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"More often there's a compromise between ethics and expediency."
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"I don't think there's anything in the compromise that means that there's a clash of ethics."
Compromise
"The Pentagon said that these prisoners were kept in accordance with the Geneva Convention, and of course I was not reassured by that, but I couldn't prove that that was wrong; so we're clearer about that."
Wrong
"All the arguments to prove man's superiority cannot shatter this hard fact: in suffering the animals are our equals."
Animals
"More often there's a compromise between ethics and expediency."
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"I believe that nationalism is a very strong force, but there are other forces operating; there are tendencies pushing towards a larger picture, especially in Europe, I think; but I still think nationalism is real."
Nationalism
"We see things like reciprocity which are fairly central to our view of ethics. But if you're talking about a set of worked-out rules on what we are supposed to do then, yes, it is a human product."
Ethics
"Bush doesn't present himself as a realpolitik politician."
Present
"In the sense that you're not at the centre of power, like a president or prime minister of a major power, everyone is marginalised; my position doesn't isn't unique in that respect. I think there are different sorts of relevance in different contexts."
Power
"I'm not overly alarmist about it, but I do think there are some worrying signs, like the growing accumulation of wealth by a very small proportion of the population, plus elections in the US are much more dominated by money than anywhere else calling itself a democracy."
Money
"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."
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"I don't think there's anything in the compromise that means that there's a clash of ethics."
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"I'll bet Shakespeare compromised himself a lot; anybody who's in the entertainment industry does to some extent."
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"You can't always have the best team. It's always a compromise."
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"Get it - get it better or get it worse. No middle ground of compromise."
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"If you ask me to compromise on principle, I will get out the veto pen."
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"Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer."
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"I'm a moderate. I hang out in the middle. I vote against my party with some regularity and try to compromise. It doesn't appear right now that the Republican Party is welcoming moderates any more."
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"A good compromise, a good piece of legislation, is like a good sentence; or a good piece of music. Everybody can recognize it. They say, 'Huh. It works. It makes sense.'"
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"More often there's a compromise between ethics and expediency."
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"Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf; is better than a whole loaf."
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