Chris Christie Quotes

There's more than one way to get to the goal that you want to get to, but once you compromise your own principles, then you're lost. You're really lost.

I'm willing to negotiate, but not compromise my core principles.

You can compromise without violating your principles, but it is nearly impossible to compromise when you turn principles into ideology.

The hardest thing in life is to know when to hold fast to one’s principles and when it is acceptable to bend them.

I'm always going to stand up for my beliefs and stand behind them.

Compromise for compromise sake is never good, unless it is grounded in principles.

Compromises lead you nowhere. You can't be happy doing something you don't believe in.

Don't compromise your principles.

You have to maintain your principles but have a broader appeal.

I've already got my rent paid, and it's too late in my life for me to go around talking up stuff that I don't like or believe in.

I think a man becomes less than a man when he begins to compromise on what he believes is right.

But rarely have I made choices that made me feel I was really compromising what I believe.

I don't think that has to be our choice... This party was born in principle. This party will die if it doesn't stand by its decision of principle.

It's not that I'm not willing to compromise. But I won't compromise on principles.

I think it's wrong to compromise your values to fit in with the social climate in Washington, D.C. When it comes to spending, I'm not compromising. I don't care who, what, when or where, I'm not compromising.

No society ... can fail in time to explode if it is deprived of the arts of compromise .... No good society can be unprincipled and no viable society can be principle-ridden.

You don't compromise principles, but you harmonize tactics to preserve unity.

Compromise today is too often applauded simply for itself. The cost of compromise to principles and real lives doesn't seem to matter.

I won't say I'm uncompromising, but I won't compromise just for the hell of it.

I've had too many opportunities to sell out.

Politics is compromise, by its very nature. But we never compromise on our values and beliefs.

I get along with people. But I don't sacrifice my principles either.

I would not compromise my principles for politics. You're saying, will it become politically unpopular to have the position I'm having? If it does, so be it. I don't compromise my principles for politics.

If I have to degrade myself or do something that I'm not willing to do as a Christian to get something, I'm just not willing to do it.

If I've learned one thing in life, it's: Stand for something or you'll fall for anything.