Quotes About Principled

Rockefeller was extremely uncompromising on the subject.

People of excellence go the extra mile to do what's right.

I've never lied. I think I've lived a moral life.

If Ralph Nader runs, President Bush is going to be re-elected, and if Ralph Nader doesn't run, President Bush is going to be re-elected. We're going to run on the president's strong and principled leadership and his positive agenda for a second term.

So I think that our foreign policy, the president's strong and principled leadership when it comes to the war against terror and foreign policy is going to be an asset.

Resolved to die in the last dike of prevarication.

Bram Stoker] wrote in his diary: "Must be President some day. A man you can't cajole, can't frighten, can't buy.

One person who met him during these dark days was Bram Stoker, the author of Dracula. After watching Roosevelt in action at a literary dinner table, and afterward dispensing summary justice in the police courts, Stoker wrote in his diary: "Must be President some day. A man you can't cajole, can't frighten, can't buy.

I would never do anything to harm the country or anything improper. I think most people who have dealt with me think I'm a pretty straight sort of guy, and I am.

when people accuse us of being retrograde, or medieval, or puritanical—all words rummaged out of the box labeled "Not Progressive"—we should shrug, as if they had accused us of walking on two feet, and

Old Conservatism, at least in its more principled forms, is, as has been aptly said, the 'other God that failed' alongside Communism and radical socialism.4

My position has always been to avoid violence to avoid provocation.

I've never followed my party... I'm no yes-man, I've never been a yes-man.

I have seen Bernie deliver for the people that need him, no matter who the people were. And always, he does what is right.

I like fighting clean. I've always fought clean, and I want to fight clean people. I want to fight fair.

Look, I'm not a perfect person. I have my warts. I sometimes say things that get me in trouble. I wear suits that are cheap. But I say what I think and I believe what I say, and I'm willing to say things that are not popular but ordinary people know are right.

Any time a party has lost three consecutive elections, it becomes a bit more willing to explore the notion of principled compromise so it's able to pursue some of its objectives.

Sometimes it's easy to go where the wind blows, but those that stand firmly planted are forces to be reckoned with.

We will not bow down to the winds of PC culture whichever way they may blow.

I represent the Democratic wing of the Democratic party.

The one thing that even my staunchest opponents will admit is I'm a straight shooter and that I'm a man of my word.

Atticus Finch. That's who I want to be when I grow up. He's the greatest guy ever - a good dad, a good lawyer, doing the right thing. And he knows he's not supposed to win, but he's doing it anyway.

If I lose the ball, I lose it trying to do the right thing. That's the way it is.

I do the right thing on purpose. I don't do it by accident.