Adopted Quote by Guillaume Thomas Francois Raynal

In politics there are no principles, just opportunities

— Bill Press

Principles aren't something you hear much from politicians these days. Have you noticed? Right across the board, leaders, whatever the political coloring, avoid talking…

— Vanessa Redgrave

Political necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes.

— George Bernard Shaw

Errors are more numerous than truths, but fortunately too divided among themselves to take power.

— Mason Cooley

Principles don't die. They aren't here one day and gone the next. They can't be destroyed by fire, earthquake or theft. Principles are deep,…

— Stephen Covey

The principle of my political life ... is that all amelioration and improvements in political institutions can be obtained by persevering in a perfectly…

— Daniel O'Connell

Principles are eternal.

— William Jennings Bryan

Principles-and I have in mind such principles as states' rights or national sovereignty or the free market or pacifism-have a way of drying up…

— Max Lerner

If principles can become dated, they're not principles.

— Warren Buffett

“Policies are ephemeral; principles are eternal.”

— Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

Principles only mean something if you stick by them when they are inconvenient.

— Simi Ngr

Ideology knows the answer before the question has been asked. Principles are something different: a set of values that have to be adapted to…

— George Packer