Anonymity is a universal convention of the blogosphere, and the wicked expedience is that you can speak without consequences.
The most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency.
I came into office to do what was correct, not to see what was politically expedient to get re-elected.
Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship.
If you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, your life will be safe, expedient and thin.
It is a measure of the framers' fear that a passing majority might find it expedient to compromise 4th Amendment values that these values were embodied in the Constitution itself.
Examine each question in terms of what is ethically and aesthetically right, as well as what is economically expedient.
There are no morals in politics; there is only expedience. A scoundrel may be of use to us just because he is a scoundrel.
Environmental quality was drastically improved while economic activity grew by the simple expedient of removing lead from gasoline - which prevented it from entering the environment.
Roger Thornhill: In the world of advertising, there's no such thing as a lie. There's only expedient exaggeration.
All social inequalities which have ceased to be considered expedient, assume the character not of simple inexpediency, but of injustice, and appear so tyrannical, that people are apt to wonder how they ever could have been tolerated; forgetful that t...
He was a consummate politician-- which is to say he was given to expedient speech and lacked even a vestigial spine.
But courage which goes against military expediency is stupidity, or, if it is insisted upon by a commander, irresponsibility.
The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry.
That speech (Daniel Webster's) “raised the idea of Union above contract or expediency and enshrined it in the American heart.
An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient, or finds the issue of a complicated situation.
A free America... means just this: individual freedom for all, rich or poor, or else this system of government we call democracy is only an expedient to enslave man to the machine and make him like it.
Dictatorships do cut down on rape, and pillage, not to mention sexual harassment, by the simple expedient of sending people to labour camps for life or cutting off their hands without a trial.
Do not let arguments of expediency persuade you. That is the slow road to oblivion. That is the tortured path to undoing step by step, bit by bit, as the river creates a canyon, the way of life that we love.
An uplifting sense of purpose is more than an impetus for individual accomplishment, it is also a necessary insurance policy against expediency and impropriety.
It is provided by the Constitution that the President shall from time to time give to the Congress information of the state of the Union and recommend to their consideration such measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient.
