Quotes and Sayings about Support
"We need international support so that our people live a life of normality, of dignity, of liberty and freedom. I hope that our cry for freedom may be heard."
- Mahmoud Abbas
(Related: Life, People, Hope, Dignity, Freedom, Liberty, May, Normality, Support)
"My writing has to support more than my research habit, but I love to curl up with a book about some dusty corner of history."
- Lynn Abbey
(Related: History, Love, Habit, Research, Support, Writing)
"There was never sufficient evidence presented at my trial to support a finding of intent to kill."
- Jack Henry Abbott
(Related: Support)
"But guys such as Allen and William are more supportive than most men."
- Kathy Acker
(Related: Men)
"I've been paying alimony since I was 14 and child support since 15. That's a joke, but not by much."
- Don Adams
(Related: Support)
"The way forward is by building political support for republican and democratic objectives across Ireland and by winning support for these goals internationally."
- Gerry Adams
(Related: Goals, Winning, Building, Ireland, Objectives, Republican, Support)
"The catalyst for much of this change is the growing support for republicanism."
- Gerry Adams
(Related: Change, Support)
"We combat obstacles in order to get repose, and when got, the repose is insupportable."
- Henry B. Adams
(Related: Obstacles, Order)
"The fundamental law of the militia is, that it be created, directed and commanded by the laws, and ever for the support of the laws."
- John Adams
(Related: Law, Laws, Support)
"Irregularity and want of method are only supportable in men of great learning or genius, who are often too full to be exact, and therefore they choose to throw down their pearls in heaps before the reader, rather than be at the pains of stringing them."
- Joseph Addison
(Related: Men, Genius, Learning, Pearls, Want)
"People always seem to assume that we have a full, back-up support team - make-up, costume and a driver - but usually, in a war zone, there's only me and the cameraman."
- Kate Adie
(Related: War, People, Support, Zone)
"I thank God, Jesus, and my Grandmother for being able to support myself and my family."
- Steven Adler
(Related: Family, God, Being, Support)
"My family would be supportive if I said I wanted to be a Martian, wear only banana skins, make love to ashtrays, and eat tree bark."
- Casey Affleck
(Related: Family, Love)
"While everyone I work with may not share my beliefs, I have been surrounded by nothing but support."
- Clay Aiken
(Related: Work, Beliefs, May, Nothing, Support)
"I've been nominated twice before as actor in a leading part. Now I'm nominated as actor in a supporting part. If I don't win, I'll just wait until I'm nominated for being in the theater during the show. Do they have one like that?"
- Alan Alda
(Related: Actor, Being, Leading, Now, Theater)
"There are a growing number of conservatives and Republicans who, while they support the president and support the war in Iraq, wonder how many of these nation-building wars we're going to engage in and what the parameters of that are."
- Lamar Alexander
(Related: War, Iraq, Nation, President, Republicans, Support, Wonder)
"After seven years of writing - and working many jobs to support my family - I finally got published."
- Lloyd Alexander
(Related: Family, Jobs, Support, Writing, Years)
"I have long been a supporter of the Head Start program because each and every year I witness the dramatic positive impact that early intervention services have on children's lives in my congressional district."
- Lucille Roybal Allard
(Related: Positive, Children)
"It is probably not love that makes the world go around, but rather those mutually supportive alliances through which partners recognize their dependence on each other for the achievement of shared and private goals."
- Fred Allen
(Related: Love, Achievement, Goals, Dependence, World)
"I loved living and breathing theatre so much that I decided I had to find a way to bring my desire to act and my ability to support myself together. I'd run through the possibilities in Washington, so that meant moving to New York."
- Karen Allen
(Related: Ability, Act, Desire, Living, Possibilities, Support, Theatre, Washington)
"I am very excited to be supporting one of the world's most visionary efforts to seek basic answers to some of the fundamental question about our universe and what other civilisations may exist elsewhere."
- Paul Allen
(Related: Answers, May, Question, Universe, World)
"When it comes to helping out, I don't believe in doing it for the media attention. My goal is to support the organizations that need help."
- Paul Allen
(Related: Goal, Attention, Help, Media, Support)
"'Favoritism' is always a factor, and pressure always build for the appointment of friends of influential supporters of the President, or for the nominees of powerful Member of Congress from the incoming President's party."
- Richard V. Allen
(Related: Congress, Friends, Party, President, Pressure)
"I support exemptions from the estate tax to ensure that when Maine farm owners die, their families will be able to continue to farm the land that they have protected and lived on, often for generations."
- Tom Allen
(Related: Tax, Generations, Land, Support, Will)
"We had periodic crises in this country when the technical intelligence didn't support the policy. We had the bomber gap, the missile gap."
- Aldrich Ames
(Related: Intelligence, Policy, Country, Support)
"The opera is like a husband with a foreign title - expensive to support, hard to understand and therefore a supreme social challenge."
- Cleveland Amory
(Related: HusbChallenge, Opera, Support)
"We support President Truman's civil rights program."
- Eugenie Anderson
(Related: Civil rights, President, Support)
"My demographic of people have been very supportive."
- Paul Anka
(Related: People)
"We cannot wait for governments to do it all. Globalization operates on Internet time. Governments tend to be slow moving by nature, because they have to build political support for every step."
- Kofi Annan
(Related: Nature, Time, Globalization, Internet, Support)
"I go on giving interviews because I've been brought up to support the projects I'm involved in. When you've enjoyed working on a production, you want to do them a favour."
- Francesca Annis
(Related: Giving, Production, Projects, Support, Want)
"Have a working spouse, because you won't earn a living from writing - not at first, if ever. My wife worked for years to support us."
- Piers Anthony
(Related: Wife, First, Living, Support, Writing, Years)
"The media's power is frail. Without the people's support, it can be shut off with the ease of turning a light switch."
- Corazon Aquino
(Related: Power, People, Light, Media, Support)
"I guess my religious faith sustained me more than anything else. Family is also very important. If I didn't have children, it would have been too difficult. Even if you are strong, you still need people who would support you all the way."
- Corazon Aquino
(Related: Faith, Family, People, Children, Religious, Support)
"Foreknowledge of the future makes it possible to manipulate both enemies and supporters."
- Raymond Aron
(Related: Enemies, Future)
"This airline is grateful for his extensive contributions and we will miss his friendship and support. We extend our deepest sympathies to the Casey family on its personal loss."
- Gerard Arpey
(Related: Family, Friendship, Loss, Support, Will)
"It is important to make the fans that support me feel supported."
- Mackenzie Astin
(Related: Fans, Support)
"I support public and private partnerships whenever appropriate in order to achieve our goal of a prosperous and vibrant downtown."
- Alan Autry
(Related: Goal, Order, Public, Support)
"Our choice of a reform framework dictated that we looked at the fundamental assumptions that had driven Nigeria's economy, society and policy hitherto and to seek ways of either abandoning or transcending those assumptions and their supporting institutions."
- Ibrahim Babangida
(Related: Society, Policy, Choice, Economy, Reform)
"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
(Related: People, Country, Creation, Monuments, Newspapers, Opinion, Protection, Public, Public opinion, Saying, Will)
"It is crucial that members of Congress cast votes that are supportive of the values upon which our nation was founded: equality, freedom, and opportunity for all people."
- Joe Baca
(Related: Equality, People, Opportunity, Values, Congress, Freedom, Nation)
"Well, there are other aspects, I still command very good support in the party."
- Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
(Related: Party, Support)
"There is a large body of abolitionists in Clinton and Clark Counties in this state, and in Wayne County Indiana, that would undoubtedly support such a store, but whether their support would be sufficient, I am unable to say."
- Gamaliel Bailey
(Related: Body, State, Support)
"Of course, it's hard to support full-time programmers, so we do get funds from a set of companies that are interested in the health of the Mozilla project and so are willing to support the people working for the Foundation as well."
- Mitchell Baker
(Related: Health, People, Project, Support)
"In the beginning I thought, and still think, he did great good in giving support and encouragement to this movement. But I did not believe then, and have never believed since, that these ills can be settled by partisan political methods. They are moral and economic questions."
- Ray Stannard Baker
(Related: Thought, Beginning, Encouragement, Giving, Questions, Support)
"My family was loving... they were very supportive and very affectionate, and basically I could do what I wanted, and basically it wasn't anything dangerous, thank God."
- Bob Balaban
(Related: Family, God)
"When we arrived in Japan in 1988, we were not prepared for the overwhelming support shown to us."
- Dennis Banks
(Related: Support)
"I can't deny that some customers and prospects think it's the key to our future. But it's not. We're certainly supportive of the Dept. of Justice and the 20 states that have brought this action."
- Jim Barksdale
(Related: Action, Future, Justice, Key, states)
"Obama sounded like Al Gore on global warming. The more the case for man-made warming falls apart, the more hysterical Gore gets about an imminent catastrophe. The more public support his stimulus bill loses, the more Obama embraces fear-mongering."
- Fred Barnes
(Related: Fear, Global warming, Man, Public, Support)
"It's a tragedy, but with your support and your help we will wage this fight and we're going to win it."
- Michael D. Barnes
(Related: Fight, Help, Support, Tragedy, Wage, Will)
"It sustained me... I can't tell you how much their support meant to me when I was leaving and coming back and even while I was gone, there was a part of me that knew people were pulling for me."
- Alice Barrett
(Related: People, Support)
"When I left the show, the fans were so amazing in terms of the outpouring of support and continued support all that time whatever ways they could be in touch with me."
- Alice Barrett
(Related: Time, Fans, Support)
"I will always support legislation which respects and values life."
- Gresham Barrett
(Related: Life, Values, Legislation, Support, Will)
"The institutional investor remains the bigger influence on individual trades simply because the institutional investor has more money to support the order and that will have more of an impact on the stock."
- Maria Bartiromo
(Related: Money, Influence, Order, Support, Will)
"A ball had passed between my body and the right arm which supported him, cutting through the sleeve and passing through his chest from shoulder to shoulder. There was no more to be done for him and I left him to his rest. I have never mended that hole in my sleeve."
- Clara Barton
(Related: Body, Rest, Right)
"State and local government, with financial support from the federal government, should offer a program to educate and train foster children for employment and provide them with financial assistance, as needed, until they reach age 21."
- Charles Foster Bass
(Related: Age, Government, Financial, Children, State, Support)
"My Eighth District, like others, counts on these family businesses and their teams working hard to support their families and aid their communities. As retailers, these teams often bring different or unique products to the marketplace."
- Melissa Bean
(Related: Family, Support)
"I am excited to rise today to support National Mom and Pop Business Owners Day. This celebration honors the husband and wife business owner teams whose work helps drive the economy and fuel job growth."
- Melissa Bean
(Related: Business, Mom, Work, Wife, HusbGrowth, Day, Economy, Job, Support, Today)
"I've spent my life supporting myself."
- Ann Beattie
(Related: Life)
"Only since the Industrial Revolution have most people worked in places away from their homes or been left to raise small children without the help of multiple adults, making for an unsupported life."
- Martha Beck
(Related: Life, People, Children, Revolution, Help)
"That's the hard part about sport: as men we haven't started to be in our prime, but as athletes we are old people. I needed support. I lost trust and did stupid things."
- Boris Becker
(Related: Men, Trust, People, Athletes, Old, Support)
"Being at a club that supported me meant a lot."
- David Beckham
(Related: Being)
"I've always been supportive of the right of Israel as a state, and I've always fought against anti-Semitism, even in my own community."
- Harry Belafonte
(Related: Community, Israel, Right, State)
"When one guy undermines the other, it only causes trouble, and the team isn't successful. It's very important for both of us to accept our role and help the team. One guy can get hot, and if that's Alex, I'll support him and help any way I can."
- Ed Belfour
(Related: Successful, Causes, Help, Support, Trouble)
"It's with them that we have constituted a liberation front and brought our logistic support to armies to help their countries come out of colonialism and establish a national internal regime."
- Ahmed Ben Bella
(Related: Countries, Help, Support)
"With my government, we engaged in bringing our help to fights for national freedom. At that precise moment, several countries were still colonised or had barely overcome colonisation. This was the case in practically all of Africa. We supported them."
- Ahmed Ben Bella
(Related: Government, Countries, Freedom, Help)
"I think that they participated in something that was not very proper and was very pitiful, not only for the Algerian people, but also for the other people who counted on our support."
- Ahmed Ben Bella
(Related: People, Support)
"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
(Related: Work, Children, Corporate, Help, Research, Support)
"An ardent supporter of the hometown team should go to a game prepared to take offense, no matter what happens."
- Robert Benchley
"Those who today still feel a sense of impotence can do something: they can support Amnesty International. They can help it to stand up for freedom and justice."
- Peter Benenson
(Related: Freedom, Help, Justice, Sense, Support, Today)
"My parents were very supportive. They went to every show. And they never told me not to do what I was doing."
- Annette Bening
(Related: Parents)
"It is our character that supports the promise of our future - far more than particular government programs or policies."
- William Bennett
(Related: Government, Character, Future, Promise)
"America's support for human rights and democracy is our noblest export to the world."
- William Bennett
(Related: America, Democracy, Rights, Human rights, Support, World)
"I do not support gambling in this state."
- Craig Benson
(Related: Gambling, State, Support)
"I don't care about being a star. I can do a supporting role; I don't have to be a lead."
- Tom Berenger
(Related: Being, Care)
"Yet the effort to inform the public also encouraged responsible public discussion that succeeded in developing a consensus for the measured approach that many scientists supported."
- Paul Berg
(Related: Effort, Public, Scientists)
"American foreign policy has been - and must continue to be - based on unequivocal support for Israel's right to exist and to be free from terror."
- Howard Berman
(Related: Policy, American, Foreign policy, Israel, Right, Support, Terror)
"You wouldn't think it would but my parents were really balanced about that. When it came time for me to be out of the house and out on my own they were very supportive."
- Elmer Bernstein
(Related: Time, Parents)
"The adoring crowds and overwhelming Democratic support in the 2008 election was based largely on joy at jettisoning Bush and the appeal of electing a superbly qualified charismatic African American leader."
- Mary Frances Berry
(Related: Leader, African, American, Crowds, Joy, Support)
"Military hardliners called me a 'security threat' for promoting peace in South Asia and for supporting a broad-based government in Afghanistan."
- Benazir Bhutto
(Related: Government, Peace, Afghanistan, Military)
"Given the right to a free ballot, the people would support my return."
- Benazir Bhutto
(Related: People, Right, Support)
"I support immediate financial assistance to the newly elected Palestinian president. Now, I don't know what those numbers will be, and I don't know how it's going to be framed."
- Joe Biden
(Related: Financial, Now, Numbers, President, Support, Will)
"I work with a couple charities called Serving Those Who Serve and Rebuilding Together. Both are supportive of veterans when they come home."
- Jessica Biel
(Related: Home, Work, Veterans)
"Prejudice - a vagrant opinion without visible means of support."
- Ambrose Bierce
(Related: Opinion, Prejudice, Support)
"No one ever said that fighting the war against terrorism and defending our homeland would be easy. So let's support our troops, law enforcement workers, and our mission to keep our nation and our children safe in the days and years to come."
- Judy Biggert
(Related: War, Children, Fighting, Law, Mission, Nation, Support, Terrorism, Troops, Workers, Years)
"As the Nation's primary supporter of research in the physical sciences, the DOE Office of Science led the way in creating a unique system of large-scale, specialized, often one-of-a-kind facilities for scientific discovery."
- Judy Biggert
(Related: Science, Discovery, Nation, Office, Research)
"The Pledge of Allegiance is an important expression of our shared values, and it should be preserved in its current form. I fully support the Pledge of Allegiance and urge my colleagues to do the same."
- Judy Biggert
(Related: Values, Expression, Support)
"Must we be put to shame by much smaller and poorer countries, by Ireland, France, Austria or Sweden, who have understood that a nation's support of its arts is a matter of both national pride and cultural survival?"
- Theodore Bikel
(Related: Survival, Countries, France, Ireland, Nation, Pride, Shame, Support)
"I support concrete and progressive immigration reform based on three primary criteria: family reunification, economic contributions, and humanitarian concerns."
- Jeff Bingaman
(Related: Family, Reform, Support)
"For me, romance isn't an over-the-top act. It's someone offering to help and to support me. Or if that person thinks I'm making the wrong decision, he'll tell me. I want him to be honest, because being that honest takes a lot of guts."
- Thora Birch
(Related: Romance, Decision, Act, Being, Help, Support, Want, Wrong)
"Greater public recognition will also be critical in encouraging prevention and early intervention, and more generally in building public support to meet the challenges of dementia."
- Julie Bishop
(Related: Encouraging, Building, Prevention, Public, Support, Will)
"As a personal beneficiary of the service that Amtrak provides and as someone who represents a congressional district that counts on safe, reliable rail service, I am a strong supporter of providing this vital industry the funding necessary to continue operations."
- Tim Bishop
(Related: Service)
"I want to believe that those who have been appointed to accomplish this mission will be totally committed, devoting all their skills and determination to their work. I urge you to lend them your support so that, together, we can build that bright future worthy of our country."
- Paul Biya
(Related: Work, Determination, Country, Future, Mission, Support, Want, Will)
"During my six years with them Dr Garnet Davey (subsequently Research Director) constantly supported me and, I have no doubt, fought many battles on my behalf to keep the initially controversial programme going."
- James W. Black
(Related: Doubt, Research, Years)
"A blank wall of social and professional antagonism faces the woman physician that forms a situation of singular and painful loneliness, leaving her without support, respect or professional counsel."
