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"I don't consult polls to tell me what my principles are or what our policies should be."
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"This 'Akram science' does not scorn worldly interaction in the slightest. While living absolutely within it's reality, It does not scorn the worldly interaction. Not scorning worldly interaction is itself a thing of principle."

"Mirabelle always ate her lunch on Brighton beach if the weather was in any way passable, but out of sheer principle she never paid tuppence for a chair. We did not win the war to have to pay to sit down, she frequently found herself thinking."

"I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world."

"The first principle of time is that it must be converted into product."

"Expedients are for the hour, but principles are for the ages."

"All universal moral principles are idle fancies."

"In black Africa, one does not strike, one does not express, one walks right."

"Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others."

"This oxidation of hydrogen in stages seems to be one of the basic principles of biological oxidation."
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"This is a government takeover of our healthcare system. It is the government basically running the entire healthcare system, turning large insurers into de facto public utilities, depriving people of choice, depriving people of options, raising people's prices, raising taxes when we need new jobs."

"We are all representatives of the American people. We all do town hall meetings. We all talk to our constituents. And I've got to tell you, the American people are engaged. And if you think they want a government takeover of health care, I would respectfully submit you're not listening to them."

"Are we interested in treating the symptoms of poverty and economic stagnation through income redistribution and class warfare, or do we want to go at the root causes of poverty and economic stagnation by promoting pro-growth policies that promote prosperity?"

"We do not have a functioning market in the true sense of the word in health care. That's a layer of transparency that's sorely needed in America."

"By failing seriously to confront the most predicable economic crisis in our nation's history, the President's policies are committing us and our children to a diminished future."

"We're saying no changes for Medicare for people above the age of 55. And in order to keep the promise to current seniors who've already retired and organized their lives around this program, you have to reform it for the next generation."

"The reason I got involved in public service, by and large, if I had to credit one thinker, one person, it would be Ayn Rand."

"Our founders got it right when they wrote in the Declaration of Independence that our rights come from nature and nature's God, not from government."
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