful to yourself and the values of the game that got you there.

If you take the approach that you want to scrape every last nickel off the table, that'll work one or two times, but after awhile, your reputation will precede you.

If you don't want my God here, you don't want me here either. God has been too good to me to go and try to sell out to get some money...

My parents always told me that if you want something, you can do whatever you have to do to get it. As long as it's not against someone else.

We are America; we don't torture. And the moment that is not the case, I want off the train.

If I did not believe in God, I should still want my doctor, my lawyer and my banker to do so.

I got an offer in 1992 to buy a major-league team. I turned down the offer because I don't want my love of the game to involve business.

Progressivism, liberalism, or whatever you want to call it has become an ideology of power. So long as liberals hold it, principles don't matter.

I turned down five million dollars from a lobbyist who wanted to put up $5m for my campaign, a very strong lobbyist. I said, I don't want your money.

When I found out the heads of the Church were up to things that were not good. I left. I say, you know I don't want to be a part of that at all.

Being a conservative also used to involve the concept of people being free to do whatever they want to do, as long as it doesn't hurt somebody else. Conservatives used to be very libertarian.

If there is anything I hate in a woman, it's want of character.

Politics comes and goes, but your principles don't. And everybody wants to be loved -- not everybody. ... You never heard anybody say, 'I want to be despised, I'm running for office.'

I have no trouble selling out—I'm a benevolent hack, in a certain way—but I want to pander for something I believe in.

People want to see other people who have 'non-negotiables,' things for which they're willing to say, 'This is it' we take our stand right here.' That's a leadership quality which people respect.

For me as a man, philosophically, when you talk about honor and integrity, thatÂ's the way I want to live my life. It moved me.

Morality is how you go about getting what you want without screwing anybody to get it.

People should make a stand for the things they love and want to see survive infinite generations.

I quit seeing some people who were saying bad things about women; I don't even want to meet them or see them.

If people want go-along, get-along politics, I am not their guy.

Some people don't want to be morally consistent. They just want to be tied to their one issue.

What I say is I am somebody who cares about conservative ideas. I want to see them implemented in governance.

Constructing a social system that tends to those who agree with it is a piece of cake compared to constructing one that makes those who disagree with it want to obey its principles.