Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rudy Giuliani

When I was mayor of New York, my views changed. I began as mayor of New York City thinking that I could reform the New York City school system. After two or three years, four years, I became an advocate of choice, of scholarships, and vouchers, and parental choice, because I thought that was the only way to really change the school system.

Olympia Snowe

I have worked for three decades as a staunch advocate of building a 'big tent' party that includes both pro-choice and pro-life Republicans.

Mae Jemison

I stayed in the astronaut program until 1993. People ask me why I left. I thought I had a lot of things to contribute that would be difficult to do if I stayed. I thought I could have a stronger voice as an advocate for space exploration. So I ended up starting my own technology consulting company.

We are definitely a strong advocate of in-services because we feel it really puts the rubber to the road. I think it?s a pretty important part of the whole cycle. When you?re talking about expensive equipment it?s something that has to be done.

Ben Shapiro

Google is a private company. It has the capacity to utilize its massive power for whatever political agenda it chooses. But for it to pretend to be an advocate for Internet freedom while simultaneously disadvantaging messages it finds politically incorrect is deeply hypocritical.

Tom has been a very effective advocate for the redistribution of resources for business startups. I would certainly say that many of us who are traditional practitioners of economic development become too narrowly focused on business recruitment when in fact the lion's share of jobs are generated through existing industry expansions and new business.

George A. Smith

We can't advocate for a conservation project that excludes sportsmen. Do it, but do it the right way.

Ben Harper

There is a difference between a great producer and somebody who is a big advocate of your music. Just because you're a big advocate for a band doesn't mean you need to be in the studio with them, and at the same time - we don't need to get into this conversation - you can write a hit, but it might not hit.

We work on consensus. We offer a place where business and education can discuss issues critical to educational excellence, and understand differences so, in the end, we can advocate together for a stronger K-12 system in Arizona.

Bobby Miller

Those who advocate secularism and honestly want separation of church and state can't fully appreciate Christopher Hitchens now, but their cause will be without the very best friend it'll ever know after he's gone. It'll truly be a day for mourning.

Nancy Werlin

I actually hope people don't react to 'Impossible' in a way where they think it's terribly retro. The plot needed to do what it needed to do. But I'm a little surprised to find myself looking a little bit like an advocate of teen marriage. It takes some exceptional circumstances for that to be a reasonable idea.

The Citizens United ruling did not invent special-interest spending; it enables corporations and unions to advocate directly on behalf of a candidate rather than running more subtle 'issue ads.'

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Satan will advocate that it is cool to doubt spiritual gifts and the teachings of true prophets.

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?

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.

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.

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.

John Deane

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

What we need is a really strong, powerful advocate in a key position to advocate change, and we've lacked that.

We're an advocate for the commonwealth, regardless of the attorney general's position on any law that's passed.

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

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.

There are still decent prospects within emerging markets. We wouldn't advocate getting out of them completely. We just don't think you're going to see the same kind of performance you've seen coming out of them in the past five years.

Fabian Nunez

John Hall and I worked shoulder-to-shoulder for nearly a decade in the trenches of politics and public service. No one was more devoted to his craft and to working families. He was passionate about his profession, and particularly in helping young people. In his service on the Contractors State License Board, he was a staunch advocate for professional standards for his trade. We will miss him dearly.

I thoroughly enjoyed being an advocate for the faculty as far as shared governance was concerned.

It is fully appropriate for the head of a national political party to secure a meeting for a supporter with an administration official or even to advocate a worthy cause.

Norman Chad

I was an advocate of poker on television, and I was stunned by how much it grew.

Justin Trudeau

I was a high-school teacher. I am a strong advocate for women's rights, and I'm not a woman.

Bob Richardson

He's a very very strong advocate of science and education.

He's been invaluable as an advocate for strengthening border security, enforcement of laws against illegal immigration and removing the incentives that drive illegal immigration in the first place.

I advocate that we look within. Leadership without deep roots in the community isn't as sympathetic to our wants and needs.

I advocate staying with a company you like and trying to get them to be nicer to you.