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by zakary 942 days ago
Everyone has a price, and drug companies can usually find a way to meet it for even the most steadfast
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> Everyone has a price

Some people really do have principles they won't violate. We just don't get enough people in politics who don't have a price.

Not politicians. Not many normal people either. And that presumes that most people even know what 'principles' are - which they do not.
Yeah I agree, I was responding to

> If legislators feel strongly ideologically about an issue, no amount of lobbying will make them vote the other way.