Ronald Reagan Quotes

Morality may consist solely in the courage of making a choice.

Politics should not be the least heart-filled thing we do, it should be the most heart-filled thing we do.

Roy remembered the time he and his father had a talk about fighting. 'It's important to stand up for what's right,' Mr. Eberhardt had said, 'but sometimes there's a fine line between courage and stupidity.

We may make mistakes-but they must never be mistakes which result from faintness of heart or abandonment of moral principle.

We need moral leadership and courage in our world.

The public wants elected officials who have character. The public wants elected officials who are willing to stand up and say things, even if they don't agree with them.

Integrity is the courage and self-discipline to cooperate and initiate according to the Divine, which you know in your heart as Truth.

In day-to-day life, you have stimulus to behave unethically, but in the long term, it always pays off to be ethical.

Like a lot of people, I'm interested in public service and want to do as much as I can to change the direction of this country and will give some consideration to that after midterm elections.

Politics requires the sense of possibility. Dare I say it - the audacity of hope.

Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have a right to do and what is right to do.

There are no easy answers, but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.

I spent 10 years fighting for reform in Cook County, and I didn't change my DNA when I got to Washington.

We were elected to lead and sometimes we just have to do the right thing.

Political courage reads well in editorials, but it doesn't translate into political reality.

One of the highest qualities of all true leadership is a high standard of courage. … There has never been time in the Church when its leaders were not required to be courageous men; not alone courageous in the sense that they were able to meet physical dangers, but also in the sense that they were steadfast and true to a clear and upright conviction.

Today, most Americans are too cynical, or tired, or both, to even approximate our Founders' courageous repudiation of injustice.

All of us knows, not what is expedient, not what is going to make us popular, not what the policy is, or the company policy - but in truth each of us knows what is the right thing to do. And that's how I am guided.

I'm going into politics because I think that the kind of discourse taking place in Israel is leading this country to oblivion, and I want to change it.

Human affairs require some combination of moral commitment with disciplined political action. And that is what keeps me intrigued and challenged and wanting to influence events.

I don't believe in political strategies. I believe only to do good for the people.

I have only ever followed my conscience.

Dealing with politicians, that's a little different. But government doesn't change until people demand it.