Quotes About Principles

I have turned down a lot of money for things that would have made me feel cheesy.

I've turned down projects based on raunchiness before.

I lost agents and managers because I turned down big movies that were smutty.

Matters of taste are not, it turns out, moral issues.

I think there is a heritage which I'm proud of, which is a fight for democracy, a fight for social justice, a fight for freedom. My grandfather went to jail or exile six times in his life, fighting for his principles for democracy, or for his country. And my father twice.

You have this special place - America, you want it to remain special, you better find out why it became special.

You have to be a political leader, willing to lose an election if you want to do what's right.

I don't believe in endorsing a product that you don't want to endorse.

The public wants elected officials who have character. The public wants elected officials who are willing to stand up and say things, even if they don't agree with them.

If someone wants to give you, like, $100 million, it's hard to say no. But I don't want to accept that kind of money right now. I'd feel burdened by it.

The saddest day of your life is when you decide to sell out, and nobody wants to buy.

I get along so much better with fundamentalist Christians than I do with wishy-washy liberals, who want everyone to get along.

I am part of the left; I feel loyal. I don't want to do things that will be damaging to what I believe in.

The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.

Only in America can you be Pro-Death Penalty, Pro-War, Pro-Unmanned Drone Bombs, Pro-Nuclear Weapons, Pro-Guns, Pro-Torture, Pro-Land Mines, AND still call yourself 'Pro-Life.'

I am a man of peace. I believe in peace. But I do not want peace at any price.

We will always apply the same principles of collective security, prudent caution, and superior weaponry that enabled us to peacefully prevail in the long cold war against the Soviet Union.

Our national determination to keep free of foreign wars and foreign entanglements cannot prevent us from feeling deep concern when ideals and principles that we have cherished are challenged.

Killing a man in defense of an idea is not defending an idea; it is killing a man.

Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.

The death of a single human being is too heavy a price for the vindication of any principle, however sacred.

An army of principles will penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot.

There are things worth fighting for.

You cannot be on one hand dedicated to peace and on the other dedicated to violence. Those two things are irreconcilable.