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• We have accepted the principle of democracy and we are committed to respect the popular verdict and the result of that national consultation.

  Mahmoud Abbas

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in National, Consultation, Verdict, Principle

• So sometimes the facts are good and sometimes the facts are bad, the important thing from the point of view of a principle as broad and important as freedom of speech is that the courts articulate and set forth in a very protective way what those principles are.

  Floyd Abrams

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Articulate, Speech, Principle

• Were this not Texas, were there not a state where there were no protections at all and where the law was clear on that, I think CBS and Mary Mapes and Dan Rather and all of us had a very good chance of winning. So this is an ongoing battle about an issue of principle.

  Floyd Abrams

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Winning, Protections, Principle

• The principle though remains the same, and the important thing is CBS fought hard, very hard, to protect that principle and will fight again.

  Floyd Abrams

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Protect, Fought, Principle

• I think what you’re seeing is a profound recognition on the part of the American people that gays and lesbians and transgender persons are our brothers, our sisters, our children, our cousins, our friends, our co-workers, and that they’ve got to be treated like every other American. And I think that principle will win out.

  Barack Obama

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Seeing, Principle

• We have now just enshrined, as soon as I sign this bill, the core principle that everybody should have some basic security when it comes to their healthcare.

  Barack Obama

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Basic, Security, Should, Sign, Principle

• The most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Principle

• Power without principle is barren, but principle without power is futile. This is a party of government, and I will lead it as a party of government.

  Tony Blair

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Futile, Principle

• Pythagoras took the next important step by subordinating the mere matter of nature to its essential principle of form and order, identifying the latter with reason or the soul.

  James M. Baldwin

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Identifying, Step, Principle

• Permissiveness is the principle of treating children as if they were adults; and the tactic of making sure they never reach that stage.

  Thomas Szasz

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Tactic, Permissiveness, Treating, Principle

• Work is important to me. I want to do things for principle, not just for the sake of doing them.

  Tracey Ullman

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Important, Principle

• I take it to be a principle rule of life, not to be too much addicted to any one thing.

  Terence

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Rule, Principle

• The European model is in danger if we obliterate the principle of personal responsibility.

  Jacques Delors

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Emasculates, Obliterates, Personal Responsibility, Principle

• So I think one can say on empirical grounds – not because of some philosophical principle – that you can’t have democracy unless you have a market economy.

  Peter Ludwig Berger

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Philosophical, Grounds, Empirical, Principle

• CBS fought very hard on this because it believed and believes that there’s a principle at stake here. The principle is that Dan Rather doesn’t work for the police, and that people that speak to Dan Rather understand that he’s a journalist and not a police agent.

  Floyd Abrams

  Tags in Stake, Principle, Journalist