Quotes on Expediency

Rulers do not reduce taxes to be kind. Expediency and greed create high taxation, and normally it takes an impending catastrophe to bring it down.

Author: Charles Adams

The Republicans have put together serious detailed counter-proposals when we have objected to this administration's agenda. And so, I want to tell the President and remind him again, we're not voting no for political expediency. We've got our principles, and we're going to stand up and defend those.

Author: Eric Cantor

The most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency.

Author: W. Maugham