- Elizabeth Blackwell
(Related: Faces, Loneliness, Respect, Support, Woman)
"I am running for Governor of the great state of Ohio and welcome your support."
- Kenneth Blackwell
(Related: Running, State, Support)
"When you become active in the system and communicate to your representatives, and they don't vote in accordance with your values, your responsibility is to support candidates who will."
- Joan Blades
(Related: Values, Responsibility, Support, Vote, Will)
"It is time for us to focus on the issues that bring us together as a nation. Supporting parents' capacity to raise their children with the love and resources they need is simply the right thing to do."
- Joan Blades
(Related: Love, Time, Children, Focus, Nation, Parents, Right)
"One of the greatest challenges in collecting child support is that deadbeat dads move from job to job and state to state. it's hard to keep track of them."
- Rod Blagojevich
(Related: Job, State, Support)
"I know each fund has its supporters, and that some will not want to see the surplus go to schools. But, in tough times, you have to set priorities. And our priority is education."
- Rod Blagojevich
(Related: Education, Priorities, Schools, Want, Will)
"It is important that people support prisoners of the Italian state like Joe in whatever way they can. I was not allowed contact with a lawyer for the first 24 hours, and no phone calls were permitted, but apparently telegrams have been getting through to Joe."
- John Blair
(Related: People, First, State, Support)
"I cannot think of any circumstances in which a government can go to war without the support of parliament."
- Tony Blair
(Related: Government, War, Circumstances, Parliament, Support)
"My job, when it comes to free agency, trades, is not to pick players, but support the personnel department and the coaching staff. We have to have the financial resources to make things happen and that's my job."
- Arthur Blank
(Related: Financial, Coaching, Job, Support)
"Enough research will tend to support your conclusions."
- Arthur Bloch
(Related: Research, Support, Will)
"The United States and Israel have a unique relationship based on our mutual commitment to democracy, freedom, and peace. Therefore, just as our commitment to these principles must be steadfast, so must our support for Israel."
- John Boehner
(Related: Peace, Commitment, Democracy, Freedom, Israel, Principles, states, Support, United)
"House and Senate Republicans are now united in adopting earmark bans. We hope President Obama will follow through on his support for an earmark ban by pressing Democratic leaders to join House and Senate Republicans in taking this critical step to restore public trust."
- John Boehner
(Related: Trust, Hope, Leaders, Now, President, Public, Public trust, Republicans, Senate, Support, United, Will)
"Before the trip began we mapped out three primary goals: 1) to see and meet with our American troops, and thank them for their bravery and sacrifice; 2) to assess the security situation in Iraq; and 3) to give our support to Iraq's national unity government."
- John Boehner
(Related: Government, Sacrifice, American, Bravery, Iraq, Security, Support, Troops, Unity)
"And I think the rolling polls put more pressure on them to sustain their beliefs and to improve their delivery of the policy and their delivery of the ideas so that they can garner support for whatever principle they're articulating."
- Jim Bolger
(Related: Policy, Ideas, Beliefs, Pressure, Support)
"Politicians, no matter who they are, shouldn't be able to manipulate the public on a single issue and then call an election at the height of support - that's a little bit of a manipulation of democracy."
- Jim Bolger
(Related: Democracy, Manipulation, Politicians, Public, Support)
"Patriotism must be founded on great principals and supported by great virtue."
- Henry Bolingbroke
(Related: Patriotism, Virtue)
"Abroad, our most important policy is to support our troops and continue forward-thinking foreign policy in the war on terror - keeping our enemies on the run and hitting them before they hit us."
- Christopher Bond
(Related: War, Policy, Enemies, Foreign policy, Support, Terror, Troops)
"For this reason, it is essential that our Nation's rural transportation professionals be provided with the necessary tools and support to promote and showcase the value, benefits, and accomplishments of rural transportation planning and development."
- Kit Bond
(Related: Development, Accomplishments, Benefits, Nation, Planning, professionals, Reason, Support, Tools, Value)
"Similarly, today, we do not know what will happen as we wage the War on Terror. We do know that we can count on the strong support from our closest ally and friend in the world in winning this war to secure our freedoms and the freedoms for all peoples throughout the world."
- Kit Bond
(Related: War, Friend, Winning, Support, Terror, Today, Wage, Will, World)
"Reducing the budget for Amtrak makes no sense unless the Administration is prepared to implement a reform strategy which can be supported by the budget request."
- Kit Bond
(Related: Strategy, Reform, Sense)
"While I support immigration regulated through a legal framework, I do not support rewarding those who broke the law to get here."
- Kit Bond
(Related: Legal, Law, Support)
"If the Soviet Union and the United States have not experienced direct military confrontations, on the other hand, they supported, armed and trained Africans, to fight other Africans."
- Omar Bongo
(Related: Fight, Military, states, United)
"Men don't have as many difficulties and are more supported to combine the different aspects of their life."
- Emma Bonino
(Related: Life, Men, Difficulties)
"I support the recommendations made by the International Crisis Group. The primary responsibility is for Kosovo Albanians to demonstrate that their treatment of minorities is adequate."
- Emma Bonino
(Related: Crisis, Responsibility, Support, Treatment)
"President Bush, Secretary of State Rice, and several cabinet level officials have visited Alabama's Gulf Coast in recent days to tour the devastation and to offer their continuing support and prayers for everyone affected by the storm."
- Jo Bonner
(Related: President, State, Support)
"While the level of support we can each provide certainly varies, it is very important at this time that we all do what we can to help our neighbors - not only our immediate neighbors here in Alabama, but those further away in Mississippi and Louisiana."
- Jo Bonner
(Related: Time, Help, Neighbors, Support)
"Help is even being offered from across the ocean, as over two dozen countries have stepped forward to offer financial and material support to the American people."
- Jo Bonner
(Related: People, Financial, American, Being, Countries, Help, Ocean, Support)
"If you support the war on drugs in its present form, then you're only paying lip-service to the defense of freedom, and you don't really grasp the concept of the sovereign individual human being."
- Neal Boortz
(Related: War, Being, Defense, Drugs, Freedom, Present, Support)
"For the good of our environment, the good of the economy, and the good of the Nation, I strongly urge support of the upper Mississippi locks and dams project."
- Leonard Boswell
(Related: Economy, Environment, Nation, Project, Support)
"The more expansive government is, the more perils people face in daily lives, be it from IRS agents or from child support services, or from other agencies that often have little or no legal restraints on their power."
- James Bovard
(Related: Government, Legal, Power, People, Support)
"We players understand we have the best lives in the world. We owe a debt of gratitude to all our fans, everyone who supports us."
- Bruce Bowen
(Related: Gratitude, Debt, Fans, World)
"If our society continues to support basic research on how living organisms function, it is likely that my great grandchildren will be spared the agony of losing family members to most types of cancer."
- Paul D. Boyer
(Related: Family, Society, Cancer, Living, Losing, Research, Support, Will)
"I am very fortunate to have a career. I always have to act. I don't know if I'll have a career to support it for the rest of my life, but I know I'll always act."
- Lara Flynn Boyle
(Related: Life, Act, Career, Rest, Support)
"I live myself with my cat Pebbles. She isn't enjoying the attention as much as me - she ran off up the stairs as soon as the film crew for the show came into the house. She didn't come down for hours. But I have the support of all my brothers and sisters and my neighbours and friends - everyone thinks it's just great."
- Susan Boyle
(Related: Attention, Brothers, Film, Friends, Sisters, Stairs, Support)
"Mr. Speaker, the Delaware River deepening project is important for my constituents, for our region and for the entire nation. I trust that, when they examine the facts about it, every one of my colleagues will join me in supporting it."
- Robert Brady
(Related: Trust, Facts, Nation, Project, Will)
"It's very difficult to judge relationships from the outside. You never know what happens in intimate moments with two people to know why they really support and love each other."
- Eric Braeden
(Related: Love, People, Moments, Relationships, Support)
"Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports."
- Kenneth Branagh
(Related: Friendship, World)
"We here in the North have for many years had a natural tendency to feel that when our representatives come together at an international meeting, we embark on the quest of mutual understanding and support."
- Hjalmar Branting
(Related: Meeting, Quest, Support, Understanding, Years)
"The kind of support encouraged by such modes of expression has always arisen basically from confusing the fatherland itself with the social conditions which happened to prevail in it."
- Hjalmar Branting
(Related: Expression, Support)
"I want people who believe in my message and where I am on issues to support me."
- Carol Moseley Braun
(Related: People, Support, Want)
"Geffen was never supportive of the band."
- Edie Brickell
"My dad was an Arsenal supporter and he used to take me there, but I've always been Chelsea."
- Eric Bristow
(Related: Dad)
"Existentialism is about being a saint without God; being your own hero, without all the sanction and support of religion or society."
- Anita Brookner
(Related: Religion, Society, God, Being, Support)
"Whether we look at capitalism, taxes, business, or government, the data show a clear and consistent pattern: 70 percent of Americans support the free enterprise system and are unsupportive of big government."
- Arthur C. Brooks
(Related: Government, Business, Americans, Capitalism, Support, Taxes)
"When Barack Obama is right, then I'll support him. When he is wrong, I'll fight him."
- Paul Broun
(Related: Fight, Right, Support, Wrong)
"But I made no efforts to organize my supporters to hold on to the apparatus. Consequently I was soon expelled and my followers, who did not change coats overnight, quietly left or were expelled from the party."
- Earl Browder
(Related: Change, Followers, Party)
"I do not support a constitutional amendment to prohibit gay marriage."
- Corrine Brown
(Related: Marriage, Gay, Support)
"The British have given me good support for the last 8 years and have always believed in me."
- Jonathan Brown
(Related: Support, Years)
"I can't see myself leaving the club I grew up supporting... it's one of those things, the money's great but I still get paid reasonably well from the Lions and at the end of the day I think job satisfaction is the No.1 priority and I just love it up here."
- Jonathan Brown
(Related: Love, Money, Day, End, Job, Satisfaction)
"I'm disappointed that Senator DeWine once again chose to go along with his party leaders and their big corporate lobbyist supporters. Ohio deserves a Senator who will be more than a rubber stamp."
- Sherrod Brown
(Related: Corporate, Leaders, Party, Will)
"The current minimum wage simply is not supporting Ohio's working families."
- Sherrod Brown
(Related: Wage)
"We must support initiatives that provide clear, concrete measures and milestones that our troops need for defeating the insurgency, building up Iraqi security forces, and handing over Iraq to the Iraqi people."
- Sherrod Brown
(Related: People, Building, Iraq, Security, Support, Troops)
"I think, like many others, I realized that only the massive introduction of American support in one form or another, could possibly bring about a rehabilitation of the economies of those countries within a reasonable time."
- David Bruce
(Related: Time, American, Countries, Support)
"My parents are my backbone. Still are. They're the only group that will support you if you score zero or you score 40."
- Kobe Bryant
(Related: Parents, Support, Will)
"Indeed, for almost 10 years, Moscow had to carry on a war unsupportable by the government, a conflict that brought about the demoralization and finally the breakup of the Soviet empire."
- Zbigniew Brzezinski
(Related: War, Government, Conflict, Years)
"Palestinian terrorism has to be rejected and condemned, yes. But it should not be translated defacto into a policy of support for a really increasingly brutal repression, colonial settlements and a new wall."
- Zbigniew Brzezinski
(Related: Policy, Repression, Support, Terrorism)
"We should be therefore supporting a larger Europe, and in so doing we should strive to expand the zone of peace and prosperity in the world which is the necessary foundation for a stable international system in which our leadership could be fruitfully exercised."
- Zbigniew Brzezinski
(Related: Leadership, Peace, Europe, Prosperity, World, Zone)
"An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support."
- James Buchan
(Related: Man, Support)
"You might not agree with me, but I always offer a lot of support."
- Vincent Bugliosi
(Related: Support)
"If you have your wife, and you are proud of something she's done, wouldn't you go and support her in something? That is what I was trying to do."
- Gisele Bundchen
(Related: Wife, Support, Trying)
"From watching the news one would think the Iraqis want us out of their country. But an overwhelming majority of Iraqis support our involvement there. Our freedom is contagious and we helped liberate them."
- Jim Bunning
(Related: Country, Freedom, Majority, News, Support, Want)
"Difficult times require difficult decisions. But supporting this bill shouldn't be a difficult decision."
- Jim Bunning
(Related: Decision, Decisions)
"Nuclear power is here to stay, and we need to support a strong domestic uranium industry."
- Michael Burgess
(Related: Power, Support)
"To have my fan club. I am very proud of doing everything. I try to support my parents, friends and fans. I am also proud of my performing in the visual arts, and motion television."
- Chris Burke
(Related: Fans, Friends, Parents, Support, Television)
"Whether or not the standard of living made possible by mass production and in turn by mass circulation, is supported by and filled with the work of us hucksters, I guess is something that only history can decide."
- Leo Burnett
(Related: History, Work, Living, Production)
"We continually say things to support an opinion, which we have given, that in reality we don't above half mean."
- Frances Burney
(Related: Opinion, Reality, Support)
"False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports."
- Richard Burton
(Related: Friendship, Life, Animation, Ivy)
"Support a compatriot against a native, however the former may blunder or plunder."
- Richard Francis Burton
(Related: May, Support)
"I've always thought that people need to feel good about themselves and I see my role as offering support to them, to provide some light along the way."
- Leo Buscaglia
(Related: Thought, People, Light, Support)
"The terrorists and their supporters declared war on the United States - and war is what they got."
- George W. Bush
(Related: War, states, United)
"We will stand up for our friends in the world. And one of the most important friends is the State of Israel. My administration will be steadfast in support Israel against terrorism and violence, and in seeking the peace for which all Israelis pray."
- George W. Bush
(Related: Peace, Friends, Israel, State, Support, Terrorism, Violence, Will, World)
"With those attacks, the terrorists and their supporters declared war on the United States. And war is what they got."
- George W. Bush
(Related: War, states, United)
"Any government that supports, protects or harbours terrorists is complicit in the murder of the innocent and equally guilty of terrorist crimes."
- George W. Bush
(Related: Government, Murder)
"I also know that there are a lot of people around the United States who want my husband to win and who are for him and who support our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. And I feel good about those people, too."
- Laura Bush
(Related: HusbPeople, Afghanistan, Iraq, states, Support, Troops, United, Want)
"You know, my parents have always been incredibly supportive. I'm an only child, so we're very close. There's just the three of us. They're exceptional parents but also great friends. My father was able to take his hobby, photography, and turn it into a beautiful career. So when they saw how much I loved acting, they were 100 percent behind me."
- Sophia Bush
(Related: Father, Acting, Career, Friends, Parents, Photography)
"I was proud to call Dr Rupert a friend. He was always a wonderful source of support and kindness."
- Mangosuthu Buthelezi
(Related: Friend, Kindness, Support)
"Besides, I have a sister who's straight. And I want her to know that I love her and support her."
- Dan Butler
(Related: Love, Sister, Support, Want)
"I support non-discrimination for homosexuals, but I think, or at least I have the right to think - without saying whether I think it or not - I have the right to think, along with the catechism of the Catholic Church, that homosexuality is morally wrong."
- Rocco Buttiglione
(Related: Church, Homosexuality, Right, Saying, Support, Wrong)
"I strongly support the Bush Administration's clean diesel rules, which will reduce air pollution from diesel engines by more than 90 percent, and reduce the sulfur content of diesel fuel by more than 95 percent."
- Steve Buyer
(Related: Content, Pollution, Rules, Support, Will)
"The cooperation of government at its different levels is important and can only be achieved as long as the people of Chicago are directly involved in our efforts and supportive of our goals."
- Jane Byrne
(Related: Government, People, Goals, Chicago, Cooperation)
"I'm ambitious but I'm not particularly competitive. I'll try to get roles, as I think it's healthy to go for things, but... I think there's too much competition between women already. It's important to have female solidarity and support each other and other actresses."
- Rose Byrne
(Related: Women, Competition, Solidarity, Support)
"We have helped to organize the United Nations. We believe it will stop aggressor nations from starting wars. Because we believe it, we intend to support the United Nations organization with all the power and resources we possess."
- James F. Byrnes
(Related: Power, Nations, Support, United, Will)
"And then fourth, we have that essential group of people who track programs and budgets to ensure that they align with the needs of preparation and warning, counterintelligence and support to the operational war fighter."
- Stephen Cambone
(Related: War, People, Budgets, Needs, Preparation, Support)
"So we have a group within the office that is devoted to support for the war fighter. That's, of necessity, an operational and tactical level of concern."
- Stephen Cambone
(Related: War, Concern, Necessity, Office, Support)
"We will say to people that if you can work, and if you want to work, we will do everything we can to help you. We will give you the training, we will give you the support, we will give you the advice to get you going and get you back at work."
- David Cameron
(Related: Work, People, Advice, Help, Support, Training, Want, Will)
"Quite a few people have commented during the campaign that more help is required for small businesses. SMEs need support and encouragement in their early stages, and in Cambridge the links to the University and the huge pool of expertise here helps that."
- Anne Campbell
(Related: People, Encouragement, Expertise, Help, Support, University)
"Yes, I did and a lot of my friends who are in the same program as I were very much supportive, and the most important thing they said to me is do not let this interfere with what you have to do in taking car of yourself. That was the most important thing."
- Naomi Campbell
(Related: Car, Friends)
"I am a role model, definitely and I definitely support women."
