Quotes About Values

A politician would do well to remember that he has to live with his conscience longer than he does with his constituents.

What chance of survival does a culture have when its own elites actively seek its destruction?

Policy and politics generally go contrary to principle.

The intergenerational poverty that troubles us so much today is predominantly a poverty of values.

Let's never forget what made us great as a nation. It's not diversity, it's liberty.

This is not politics... it's to protect the innocence of children.

For those who say I can't impose my morality on others, I say just watch me.

Politics and ethics belong to different worlds.

Conservatives believe in equality of opportunity. Liberals believe in equality of outcome.

It's my view that human dignity - an attribute which for years has been taken by the Left in British politics - resides in fact in Tory values of independence, individuality and self determination.

What were the politics of my family? They were mainstream moderate politics.

Morality has nothing in common with politics.

I've got to put forward a very strong conservative voice, advocate for conservative values and advocate for principle in politics to restore faith in politics.

Spirituality actually must be above politics. Or some other sort of business.

When you cover politics, you realize that knowing how to talk about character matters more and more. The way we hold ideas is more important than the ideas.

It's because I'm only interested in the big things that I'm not interested in politics.

My mother's studies stopped with the third year of primary school, my father with the first. They taught me a deep sense of duty. But nobody was involved in politics in my family.

Faith is important to me. It's important to millions of Australians. It helps to shape who I am. It helps to shape my values. But it must never, never dictate my politics.

I didn't -- I swear I didn't -- get into politics to feather my nest or feather my friends' nests.

The older I grow the less I esteem mere ideas. In politics, particularly, they are transient and unimportant. . . . There are only men who have character and men who lack it.

In my family, we were not involved in politics at all.

It's impossible to imagine the Democratic Party seeking a pro-life, free-trading, non-protectionist deficit hawk.

"Politics" per se is absent from my writing but there is usually a moral (if ironic) compass.

Nothing is politically right which is morally wrong.