Quotes About Principled

I'm actually a fairly conservative person. I live a very conservative lifestyle.

I never considered myself a fall guy. I know what I did. I know why I did it. I'm not ashamed of it.

I lose film roles because I'm a person who doesn't keep quiet about certain things. But if my heart tells me something is wrong, I'm going to go and do something about it.

I'm a conservative kind of person. I don't think rightwing is quite the same thing. But I acknowledge my conservatism of temperament.

Krulak knew he would pay a price, and he still did the right thing. At a time when he had everything to lose, he was the only general in the American military whose sense of duty and love of country were greater than his careerism.

In contrast to positional bargaining, the principled negotiation method of focusing on basic interests, mutually satisfying options, and fair standards typically results in a wise agreement. The method permits you to reach a gradual consensus on a joint decision efficiently.

Grant roomed with Fred Dent, who also singled out Grant as "the clearest headed young man I ever saw . . . He always wanted to do what was right, and we all had great respect for him. He was a singed cat—a great deal better than he looked.

Ambition was reckless if inspired by purely selfish motives but laudable if guided by great principles

You're always cutting your nose off to spite your face. I've never met a woman as stubborn as you. Even when it's not in your interests you'll do something to make a point.

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.

wouldn't go to war

I don't want to be promiscuous.

I'm not promiscuous by nature.

I thought you weren't afraid. I never am --but I won't throw my life away just to show one man I'm not.

Fearless leaders are needed to defend our culture, not agreeable milquetoasts.

It doesn't make me feel good to be conniving and manipulative. I can't do that.

I may have been fierce, but never low or underhand.

I'm not a dirty fighter. Everybody knows that.

I would reject wholeheartedly any notion of a Labour Party that is not committed to returning to power at the first opportunity. Of course that needs to be principled power. But standing on the sidelines looking for the purest ideology is a dereliction of the duty for any Labour member.

I shall stick to my resolution of writing always what I think no matter whom it offends.

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.

There has been no more principled opposition to racism than Jeremy Corbyn: he was getting arrested for protesting against Apartheid when the rest of them were doing deals and calling Nelson Mandela a terrorist.

it cost him an effort to speak out then and there, because his conscience would not let him be silent.

There are some natures too noble to curb and too lofty to bend.