Quotes About Principled

Courage is the ability to do the right thing, all the time, no matter how painful or uncomfortable it might be.

I'm a fighter. I am passionate about what I believe. I've been passionate my whole life about the American Constitution.

It's pretty simple, the ethical life. It's just demanding.

Principled hate is a hell of a lot stronger than "Boy, I wish you hadn't mummified me and thrown me into the lake" hate.

As to wearing the badge of a party, either in politics or religion, I may say that never in my life was I so far from coveting such a thing. And then poetry breathes in another outer air. And then there is not an existent set of any-kind-of-politics I could agree with if I tried —

He hated dishonesty-- or lack of courage-- more than anything.

But those who even slightly understand my character, must know that I have always been too utterly indifferent to, too unfortunately contemptuous of public opinion, to stoop to any deception in order to conciliate it. Moreover,

President Obama is a principled man who has worked hard to put healthcare and a good education in the reach of millions of Americans and believes that everyone who works hard and plays by the rules, should have a fair shot at the American dream.

I'm very careful not to tell a joke just to get a reaction.

All Americans and freedom-loving people around the world owe President Reagan our deepest gratitude for his strong, principled leadership that ended the Cold War and brought freedom to millions of people.

I've got a real problem when I know something is wrong or I feel something is wrong, I'm going to speak about it. I get it from my mother.

I will work with the governor no matter who the governor is. And I will always be Maya Wiley when I do it. That means I will call it as I see it.

I would never condone anything which I thought was salacious, titillating, or gratuitous.

I am not a greedy actor.

I take policy seriously; I'm not just trying to be a political hack.

People are foolish if they think I'm going to lose my head and give up anything to anyone just because someone threatens me.

I don't operate under threats. Full stop. I don't. I don't buckle to pressure.

I don't remember threatening anybody, ever. I don't like threats. I don't respond well to them, so I don't give them. But I'm not a doormat. I try to meet the appropriate level of communications.

I believe in honesty and integrity, having a belief system that you've thought through and then stick to. I believe in being creative and contributing, and I believe in taking a stand against injustice that you encounter in everyday life and not being idle in that respect.

May God so work in our hearts that our faith is affectionate and our passion is principled.

Are you going to show integrity only when someone is watching you - or are you going to show it all the time?

I believe any time you have the courage to stand for what is right, especially in situations where no one else is willing to do so, you are creating a holy place.

We must beware of yielding to the pressure of a spirit of cowardly conformity which proclaims itself everybody's friend in the hope that everybody will obligingly return the compliment.

I was clean straight uncompromising. No cheating: I've had that in my bones since I was a child.