Famous Quotes & Sayings

We are advocating that they do stay in school and that their parents come to the march. Those are the future leaders. They need to be educated.

We are advocating fair play at the Asian Cup. Every team has the right to compete on common ground so let's finish the tournament on a real high.

Arthur Erickson

Our universities advocate fragmentation in their course systems.

Benjamin F. Wade

I am not unaware how unpopular on this floor are the sentiments I am about to advocate.

We're not advocating speed bumps. The Ranchos is a shortcut and a speedway. Somebody is going to get killed, hurt or wrecked. The so-called squeaky wheel is what we are. I'm saying we need something.

We're not advocating backing up a van of cheetahs and letting them go near Tucson.

Sen. Nelson has been strongly advocating the replacement vehicle be assembled at the Cape because from his view it is the right way to do it.

Tom DeLay

Senator Frist is a good man, he's simply advocating a bad policy.

The only people advocating the Type IV change, that's the type of construction material, in that legislation were the three of us, that I'm aware of. At the time, Pruitt, he had the committee; he had the bill that was going to be settled in (a joint House-Senate) conference. So when that language was inserted it was a conference item and it stayed in the bill at his doing.

James Thurber

Karl Rove is a great guy in terms of developing issues for a campaign, but he's not done well on advocating policy in a governance setting. The job is diminished, but he probably doesn't mind that. He's a racehorse in a campaign.

I think every big town should contain artificial waterfalls that people can descend in very fragile canoes, and they should contain bathing pools full of mechanical sharks. Any person found advocating a preventive war should be condemned to two hours

Mitch McConnell

I think the issues will be the creation of a Palestinian state, advocating letting children sue their parents, advocating socialized medicine -- all the positions that the first lady has taken over the years, ... Meet The Press." ()

William Bennett

I don't think people have the right to be angry, if they look at the whole thing. But if they get a selective part of my comment, I can see why they would be angry. If somebody thought I was advocating that, they ought to be angry. I would be angry.

Nonie Darwish

I get discouraged when the media call terrorists freedom fighters. They think they are championing the underdog. But terrorists are not the underdog, they are brain-washed killers. The true freedom fighters are the brave moderate Arab voices who risk their life speaking and advocating peace and freedom.

I think that most of us on the project feel comfortable in advocating caution in our trade agreements.

I think those groups should be investigated by the FBI as hate groups and as domestic terrorists, ... They've been showing up at our meetings and causing property damage and advocating violence.

Some of the things students did here, and did it in their careers, it would be a career-ender. It's a good time to learn it. I'm not advocating breaking the law, but if you have that, let's take a teachable moment here; help them learn to do better.

Eliot Engel

Rep. Kingston and I have a vision to reduce dependence on oil. We are not advocating radical change; instead we want to encourage oil-saving technologies.

I will not waver from advocating policy that discourages expectations of higher core inflation. The object will always be to keep inflation at bay, so that the American business machine can keep on humming.

New Yorkers should know that no one in the Administration, at the Department of Defense, or at the Selective Service System is advocating the reinstatement of the mandatory draft in any form.

CBS has no problem with airing commercial after commercial advocating the consumption of fried chicken, pork sausage and fast-food burgers, even though eating these products are making Americans fat, sick and boring in bed.

Tim Donnelly

Basically they are advocating for a separate nation within a nation.

Joyce Banda

I have spent all my life advocating on behalf of the poor, oppressed and marginalized. As a social justice and human rights activist, and now as President of the Republic of Malawi, I have a deep appreciation for the challenges of those on the margins of society.

Daryl Hall

I'd like to see more crossover between white and black music. That's something I've been advocating for years.

If they start advocating tax rises and take a stand against nuclear power, there will start to be serious resistance. It's fine if the whole project seems to be working; people who're upset will shut up. But if it's not working, it could really become a serious problem.

Patricia Wright

There are very few people advocating for the poor in this state or in the country. Poor people have no voice.

Barack Obama

Now we're in the midst of not just advocating for change, not just calling for change - we're doing the grinding, sometimes frustrating work of delivering change - inch by inch, day by day.

We still have serious concerns, starting with the lack of a phase in approach being used. We will still be advocating for the interests of Washington County consumers in the same way under AEP as we did under (Allegheny) Power.

Kailash Satyarthi

I have been very strongly advocating that poverty must not be used as an excuse to continue child labour. It perpetuates poverty. If children are deprived of education, they remain poor.

Ha-Joon Chang

What free-market economists are not telling us is that the politics they want to get rid of are none other than those of democracy itself. When they say we need to insulate economic policies from politics, they are in effect advocating the castration of democracy.

Tony Perkins

The overall tech market is overvalued a good 5 to 10 percent. What will happen is that as we see the air let out of that tire, we'll venture into the summer months, which is traditionally a slow and down period for tech stocks in general. So we're advocating sitting on the sidelines until September.

David Harsanyi

The problem is that Americans use the state as a moral compass. For libertarians, it is often frustrating to explain that advocating the decriminalization of x is not synonymous with endorsing x.

John Garcia

We're advocating for a remedy for the situation we have for this country.