Ideological Integrity Quotes

I would never tell anyone who to vote for. I'm a different kind of 'liberal' and I think people should be true to themselves. If you're Republican or Democrat, conservative or liberal, you should be true to yourself and be who you are.

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

My sympathies are Left. On paper and in the soul. But not in my heart or my guts.

I feel fantastically excited that we have a leader who fought for the leadership without compromising his quite challenging view that the party has to change.

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

We, as conservative intellectuals, should not be in the business of making excuses for bad parliamentary decisions by Republican leaders in Congress.

One cannot be a Communist and preserve an iota of one's personal integrity.

You can’t set aside … values in the name of political expediency.

Liberalism itself has failed, and for a pretty good reason. It has been too often compromised by the people who represented it.

America is an idea. And it's the solemn responsibility of each 'temporary' president to protect and nurture that noblest of all ideas - with integrity. This man, Mitt Romney, has shown - not through his experience, but through his actions and words - that he is unqualified to carry out that responsibility.

I'm more the conscience of the conservative than I am someone looking for consensus.

I wasn't out there pretending I was a conservative Democrat. I'm somebody who has talked a lot about and has done the act of running as who you are.

The great thing about the Young Turks is that we've always stayed true to our principles.

I would rather do what I did than crawl in front of a ritualistic Left and lie the way those other comrades did betray my own soul.

Fine Gael needs to be Fine Gael and needs to stand its ground. It should not sacrifice its politics for position in government.

A political party cannot be all things to all people. It must represent certain fundamental beliefs which must not be compromised to political expediency, or simply to swell its numbers.

The ideas dictate everything, you have to be true to that or you're dead.