Quotes About Principles

My concern is that we live in an economy in which stabbing someone and waiting for them to complain before we remove the knife has become the normal way of doing business. When did we lose sight of the fact that it's not nice to stab people in the first place?

Conscience is the most dangerous thing you possess. If you wake it up, it may destroy you. To live a life of total moral rigor is not necessarily the way to go. It's the path for very few people. Most people need to come up with some kind of middle ground that satisfies their practical, moral, and philosophical esthetic needs.

I don't know any other way to live but to wake up every day armed with my convictions, not yielding them to the threat of danger and to the power and force of people who might despise me.

You can't wake up one day and say 'I'm for gay marriage,' and wake up the next day and say 'I'm against it.' Wake up one day and say, 'I'm pro-choice,' and the next day wake up and say, 'I'm pro-life.' There's no credibility there.

It takes a great person to walk away from money.

I don't like doing things without understanding the meaning. Once I walked out of a film event as I could not stand the insult they meted out to a Sanskrit verse.

I said after 2006 that Republicans didn't just lose our majority, we lost our way. I mean, our party walked away from the principles that men in our national governing majority first in 1980 and again in 1994, and the American people walked away from us.

We must never bend too much.

Never bet on baseball.

Winning is not selling your soul. Winning is not betrayal. Winning is the means of applying your principles.

I have to feel myself doing what's right. If I'm the arbiter of that instead of letting the guy on TV be that or someone who doesn't know me at all, then I think that's a much better way to live.

I won't impeach anybody the way they impeached Bill Clinton, for political reasons. No matter how much I don't like his politics, I won't do that.

It's good to play something that's black and white, and a guy that sees right and wrong. I've never played a character like that.

I didn't come to Boston for any money.

This can not be about a race to the bottom.

We will always put our values before our bottom line.

I would rather stand for what I believe in than bow down and be loved.

I don't believe in brands.

I'm still a conservative, you know, someone who believes in limited government and balanced budgets and the Constitution.

But the more an organization succeeds and prospers, the more it is likely to be diverted from its original ideals, principles and purposes.

Corporate executives and business owners need to realize that there can be no compromise when it comes to ethics, and there are no easy shortcuts to success. Ethics need to be carefully sown into the fabric of their companies.

Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.

When we deal with questions relating to principles of law and their applications, we do not suddenly rise into a stratosphere of icy certainty.

I don't care who you are, if you don't stand opposed to immoral issues, then you will suffer.