- Blu Cantrell
(Related: Women, Support)
"Each year thousands of embryos, no bigger than the head of a pin, are created in the process of in vitro fertilization, with the support of Congress, by the way."
- Lois Capps
(Related: Congress, Support)
"The longer we go without strong leadership from the Administration and until we see significant progress in the day-to-day lives of the Iraqi people, the more difficult it will become to sustain the support of the American people and Congress for the current course."
- Dennis Cardoza
(Related: Leadership, People, Progress, American, Congress, Day, Support, Will)
"I fully support the goal of species protection and conservation and believe that recovery and ultimately delisting of species should be the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's top priority under ESA."
- Dennis Cardoza
(Related: Goal, Conservation, Fish, Protection, Service, Support, Wildlife)
"Oh, you hate your job? Why didn't you say so? There's a support group for that. It's called everybody, and they meet at the bar."
- Drew Carey
(Related: Hate, Job, Support)
"I'm on record as being understood to be a supporter of a reformed establishment, in which other Christian denominations, and other faiths, play a major part."
- George Carey
(Related: Christian, Being, Play)
"And I hope America will realise, as the only superpower now, it really must use its power in a way that's going to build up the world, and to support the United Nations."
- George Carey
(Related: Power, Hope, America, Nations, Now, Support, United, Will, World)
"I also rise today in strong support of forward movement on the implementation of health information technology, which has the potential to save the United States billions of dollars in health care costs each year."
- Russ Carnahan
(Related: Health, Technology, Care, Information, Potential, states, Support, Today, United)
"I got a lot of support from my parents. That's the one thing I always appreciated. They didn't tell me I was being stupid; they told me I was being funny."
- Jim Carrey
(Related: Funny, Being, Parents, Support)
"I mean the public likes it more in Europe than they do here because the state supported organizations have felt that playing contemporary music was part of the education of the public."
- Elliott Carter
(Related: Education, Music, Europe, Public, State)
"Then, when the Depression came, all of this changed completely. Since that time, the entire public is of a very different sort and there was not so much support for contemporary music in a direct way."
- Elliott Carter
(Related: Music, Time, Depression, Public, Support)
"At the Carter Center we work with victims of oppression, and we give support to human rights heroes."
- Jimmy Carter
(Related: Work, Rights, Heroes, Human rights, Oppression, Support, Victims)
"I went from a guy, kind of a working actor, a supporting player, to magazine covers and being offered the studio pictures really quickly. Nobody was comfortable with it. I wasn't really comfortable with it."
- David Caruso
(Related: Actor, Being)
"I support allowing homosexuals to serve openly in our military and eliminating the 'don't ask, don't tell' policy."
- Ed Case
(Related: Policy, Military, Support)
"I think the support of the other team at AOL and everybody's really shared passion and belief about this and - saying that some day everybody was going to be on line."
- Steve Case
(Related: Belief, Day, Passion, Saying, Support)
"Today, the growing economic and social pressures in our country are putting millions of women, children and families at increased risk of abuse and neglect, especially when families are denied basic support services and economic opportunity."
- Robert Casey
(Related: Women, Opportunity, Abuse, Children, Country, Neglect, Risk, Support, Today)
"I am convinced that this approach, a mainstream Democratic approach, commands the strong support of the American people, and presents a sharp and compassionate contrast to the Republican abortion position which offers no real hope or commitment to mother or child."
- Robert Casey
(Related: Mother, People, Hope, Abortion, American, Commitment, Contrast, Republican, Support)
"I was never looking back in regret. I never thought, Oh, why didn't I become an actress? or Why did I just go paddling along after John? I've always walked along right by his side, and he's always supported everything I do."
- June Carter Cash
(Related: Thought, Regret, Right)
"For the first time in 23 years I'm enjoying the process of supporting it, of going out and doing shows, and doing the interviews, and doing everything."
- Rosanne Cash
(Related: Time, First, Years)
"We were thus led to organize ourselves, as men who had fought the war together, in order to support those statesmen who had truly understood the lessons of that World War, thus attempting to prevent its recurrence."
- Rene Cassin
(Related: Men, War, Order, Support, World, World war)
"No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion."
- Carrie Chapman Catt
(Related: Custom, Law, Opinion, Popular)
"Yet there is disappointment in Washington and in the United States that Canada is not supporting us fully."
- Paul Cellucci
(Related: Canada, Disappointment, states, United, Washington)
"We would be there for Canada, part of our family. That is why so many in the United States are disappointed and upset that Canada is not fully supporting us now."
- Paul Cellucci
(Related: Family, Canada, Now, states, United)
"Ironically, the Canadian naval vessels, aircraft and personnel in the Persian Gulf I mentioned earlier who are fighting terrorism will provide more support indirectly to this war in Iraq than most of the 46 countries that are fully supporting our efforts there."
- Paul Cellucci
(Related: War, Countries, Fighting, Iraq, Support, Terrorism, Will)
"Let me close as I did in Gander on September 11, 2002 when I went to that community to thank the people of Gander and the people of Canada for the overwhelming support and help that was given to us in the wake of those attacks on September 11, 2001."
- Paul Cellucci
(Related: People, Canada, Community, Help, Support)
"Liberty, as well as honor, man ought to preserve at the hazard of his life, for without it life is insupportable."
- Miguel de Cervantes
(Related: Life, Honor, Liberty, Man)
"Even with not having a balanced budget at this time, I support tax cuts. That will help limit spending."
- Steve Chabot
(Related: Time, Tax, Help, Support, Tax cuts, Will)
"There is insufficient support for the police and safety and law enforcement, in general, in the city council."
- Steve Chabot
(Related: Law, Police, Safety, Support)
"I have long been active in and supportive of conservation and historical preservation causes."
- Jack L. Chalker
(Related: Causes, Conservation)
"I think that the jazzy approach that I have is based on the way that I hear music and in the way I play a supporting role to the other people in the band."
- Jimmy Chamberlin
(Related: Music, People, Play)
"When his nomination comes before the United States Senate, Timothy Batten can count on my strong support... He is the right person for the job."
- Saxby Chambliss
(Related: Job, Right, Senate, states, Support, United)
"The earth is supported by the power of truth; it is the power of truth that makes the sun shine and the winds blow; indeed all things rest upon truth."
- Chanakya
(Related: Power, Truth, Earth, Rest, Sun)
"Whores don't live in company of poor men, citizens never support a weak company and birds don't build nests on a tree that doesn't bear fruits."
- Chanakya
(Related: Men, Birds, Company, Poor, Support)
"I think we're in good hands. There's definitely much more momentum in bringing in good things to help support the show. Everyone's got a good attitude about it and I think that makes all the difference."
- Crystal Chappell
(Related: Attitude, Difference, Help, Support)
"Religion is of general and public concern, and on its support depend, in great measure, the peace and good order of government, the safety and happiness of the people."
- Samuel Chase
(Related: Happiness, Peace, Religion, Government, People, Concern, Measure, Order, Public, Safety, Support)
"I would consider all of the legislation which I have supported meaningless if I were to sit idly by, silent, during a period which may go down in history as an era when we permitted the curtailment of our liberties."
- Dennis Chavez
(Related: History, Legislation, May)
"We urge all democratic nations and the United Nations to answer the Iraqi Governing Council's call for support for the people of Iraq in making the transition to democracy."
- Dick Cheney
(Related: People, Democracy, Iraq, Nations, Support, United)
"Having loving and supporting parents didn't make me feel any better about the possibility of seeing my personal life splashed across newspapers and tabloids."
- Mary Cheney
(Related: Life, Possibility, Newspapers, Parents)
"A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition."
- Gilbert K. Chesterton
(Related: Intelligence, Intuition, Support, Woman)
"I would say keep supporting space flight, keep telling the public and the politicians why it's important to advance science and explore the galaxy. I encourage the Japanese to keep doing what they're doing."
- Leroy Chiao
(Related: Science, Politicians, Public, Space)
"I support population control. I think USA should do the same."
- Alex Chiu
(Related: Control, Population, Support)
"Russia should support globalization. The Internet can develop in Russia in a very speedy way."
- Anatoly Chubais
(Related: Globalization, Internet, Russia, Support)
"The U.S. Military is us. There is no truer representation of a country than the people that it sends into the field to fight for it. The people who wear our uniform and carry our rifles into combat are our kids, and our job is to support them, because they're protecting us."
- Tom Clancy
(Related: People, Country, Fight, Job, Kids, Military, Support)
"The lesson should be constantly enforced that though the people support the Government, Government should not support the people."
- Grover Cleveland
(Related: Government, People, Support)
"Though the people support the government; the government should not support the people."
- Grover Cleveland
(Related: Government, People, Support)
"The harm which is done by credulity in a man is not confined to the fostering of a credulous character in others, and consequent support of false beliefs."
- William Kingdon Clifford
(Related: Character, Beliefs, Credulity, Harm, Man, Support)
"To consider only one other such witness: the followers of the Buddha have at least as much right to appeal to individual and social experience in support of the authority of the Eastern saviour."
- William Kingdon Clifford
(Related: Experience, Authority, Followers, Right, Support)
"I would never have gone anywhere if it hadn't been for Mother's faith and support."
- Patsy Cline
(Related: Faith, Mother, Support)
"We don't have enough support for maternal leave and the kinds of things that some of the European countries do. So we still make it hard on women to go into the work force and feel that they can be good at work but then doing the most important job, which is raising your children in a responsible and positive way."
- Hillary Clinton
(Related: Women, Work, Positive, Children, Countries, Force, Job, Support)
"There is a great deal of political pressure to only talk about abstinence, and to deny support for condoms and education on using them. This policy will lead to the unnecessary deaths of many people."
- Hillary Clinton
(Related: Education, People, Policy, Abstinence, Pressure, Support, Talk, Will)
"I am in support of the NRA position on gun control."
- William J. Clinton
(Related: Control, Support)
"My parents have been really supportive right from the very beginning."
- Benjamin Cohen
(Related: Beginning, Parents, Right)
"My favorite language for maintainability is Python. It has simple, clean syntax, object encapsulation, good library support, and optional named parameters."
- Bram Cohen
(Related: Favorite, Language, Support)
"Liberalism is an attitude rather than a set of dogmas - an attitude that insists upon questioning all plausible and self-evident propositions, seeking not to reject them but to find out what evidence there is to support them rather than their possible alternatives."
- Morris Raphael Cohen
(Related: Attitude, Liberalism, Questioning, Self, Support)
"My family has always been there to support me along the way. My coach, John Nicks, is a great influence."
- Sasha Cohen
(Related: Family, Coach, Influence, Support)
"The essential meaning of perestroika for Gorbachev and his supporters was creating and acting on alternatives to failed and dangerous policies at home and abroad."
- Stephen Cohen
(Related: Home, Acting, Meaning)
"It is a high patriotic duty that we support and sustain the men who have been placed in position of difficulty, burden, responsibility, and even danger as the result of our suffrages."
- Bainbridge Colby
(Related: Men, Burden, Danger, Difficulty, Duty, Responsibility, Result, Support)
"I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance."
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(Related: Intolerance, Support)
"Books support us in our solitude and keep us from being a burden to ourselves."
- Jeremy Collier
(Related: Being, Books, Burden, Solitude, Support)
"I always sang when I was little and my father, who was a great influence on me, also had a wonderful voice. He and my mother really encouraged me to sing and play the piano. They were always very supportive."
- Judy Collins
(Related: Mother, Father, Influence, Play, Voice)
"Patience is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength."
- Charles Caleb Colton
(Related: Strength, Impatience, Ruin, Support, Weakness)
"To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail, our pride supports us - when we succeed, it betrays us."
- Charles Caleb Colton
(Related: Man, Pride, Succeed)
"And if these be unprincipled agents who scruple at nothing, he will be a bold man who will deny that there are always to be found men at the bar who lend their services most cordially to back and support these agents in their most desperate cases."
- George Combe
(Related: Men, Man, Nothing, Support, Will)
"Conservatives truly love America and support the armed forces, while liberals are unpatriotic draft dodgers."
- Joe Conason
(Related: Love, America, Draft, Liberals, Support)
"Without bureaus, committees, officials or emissaries to manufacture sentiment in his favor, without intrigue or effort on his part, Grant is the candidate whose supporters have never threatened to bolt."
- Roscoe Conkling
(Related: Effort, Sentiment)
"I've had lengthy discussions with European farm leaders. It is clear they have an agricultural strategy to support their producers and gain dominance in world agricultural trade. They're gaining markets the old-fashioned way - they're buying them."
- Kent Conrad
(Related: Strategy, Buying, Gain, Leaders, Old, Support, Trade, World)
"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
(Related: War, Body, Iraq, Support, Troops)
"I can't accept collective responsibility for the decision to commit Britain now to military action in Iraq without international agreement or domestic support."
- Robin Cook
(Related: Action, Decision, Agreement, Iraq, Military, Now, Responsibility, Support)
"I supported Bob Schaffer's three races for Congress. But we all had concerns about whether he could win statewide. Then my wife suggested that I get it."
- Pete Coors
(Related: Wife, Congress)
"The 21st Amendment gives the states the right to decide what the drinking ages should be and other aspects relative to alcoholic beverages, and I support that. As a United States senator, I want to weigh in - this is not my agenda."
- Pete Coors
(Related: Drinking, Right, states, Support, United, Want)
"They needed someone to write a script of The Great Gatsby very quickly for the movie they were making. I took this job so I'd be sure to have some dough to support my family."
- Francis Ford Coppola
(Related: Family, Job, Support)
"I fully support global commerce."
- Jim Costa
(Related: Commerce, Support)
"In celebration of this Earth Day, I encourage all Members of the House to support legislation aimed at investing in the improvement of water quality in our Nation's lakes, rivers, streams and estuaries."
- Jerry Costello
(Related: Quality, Day, Earth, Improvement, Legislation, Nation, Rivers, Support, Water)
"When I played Robin Hood, I knew the great role was Alan Rickman's and it didn't bother me. I always think that leading actors should be called the best supporting actors."
- Kevin Costner
(Related: Actors, Leading)
"Even Obama's staunchest supporters are starting to leave him. Last week Michelle Obama demanded to see a copy of his birth certificate."
- Ann Coulter
"Taxes are like abortion, and not just because both are grotesque procedures supported by Democrats. You're for them or against them. Taxes go up or down; government raises taxes or lowers them. But Democrats will not let the words "abortion" or "tax hikes" pass their lips."
- Ann Coulter
(Related: Government, Abortion, Democrats, Taxes, Will, Words)
"I have always supported measures and principles and not men."
- Davy Crockett
(Related: Men, Principles)
"The Director of the Laboratory, George Reynolds, was most supportive of my efforts to work independently. There followed for ten years a glorious time for research."
- James Cronin
(Related: Time, Work, Research, Years)
"We were number one most added at radio, when the single came out and that's much different. It took like eight months for any radio to happen on the first record, so a lot more support has happened right out of the box."
- Jon Crosby
(Related: First, Months, Right, Support)
"Besides if people really want to support the troops they would vote democrat."
- David Cross
(Related: People, Support, Troops, Vote, Want)
"I'm going to vote in support of the president of the United States in keeping the troops in Iraq until the president and our military is convinced that the mission is complete."
- John Culberson
(Related: Iraq, Military, Mission, President, states, Support, Troops, United, Vote)
"I believe public education is the new civil rights battle and I support charter schools."
- Andrew Cuomo
(Related: Education, Battle, Civil rights, Public, Schools, Support)
"So, am I friendly with my daughter and her friends? Yes. Am I their friend? No. Does she shut the door? Yes, and I very much support the shut door."
- Jamie Lee Curtis
(Related: Daughter, Friend, Friends, Support)
"It just gets draining on a person being in the papers every day. So I was like, I'm gonna come back here. I want to talk to all the people, the fans. I want to let them know how much I appreciate all their support."
- Puff Daddy
(Related: People, Being, Day, Fans, Support, Talk, Want)
"We're competing against other great cities: Madrid, Rio de Janeiro, and Tokyo. That's why it's important that we all join together on the final path to Copenhagen. Having the support of President Obama is key."
- Richard M. Daley
(Related: Key, President, Support)
"In Haiti you had the Duvaliers for 29 years and they were very well supported by the United States."
- Edwidge Danticat
(Related: states, United, Years)
"At age 12, I was put on tranquilizers when I should have gotten help. There was nothing major and awful, I just didn't feel my family was supportive and emotionally generous."
- Paula Danziger
(Related: Age, Family, Help, Nothing)
"In spite of all the yearnings of men, no one can produce a single fact or reason to support the belief in God and in personal immortality."
- Clarence Darrow
(Related: God, Men, Belief, Fact, Immortality, Reason, Support)
"False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for every one takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness."
- Charles Darwin
(Related: Science, Progress, Facts, Harm, Pleasure)
"It was important for us to be as supportive as our candidates and as our incumbent senators would have us be."
- Tom Daschle
(Related: Senators)
"I'm very much in support of the free press, but the free press ought to be educational and informative. And I believe they have fallen down recently on that."
- Sam Dash
(Related: Press, Support)
"Our old site did not have very good support for the disabled, but our new site should soon have much better support. With all of our content in divs now, we can hide all but the relevant chunks of content and navigation with a simple alternate CSS file."
- Mike Davidson
(Related: Content, Navigation, Now, Old, Support)
"America had taken my father from me. And over most of the years of his illness, I gradually started feeling this support system from this country who-people grieving along with us."
