Word: compassable
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...They might not be able to agree on the morality, but they all agreed we didn't have enough of it." The Columbine shootings, the impeachment battle, the corporate crookery all piled up and "led many if not most Americans to conclude that the country had lost its moral compass," says Green...
...Republicans in particular, Ronald Reagan and his legacy have become the guiding political compass of their party. To be sure, the guiding principles of the presidency of George W. Bush are those introduced by President Reagan: Smaller government, reduced taxes and the confident projection of military against perceived threats abroad. Reagan believed America had paralyzed itself in the wake of the bruising it suffered in Vietnam, and saw reversing that psychology of caution over the use of force as an important goal if the confrontation with communism was to be pursued. He bombed Libya in 1986 after determining that...
...that “graduating students should be...self-assured enough to navigate confidently through the problems they will face in life and yet self-aware enough to recognize their limitations.” And who would dispute that graduates “should also have a firm moral compass,” or that they “should be civilized” and “civil?...
Most importantly, graduating students should be self-assured and self-aware: self-assured enough to navigate confidently through the problems they will face in life and yet self-aware enough to recognize their limitations. They should also have a firm moral compass, not necessarily a rigidly inflexible set of rules, but certainly a definite sense of right and wrong which can be applied throughout life. They should be civilized, without ever losing sight of the importance of being civil...
McKinnon and others argue that she has not needed to attend 10 meetings a day to retain her influence. "She is in his orbit," says McKinnon. "Karen is a constant compass for the President; she's true north." Other insiders say privately that Hughes did more than shape Bush's message when she was in the White House. Within a circle of advisers dominated by conservatives, Hughes ended up the de facto moderate on domestic policy. She was the guardian of Bush's "compassionate conservative" image and was constantly pushing to have the President focus and speak out on issues...