Lindsey Graham Quotes

So, what I say to people is that politics has got to be about principle and values above all. Of course, there are times when you have to make accommodations.

Don't compromise your principles.

My future is righteousness.

I don't compromise my principles for politics.

… how easily moral courage and common decency can be subverted by political expediency.

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

Don't pretend that you can just be oblivious to politics. You can't. What you never do is break your personal code. Have a code and keep it. You should never compromise what your priorities are.

The devil is compromise.

Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.

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

In politics, the people I most despise are those who have no values.

Let none of us delude himself by supposing that honesty is always the best policy. It is not.

It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.

Not parties, but principles.

I cannot sacrifice or compromise my principles.

Choose the politics of principle over the politics of personality.

I do not believe in a political strategy that does not have a moral foundation.

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

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

It is not true that people of high principle are ill-suited for politics.

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

Ideology knows the answer before the question has been asked. Principles are something different: a set of values that have to be adapted to circumstances but not compromised away.

It can never be necessary to do what is not honourable.

Integrity is the core of our character.

Some men change their party for the sake of their principles; others their principles for the sake of their party