- Patti Davis
(Related: Father, America, Country, Feeling, Illness, Support, Years)
"Many of us saw religion as harmless nonsense. Beliefs might lack all supporting evidence but, we thought, if people needed a crutch for consolation, where's the harm? September 11th changed all that."
- Richard Dawkins
(Related: Religion, Thought, People, Beliefs, Harm, Nonsense)
"It is easier to have faith that God will support each House of Hospitality and Farming Commune and supply our needs in the way of food and money to pay bills, than it is to keep a strong, hearty, living faith in each individual around us - to see Christ in him."
- Dorothy Day
(Related: Faith, Food, Money, God, Christ, Hospitality, Living, Needs, Support, Will)
"Once again, the Republicans in the Senate have rejected an increase in the minimum wage. They support tax breaks for multi-millionaires, but they oppose helping the working poor to earn a decent income."
- Mark Dayton
(Related: Tax, Income, Poor, Republicans, Senate, Support, Wage)
"In fact, many nations currently refuse to support embryonic stem cell research of any kind."
- Nathan Deal
(Related: Fact, Nations, Research, Support)
"Our supporters can send the message that it's wrong for politically connected corporations to make millions while people doing an honest day's work are being cheated out of an honest day's pay."
- Morris Dees
(Related: Work, People, Being, Corporations, Day, Wrong)
"The best proof of the high quality of American beef is the continued negative BSE findings supported by the highest surveillance possible. The administration should be working to increase our surveillance of BSE, not scaling it back."
- Rosa DeLauro
(Related: Quality, Negative, American, Proof)
"We must now make clear to Lebanon that it will not benefit from U.S. assistance and support as long as it harbors this brutal terrorist and murder."
- Jim DeMint
(Related: Murder, Now, Support, Will)
"I've always been a guy who's pretty supportive, its just my nature, so I came in to the situation with the attitude that I wanted to support Johnny and make it work."
- Rick Derringer
(Related: Work, Nature, Attitude, Pretty, Support)
"David was the kind of guy who was totally supportive of the actors and instructed the writing staff to trust the actor's instincts, since after all, it's the actors playing the character."
- William Devane
(Related: Trust, Character, Actor, Actors, Writing)
"So many people supported me through my public life and I will never forget them."
- Princess Diana
(Related: Life, People, Forget, Public, Will)
"I still think it would be a great mistake to go into a war without support of our friends and allies."
- John Dingell
(Related: War, Mistake, Friends, Support)
"I can support going in after Saddam Hussein, but I want to make sure I don't go alone."
- John Dingell
(Related: Support, Want)
"In 1975 I was among a group of blacks who formed the Black Americans in Support of Israel Committee."
- David Dinkins
(Related: Americans, Committee, Israel, Support)
"I started at 5 years old in the kitchen table with my family supporting me. I know where I'm from and I know exactly where I'm going."
- Celine Dion
(Related: Family, Kitchen, Old, Years)
"The only thing is we didn't have the supporting cast."
- Marcel Dionne
"Disneyland is the star, everything else is in the supporting role."
- Walt Disney
"Without publicity there can be no public support, and without public support every nation must decay."
- Benjamin Disraeli
(Related: Nation, Public, Publicity, Support)
"I'm a conservative. I was an avid supporter of Ronald Reagan; I thought he was fabulous."
- Shannen Doherty
(Related: Thought, Conservative)
"At the constitutional level where we work, 90 percent of any decision is emotional. The rational part of us supplies the reasons for supporting our predilections."
- William O. Douglas
(Related: Work, Decision)
"I dropped out of college my junior year to do Saturday Night Live, and I didn't even consult my parents. They were very supportive because they had no choice."
- Julia Louis Dreyfus
(Related: Choice, College, Night, Parents)
"I am enormously honored to be one of the spokesmen of the New Age Womens Health Campaign, so you'll be seeing me in public service announcements and public appearances supporting the campaign."
- Karen Duffy
(Related: Age, Health, Public, Service)
"My father suffered much and toiled painfully all his life, for he had no resources other than the proceeds of his trade from which to support himself and his wife and family."
- Albrecht Durer
(Related: Family, Life, Father, Wife, Support, Trade)
"As a person, I'm pretty much the same except that I've come to terms with who my real friends and supporters are. I don't get particularly friendly with new people at first go."
- Sanjay Dutt
(Related: People, First, Friends, Pretty)
"My senior year I was basically supporting myself, so it was like, Do you want to eat and pay the rent, or do you want to go to school? I wanted to eat and pay the rent."
- Clea Duvall
(Related: School, Want)
"Men who want to support women in our struggle for freedom and justice should understand that it is not terrifically important to us that they learn to cry; it is important to us that they stop the crimes of violence against us."
- Andrea Dworkin
(Related: Men, Women, Freedom, Justice, Struggle, Support, Violence, Want)
"I believe that sooner or later we're going to have to deal with Saddam Hussein, because of his general reputation, because of what I'm convinced he's done with regard to terrorism and the support thereof. But I'm not at all sure I believe that it has to be right now."
- Lawrence Eagleburger
(Related: Now, Reputation, Right, Support, Terrorism)
"Many times I've sat with a camera and another actor and seen all their fears and insecurities and struggles. You want to support them and help them as much as you can."
- Christopher Eccleston
(Related: Actor, Help, Support, Want)
"You get to a point where it gets very complex, where you have money laundering activities, drug related activities, and terrorist support activities converging at certain points and becoming one."
- Sibel Edmonds
(Related: Money, Support)
"I have found it impossible to carry the heavy burden of responsibility and to discharge my duties as king as I would wish to do without the help and support of the woman I love."
- Edward VIII
(Related: Love, Burden, Help, Responsibility, Support, Woman)
"I've supported myself by writing since 1992, and I'm probably very nearly unemployable by now because employers are likely to be put off by the long gap."
- Greg Egan
(Related: Now, Writing)
"I support stem cell research, including embryonic stem cell research."
- Bob Ehrlich
(Related: Research, Support)
"I want to point out to adults that there is a world of good material available to you now in comic form - in this medium - and learn to give it your support because the more you support it, the better the material will be as it comes out."
- Will Eisner
(Related: Now, Support, Want, Will, World)
"According to the Social Security Administration, in 1945, 41.9 workers supported each individual retiree, while today only 3.3 workers support each retiree. This system cannot continue."
- Larry Elder
(Related: Security, Support, Today, Workers)
"Not hippie - my parents were not hippies - but they were very supportive and encouraging, and that does a lot for someone, and it gives them a lot of confidence."
- Jenna Elfman
(Related: Encouraging, Confidence, Hippies, Parents)
"Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Manners, Support)
"I thought it must be pure science fiction. But when I checked it out I found a lot of magazine articles that actually supported the theory behind the book which was incredible. That's when I decided to acquire the rights of the book and everything went from there."
- Roland Emmerich
(Related: Science, Thought, Fiction, Rights, Theory)
"I wholeheartedly support umbilical stem cell research, but also support embryonic stem cell research."
- Eliot Engel
(Related: Research, Support)
"Praying can make a difference, and it is up to all of us to try that, with faith, and see if it will not support these admirable troops, their spouses, and their families."
- Michael Enzi
(Related: Faith, Difference, Support, Troops, Will)
"The foundations of democratic transition should be laid in accordance with a sincere and committed strategy that is supported by various policy tools, and implemented wisely."
- Recep Tayyip Erdogan
(Related: Policy, Strategy, Tools)
"Having felt people's love and support first hand through difficult moments in my life makes me feel it's our responsibility to help one another."
- Gloria Estefan
(Related: Life, Love, People, First, Help, Moments, Responsibility, Support)
"It's drama, it's a lot of things, but you know it's always about every movie or every TV project ever made is meant to be watched. If people like it and support it, that's what it is all about, really it's sort of the important part about it."
- Will Estes
(Related: People, Drama, Project, Support)
"An hour of my time is a tiny price to pay for all the support I've gotten from my fans."
- Erik Estrada
(Related: Time, Fans, Support)
"At the very outset I want to say how the people of America appreciate the steadfast support of the people of Morocco, the leadership of Morocco in our war against terrorism."
- Donald Evans
(Related: Leadership, War, People, America, Support, Terrorism, Want)
"I had a great first year and Mr. MacDonald was my biggest supporter. He gave me the encouragement I needed that first year to get my career started on a positive note."
- Jim Evans
(Related: Positive, Career, Encouragement, First)
"It's been a hard time to celebrate, to come out with a smile. But I'm an American. Naomi asked me to come out to support other Americans, and here I am."
- Angie Everhart
(Related: Time, American, Americans, Smile, Support)
"I was able to support myself by acting alone about six years ago. Until then, I was just scraping by."
- Edie Falco
(Related: Acting, Support, Years)
"Divorced men are more likely to meet their car payments than their child support obligations."
- Susan Faludi
(Related: Car, Men, Support)
"God created the family to provide the maximum love and support and morality and example that one can imagine."
- Jerry Falwell
(Related: Family, Love, God, Morality, Example, Support)
"I am such a strong admirer and supporter of George W. Bush that if he suggested eliminating the income tax or doubling it, I would vote yes on first blush."
- Jerry Falwell
(Related: Blush, First, Tax, Income, Vote)
"I think the most difficult thing had been scaling the infrastructure. Trying to support the response we had received from our users and the number of people that were interested in using the software."
- Shawn Fanning
(Related: People, Software, Support, Trying)
"I ascribe a basic importance to the phenomenon of language. To speak means to be in a position to use a certain syntax, to grasp the morphology of this or that language, but it means above all to assume a culture, to support the weight of a civilization."
- Frantz Fanon
(Related: Civilization, Culture, Importance, Language, Support, Weight)
"My number one goal is to love, support and be there for my son."
- Farrah Fawcett
(Related: Love, Son, Goal, Support)
"There is little doubt that the majority of Mr. Mill's supporters in 1865 did not know what his political opinions were, and that they voted for him simply on his reputation as a great thinker."
- Millicent Fawcett
(Related: Doubt, Majority, Opinions, Reputation)
"We need to continue to decrease the growth rate of the global population; the planet can't support many more people."
- Nina Fedoroff
(Related: People, Growth, Population, Support)
"We have a substantial number of countries that have pledged and provided all kinds of support for the United States in the event that war becomes necessary in Iraq."
- Douglas Feith
(Related: War, Countries, Iraq, states, Support, United)
"I've always supported myself. I like the sense of knowing exactly where I stand financially, but there is a side of me that longs for a knight in shining armor."
- Barbara Feldon
(Related: Knight, Sense)
"When I went out on tour as Bing Hitler I would hook up with Lenny and we'd get drunk together. He was always very supportive. He was a big star and a lot of what he said to me had power and impact. Apart from that, I just like him."
- Craig Ferguson
(Related: Power)
"We have seen that, in another unfunded mandate, the so-called No Child Left Behind Act, which created tougher standards, and we all support that, but Congress did not provide the money to attract and hire the best teachers."
- Bob Filner
(Related: Money, Act, Congress, Support, Teachers)
"I do not support abortion rights. Although what I would support in this vexed area is not clear to me."
- Stanley Fish
(Related: Abortion, Rights, Support)
"If my daughter wants to get into this business, I would support that decision. She's going to have a hard time not being in it. She loves food and she's around it all the time."
- Bobby Flay
(Related: Food, Time, Business, Daughter, Decision, Being, Support)
"My commitment to the security and future of Israel is based upon basic morality as well as enlightened self-interest. Our role in supporting Israel honors our own heritage."
- Gerald R. Ford
(Related: Morality, Commitment, Future, Israel, Security, Self)
"The bureaucracy is not great. I don't think Rick Santorum who is not one for being a big proponent of large bureaucracies would be as enthusiastic a supporter of it."
- Harold Ford
(Related: Being, Bureaucracy)
"So we have broad bipartisan support for the bill, and it's my hope that we can build on some of the things that have been talked about in Washington involving building a larger ownership society."
- Harold Ford
(Related: Society, Hope, Building, Ownership, Support, Washington)
"It took me a long time to figure out how to act, and how to conduct myself in the business so I could get what I felt I needed to support my potential and give them what they wanted."
- Harrison Ford
(Related: Business, Time, Act, Potential, Support)
"I didn't tour Europe, because I didn't have any label support."
- Lita Ford
(Related: Europe, Support)
"From 1941 to 1945 we won a war by enlisting the whole-hearted support of all our people and all our resources."
- James Forrestal
(Related: War, People, Support)
"Evil is the shadow of angel. Just as there are angels of light, support, guidance, healing and defense, so we have experiences of shadow angels. And we have names for them: racism, sexism, homophobia are all demons - but they're not out there."
- Matthew Fox
(Related: Angels, Defense, Evil, Guidance, Healing, Light, Names, Racism, Sexism, Shadow, Support)
"You may count on Mexico's support, since your commitment to the noblest causes of mankind and your vast experience are and will be invaluable in enabling us, together, to achieve a better world."
- Vicente Fox
(Related: Experience, Causes, Commitment, Mankind, May, Support, Will, World)
"So why in the world would anyone support the unethical, failed use of embryonic stem cells instead of the ethical, successful use of adult stem cells? Because they do not know the difference."
- Virginia Foxx
(Related: Successful, Difference, Support, World)
"Our brave soldiers and support personnel are engaged in a battle as important as any the United States has ever before waged, for the success of democracy in Iraq is a crucial test of the ideals this Nation was founded upon."
- Virginia Foxx
(Related: Success, Battle, Democracy, Ideals, Iraq, Nation, Soldiers, states, Support, United)
"When community action was put into federal law in the early sixties as part of the effort to combat poverty and social injustice, I supported it intellectually."
- Barney Frank
(Related: Action, Community, Effort, Injustice, Law, Poverty)
"But when others suggested that the poor should not simply be the objects of these programs but also the subjects - that they should be actively involved in shaping the programs, making decisions about how to spend the money etc. - some of the previous supporters reconsidered."
- Barney Frank
(Related: Money, Decisions, Poor)
"For many of those who had historically supported welfare programs in the broadest sense, it was perfectly reasonable to enact legislation in which poor people were the objects of efforts to assist them."
- Barney Frank
(Related: People, Legislation, Poor, Sense, Welfare)
"Before this learning experience, I had assumed that with regard to programs that sought to help people out of poverty, the political world was essentially divided into two camps: conservatives who opposed these for a variety of reasons, and liberals who supported them."
- Barney Frank
(Related: Experience, People, Help, Learning, Liberals, Poverty, Variety, World)
"A large part of crime is economics - if people are working and and have a home and family to support, then I believe you can reduce the crime rate."
- Vincent Frank
(Related: Family, Home, People, Crime, Economics, Support)
"I'm so lucky. I have such a great support system. All I have to do is run."
- Cathy Freeman
(Related: Support)
"I see an issue I like, and I support it."
- Kinky Friedman
(Related: Support)
"I support gay marriage. I believe they have a right to be as miserable as the rest of us."
- Kinky Friedman
(Related: Marriage, Gay, Rest, Right, Support)
"Red Carpet has a nice package abstraction layer that allows us to support RPMs and DEBs transparently."
- Nat Friedman
(Related: Support)
"We plan to support Exchange 2003 as soon as it is released. We already have the prerelease versions from MSDN."
- Nat Friedman
(Related: Support)
"As long as she is talented enough and passionate about doing it herself then I will be happy and support her. I think I will be sensible - my parents said I could only do it if I got my education and so I had something to fall back on."
- Anna Friel
(Related: Education, Parents, Support, Will)
"Now learning a bit more about footballers I think what they need to do well, is someone who really wants to stay in the background and just be a strong support."
- Anna Friel
(Related: Learning, Now, Support)
"Social Security, a critically important, great program which does serve as the cornerstone of support for senior citizens, now faces challenges that threaten its long-term stability and well-being. The facts are there. The facts are crystal clear."
- Bill Frist
(Related: Faces, Facts, Now, Security, Stability, Support)
"This cream will help one's nature strengthen and grow, The diet gives support in my decline."
- Du Fu
(Related: Diet, Nature, Help, Support, Will)
"No man in America ever strove more, and more successfully first to bring about a Congress in 1765, and then to support it ever afterwards than myself."
- Christopher Gadsden
(Related: America, Congress, First, Man, Support)
"My family were broadminded enough to support me when I wanted to pursue a life in the theatre."
- Peter Gallagher
(Related: Family, Life, Support, Theatre)
"I'm sorry I'm not gay or Jewish, so I don't have a special interest group of journalists that support me."
- Vincent Gallo
(Related: Gay, Interest, Support)
"Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained."
- Mohandas Gandhi
(Related: Truth, Public, Self, Support)
"God is, even though the whole world deny him. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained."
- Mohandas Gandhi
(Related: God, Truth, Public, Self, Support, World)
"Both my mother and father were very supportive of any career move any of us wanted to make."
- James Gandolfini
(Related: Mother, Father, Career)
"There are many experiments and a great deal of research that can be performed on the station that make a difference in our lives and we are committed to supporting this important vocation."
- Marc Garneau
(Related: Difference, Research, Vocation)
"I have heard all kinds of stories about telling employers about MS and I really don't know what the answer is. I am a private person, but I have found support by talking to fellow MSrs in the community."
- Teri Garr
(Related: Community, Support, Talking)
"You can keep it to yourself, but you could also call a support team like the team at MS LifeLines. They are there to support the MS community and give good advice."
