Principled Quotes - Page 3

• We're actually saying, here's a principle that I'd like to arc toward. That's a very different role in life. I didn't expect [Barack] Obama to go to the root of things. I didn't expect him to have a principled position on anything. I mean, just pay some moderate attention to the guy.

  Bill Ayers

  Mean, Roots, Guy

  Source: thepointmag.com

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• So every time the Democratic Party appears to be lifting up a principled, people-powered agenda, it slaps it down and it keeps becoming more dominated by corporate money and corporatist, militarist policies.

  Jill Stein

  Party, People, Down And

  "Meet Jill Stein, the Woman Determined to Take On Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump in November". Interview with Krystal Marie Ball, www.glamour.com. July 25, 2016.

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• Gentlemanly, principled, helpful behaviour by older men vis-a-vis young women goes unnoticed, but it deserves real moral credit, and we could use more first-person testimony from the beneficiaries and practitioners about that too.

  Catherine Wilson

  Real, Men, Behaviour

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Ronald Reagan and Ron Paul had a message that was clear, it was principled, and it inspired. It was a vision for a future.

  Ted Cruz

  Vision, Messages, Inspired

  Source: www.politico.com

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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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• ...the very notion that a candidate should openly solicit votes violated the principled presumption that such behavior itself represented a confession of unworthiness for national office.

  Joseph J. Ellis

  Office, Vote, Behavior

  Joseph J. Ellis (2003). “Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation”, p.162, Vintage

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• Somebody who sticks to his guns can be called a stubborn person or a principled person, it depends on whether you like his ideas or not. You can call somebody whose ideas you don't like an ideologist or a person of ideas. You can call somebody whose actions you don't like a pragmatist if you like them, or an opportunist if you don't.

  Richard Pipes

  Gun, Ideas, Stubborn

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• Conflict is the microscope of a book. When it's trained on a character, you see what's underneath the narratives of physical description. You see whether someone is strong or weak, principled or apathetic, heroic or villainous." (J.R. on writing the BDB series)

  J.R. Ward

  Strong, Book, Writing

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• Mike Pence is a good man, a principled conservative, and he will make a great vice president.

  Paul Ryan

  Men, Good Man, President

  Source: time.com

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• That was a brave and principled thing for Ecuador to do [give me asylum application]. Now we have the U.S. election [campaign], the Ecuadorian election is in February next year, and you have the White House feeling the political heat as a result of the true information that we have been publishing.

  Julian Assange

  Years, White, Giving

  Source: www.zerohedge.com

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• I have never suggested any principled difference between the natural and social sciences.

  Noam Chomsky

  Differences, Natural, Social

  Source: libcom.org

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• Take like, say, Obama, he's called "liberal" and he's praised for his "principled objection to the Iraq war". What was his "principled objection"? He says it was a "strategic blunder," like Nazi generals after Stalingrad.

  Noam Chomsky

  War, Iraq, Nazi

  Source: theanarchistlibrary.org

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• Max Askeli was a very courageous, principled man up to a point. He had left Italy before he was thrown in jail by [Francesco] Mussolini.

  Nat Hentoff

  Men, Jail, Max

  Source: thedailyhatch.org

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• A random group of homeless people under a bridge would be far more intellectually sound and principled than anything I've encountered at the university so far.

  Ward Churchill

  Bridges, People, Sound

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• This duality, making yourself better while teaching and developing others' judgment capabilities, is the key to leadership that is both productive and principled.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Teaching, Keys, Judgment

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• (I)f France's righteous bloviating against war makes them your Dashboard Saint of International Integrity, it's either because you are sand-poundingly ignorant of how the world works or it's because you think France's self-interest is more important than America's. If the former applies to you, read a book. If it's the latter, maybe you should move there along with Alec Baldwin, Robert Altman, and the rest of the crowd who promised to leave a long time ago. But whatever you do, don't call France's position principled, because that just insults us both.

  Jonah Goldberg

  War, Integrity, Moving

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• I opposed the Suez war, I opposed the Falklands war. I opposed the Libyan bombing and I opposed the Gulf war and I never believed that any of those principled arguments lost a single vote - indeed, I think they gained support though that was not why you did it. What has been lacking in Labour politics over a long period is a principled stand

  Tony Benn

  War, Thinking, Long

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• being Cassandra is a principled choice when there is cause for alarm.

  Robin Morgan

  Choices, Causes, Alarms

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• When we put aside partisanship, embrace the best ideas regardless of where they come from and work for principled compromise, we can move America not left or right, but forward.

  William J. Clinton

  Moving, Ideas, America

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• Let a man be firmly principled in his religion, he may travel from the tropics to the poles, it will never catch cold on the journey.

  William Morley Punshon

  Journey, Men, May

  William Morley Punshon (1873). “Lectures and Sermons”, p.8, Adam, Stevenson

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• You know in politics you are dealing in the realm of choices. You don't always have clear-cut decision between a thoroughly principled position and a thoroughly unprincipled one. You're making snap decisions with paucity of information, generally trying to do the best that you can, but you will make errors, and sometimes it's a decision between a bad and a worse alternative. It has to be done, because we need to order our society, and of politics it can literally be said: Bad job, but someone's got to do it.

  Peter Costello

  Jobs, Cutting, Errors

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• People say that being a vegan creates a social problem in that others may react negatively. But isnt that the case if you take a principled position on any issue, whether its racism, sexism, heterosexism, violence as a general matter—or speciesism? The key is to educate others about *why* you take the position.

  Gary L. Francione

  Keys, Issues, Racism

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• You know, freedom is a very popular idea, and young people love it, and they're open to ideas. And they like principled answers to our problems.

  Ron Paul

  Freedom, Ideas, People

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• I am principled against selling negroes, as you would do cattle at a market.

  George Washington

  Selling, Cattle

  George Washington (1908). “Letters and Addresses,”

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• In a world of complex threats, our security and leadership depends on all elements of our power - including strong and principled diplomacy.

  Barack Obama

  Inspirational, Strong, Elements

  Fifth Presidential State of the Union, delivered 28 January 2014

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