Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gary Sheffer

We have said all along that we will continue to advocate for our proposal and we are continuing to do that.

Kevin Smith

The fact it's repeatedly passed Chairman Pombo's committee would advocate for a vote, as would the fact the CNMI is the only U.S. territory without nonvoting representation.

Robert P. McCulloch

When I was 12 years old, my father was killed. I lost a loved one to violence. The pain was because I lost my father. It didn't matter that he was an officer... It shaped my life. If anything, it made me a strong advocate for the victims of violence.

Alonzo Church

Veblen was a great advocate of getting together informally. His teas were in the same spirit. He believed in taking long walks through the woods to discuss mathematical research.

Lorraine Toussaint

I've become very fond of the law. I've always been an advocate for justice, which occasionally the law brings to light.

John Deane

We have have been an advocate of world languages for a long time. And we've got to keep the place clean.

Damon Dash

Would I be dumb enough to do something like that? ... I always think violence is the last means and the last resort. I never advocate violence.

Tom Harkin

Would anyone advocate that we take the fences off the playground for elementary schools and just let kids run around in the streets? ... By the same token, why would we allow schools to sort of poison our kids with junk food?

Kathryn Lasky

My mother was a great advocate of women's rights, a member of the League of Women's Voters and lifelong member of Planned Parenthood and an advocate of a woman's rights in terms of reproductive issues. She was also a founding member of Common Cause in the state of Indiana.

Christine Quinn

There will be a moment in life, whether you're forceful or not, where someone will label you something that is negative.

Ali Rodriguez

There has been no forceful condemnation by the United States as everyone expected.

George Casey

I would not say necessarily as forceful as Senator Levin just put it,

Willie Nelson

Cruelty is all out of ignorance. If you knew what was in store for you, you wouldn't hurt anybody, because whatever you do comes back much more forceful than you send it out.

Rachel Cusk

I have some pretty forceful ideas about the world - obviously I do. But I suppose I can only really speak about them from within the protection of a literary form.

Louise Arbour

My main interest, to be very frank, is to solidify the judicial system.

Luo Gan

Judicial work at the grass-roots level has bearings on the overall situation of the judicial work of the country.

Dick Armey

Sometimes you get judicial rulings that gladden you and sometimes you don't,

Prince Nayef

Do we have anything other than sharia? We don't have a judicial system other than sharia.

Anne Foley

Then I think judicial notice can be taken to that effect,

Sheriff Stankus

It's become a circus. It's become entertainment. It's no longer a judicial procedure, and that's scary . You wonder, where is this society going?

Sam Brownback

A lot of us wanted somebody who has a pretty well-established and thought-through and set judicial philosophy,

Charles Schumer

The idea that Americans shouldn't know what the judicial philosophy of the nominee to this powerful, powerful position is, is wearing thin with the American people, whether they be liberal, conservative or moderate,

Gloria Borger

They wanted a symbol. They wanted someone who openly supported their views of the Supreme Court. But they know nothing about her judicial philosophy.

Tom Tancredo

The Democratic Party looks at massive immigration, legal and illegal, as a source of voters.

Stewart Baker

The point is, you can't be sure if you're legal in a lot of areas.

Amber Frey

I feel like there was justice. It was served through the legal system you know. Everything that I endured. It was all worth it.

Tom Jackson

What he said to me was that it's the right thing to do. It might be legally gray, but it's the right thing to do.

John Roberts

Well, senator, as a legal matter, it is abstract,

George H. W. Bush

legal but taxed and regulated like other goods.

Robert Casey

Legal abortion will never rest easy on this nation's conscience.

Alexei Navalny

I'm concerned with protecting the legal system.

Nicholas Carbone

Right now it's not a legal town committee.

David Korten

The first principle of the market economy is that it is comprised of many small buyers and sellers, which implies a substantial degree of equity. Another fundamental market principle is that costs are internalized in the producer's price.

David Korten

Our global economy is out of control and performing contrary to basic principles of market economics.

Jane Addams

The worth of every conviction consists precisely in the steadfastness with which it is held.

Jane Austen

His own enjoyment, or his own ease, was, in every particular, his ruling principle.

Alan Greenspan

[Republicans] swapped principle for power. They ended up with neither. They deserved to lose.

Chris Cleave

Nobody has the time to sit down and explain the first world from first principles.

Chris Christie

I don't compromise my principles for politics.

Barbara Hepworth

The sculptor must search with passionate intensity for the underlying principle of the organisation of mass and tension - the meaning of gesture and the structure of rhythm.

Ashley Montagu

... the main principle by which human beings must guide the future course of their development is love.

Barbara Kingsolver

restraint equals indulgence

Thomas Pickering

We've urged the Pakistanis to take the statesman-like course, the wise course, and the restraint course.

Alexandra Guarnaschelli

The hardest thing for me is restraint.

Mae West

I like restraint, if it doesn't go too far.

John Stuart Mill

Everything must be free to be written and published without restraint

Karen Minton

We'll see showers off and on throughout Saturday.

Tom Ross

Throughout the first week of grand-opening festivities, well over 100,000 visitors are expected,

Guru Nanak

Throughout the ages, know Him as the One.

Craig Venter

My genetic autobiography can be found throughout my body.

Gabrielle Giffords

While my speech is getting better every day, throughout my recovery, I have been able to sing to some extent.

Scott Skiles

We don't want to get into a fouling-type game, which has been our trend throughout the year.

Mike Shanahan

We've been evaluating throughout training camp, two-a-days, the off-season program, all the way through. We'll be fine.

Kelly Price

My weight has been one of the most challenging things that I've had to deal with throughout my career.

Mystikal

I guess I reinvented myself about 18 times throughout my career.