- Teri Garr
(Related: Advice, Community, Support)
"Well, the whole story is in the book, but the short answer is that I was the first information architect in an organization that was traditionally design-oriented, and I felt I needed a tool to help me gain the trust and support of my colleagues."
- Jesse James Garrett
(Related: Trust, Design, First, Gain, Help, Information, Support)
"Those who look for the laws of Nature as a support for their new works collaborate with the creator."
- Antonio Gaudi
(Related: Nature, Laws, Support)
"My father thought sport was something fun - he didn't know it was a way to make money. Then I won a Mercedes at the world championships and I gave it to him. From the moment it arrived my father said: 'Good, you can support not just yourself but me too'."
- Haile Gebrselassie
(Related: Money, Father, Thought, Fun, Support, World)
"We will not support returning Fannie and Freddie to the role they played before conservatorship, where they fought to take market share from private competitors while enjoying the privilege of government support."
- Timothy Geithner
(Related: Government, Privilege, Support, Will)
"And I think it's a prudent, responsible way, given the scale of the emergency, the scale of the damage still facing America, that we finance these additional support for the unemployed as well as the support for small business. We think there's a good case for doing it now. We want to do it in an overall fiscally responsible way."
- Timothy Geithner
(Related: Finance, Business, America, Now, Support, Want)
"There is not a single extant study that supports all the arguments against men being with their children. It's absolute bollocks."
- Bob Geldof
(Related: Men, Arguments, Being, Children, Study)
"The best way to inspire people to superior performance is to convince them by everything you do and by your everyday attitude that you are wholeheartedly supporting them."
- Harold S. Geneen
(Related: People, Attitude, Performance)
"The Hussein regime's support for terrorism, within and outside of its borders, its appetite for the world's most dangerous weapons, and its openly declared hostility to the United States were a combination that was a gathering and growing danger to our country."
- Jim Gerlach
(Related: Appetite, Country, Danger, states, Support, Terrorism, United, Weapons, World)
"To me it's the best trophy you can win and to bring it back for all them fans that have supported us right through would be something special."
- Steven Gerrard
(Related: Fans, Right)
"The Getty family has been fully supportive throughout this situation, and for that, I am very grateful."
- Gordon Getty
(Related: Family)
"We discussed buying a defender. The view was the priority at that time given the way we were playing was that we needed support up front and that is why we bought Louis Saha."
- David Gill
(Related: Time, Buying, Support)
"We had to support our player and genuinely felt, like Rio has said, that it was an honest mistake. It is important to know that Manchester United never said, and Rio Ferdinand never said, that a mistake hadn't been made."
- David Gill
(Related: Mistake, Support, United)
"Nearly 30,000 fans turned out to support the tribute match and provide one of the best atmospheres at the ground for ages. I was so happy to be part of it."
- David Ginola
(Related: Fans, Support, Tribute)
"She never envisioned a legal career for me, but she did think it was very important that I be able to support myself, and I think she would be pleased to see what has become of me."
- Ruth Bader Ginsburg
(Related: Legal, Career, Support)
"With my time in the limelight, I regret that I didn't use it more to push vegetarianism. I support vegetarian options in the school lunch program."
- Bernhard Goetz
(Related: Time, Options, Regret, School, Support, Vegetarianism)
"Getting the support of Syria is the moral equivalent of winning the Klan's endorsement - it might be useful but it doesn't necessarily speak well of you."
- Jonah Goldberg
(Related: Winning, Support)
"However, it may occur that we will find ourselves using a variety of fuel sources to give us the energy we need support our lifestyles and boost our economy."
- Virgil Goode
(Related: Economy, Energy, May, Support, Variety, Will)
"Where's the progress that we're going to see in Afghanistan? You have to keep public support both on the economy and the war or these things will really become troubling."
- Doris Kearns Goodwin
(Related: War, Progress, Afghanistan, Economy, Public, Support, Will)
"I don't believe, the president doesn't believe, that the high income tax cuts work, period. I don't think the evidence supports that."
- Austan Goolsbee
(Related: Work, Tax, Income, President, Tax cuts)
"The Bush administration works closely with a network of rapid response digital brownshirts who work to pressure reporters and their editors for 'undermining support for our troops.'"
- Al Gore
(Related: Work, Editors, Network, Pressure, Support, Troops)
"It was an idea we had when Al was in the Senate - to organize and moderate an annual conference that would look at government policy through the lens of the family to help identify ways that the family can be supported and strengthened."
- Tipper Gore
(Related: Family, Government, Policy, Idea, Help, Senate)
"Actors are not all there when it comes to things like relationships. The thing about us is we still greatly enjoy each other. If it weren't for her support it would be hard for me to do what I am doing now."
- Mark-Paul Gosselaar
(Related: Actors, Now, Relationships, Support)
"We will never win this war until we understand the effect that Guantanamo Bay has had on the overall war effort. And we'll never get the support of the American people if we can't prove to them that these folks that we're dealing with are not common criminals. We're going to keep them - keep you safe from them."
- Lindsey Graham
(Related: War, People, American, Effect, Effort, Support, Will)
"Animals when in company walk in a proper and sensible manner, in single file, instead of sprawling all across the road and being of no use or support to each other in case of sudden trouble or danger."
- Kenneth Grahame
(Related: Animals, Being, Company, Danger, Road, Support, Trouble)
"Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church, and the private school, supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the church and state forever separate."
- Ulysses S. Grant
(Related: Family, Religion, Church, School, State)
"Prose books are the show dogs I breed and sell to support my cat."
- Robert Graves
(Related: Books, Dogs, Prose, Support)
"Our present nuclear fusion reactors are classified by the methods used to support the nuclear fusion reaction, which takes place at a temperature much hotter than the surface of the Sun."
- Wilson Greatbatch
(Related: Present, Sun, Support)
"There is good news in the data the strongest support for priests is to be found among the younger generation."
- Andrew Greeley
(Related: News, Support)
"If your support the community, they will support you."
- Jerry Greenfield
(Related: Community, Support, Will)
"I've always been a strong supporter of environmental protection and initiatives in that area. But I'm willing to set priorities. If we have to make reductions in one place, we'll have to-in order to increase another place, I'm willing to do that."
- Judd Gregg
(Related: Environmental, Order, Priorities, Protection)
"Actually, I have been very supportive of a very robust stimulus package from day one. I think this economy has to have a major stimulus initiative because the only group with liquidity is the federal government."
- Judd Gregg
(Related: Government, Day, Economy)
"I had furthermore spoken on the assumption that Russia would mobilize, whereas the assumption of the German Government had hitherto been, officially, that Serbia would receive no support; and what I had said must influence the German Government to take the matter seriously."
- Edward Grey
(Related: Government, Influence, Russia, Support)
"I knew it to be very doubtful whether the Cabinet, Parliament, and the country would take this view on the outbreak of war, and through the whole of this week I had in view the probable contingency that we should not decide at the critical moment to support France."
- Edward Grey
(Related: War, Country, France, Parliament, Support)
"In effect, I was asking that if Russia mobilized against Austria, the German Government, who had been supporting the Austrian demand on Serbia, should ask Austria to consider some modification of her demands, under the threat of Russian mobilization."
- Edward Grey
(Related: Government, Effect, Russia)
"I mention this fact as tending to support what I have often heard stated, namely, that a shark's sense of smell is so keen that, if men ever bathe in seas where they are found, a shark is almost sure to appear directly afterwards."
- George Grey
(Related: Men, Fact, Sense, Support)
"Give us a chance to show you that those so-called protective laws to aid women - however well intentioned originally - have become in fact restraints, which keep wife, abandoned wife, and widow alike from supporting her family."
- Martha Griffiths
(Related: Family, Women, Wife, Chance, Fact, Laws)
"I found it an interesting portrait of a marriage in exploring notions of how one partner supports the other, whilst not jeopardizing the greater good - which is the family."
- Rachel Griffiths
(Related: Family, Marriage)
"If someone were to think that trees are made to support the sky, they would all seem too short."
- Franz Grillparzer
(Related: Sky, Support, Trees)
"Know that each acre of fallow ought to support yearly two sheep at the least, then a hundred acres of fallow can support two hundred sheep, two hundred acres, four hundred sheep and so on."
- Robert Grosseteste
(Related: Sheep, Support)
"It is not enough to receive support, no matter, how needed it may be. It is fundamental to know how to receive this support and ensure that its result is exponential."
- Kay Rala Xanana Gusmao
(Related: May, Result, Support)
"Let's look at people as artists and try to support them; just because Picasso painted a couple of bad paintings, that's no reason to say he's a lousy painter."
- Steve Guttenberg
(Related: People, Artists, Reason, Support)
"I'm somebody who deserves to be supported and encouraged to continue my work because I have a lot to give."
- Steve Guttenberg
(Related: Work)
"The building of friendship, family, community and love is complicated. We are so isolated in this country, no longer supported by tribes and villages."
- Jasmine Guy
(Related: Love, Family, Friendship, Building, Community, Country)
"I am going to sing lesbian love songs and support gay rights no matter what. The rest is public relations."
- Jasmine Guy
(Related: Love, Rights, Gay, Lesbian, Public, Rest, Songs, Support)
"That's what supporting the troops is really all about - making sure American grunts get the right stuff!"
- David Hackworth
(Related: American, Right, Troops)
"Our generals talk a good game about taking care of their grunts, and the majority of our Beltway politicians bay with moralistic fervor about how they, too, support the troops."
- David Hackworth
(Related: Care, Majority, Politicians, Support, Talk, Troops)
"Our foreign policy needs to support our energy, economic, defense and domestic policies. It all falls within the arch of national interest. There will be windows of opportunity, but they will open and close quickly."
- Chuck Hagel
(Related: Policy, Opportunity, Defense, Energy, Foreign policy, Interest, Needs, Open, Support, Will, Windows)
"There will be no support in the island of Ireland for building a nuclear power station."
- Peter Hain
(Related: Power, Building, Ireland, Support, Will)
"Taxpayers will not stand for - nor should they - the funding of poster sites, leaflets or advertising. What people will support is funding for political education, for training, for party organization."
- Peter Hain
(Related: Education, People, Advertising, Party, Support, Training, Will)
"I strongly support European sanctions against Mugabe and his ruling clique. We must do all in our power to help the people of Zimbabwe achieve their freedom and prosperity once again."
- Peter Hain
(Related: Power, People, Freedom, Help, Prosperity, Support)
"In the main it will be found that a power over a man's support (salary) is a power over his will."
- Alexander Hamilton
(Related: Power, Man, Support, Will)
"It is the advertiser who provides the paper for the subscriber. It is not to be disputed, that the publisher of a newspaper in this country, without a very exhaustive advertising support, would receive less reward for his labor than the humblest mechanic."
- Alexander Hamilton
(Related: Advertising, Country, Labor, Reward, Support)
"The U.S. should support the historic Gaza withdrawal as a first step toward a final settlement: a permanent Palestinian state in Gaza and nearly all of the West Bank."
- Lee H. Hamilton
(Related: First, State, Support)
"We should insist that governments receiving American aid live up to standards of accountability and transparency, and we should support countries that embrace market reforms, democracy, and the rule of law."
- Lee H. Hamilton
(Related: American, Countries, Democracy, Law, Support)
"The Assembly has witnessed over the last weeks how historical truth is established; once an allegation has been repeated a few times, it is no longer an allegation, it is an established fact, even if no evidence has been brought out in order to support it."
- Dag Hammarskjold
(Related: Truth, Fact, Order, Support)
"I do a lot of work with the Dyslexia Institute because, for people with dyslexia who do not have parental support, it is a huge disadvantage. I was fortunate because my Mum was a teacher and she taught me to work hard."
- Susan Hampshire
(Related: Work, People, Support)
"We do not get to this age to be written off. Older people can act as a support system, which is what happens more in Mediterranean countries. People become much wiser as they get older and we should value that."
- Susan Hampshire
(Related: Age, People, Act, Countries, Support, Value)
"One thing that attracted me to Buddhism was the support for this larger vision of values."
- Herbie Hancock
(Related: Values, Vision, Buddhism, Support)
"No doubt one may quote history to support any cause, as the devil quotes scripture."
- Learned Hand
(Related: History, Cause, Devil, Doubt, May, Quotes, Scripture, Support)
"I love the idea that biodiesel has the potential to support farmers, especially the family farms."
- Daryl Hannah
(Related: Family, Love, Idea, Potential, Support)
"Being a humanitarian, supporting animal rights activists, human rights activists, it's all the same."
- Daryl Hannah
(Related: Being, Rights, Human rights)
"Well, we think the broadcasts did have some effect, because we see the antiwar movement in the U.S. building up, growing and so we think that our broadcast is a support to this antiwar movement."
- Hanoi Hannah
(Related: Building, Effect, Support)
"Is the president purposefully using propaganda and hyperbole to garner the American public for support?"
- Sean Hannity
(Related: American, President, Propaganda, Public, Support)
"It would be nice to have radio support, not that we've ever had that much trouble with it."
- Zac Hanson
(Related: Support, Trouble)
"A finite world can support only a finite population; therefore, population growth must eventually equal zero."
- Garrett Hardin
(Related: Growth, Population, Support, World)
"It is well for us that we are born babies in intellect. Could we understand half what mothers say and do to their infants, we should be filled with a conceit of our own importance, which would render us insupportable through life."
- Augustus Hare
(Related: Life, Babies, Conceit, Importance, Intellect, Mothers)
"A mother should give her children a superabundance of enthusiasm; that after they have lost all they are sure to lose on mixing with the world, enough may still remain to prompt fated support them through great actions."
- Augustus Hare
(Related: Mother, Enthusiasm, Actions, Children, May, Support, World)
"Stem cell research holds enormous promise for easing human suffering, and federal support is critical to its success."
- Tom Harkin
(Related: Success, Promise, Research, Suffering, Support)
"What the government has to do, if it wants to govern for any length of time, is it must appeal primarily to the third parties in the House of Commons to get them to support it."
- Stephen Harper
(Related: Government, Time, Support)
"We'll support the government on issues if it's essential to the country but our primary responsibility is not to prop up the government, our responsibility is to provide an opposition and an alternative government for Parliament and for Canadians."
- Stephen Harper
(Related: Government, Country, Opposition, Parliament, Responsibility, Support)
"It's the government's obligation to look really to the third parties to get the support to govern."
- Stephen Harper
(Related: Government, Obligation, Support)
"I've always been clear, I support the traditional definition of marriage."
- Stephen Harper
(Related: Marriage, Support)
"How could you justify giving Holland twice the amount of money that you gave Belgium? Well, finally, I put it up to them. They said that they couldn't do it; it would destroy them. I said they had to do it. And I finally got support from Hoffman on it."
- W. Averell Harriman
(Related: Money, Belgium, Giving, Support)
"So when we start talking about the state and all those that are so important and engaged and supportive around Florida, we've gotten overwhelming support, and it's so exciting."
- Katherine Harris
(Related: State, Support, Talking)
"Everyone has said very supportive things coming out of D.C. today. We can't wait when the race has begun."
- Katherine Harris
(Related: Race, Today)
"Guerrilla war is a kind of war waged by the few but dependent on the support of many."
- B. H. Liddell Hart
(Related: War, Support)
"With my support, the House of Representatives recently voted to permanently repeal the death tax so that family farms and businesses can be passed down to children and grandchildren."
- Doc Hastings
(Related: Death, Family, Children, Tax, Support)
"It is truly a privilege to be able to support all women's causes on a global level. It is remarkable that something as simple as television can empower us to create change and awareness in the world."
- Teri Hatcher
(Related: Change, Women, Awareness, Causes, Privilege, Remarkable, Support, Television, World)
"But we also think that we've got more quite alot more support than any new format has ever had."
- Trip Hawkins
(Related: Support)
"Giving votes in exchange for ideological support. To wit: identity politics for homosexuals."
- Harry Hay
(Related: Politics, Giving, Identity, Support)
"Support for alternate languages will largely depend on the underlying OS."
- Bill Hayden
(Related: Support, Will)
"Universal suffrage should rest upon universal education. To this end, liberal and permanent provision should be made for the support of free schools by the State governments, and, if need be, supplemented by legitimate aid from national authority."
- Rutherford B. Hayes
(Related: Education, Authority, End, Liberal, Rest, Schools, State, Support)
"We know over very national survival is at stake; and we believe that we should support our troops, yes, and work for an outcome that results in victory."
- J. D. Hayworth
(Related: Work, Survival, Victory, Results, Support, Troops)
"I don't know what I would have done without believing in God. His support gives me power and energy to continue to be optimistic, to smile, not to be depressed. Sometimes, if things are not going so well, I don't cry. I say maybe it's meant to be."
- Ofra Haza
(Related: Power, God, Energy, Smile, Support)
"When it comes to accepting emotional support or affection, I'm a little guarded and hardened to that."
- Patricia Heaton
(Related: Affection, Support)
"The decisions that Ellen made on her show were between her and her producers. I supported her decisions. I was there to hug her when she got home."
- Anne Heche
(Related: Home, Decisions)
"Such schemes take money from people who can least afford to spend it to support an unneeded bureaucracy that eats money people thought they were providing for education."
- Jesse Helms
(Related: Education, Money, Thought, People, Bureaucracy, Support)
"We can live our own lives in a way that does not bring reproach on the principles we claim to support."
- Jesse Helms
(Related: Principles, Support)
"I became a Republican when a very wise young lady asked me how I could remain a Democrat when I didn't agree with what they stood for and did agree with what the Republicans supported."
