Critics say Mr. Silver, a Democrat from the Lower East Side who has been speaker for the last 15 years, is the symbol of all that is broken in state government, a man who long ago forsook principle for power.
"The new Administration has striven to be businesslike without being bureaucratic...and yet there's something here that chills the heart....we wish that the nation's chosen leader could have forsaken principle this time and taken from an old man what was so gently meant".
I don't think we'd forsake our principles just because we've gone up.
Perhaps counterintuitively, Mazda's worst failures have come when it has tried to out-Toyota Toyota, forsaking sporty principles and settling for the middle ground.
He hadn't told his employers that the book was in the works, and, to add further insult, he attacks unnamed party leaders in its pages for forsaking conservative principles.
"We are willing to toughen up border — many of our colleagues feel that's important — but without forsaking our principles," said Senator Charles E. Schumer, Democrat of New York and a member of the bipartisan group.
Showing extraordinary focus and quiet certainty, Mr. Obama swept away one political presumption after another to defeat first Hillary Clinton, who wanted to be president so badly that she lost her bearings, and then John McCain, who forsook his principles for a campaign built on anger and fear.
While Mr. Bush is not moving as far as Mr. Clinton in forsaking the principles of his party, he sounds a lot like a Democrat when he holds forth about protecting Social Security, reaching out to the dispossessed and lavishing more money on public education.
Although his old political ally James Warren thought that Adams had forsaken his principles, Adams saw no contradiction.
The fees from the government-backed mortgage giant play into the impression that Gingrich forsook conservative principles in order to cash in on his Washington connections.
