Principal Quotes

The principal role of the President of the United States is the security of the country and participating in trying to stabilize the world.

It won't do away with hierarchy totally, but the principal leader will be the person who most exemplifies the kind of organization and behavior required who is best able to create the conditions such organizations require.

I'm playing one of the principal roles, which gives you more clout and more confidence.

If we did not look to marriage as the principal source of happiness, fewer marriages would end in tears.

It has not been for nothing that the word has remained man's principal toy and tool: without the meanings and values it sustains, all man's other tools would be worthless.

I ought to rejoice in the fact that our principal rival has died, but I don't.

Commitment and co-operation to overcome barriers and difficulties, and determination to achieve the standards of the EU as well as NATO membership, are and have always been the principal target.

The principal purpose of the Democratic Party is to use the force of government to take property away from the people who earn it and give it to people who do not.

I am at war... with the principal personage of traditional philosophy, that abstract subject who masquerades as everyone and anyone, but is really a male subject in disguise.

Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone?

Our fifty principal cities contain 39.3 per cent of our entire German population, and 45.8 per cent of the Irish. Our ten larger cities only nine per cent of the entire population, but 23 per cent of the foreign.

What interests me is the sense of the darkness that we carry within us, the darkness that's akin to one of the principal subjects of the sublime - terror.

Like many men, I am not ashamed to admit that my principal joys are domestic. I love cooking, and I love looking after my children. Indeed, the times that I have with them are the only ones when I feel unconditionally happy.

I can think that you are mistaken, but I have to be ready to give my life to maintain your right to make mistakes. I have to, though, have the right to say that you're mistaken. This is the principal of the liberal society.

The principal point of cleverness is to know how to value things just as they deserve.

The principal achievement of Europe is peace, which we often forget about as it has become so taken for granted by Europeans.

Misery, mutilation, destruction, terror, starvation and death characterize the process of war and form a principal part of the product.

There's nothing more important than our good health - that's our principal capital asset.