- Jesse Helms
(Related: Lady, Republican, Republicans)
"Heath, I believed in him when I first met him, and helped and supported him. He went on to obvious success in the States and then I had him support me. It can be a lonely, horrible, hard place. It's great just to have someone to call to say 'I know, man, I was there'"
- Martin Henderson
(Related: Success, First, Lonely, Man, Obvious, states, Support)
"Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around."
- Katharine Hepburn
(Related: Life, Support)
"Well, as I understand it, the main supporters are beer companies and the pharmaceutical companies. I'd like them to show me the dead bodies from marijuana. But they can't because there aren't any."
- Jack Herer
(Related: Beer)
"I'm sure that they will continue to look for ways to try and undermine my support, but I have every confidence that in doing this job for South Dakota, I will continue to build on my support and be able to succeed once again in November."
- Stephanie Herseth
(Related: Confidence, Job, Succeed, Support, Will)
"I would argue that one of the issues which the public should be much more emphatic about with all politicians... is patronage, appointing people to high positions because they supported your campaign or helped you raise money."
- John Hickenlooper
(Related: Money, People, Politicians, Public)
"What is politics but persuading the public to vote for this and support that and endure these for the promise of those?"
- Gilbert Highet
(Related: Politics, Promise, Public, Support, Vote)
"Well, of course it was a very trying time for me, and fortunately I had a lot of people who were supportive. A lot of people who were writing and calling and saying they were praying for me. Some people sent me Scripture, and that helped."
- Anita Hill
(Related: Time, People, Saying, Scripture, Trying, Writing)
"Country music fans are extremely supportive. Once they're with you, they're with you for life."
- Faith Hill
(Related: Life, Music, Country, Country music, Fans)
"Our supporters support us for one reason, people pray for us for one reason - because of the healing ministry."
- Benny Hinn
(Related: People, Healing, Reason, Support)
"It is incumbent upon all of us to build communities with the educational opportunities and support systems in place to help our youth become successful adults."
- Ruben Hinojosa
(Related: Successful, Help, Support, Youth)
"That's what unions do. They can get money, they can get support, they can get manpower."
- James P. Hoffa
(Related: Money, Support)
"The only way to support a revolution is to make your own."
- Abbie Hoffman
(Related: Revolution, Support)
"It's important to say that actors can't act alone, it's impossible. What we have to do is support each other."
- Philip Seymour Hoffman
(Related: Act, Actors, Support)
"The government can access these funds but only following approval by the parliament to support our budget requirements and investments in infrastructure development, education, public health, and so on."
- Jose Ramos Horta
(Related: Government, Education, Health, Development, Approval, Parliament, Public, Support)
"We do not have a budget support. We are now fully independent in terms of requirements, but we still have a need for development assistance separate from the budget. So all the economic aid we receive is for development assistance."
- Jose Ramos Horta
(Related: Development, Now, Support)
"We do have some assistance from the World Bank but not from the IMF. We are not borrowing yet, but we are considering, in the future, borrowing from the Kuwait Fund to support our infrastructure development."
- Jose Ramos Horta
(Related: Development, Borrowing, Future, Support, World)
"What this loss means will be appreciated from the statement that one bushel of wheat contains sufficient energy to support the average working man for 15 days."
- David F. Houston
(Related: Energy, Loss, Man, Support, Will)
"Character is power; it makes friends, draws patronage and support and opens the way to wealth, honor and happiness."
- John Howe
(Related: Happiness, Power, Character, Wealth, Friends, Honor, Support)
"The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable."
- Victor Hugo
(Related: Love, Tenderness)
"The soul has illusions as the bird has wings: it is supported by them."
- Victor Hugo
(Related: Soul)
"Captain Hale, alone, without sympathy or support, save that from above, on the near approach of death asked for a clergyman to attend him. It was refused. He then requested a Bible; that too was refused by his inhuman jailer."
- William Hull
(Related: Death, Sympathy, Bible, Support)
"My father was unemployed and I was the eldest of seven children. We were very poor. And when you ask how did we support ourselves, the only funding that we had was unemployment payments."
- John Hume
(Related: Father, Children, Poor, Support, Unemployment)
"In this context, the church supports and favors every effort today to seek the full development of the personality of all human beings, and to promote their fundamental rights, their dignity and liberty."
- Claudio Hummes
(Related: Development, Church, Dignity, Effort, Favors, Rights, Liberty, Personality, Today)
"There are not enough jails, not enough police, not enough courts to enforce a law not supported by the people."
- Hubert H. Humphrey
(Related: People, Law, Police)
"If you are ever at a loss to support a flagging conversation, introduce the subject of eating."
- Leigh Hunt
(Related: Conversation, Eating, Loss, Support)
"If you ever have to support a flagging conversation, introduce the topic of eating."
- Leigh Hunt
(Related: Conversation, Eating, Support)
"A number of people who have supported me on the border fence in the U.S. have observed the fences in Israel and their effectiveness."
- Duncan Hunter
(Related: People, Israel)
"As a matter of fact, an ordinary desert supports a much greater variety of plants than does either a forest or a prairie."
- Ellsworth Huntington
(Related: Fact, Plants, Variety)
"I may be wrong in that, but not I think in putting the questions. In our modern democracy the government needs not a unanimous but a general support for war before it orders our forces to fight."
- Douglas Hurd
(Related: Government, War, Democracy, Fight, May, Needs, Questions, Support, Wrong)
"I am proud of the President's leadership. I am proud to support him in saying: Yes, we are going to do what is necessary now when it is less painful and less expensive."
- Kay Bailey Hutchison
(Related: Leadership, Now, President, Support)
"We in Congress need to support the American forces in every conceivable way, giving them the tools to continue to convert, capture or kill terrorists and the time to equip the Iraqi security forces."
- Bob Inglis
(Related: Time, American, Congress, Giving, Security, Support, Tools)
"In any grass-roots campaign, building an ongoing base of support is as important as winning the ultimate goal."
- Patricia Ireland
(Related: Goal, Winning, Building, Support)
"I know that it isn't just violence against women, it's how do we support ourselves and our families, how do we deal with health care for ourselves and our families? It's a bigger picture."
- Patricia Ireland
(Related: Health, Women, Care, Support, Violence)
"You made it something special. Most of all, I want to thank the fans for your support not through the great times that we shared on the football field, but for the last 17 years of my life. You have supported me through all times."
- Michael Irvin
(Related: Life, Fans, Football, Support, Want, Years)
"As you know, Social Security functions under the premise that today's workers will help finance benefits for retirees and that these workers will then be supported by the next generation of workers paying into the same system."
- Steve Israel
(Related: Finance, Benefits, Help, Security, Today, Will, Workers)
"Plus, 40% of our debt is owned by foreign interest. I can't support a plan that passes along cost burden to our children and makes us more reliant on foreign dollars."
- Steve Israel
(Related: Burden, Children, Debt, Interest, Support)
"There are many alternatives to embryonic stem cell research, alternatives with great potential. We need to support these and oppose creating life for the sole purpose of destroying it."
- Ernest Istook
(Related: Life, Purpose, Potential, Research, Support)
"There was a very convincing argument made that the extremists have won and the aggression is now supported by the majority, therefore fighting until surrender was the only alternative."
- Joichi Ito
(Related: Aggression, Argument, Fighting, Majority, Now, Surrender)
"Every diminution of the public burdens arising from taxation gives to individual enterprise increased power and furnishes to all the members of our happy confederacy new motives for patriotic affection and support."
- Andrew Jackson
(Related: Power, Affection, Motives, Public, Support, Taxation)
"A lot of industry groups have said they support a federal law. They don't want to have to deal with 50 different state laws."
- William Jackson
(Related: Law, Laws, State, Support, Want)
"They were totally supportive, always saw everything I did. One of the thrills of my life was when they went to the theater to see something that I wasn't in. It opened doors for them that otherwise would have been totally closed."
- Derek Jacobi
(Related: Life, Theater)
"Obviously I wouldn't be able to do it without the support of so many people."
- Jamelia
(Related: People, Support)
"Some of the supporting roles that I've done as an actor, I took them because I knew that I would get to watch some of the leading guys in the movies, and also I'd get to work with them."
- Thomas Jane
(Related: Work, Movies, Actor, Leading)
"It's never been important to be a huge star or to have some breakout role. If you're the lead, you get a lot more screen time and you get a lot more chances to develop that character more thoroughly than you would if you do it in a little supporting part."
- Famke Janssen
(Related: Time, Character)
"The city of Wildwood has been fantastic in helping us and supporting this event. This is a small way of the Soul saying thanks to our fans."
- Ron Jaworski
(Related: Soul, Fans, Saying)
"It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself."
- Thomas Jefferson
(Related: Government, Truth, Error, Needs, Support)
"All of the charities we're involved with have touched me in one way or another on a personal level. There are about eight or nine charities that I support."
- Ferguson Jenkins
(Related: Support)
"The stories have been told so often by those of us who supported President Reagan over the years that they seem mundane, almost like a fictional novel or a movie script."
- William L. Jenkins
(Related: President, Years)
"There is a tremendous amount of support for the approach we have taken, which again is to base our decisions on risk analysis and thoughtful scientific process."
- Mike Johanns
(Related: Decisions, Risk, Support, Thoughtful)
"For many years, the government of Canada has massively supported orchestras and the arts in general."
- Lara St. John
(Related: Government, Canada, Orchestras, Years)
"We live within two environments: one is physical and surrounds us; the other is mental and is inside of us. Both can be designed to support your success."
- Darren L. Johnson
(Related: Success, Support)
"Millions of American families affected by debilitating diseases have new hope today after the U.S. House passed legislation to support potentially life-saving stem cell research."
- Nancy L. Johnson
(Related: Life, Hope, American, Legislation, Research, Support, Today)
"Darwinism is not merely a support for naturalistic philosophy: it is a product of naturalistic philosophy."
- Phillip E. Johnson
(Related: Philosophy, Support)
"Without greater support for childcare, parents of young children may be forced to choose cheaper, poor quality care for their children or fail to provide it entirely."
- Tim Johnson
(Related: Quality, Care, Children, May, Parents, Poor, Support)
"Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness and captivity would, without this comfort, be insupportable."
- William Samuel Johnson
(Related: Hope, Comfort, Poverty, Sickness)
"I'd like to believe that the people that have supported me in my work or identified with me in films, the people that feel they know me, they do and they don't have misconceptions - they understand. I believe that."
- Angelina Jolie
(Related: Work, People)
"Country fans need to support country music by buying albums and concert tickets for traditional artists or the music will just fade away. And that would be really sad."
- George Jones
(Related: Music, Artists, Buying, Country, Country music, Fans, Support, Will)
"I feel as though my career really hit its high point when I was cast as a supporting actress in 'American Wedding'. I thought the script had a lot of depth and intelligence, and it really just jumped off the page."
- January Jones
(Related: Intelligence, Wedding, Thought, Career)
"My son tried to work in films and he ultimately gave it up, he finally couldn't make a living, he couldn't support himself. He worked all the time and he didn't make enough money to have a house, have an apartment."
- Jeffrey Jones
(Related: Money, Time, Work, Son, Living, Support)
"I think the federal government really should be supporting Louisiana and ensuring that every person from that area has an opportunity to vote on what will occur in the area."
- Stephanie Tubbs Jones
(Related: Government, Opportunity, Vote, Will)
"There should be a moral principle there that says, let's green the ghetto first. Let's go to those communities where they have the least ability to pay for that retrofit and make sure they get that help, make sure they get that support. And give the young people standing on those corners the opportunity to put down those handguns and pick up some caulking guns and be a part of the solution."
- Van Jones
(Related: People, Opportunity, Ability, First, Help, Solution, Support)
"The trade unions, far from being content with these declarations, established international liaisons and supported every policy based on pacification and understanding."
- Leon Jouhaux
(Related: Policy, Being, Content, Trade, Understanding)
"Then I received support from the Government to compete for my country, and to represent Cuba in competition."
- Alberto Juantorena
(Related: Government, Competition, Country, Support)
"My main point in this regard was to compete for my country and my people and to receive the support of the entire Cuban society, to carry my flag in whatever competition I was in, the Olympic Games, Pan-American Games."
- Alberto Juantorena
(Related: Society, People, Competition, Country, Games, Support)
"The spirit becomes free only when it ceases to be a support."
- Franz Kafka
(Related: Spirit, Support)
"Never, ever deal with terrorists. Hunt them down and, more important, mercilessly punish those states and groups that fund, arm, support, or simply allow their territories to be used by the terrorists with impunity."
- Meir Kahane
(Related: states, Support)
"We've already gotten a significant grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and a university consortium. I think the whole sector of Foundations, potentially with government support, is promising - more than promising, I think, it's substantial."
- Mitch Kapor
(Related: Government, Support, University)
"Amin knew that neither West nor East would criticize him for fear that he would support the other side. He felt he was untouchable and he said so openly."
- Ryszard Kapuscinski
(Related: Fear, Support)
"A person may rightfully be happy if in this life he could do a great favor for widows and orphans, could assist support than, and facilitate fate of people."
- Islom Karimov
(Related: Life, People, Fate, May, Support, Widows)
"I knew how many MPs I had assigned to the brigade, how many military prison operations I would be running, but we needed to evaluate how many criminal prison operations we could support."
- Janis Karpinski
(Related: Evaluate, Military, Prison, Running, Support)
"I thought that that mission and the mission of taking care of those soldiers were my priorities, and I stand by the same today. There wasn't a lot of support for those soldiers."
- Janis Karpinski
(Related: Thought, Care, Mission, Priorities, Soldiers, Support, Today)
"The Iranian regime gives financial support to terrorist organizations all over the world, denies the Holocaust, and calls for the wiping the state of Israel from the map, while developing long-range missiles and trying to obtain nuclear weapon."
- Moshe Katsav
(Related: Financial, Israel, State, Support, Trying, World)
"For as long as I care to remember, religion, like the striptease, has always been a display of the power of suggestion. Like the Virgin Birth, it has all too often supported an immaculate deception."
- Bernard Katz
(Related: Power, Religion, Care, Deception)
"I would also point out that many governments that chose not to support this war - certainly, the French president, Jacques Chirac, as I recall in April of last year, referred to Iraq's possession of WMD."
- David Kay
(Related: War, April, Iraq, Possession, President, Support)
"I rise today in strong support of the Children's Safety and Violent Crime Reduction Act, because it is a commonsense way to protect our schoolchildren from pedophiles."
- Ric Keller
(Related: Act, Children, Crime, Safety, Support, Today)
"However one feels about the war in Iraq, realize that our troops deserve our support 100 percent."
- Ric Keller
(Related: War, Iraq, Support, Troops)
"As a former professional patient advocate, I believe prescription drugs are an essential part of high-quality medical treatment, and I supported enactment of the Medicare Prescription Drug and Modernization Act."
- Sue Kelly
(Related: Medical, Act, Drugs, Treatment)
"In my public service, I treasure my friendship with law enforcement officers. I admire what they do and support them in every aspect of their job. I have always looked upon law enforcement officers as my friends."
- Dirk Kempthorne
(Related: Friendship, Job, Law, Public, Service, Support, Treasure)
"There stands no contradiction between giving voice to legitimate anxiety and at the same time, as and when exchange of fire commences, looking to the rest of the country, as well as all of us in the House, to give full moral support to our forces."
- Charles Kennedy
(Related: Time, Anxiety, Contradiction, Country, Fire, Giving, Rest, Support, Voice)
"We want to support our troops because they didn't make the decision to go there... but I don't think it should be open-ended. We ought to have a benchmark where the administration has to come back and give us a report."
- Edward Kennedy
(Related: Decision, Open, Support, Troops, Want)
"Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty."
- John F. Kennedy
(Related: Success, Friend, Survival, Burden, Hardship, Liberty, Nation, Support, Wishes)
"The United States armed forces and coalition troops deserve recognition and support for their work to remove Saddam Hussein from power, and ensure the safety and security of the American people, civilians abroad, and the people of Iraq."
- Mark Kennedy
(Related: Work, Power, People, American, Iraq, Safety, Security, states, Support, Troops, United)
"Even now, my husband Jerry, our son Matthew and I live only five minutes away from my parents home, and my brothers live about ten minutes away. It's been great having such a supportive family."
- Nancy Kerrigan
(Related: Family, Home, HusbSon, Brothers, Now, Parents)
"Among doctors in general, I think more than half support what I'm doing."
- Jack Kevorkian
(Related: Doctors, Support)
"One individual doesn't really accept the pro-life position of the party, and the other... says he supports it and takes a position that is logically inconsistent."
- Alan Keyes
(Related: Party)
"What most people didn't realize in the Western countries is that here its not a question of having supporters, its a question of getting these votes to the polling stations."
- Imran Khan
(Related: People, Countries, Question)
"I wanted to start a proper academy and recruit juniors from all over Pakistan following my retirement after the World Open in 1993 but there was no support."
- Jahangir Khan
(Related: Open, Retirement, Support, World)
"But which is the stone that supports the bridge?"
- Kublai Khan
"Support by United States rulers is rather in the nature of the support that the rope gives to a hanged man."
- Nikita Khrushchev
(Related: Nature, Man, states, Support, United)
"All the sparrows on the rooftops are crying about the fact that the most imperialist nation that is supporting the colonial regime in the colonies is the United States of America."
