Sometimes a mentor has to be reminded of the principles he has tried to instill in others.

Passionately defending one's principles is crucial. Representing your district is fundamental. But refusing to entertain the common ground - with no other cost but giving the other guy a political 'win' - is a disservice.

The truth is that the D.C. Circuit is an admirably nonideological court that applies principles of administrative law evenhandedly.

The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.

The principle of Sturgeon's Razor states that the simplest answer to any problem is 90% crap.

Principles of fair and equitable treatment included in many treaties are uncontroversial as general principles of good public governance.

Know the difference between principles based on right or wrong vs. principles based on personal gain, and consider the basis of your own principles.

The business of a Political Economist is neither to recommend nor to dissuade, but to state general principles, which it is fatal to neglect, but neither advisable, nor perhaps practicable, to use as the sole, or even the principal, guides in the actual conduct of affairs.

The basic principle is I command, and my employees carry it out immediately.

Our principles are the springs of our actions. Our actions, the springs of our happiness or misery. Too much care, therefore, cannot be taken in forming our principles.

This oxidation of hydrogen in stages seems to be one of the basic principles of biological oxidation.

The principle of Sturgeon's Razor states that the simplest answer to any problem is 90% crap.

Opting for conspiracy over facts and partisanship over constitutional principles, Democrats have chosen to ignore the damning evidence of wrongdoing by the Obama-era FBI.

The U.N. guards the vital principles entrenched in its charter, notably the sovereign equality of states and the inadmissibility of interference in their internal affairs. It is precisely because the U.N. is the chief guardian of both these sacrosanct principles that it alone is allowed to approve derogations from them.

At the descriptive level, certainly, you would expect different cultures to develop different sorts of ethics and obviously they have; that doesn't mean that you can't think of overarching ethical principles you would want people to follow in all kinds of places.

Just as we outgrow a pair of trousers, we outgrow acquaintances, libraries, principles, etc., at times before they're worn out and times - and this is the worst of all - before we have new ones.

One of the most important principles I've learned is, every so often, just drop everything. Stop racing from one party to the next.

Our love for the Founders leads us to abandon, and even to betray, the very principles they fought for.

I learned early on about the real meaning of equity and inclusion, and that when those guiding principles are not met, they can have devastating effects on individuals, families, and communities.

The FCC can't enforce press-statement principles without adopting official rules, and those rules must be based on the legal theory of reclassification.