Advocating Quotes - Page 3

• I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Weed, Hate, Drinking

  FaceBook post by Hunter S. Thompson from Jul 15, 2014

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• Let me be clear: There is no stronger advocate for civil liberties in the Senate than myself.

  Saxby Chambliss

  Liberty, Stronger, Let Me

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• Yeah, but you need an experienced radio veteran who is a liberal advocate. And there just hadn't been any radio that did that. And so they weren't trained - they had developed all these bad habits of being objective and balanced and stuff like that.

  Al Franken

  Needs, Radio, Stuff

  Interview with Stephen Thompson, progressive.org. July 2, 2009.

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• I do not think that there is a reputable scientist on this planet who would advocate using this technology to generate a human child as was just announced.

  Robert Lanza

  Children, Technology, Thinking

  "Dr. Robert Lanza: Human cloning 'abhorrent'". Interview with Sanjay Gupta, www.cnn.com. December 27, 2002.

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• To be President of the United States, sir, is to act as advocate for a blind, venomous, and ungrateful client.

  John Updike

  America, Ungrateful, President

  1974 Polk. Buchanan Dying, act 2.

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• No man should advocate a course in private that he's ashamed to admit in public.

  George McGovern

  Men, Should, Ashamed

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• 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.

  Barack Obama

  Calling, Sometimes, Midst

  "Obama: 'Fear' drives voters" by Carol E.Lee, www.politico.com. October 16, 2010.

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• To the families of special needs children all across this country I have a message for you: for years you have sought to make America a more welcoming place for your sons and daughters, and I pledge to you that if we're elected, you will have a friend, an advocate, in The White House.

  Sarah Palin

  Daughter, Mother, Country

  Republican Vice Presidential Nomination Acceptance Speech, delivered 3 September 2008, Minneapolis-Saint Paul, Minnesota

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• No man can call himself liberal, or radical, or even a conservative advocate of fair play, if his work depends in any way on the unpaid or underpaid labor of women at home, or in the office.

  Gloria Steinem

  Women, Home, Play

  Gloria Steinem (2015). “My Life on the Road”, p.85, Oneworld Publications

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• Candidates don't have to deal with reality. They talk about the wonderful things they can accomplish as if advocating them is the same as achieving them. They live in a world of political make-believe in which everything from reconciling conflicting interests to paying for costly programs is easy.

  Fred Barnes

  Believe, Reality, Political

  "The Return of Big Government". www.weeklystandard.com. March 9, 2009.

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• I've always tried to be fair, even-handed, not an advocate for any group.

  Dan Rather

  Groups, Fairs

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• The majority of surveys throughout this Nation show that the American people are advocating for a comprehensive and realistic approach to immigration reform.

  Raul Grijalva

  People, Majority, Immigration

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• I am a Korean War veteran. I support our troops as much as anyone in this body, but I do so by advocating redeployment out of Iraq as soon as it can be safely done.

  John Conyers

  War, Iraq, Support

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• The assertion of failure coming from such persons does not mean that Mr. Mill failed to promote the practical success of those objects the advocacy of which forms the chief feature of his political writings.

  Millicent Fawcett

  Writing, Mean, Political

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• I think the people will - who advocate having a step back and read those public opinion polls on the front page of the newspapers all over this country saying public supports restoration in restoration of the Everglades, protection of the parks and the creation of monuments.

  Bruce Babbitt

  Country, Thinking, People

  Interview with Gwen Ifill, www.pbs.org. January 5, 2001.

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• We can still find middle ground, truly secure our borders, deal with those already here and address our labor needs. But those who advocate giving current illegal aliens and future guest workers a special path to citizenship must compromise.

  John Shadegg

  Giving, Special, Borders

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• The USDA is not our ally here. We have to take matters into our own hands, not only by advocating for a better diet for everyone - and that's the hard part - but by improving our own. And that happens to be quite easy. Less meat, less junk, more plants.

  Mark Bittman

  Hands, Allies, Meat

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• As a dedicated and proud father of three, I am a strong advocate of life. I value life whether born or unborn.

  Gresham Barrett

  Strong, Father, Three

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

  Benjamin F. Wade

  Sentiments

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• You never really know until you put the movie in front of an audience. I am a big advocate of screenings, which are getting harder and harder to do nowadays.

  Keenen Ivory Wayans

  Bigs, Harder, Screening

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• No candidate can win a presidential race advocating gay marriage and opposing the military action in Iraq.

  Dick Morris

  Military, Pride, Gay

  "Dean is a driving force in chasing faithful away". Dick Morris, The Daily Courier, July 31, 2003.

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• Denounce me for advocating freedom if you can, and I will bear your curse with a better resignation.

  Victoria Woodhull

  Bears, Curse, Resignation

  Victoria Claflin Woodhull (1872). “A Speech on the Principles of Social Freedom”, p.40

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• Those who have been outspoken in advocating human rights during these last forty years, have themselves grabbed the most fundamental of human rights from the people of the Third-World countries.

  Ali Khamenei

  Country, Rights, Years

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• Corporate partners help UNICEF fund our programmes for children, advocate with us on their behalf, or facilitate our work through logistical, technical, research or supply support.

  Carol Bellamy

  Children, Support, Research

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• In individual industries where female labour pays an important role, any movement advocating better wages, shorter working hours, etc., would not be doomed from the start because of the attitude of those women workers who are not organized.

  Clara Zetkin

  Attitude, Important, Pay

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