- Nikita Khrushchev
(Related: America, Fact, Nation, Sparrows, states, United)
"Entrepreneurs are risk takers, willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise. They willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets."
- Victor Kiam
(Related: Money, Success, Idea, Failure, Entrepreneurs, Reputation, Responsibility, Risk, Support)
"President Bush spent last night calling world leaders to support the war with Iraq and it is sad when the most powerful man on earth is yelling, 'I know you're there, pick up, pick up."
- Craig Kilborn
(Related: War, Earth, Iraq, Leaders, Man, Night, President, Support, World)
"In the underlying bill, I think the authors of the legislation, those in support of it, understand the use of the Mississippi River. Yes, there is commercial navigation on it, and there will be tomorrow."
- Ron Kind
(Related: Legislation, Navigation, Support, Tomorrow, Will)
"I support mosques, obviously. We need churches, temples, mosques. Whatever people use to speak with their god or to receive spiritual inspiration is good for the country. But the symbolism of it at ground zero, within two blocks or three blocks, I believe is wrong."
- Peter King
(Related: God, People, Inspiration, Churches, Country, Spiritual, Support, Wrong)
"Water is always a support or a healing thing apart from, you know, love or peace of mind."
- Nastassja Kinski
(Related: Love, Peace, Healing, Mind, Support, Water)
"We must have the time to create strict rules so that property is not sold by Communist managers for a low price. They often get payments under the table to sell to the first bidder. This does not build public support for a market economy."
- Vaclav Klaus
(Related: Time, Economy, First, Managers, Property, Public, Rules, Support)
"The evidence does not support abstinence-only interventions as the best way to keep young people from unintended pregnancy."
- Jonathan Klein
(Related: People, Abstinence, Pregnancy, Support)
"During the early 1960s, I decided to supplement research support for quantitative economic studies at Pennsylvania by selling econometric forecasts to private and public sector buyers."
- Lawrence R. Klein
(Related: Selling, Public, Research, Support)
"I think our voters have made it clear. Unless someone can demonstrate to me that having larger class sizes is better than having smaller class sizes, I'm not going to support it."
- Ron Klein
(Related: Class, Support)
"We wanted a supporting cast that would appeal to Baby Boomers who grew up in the fifties."
- Randal Kleiser
(Related: Baby)
"The player can only compete with the best internationally when they've committed themselves to this goal. They have to be properly supported until that point."
- Jurgen Klinsmann
(Related: Goal)
"We imagined that the mildness of our government and the wishes of the people were so correspondent that we were not as other nations, requiring brutal force to support the laws."
- Henry Knox
(Related: Government, People, Force, Laws, Nations, Support, Wishes)
"If something in your writing gives support to people in their lives, that's more than just entertainment-which is what we writers all struggle to do, to touch people."
- Dean Koontz
(Related: People, Entertainment, Struggle, Support, Writers, Writing)
"I really believe that everyone has a talent, ability, or skill that he can mine to support himself and to succeed in life."
- Dean Koontz
(Related: Life, Talent, Ability, Skill, Succeed, Support)
"The power that is supported by force alone will have cause often to tremble."
- Lajos Kossuth
(Related: Power, Cause, Force, Will)
"If we allow public funds to be used to support our relatively benign, morally grounded schools, we will have to allow those public funds to be used for any type of private school."
- Jonathan Kozol
(Related: Public, School, Schools, Support, Will)
"I've been so fortunate in my life that my family has never been jealous of my success. They have shown true love and commitment to me by being supportive. They shared in it."
- Mike Krzyzewski
(Related: Family, Life, Love, Success, Being, Commitment)
"Salary arbitration is probably in place - was put in place then and probably is in place now - because I supported it."
- Bowie Kuhn
(Related: Now)
"India has the unique advantages of having the biggest domestic market and this should support IT companies."
- Sanjay Kumar
(Related: Support)
"I am now completing research supported by NSF and NEH that is mapping changes in the English language through all of North America, for both mainstream and minority communities."
- William Labov
(Related: America, English, Language, Minority, Now, Research)
"There's no bigger supporter in Jessica's life than me."
- Nick Lachey
(Related: Life)
"I support any Muslims, whether here or abroad."
- Osama bin Laden
(Related: Support)
"When trouble comes, it's your family that supports you."
- Guy Lafleur
(Related: Family, Trouble)
"Home base is the support system where we have a culinary team, my own writers because of the shows and the books and stuff, we have a culinary team of about six people. Marketing, public relations, accounting and all that sort of stuff."
- Emeril Lagasse
(Related: Home, People, Books, Marketing, Public, Support, Writers)
"We fully support the strikes against terrorist targets, not against the country, not against the culture, not against a religion, but against an enemy of them all."
- Ricardo Lagos
(Related: Religion, Country, Culture, Enemy, Support)
"If even in science there is no a way of judging a theory but by assessing the number, faith and vocal energy of its supporters, then this must be even more so in the social sciences: truth lies in power."
- Imre Lakatos
(Related: Faith, Power, Science, Truth, Energy, Lies, Theory)
"Today, I will vote in support of the Marriage Protection Amendment. I shall do so because like President Bush, I strongly believe that marriage should be between a man and a woman."
- Nick Lampson
(Related: Marriage, Man, President, Protection, Support, Today, Vote, Will, Woman)
"Americans appreciate the way our friends around the world are sticking by us, and we all hope for their continued support in what's going to be some very trying times."
- Joe Lando
(Related: Hope, Americans, Friends, Support, Trying, World)
"I need family support close because when you go to work, they are long days and it can get lonely."
- Joe Lando
(Related: Family, Work, Lonely, Support)
"An unsophisticated forecaster uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts - for support rather than for illumination."
- Andrew Lang
(Related: Man, Statistics, Support)
"He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp posts - for support rather than for illumination."
- Andrew Lang
(Related: Man, Statistics, Support)
"Insurgents have capitalized on popular resentment and anger towards the United States and the Iraqi government to build their own political, financial and military support, and the faith of Iraqi citizens in their new government has been severely undermined."
- Tom Lantos
(Related: Anger, Faith, Government, Financial, Military, Popular, Resentment, states, Support, United)
"I strongly support tax relief for the middle class."
- Rick Larsen
(Related: Class, Tax, Middle class, Support)
"It is no longer an unwritten law of American capitalism that industry will attempt to maintain wages at a level that allows a single wage to support a family."
- Christopher Lasch
(Related: Family, American, Capitalism, Law, Support, Wage, Wages, Will)
"Useful as a war against France, undertaken by the Government against the will of the people would be for our revolutionary development, just so dangerous must be the effect upon our democratic development of a war supported by blind popular enthusiasm."
- Ferdinand Lassalle
(Related: Government, War, People, Development, Enthusiasm, Blind, Effect, France, Popular, Will)
"To me the only real star of the movie is the writer. And I work with writers very closely, from outline to first draft and on to the seventh draft, whatever it takes. Then my job is to support the director to make the best movie we can. Some producers try to go past them, but my job is to support them."
- Dino De Laurentiis
(Related: Work, Draft, First, Job, Past, Support, Writer, Writers)
"I shall support the law, for the law gentlemen, is the firm and solid basis of civil society, the guardian of liberty, the protection of the innocent, the terror of the guilty, and the scourge of the wicked."
- Charles Lawrence
(Related: Society, Gentlemen, Law, Liberty, Protection, Support, Terror)
"I've been a strong financial and political supporter of, first, President Bush Sr. when he was running for president, and even when he ran for president a time or two and failed."
- Kenneth Lay
(Related: Time, Financial, First, President, Running)
"Supporting characters add depth to a story, and great actors leave their imprint with the audience."
- Nicholas Lea
(Related: Actors)
"So, I completely and utterly support David and Gillian's decision to go to Los Angeles, but I think that Vancouver is the perfect location for the show."
- Nicholas Lea
(Related: Decision, Support)
"Like Afghanistan before it, Iraq is only one theater in a regional war. We were attacked by a network of terrorist organizations supported by several countries, of whom the most important were Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Saudi Arabia."
- Michael Ledeen
(Related: War, Afghanistan, Countries, Iraq, Network, Theater)
"There is a big age gap between my sisters Janice and Irma and myself so I didn't know them that well when I was younger although they have been very supportive in later life."
- Alvin Lee
(Related: Age, Life, Sisters)
"Many of us in Congress have been calling on the Administration to articulate a bold mission for NASA. It seems that the President is answering that call. I wholeheartedly support his vision for going back to the moon, and from there to worlds beyond."
- Sheila Jackson Lee
(Related: Vision, Congress, Mission, Moon, President, Support)
"Marching with over a million women in support of our reproductive rights was one of the most empowering things I have done, both as a woman and as a Member of Congress."
- Sheila Jackson Lee
(Related: Women, Congress, Rights, Support, Woman)
"I think IT projects are about supporting social systems-about communications between people and machines. They tend to fail due to cultural issues."
- Tim Berners Lee
(Related: People, Machines, Projects)
"Everybody I talked to - from my friends to my family and some of the players - really gave me a lot of support from the start. And that certainly made me feel good about trying to come back and be one of the best again."
- Mario Lemieux
(Related: Family, Friends, Support, Trying)
"The Bush administration said today there is a lot of support for us to attack Iraq. Exxon, Mobil, Texaco, Chevron, they're all lining up."
- Jay Leno
(Related: Iraq, Support, Today)
"So what it boils down to, in my humble opinion, is that we need to support the arts in schools, and at every other level in the education of children."
- Phil Lesh
(Related: Education, Children, Opinion, Schools, Support)
"The way we've been neglecting to support our libraries throughout the country is a shame."
- Matthew Lesko
(Related: Country, Libraries, Shame, Support)
"Yesterday Senator John Kerry changed his mind and now supports the ban on gay marriages. I'm telling you this guy has more positions than Paris Hilton."
- David Letterman
(Related: Gay, Mind, Now, Paris, Yesterday)
"Dr. Rice's record on Iraq gives me great concern. In her public statements she clearly overstated and exaggerated the intelligence concerning Iraq before the war in order to support the President's decision to initiate military action against Iraq."
- Carl Levin
(Related: Intelligence, War, Action, Decision, Concern, Iraq, Military, Order, President, Public, Support)
"I am 100 percent supportive of the stand-alone bill to repeal 'don't ask, don't tell' that Sens. Lieberman and Collins have now proposed, and indeed I will co-sponsor that legislation. It is time for this discriminatory policy to end, and I am willing to pursue any effective legislative path that could lead to that result."
- Carl Levin
(Related: Time, Policy, End, Legislation, Now, Result, Will)
"Women tend to have recognition and peer group support - recognition from friends and family that this has to be a big issue in their lives. They're more comfortable expressing the need for support and receiving it."
- James Levine
(Related: Family, Women, Friends, Support)
"My mother carried on and supported us; her ambition had been to write poetry and songs."
- Philip Levine
(Related: Poetry, Mother, Ambition, Songs)
"This is true only because the purposes and objectives of the Committee for Industrial Organization find economic, social, political and moral justification in the hearts of the millions who are its members and the millions more who support it."
- John L. Lewis
(Related: Committee, Justification, Objectives, Support)
"We must continue our fight to ensure that Federal, State, and local authorities have the resources and support necessary to combat this growing epidemic. This is a top priority for me and many of my colleagues here in Congress."
- Ron Lewis
(Related: Congress, Fight, State, Support)
"I support development and deployment of a limited national missile defense. Few if any of our duties surpass our obligation to provide for the common defense of our nation."
- Joe Lieberman
(Related: Development, Defense, Nation, Obligation, Support)
"And I managed to arrange to get some research support and to stay in Hong Kong for another year and a half, interviewing people coming out of China, both Westerners and Chinese. And that was my first real research study on thought reform or so-called brainwashing."
- Robert Jay Lifton
(Related: Thought, People, First, Reform, Research, Study, Support)
"The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just."
- Abraham Lincoln
(Related: Cause, May, Struggle, Support)
"The American people want economic prosperity, high-quality goods and low prices, all of which I support."
- John Linder
(Related: People, American, Prosperity, Support, Want)
"Developed countries and advanced developing countries must open their markets for products from the developing world, and support in developing their export and import capacity."
- Anna Lindh
(Related: Countries, Open, Support, World)
"The developing countries must be able to take a more active part in trade negotiations, through technical assistance and support from the developed countries."
- Anna Lindh
(Related: Countries, Support, Trade)
"There are men - now in power in this country - who do not respect dissent, who cannot cope with turmoil, and who believe that the people of America are ready to support repression as long as it is done with a quiet voice and a business suit."
- John Lindsay
(Related: Business, Men, Power, People, America, Country, Dissent, Now, Quiet, Repression, Respect, Support, Voice)
"The opposition is indispensable. A good statesman, like any other sensible human being, always learns more from his opposition than from his fervent supporters."
- Walter Lippmann
(Related: Being, Opposition)
"The tendency of the casual mind is to pick out or stumble upon a sample which supports or defies its prejudices, and then to make it the representative of a whole class."
- Walter Lippmann
(Related: Class, Mind)
"The other part of our proposal that gets the 'dittoheads' upset is our suggestion that the commercial radio station owners either play by the rules or pay. In other words, if they don't want to be subject to local criticism of how they are meeting their license obligations, they should pay to support public broadcasters who will operate on behalf of the local community."
- Mark Lloyd
(Related: Community, Criticism, Meeting, Play, Public, Rules, Support, Want, Will, Words)
"Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues."
- John Locke
(Related: Support)
"The search for truth is not a trade by which a man can support himself; for a priest it is a supreme peril ."
- Alfred Loisy
(Related: Truth, Man, Support, Trade)
"First off, it's wonderful how much people are supporting me and felt I should have stayed in the competition."
- LaToya London
(Related: People, Competition, First)
"For support, I fall back on my heart. Has a man any fault a woman cannot weave with and try to change into something better, if the god her man prays to is a mother holding a baby?"
- Haniel Long
(Related: Change, Mother, God, Heart, Baby, Fault, Man, Support, Woman)
"As full lines of battle could not be handled through the thick wood, I ordered the advance of the six brigades by heavy skirmish lines, to be followed by stronger supporting lines."
- James Longstreet
(Related: Battle, Wood)
"J. Lo is also an homage to my fans. That's what fans call me on the streets, and I like it. So giving the album this title is my way of telling them that this is for them, in appreciation of their support."
- Jennifer Lopez
(Related: Appreciation, Fans, Giving, Support)
"I grew up in a household without a lot of problems and they have been very supportive from day one."
- Mario Lopez
(Related: Day, Problems)
"The platform we had in Dallas, the 1984 Republican platform, all the ideas we supported there - from tax policy, to foreign policy; from individual rights, to neighborhood security - are things that Jefferson Davis and his people believed in."
- Trent Lott
(Related: People, Policy, Ideas, Foreign policy, Rights, Tax, Republican, Security)
"Well, unless you're Wayne Gretzky or Michael Jordan, you need the full support of your team."
- Greg Louganis
(Related: Support)
"I thought that the administration needed bipartisan support, and I was for our commander-in-chief. Because I felt at that time it was the right thing do. If I knew then what I know now, I would have never voted for the war."
- Ken Lucas
(Related: Time, War, Thought, Now, Right, Support)
"One cannot wage war under present conditions without the support of public opinion, which is tremendously molded by the press and other forms of propaganda."
- Douglas MacArthur
(Related: War, Opinion, Present, Press, Propaganda, Public, Public opinion, Support, Wage)
"We probably do not have a large enough industry here to ably support the independent filmmaker to move in and out. Much of the industry is based on full-time jobs here, institutionalised jobs."
- Ann Macbeth
(Related: Jobs, Support)
"We are the only state that does not have a State Film Corporation there to support the commercial industry."
- Ann Macbeth
(Related: Film, State, Support)
"We are not yet at the point where our size, our being the drama industry, is sufficient to support full time professional crews, and that is very very important."
- Ann Macbeth
(Related: Time, Being, Drama, Support)
"We are here predominantly to support independent filmmakers and their needs. We are also here to assist people actually in their production, non-commercial people in their production."
- Ann Macbeth
(Related: People, Needs, Production, Support)
"The State Film Authority will be there for film as industry only, as is the case in all the other states, except Victoria. Victoria is moving more now into supporting non-commercial films."
- Ann Macbeth
(Related: Authority, Film, Now, State, states, Will)
"Without renouncing the support of physics, it is possible for the physiology of the senses, not only to pursue its own course of development, but also to afford to physical science itself powerful assistance."
- Ernst Mach
(Related: Science, Development, Physics, Senses, Support)
"We have to stress our conservative credentials and emphasize that we are the natural, national alternative to the Liberals. Clearly the Alliance has shown it can't break out of its Western box. The Alliance is at single-digit support in three quarters of the country."
- Peter MacKay
(Related: Alliance, Conservative, Country, Liberals, Stress, Support)
"What Canada has to do is to have a government connected to the priorities of the people of which it is elected to serve. Those priorities include ensuring medicare is sustainable, support for the military, and tax and justice systems that work."
- Peter MacKay
(Related: Government, Work, People, Canada, Tax, Justice, Military, Priorities, Support)
"We had to be very careful on our best behaviour when we went to these other countries. And then I made a living, I had a chance to support my wife and my kids. It was a wonderful, wonderful, wonderful program from that point of view."
- Gavin MacLeod
(Related: Wife, Chance, Countries, Kids, Living, Support)
"I don't believe we own our children, they're their own souls who make their own choices, we just guide and support them."
