The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.
More often there's a compromise between ethics and expediency.
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.
But courage which goes against military expediency is stupidity, or, if it is insisted upon by a commander, irresponsibility.
The most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency.
Morality and expediency coincide more than the cynics allow.
Religion and political expediency go beautifully hand in hand.
The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.
Party honesty is party expediency.
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.