"Principle is okay up to a certain point, but principle doesn't do any good if you lose."
— Dick Cheney

January 1, 1970

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Remarks during the 1976 US Presidential election as quoted in "Nixon's empire strikes back" by Sidney Blumenthal, The Guardian (9 June 2005)