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• It is not the principled partisan, however obnoxious he may seem to his opponents, who degrades our public debate, but the preening, self-styled statesman who elevates compromise to a first principle.

  Tom DeLay

  Self, Political, Principles

  Farewell Address to House of Representatives, delivered 8 June 2006

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• I have been brought up in a culture where capital punishment is indeed anathema. I have always thought of myself as a principled opponent to capital punishment. However, when thinking about how the topic is handled in other cultures, in particular the American, Russian and Chinese ones, I have realised that my own tack on the issue was utterly superficial.

  Torbjorn Tannsjo

  Thinking, Other Cultures, Punishment

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• It is a moral issue how we are going to treat workers. On these issues, these are moral issues, principled issues, where there aren't compromises.

  Edward Kennedy

  Issues, Moral, Compromise

  Source: www.politico.com

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• You want sanity, democracy, community, an intact Earth? We can't get there, obeying Constitutional theory and law crafted by slave masters, imperialists, corporate masters, and Nature destroyers. We can't get there, kneeling before robed lawyers stockpiling class plunder precedent up their venerable sleeves. So isn't disobedience the challenge of our age? Principled, inventive, escalating disobedience to liberate our souls, to transfigure our work as humans on this Earth.

  Richard Grossman

  Law, Class, Community

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• I wanted to understand. I'm not here to support one, but I am here to criticize all, on a principled position. I very much value the position of counter power. I think this is where ethics should be, in front of power as I said in Radical Reform. The power of counter-power is very important.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Thinking, Support, Important

  Source: dinmerican.wordpress.com

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• Anybody in my job steers a tightrope between being popular and being principled.

  Virginia Bottomley

  Jobs, Being Popular, Steers

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• 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.

  Cristina Saralegui

  Dream, Believe, Hard Work

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• I waver between a cop-out agnostic and principled atheism

  Dan Savage

  Atheism, Agnostic, Cop

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• We may well soon be subjected to anything that judges want to enforce.... The result will be an enforced inability of the states to pass laws that reflect the principled judgment of their own citizens....And as our Founders taught us so well, ...[that] will be the end of liberty and the establishment of tyranny in America.

  Alan Keyes

  Law, Taught Us, America

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• "Teachers"... treat students neither coercively nor instrumentally but as joint seekers of truth and of mutual actualization. They help students define moral values not by imposing their own moralities on them but by positing situations that pose hard moral choices and then encouraging conflict and debate. They seek to help students rise to higher stages of moral reasoning and hence to higher levels of principled judgment.

  James MacGregor Burns

  Teacher, Choices, Levels

  James MacGregor Burns (2012). “Leadership”, p.772, Open Road Media

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• Although a lot of my work on the mind has been rather abstract and philosophical, I'm interested in psychology and neuroscience and I don't think there are any principled distinctions between the kind of knowledge we get from science and the knowledge we get from philosophy.

  Tim Crane

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Thinking

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Too often, complaint is not about principled objection on moral grounds, but opportunistic objection on grounds of self-interest. To rectify this, we need to work on mastering the art of complaint.

  Julian Baggini

  Art, Self, Needs

  "Don't complain less - do it better" by Julian Baggini, www.theguardian.com. July 14, 2010.

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• So here we have found a means of a) alienating even the most flexible and patient Palestinians; while b) frustrating the efforts of the more principled and compromising Israelis; while c) empowering and financing some of the creepiest forces in American and Israeli society; and d) heaping ordure on our own secular founding documents. When will the Justice Department and the Congress and the Supreme Court become aware of this huge and rank offense, which is designed to bring us ever nearer to holy war?

  Christopher Hitchens

  War, Mean, Justice

  "Your Tax Dollars at Work - in West Bank Settlements" by Christopher Hitchens, www.slate.com. July 12, 2010.

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• As the leader of a country, you are not free to enjoy the luxury of such feelings. The Afghan people want peace, which requires persistence. We are determined to defend our country, and the whole region and the entire world understands the justice of our cause and the principled way in which we have engaged in it.

  Ashraf Ghani

  Country, Persistence, Luxury

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Take away the ability of an intelligent, principled, hard-working mind to get it wrong, and you take away the whole thing.

  Kathryn Schulz

  Hard Work, Intelligent, Mind

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• The Libertarians, of whom I'm rather fond, are running Harry Browne. Libertarians are, just as they claim, principled and consistent - they believe in individual liberty. Commendable as they are, and despite their reliability as allies in civil liberties struggles, you may notice that Libertarians sometimes prove that a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, and that there is a difference between logic and wisdom.

  Molly Ivins

  Running, Believe, Struggle

  Fort Worth Star-Telegram, September 7, 1996.

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• I was pleased to see that Chief Justice [John] Roberts refused to prejudge issues or make promises in exchange for confirmation votes. We're all better off because of his principled stand.

  Jon Kyl

  Issues, Justice, Promise

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• I've said many times - I told William Buckley, I said, "You warped my mind and I never recovered from it." That was a principled, lawful understanding of the role of government, the Constitution. It was not based on racism, on demagoguery, but on strong principles that - which, consistent with the American heritage and our strength for the future.

  Jeff Sessions

  Strong, Government, Racism

  Interview with Glenn Thrush, www.politico.com. May 31, 2016.

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• We're principled in the direction we're heading, but we're not going to be stubborn.

  Julie Larson-Green

  Stubborn, Headings

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• Protestantism includes every type of religious thought and organization from 'high church' Anglicanism to high-principled Quakerism, from ecstatic Methodism to relentlessly intellectual Unitarism. Only slowly, and with many pangs is even Protestantism shaking off the religion about Christ.

  Lewis Browne

  Religious, Organization, Intellectual

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• Rush Limbaugh is a principled conservative, master broadcaster and stinging social critic who has won his mammoth following through his own energy, individualism and wit. His daily radio show is the one reliable place ordinary citizens can turn to for a different perspective in the blizzard of propaganda and disinformation from the Northeastern media establishment. History will show that Limbaugh was a major force over the past decade in waking this country up from its p.c. coma.

  Camille Paglia

  Country, Past, Media

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• London is one of the world's centres of Arab journalism and political activism. The failure of left and right, the establishment and its opposition, to mount principled arguments against clerical reaction has had global ramifications. Ideas minted in Britain – the notion that it is bigoted to oppose bigotry; 'Islamophobic' to oppose clerics whose first desire is to oppress Muslims – swirl out through the press and the net to lands where they can do real harm.

  Nick Cohen

  Real, Land, Ideas

  "At last, Islam's appeasers may be on the run" by Nick Cohen, www.theguardian.com. February 5, 2011.

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• Openness, as currently conceived, is a way of making surrender to whatever is most powerful, or worship of vulgar success, look principled.

  Allan Bloom

  Powerful, Looks, Way

  Allan Bloom (2008). “Closing of the American Mind”, p.41, Simon and Schuster

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• Democrats are fighting fire with fire. Our principled stance on Medicare and Social Security is absolutely no different than the Republicans' stance on no revenue increases without cuts.

  Judy Chu

  Fighting, Cutting, Fire

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• You've got the principled people who maybe are on salaried jobs, or CEOs, entrepreneurs, and all of those that are great people, but if you're not appealing - the permanent coalition is to join that with traditional Americans who feel like, that things aren't going well for them, and to develop policies that improve their lifestyle, not just upper-income lifestyles. And once that's believed by working people, that it's serious and a commitment and you care about people like me, for a change, Republicans could create a new majority.

  Jeff Sessions

  Jobs, Commitment, People

  Source: www.politico.com

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