- Elle Macpherson
(Related: Children, Choices, Support)
"What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of Liberty and Learning, each leaning on the other for their mutual and surest support?"
- James Madison
(Related: Learning, Liberty, Support)
"War should only be declared by the authority of the people, whose toils and treasures are to support its burdens, instead of the government which is to reap its fruits."
- James Madison
(Related: Government, War, People, Authority, Support)
"President Bush is supporting Arnold but a lot of Republicans are not, because he is actually quite liberal. Karl Rove said if his father wasn't a Nazi, he wouldn't have any credibility with conservatives at all."
- Bill Maher
(Related: Father, Credibility, Liberal, President, Republicans)
"My countrymen have the right to shake my hand and talk to me if they so wish. Don't forget that their support and their reading of my works is what brought me the Nobel prize."
- Naguib Mahfouz
(Related: Forget, Reading, Right, Support, Talk)
"I, personally, have found reading a continual support to writing."
- Margaret Mahy
(Related: Reading, Support, Writing)
"I had to wait for a long time before I could support myself with writing. However, being a writer is what I have most wanted to be, from the time I was a child."
- Margaret Mahy
(Related: Time, Being, Support, Writer, Writing)
"Creativity seems to emerge from multiple experiences, coupled with a well-supported development of personal resources, including a sense of freedom to venture beyond the known."
- Loris Malaguzzi
(Related: Development, Creativity, Freedom, Sense)
"I don't know how many times I can sit there and talk about my character or my life. It's interesting to talk about experiences in the context of something you're doing for somebody else, and particularly if you can persuade others to join you in your support."
- Wendie Malick
(Related: Life, Character, Support, Talk)
"But, then again, I wouldn't call myself an indie-rock supporter even if there are some really good bands out there and there will always be some real good new bands."
- Stephen Malkmus
(Related: Will)
"Uncertainty! fell demon of our fears! The human soul that can support despair, supports not thee."
- David Mallet
(Related: Soul, Despair, Support)
"The main peculiarity which distinguishes man from other animals is the means of his support-the power which he possesses of very greatly increasing these means."
- Thomas Malthus
(Related: Power, Animals, Man, Support)
"I have moved on from being a British parliamentarian, I have moved on from being a New Labour politician, I have moved on from being the supporter in the active day-to-day sense of Tony Blair."
- Peter Mandelson
(Related: Being, Day, Sense)
"Second, the President's popularity has not translated into increased support for the Republican party or for the policies and approaches on domestic policy championed by the President."
- Thomas E. Mann
(Related: Policy, Party, Popularity, President, Republican, Support)
"While Republican voters have remained universally supportive of their President, Democrats and Independents are returning to a more naturally critical stance."
- Thomas E. Mann
(Related: Democrats, President, Republican)
"There is no reason not to support energy exploration in ANWR."
- Kenny Marchant
(Related: Energy, Exploration, Reason, Support)
"As a performer you are being used to keep people watching so the commercial endorsements that support the network can be seen by as many people as possible."
- Marc Maron
(Related: People, Being, Network, Support)
"The hope that poverty and ignorance may gradually be extinguished, derives indeed much support from the steady progress of the working classes during the nineteenth century."
- Alfred Marshall
(Related: Progress, Hope, Ignorance, May, Poverty, Support)
"The struggles waged by nations are weak only when they lack support in the hearts of their women."
- Jose Marti
(Related: Women, Nations, Support)
"I rise today in support of Bill C-38, the Civil Marriage Act. I rise in support of a Canada in which liberties are safeguarded, rights are protected and the people of this land are treated as equals under the law."
- Paul Martin
(Related: Marriage, People, Act, Canada, Rights, Land, Law, Support, Today)
"I rise in support of a Canada in which liberties are safeguarded, rights are protected and the people of this land are treated as equals under the law."
- Paul Martin
(Related: People, Canada, Rights, Land, Law, Support)
"Our focus needs to be on freeing dissidents and continuing to support the opposition movement within Cuba - not rewarding Castro and subsidizing and strengthening his totalitarian regime."
- Mel Martinez
(Related: Focus, Needs, Opposition, Support)
"It is more profitable for your congressman to support the tobacco industry than your life."
- Jackie Mason
(Related: Life, Support)
"I had not to this time subsisted, but that I was supported by your frequent courtesies and favours."
- Philip Massinger
(Related: Time)
"We supported the contras. We're not against all opposition to government, or all paramilitary operations."
- Chris Matthews
(Related: Government, Opposition)
"And then there's Israel - a lot of people support Israel, and it's important to Israel to take out Iraq. So it's all mixed together. It's a combination of motives."
- Chris Matthews
(Related: People, Iraq, Israel, Motives, Support)
"So our problem is not Labour, it is us, is making us attractive enough to gain disillusioned Labour support and to compete effectively with the Lib Dems for those loose votes."
- Francis Maude
(Related: Gain, Support)
"It is simply the view, and a view I think shared by most members of the party, that it is very difficult to have a leader that does not command the support of the parliamentary party."
- Francis Maude
(Related: Leader, Party, Support)
"I mean, the people who run Guantanamo, the military, pretty much dismiss complaints by the detainees because they say that they're all created as part of a political process to sort of fake complaints and get public support."
- Jane Mayer
(Related: People, Complaints, Military, Pretty, Public, Support)
"Well, yes, I mean, I think that, you know, my sources suggest that there's a lot of support for the notion that there is a lot of Koran abuse and that it was very much a systematic design, not just an aberration."
- Jane Mayer
(Related: Design, Koran, Abuse, Support)
"We will continue to count on your unwavering support and commitment to working with leaders of our continent in bringing about the desired renaissance of Africa."
- Thabo Mbeki
(Related: Commitment, Leaders, Support, Will)
"We spent last night listening to Liverpool football team on the radio, wanting them to win so badly. Paul supports Liverpool. He was Everton for a while because of his family - but it's all Liverpool now."
- Linda McCartney
(Related: Family, Football, Listening, Night, Now)
"On this National Agriculture Day, when we all should be taking time to thank and pay tribute to America's farmers, ranchers and their families who produce the food for our tables, we are finding those same people in dire need of our help and support."
- Michael McCaul
(Related: Food, Time, People, Agriculture, America, Day, Help, Support, Tribute)
"As the mainstream media has become increasingly dependent on advertising revenues for support, it has become an anti-democratic force in society."
- Robert McChesney
(Related: Society, Advertising, Force, Media, Support)
"I am constantly amazed at their support over the years."
- Mike McCready
(Related: Support, Years)
"Reducing health costs and increasing access to health care are worthy goals that every Member of Congress should support."
- Jim McCrery
(Related: Health, Goals, Care, Congress, Support)
"It's much easier to play supporting roles because that's what I do in my life: I support my son."
- Frances McDormand
(Related: Son, Play, Support)
"You know, Democratic and Republican administrations alike have supported individuals and regimes that have slaughtered millions across the globe. And they need to be held accountable for that."
- Aaron McGruder
(Related: Republican)
"But the fact is that the vast majority of Republicans support the Sinn Fein leadership."
- Martin McGuinness
(Related: Leadership, Fact, Majority, Republicans, Support)
"We are particularly interested in the mental health programs and policies that support our troops and their families before, during, and after deployment to Iraq and Afghanistan."
- John M. McHugh
(Related: Health, Afghanistan, Iraq, Mental health, Support, Troops)
"As one of the voices of rural New Yorkers in Congress, I am committed to supporting efforts such as these that will make a real impact in people's lives."
- John M. McHugh
(Related: People, Congress, Will)
"There is no greater excitement than to support an intellectual wife and have her support you. Marriage is a partnership in which each inspires the other, and brings fruition to both of you."
- Millicent Carey McIntosh
(Related: Marriage, Wife, Excitement, Partnership, Support)
"The most essential thing for us was to get the business model right, then put the world-class technology under it to support it. At Merrill, that meant not doing what people expected."
- John McKinley
(Related: Business, Technology, People, Right, Support, World)
"Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we've put it in an impossible situation."
- Margaret Mead
(Related: Family, Relatives, Support)
"It is not only our duty to America, but also to Ireland. We could not hope to succeed in our effort to make Ireland a Republic without the moral and material support of the liberty-loving citizens of these United States."
- Thomas F. Meagher
(Related: Hope, America, Duty, Effort, Ireland, Liberty, states, Succeed, Support, United)
"That is no use at all. What I want is men who will support me when I am in the wrong."
- Lord Melbourne
(Related: Men, Support, Want, Will, Wrong)
"What I want is men who will support me when I am in the wrong."
- William Lamb Melbourne
(Related: Men, Support, Want, Will, Wrong)
"We should seek international support for our mutual objectives abroad, in promoting freedom, democracy, respect for human rights, and also the elimination of weapons of mass destruction."
- Robert Menendez
(Related: Democracy, Destruction, Freedom, Rights, Human rights, Objectives, Respect, Support, Weapons)
"And for the city's birthday, we will host events in every neighborhood of the city, inviting all of our residents to share in the celebration of Boston's great epic - the story of neighbors who support one another where it matters most."
- Thomas Menino
(Related: Birthday, Boston, Events, Neighbors, Support, Will)
"Looking at the purpose of our government toward the Indians, we find that after subjugating them it has been our policy to collect the different tribes on reservations and support them at the expense of our people."
- Nelson A. Miles
(Related: Government, People, Policy, Purpose, Support)
"We are learning more about the humanity of the unborn child. Science and truth support the prolife movement."
- Candice S. Miller
(Related: Science, Truth, Humanity, Learning, Support)
"A new poll shows that Senator Kerry's support in the South is strongest amongst blacks. Kerry's appeal to Southern blacks is obvious. He is a white man who lives far, far away."
- Dennis Miller
(Related: Man, Obvious, Support)
"Back of every creation, supporting it like an arch, is faith. Enthusiasm is nothing: it comes and goes. But if one believes, then miracles occur."
- Henry Miller
(Related: Faith, Enthusiasm, Creation, Miracles)
"As a strong supporter of our 2nd Amendment rights, I believe tougher enforcement of our nation's existing gun laws must be done before any more laws are enacted and put on the books."
- Jeff Miller
(Related: Books, Rights, Laws, Nation)
"Given the way some fought for the status quo when I authored the new Ethics Code and created the city's first Ethics Commission, we are going to need your strong support to get an even tougher Ethics Code passed this year."
- Laura Miller
(Related: Ethics, First, Support)
"A racial community provides not only a sense of identity, that luxury of looking into another's face and seeing yourself reflected back, but a sense of security and support."
- Wentworth Miller
(Related: Community, Identity, Luxury, Security, Sense, Support)
"My hobbies are cooking and gardening, especially growing orchids. I love soccer, my husband and I support a British team called Chelsea, and I also enjoy tennis. We have 3 cats."
- Juliet Mills
(Related: Love, Gardening, HusbCats, Cooking, Hobbies, Soccer, Support, Tennis)
"Well, I'll tell you something, this wedding is something that I will always, always cherish. It was a show of love and support and kindness like I'd never seen from the people, and that's who I entertain. I entertain the people."
- Liza Minnelli
(Related: Love, Wedding, People, Kindness, Support, Will)
"In every society in human history, including the United States, those in power seek to imbue themselves with the attributes of religion and patriotism as a way of getting greater support for their policy and insulating themselves from any criticism."
- George J. Mitchell
(Related: Patriotism, Power, Religion, Society, History, Policy, Criticism, states, Support, United)
"A little flattery will support a man through great fatigue."
- James Monroe
(Related: Fatigue, Flattery, Man, Support, Will)
"AIDS does not inevitably lead to death, especially if you suppress the co-factors that support the disease. It is very important to tell this to people who are infected."
- Luc Montagnier
(Related: Death, People, Disease, Support)
"Psychological factors are critical in supporting immune function. If you suppress this psychological support by telling someone he's condemned to die, your words alone will have condemned him."
- Luc Montagnier
(Related: Support, Will, Words)
"Because you basically won a close re-election, your first task is to unify the city. And it's done not with words but with actions, by reaching out, to the supporters of your opponent as well as to reassure your own supporters."
- Marc Morial
(Related: Actions, First, Words)
"I'm awkward at these things. Just being nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for Karate Kid was a real surprise and I was a little uncomfortable."
- Pat Morita
(Related: Actor, Being, Karate)
"The Democratic Party opposes tax cuts but it cannot say so publicly. Thus, it is forced to support the idea of lowering the tax burden but using class warfare rhetoric to dispute the allocation of the relief."
- Dick Morris
(Related: Idea, Burden, Class, Tax, Party, Rhetoric, Support, Tax cuts)
"My Department has already recognised this and has been working specifically on the technical support issue since January and will offer advice to schools during the Autumn term."
- Estelle Morris
(Related: Advice, Autumn, Schools, Support, Will)
"The need for improved technical support in schools has expanded as the Government and schools have increased their investment in information and communications technologies."
- Estelle Morris
(Related: Government, Information, Investment, Schools, Support)
"All of us who are convinced that our military needs all the support the government and public will provide are pleased that he will have his chance to do just that."
- Alex Morrison
(Related: Government, Chance, Military, Needs, Public, Support, Will)
"I don't like talking about myself. I'm not really interested in myself. One of the good things about being a supporting actor is that you get to talk about other people."
- David Morse
(Related: People, Actor, Being, Talk, Talking)
"Both parents supported my becoming a world class athlete."
- Edwin Moses
(Related: Class, Parents, World)
"I was amazed at the support that I got when I was in there. And when I came out people knew that I was back on track. I was interested in working again."
- Kate Moss
(Related: People, Support)
"The women's rights movement of the 1970s had not yet emerged; except for Bella Abzug, I had no women supporters."
- Constance Baker Motley
(Related: Women, Rights)
"Nearly all the Brazilian supporters are wearing yellow shirts - it's a fabulous kaleidoscope of colour."
- John Motson
(Related: Kaleidoscope)
"The only thing that we cannot control is our supporters."
- Jose Mourinho
(Related: Control)
"And I think because of the passion of every English player and every English supporter, and every English journalist for the game, most of the game is played with passion, love for football and instinct, but in football you also have to think."
- Jose Mourinho
(Related: Love, English, Football, Instinct, Passion)
"And from the moment that we realized it was a terrorist attack, there isn't an agent or a support person in the FBI that wasn't committed to bringing to justice those who were responsible for this."
- Robert Mueller
(Related: Justice, Support)
"At the art college in Edinburgh someone arranged for some London groups to come up and play. I was in a supporting band, with Bernie Green I think. Derek Bailey was one of the visiting musicians. He seemed to like my playing and asked me to come down to London."
- Jamie Muir
(Related: Art, College, London, Musicians, Play)
"While the recent addition of the National Guard providing a support role manning computers and cameras has allowed more Border Patrol agents to work the field, more agents are still needed."
- Timothy Murphy
(Related: Computers, Work, Support)
"Belize pledges it continued support to the aspirations of the 23 million people of Taiwan to be full participants in all organs and agencies of the international community."
- Said Musa
(Related: People, Aspirations, Community, Support)
"I've never heard an agency say, 'Unless you industrialize I will not support you'."
- Yoweri Museveni
(Related: Support, Will)
"Let's not just look at it as taking votes away from Gore. Our support comes from a lot of people."
- Ralph Nader
(Related: People, Support)
"My family was very supportive of my acting. They didn't really have a choice because I got jobs acting before anyone could really say anything. It paid my way through college and helped my family out."
- Ajay Naidu
(Related: Family, Acting, Choice, College, Jobs)
"The fans in Dallas were hard on me my first year, but after having a great year last year they are now supporting me. It feels great to have my hard work pay off, especially when the fans made it hard for me."
- Steve Nash
(Related: Work, Fans, First, Hard work, Now)
"He who can not support himself, can not take his own decision."
- Gamal Abdel Nasser
(Related: Decision, Support)
"Very hard, very hard to represent a country, or carry out a policy that does not have consensus support."
- John Negroponte
(Related: Policy, Country, Support)
"Those of us who actually were working in the region at the time will point out how strongly committed we were to supporting the democratic process and encouraging elections, in spite of the fact that a war was going on in several of these countries."
- John Negroponte
(Related: Time, War, Encouraging, Countries, Elections, Fact, Will)
"It seems to be that when these communist regimes take over - if you look at the example of Vietnam or Cambodia or Nicaragua - that even in conditions of peace they don't seem to be able to figure out how to support their people, and the human suffering is enormous."
- John Negroponte
(Related: Peace, People, Example, Suffering, Support, Vietnam)
"Let me be clear. I support the definition of marriage as a union between a man and a woman."
- Ben Nelson
(Related: Marriage, Man, Support, Woman)
"While they would have provided financial support if I had needed it, the greatest support my parents gave was emotional, psychological."
- Judd Nelson
(Related: Financial, Parents, Support)
"Gen. Banks has issued an order for the instruction of Negro children. Schoolhouses are to be built or rented and Teachers hired for this purpose, and the farmers and planters are to pay the Taxes in support of this."
- Knute Nelson
(Related: Purpose, Banks, Children, Order, Support, Taxes, Teachers)
"Mr. Speaker, I rise today in support of the definition of a marriage as between one man and one woman."
- Randy Neugebauer
(Related: Marriage, Man, Support, Today, Woman)
"As Mayor, I will fully support my Arts Commission and its professional selection committees so that they can commission a full range of public art that is daring and, when appropriate, daringly traditional."
- Gavin Newsom
(Related: Art, Public, Support, Will)
"As Mayor, I will lead city government, businesses, and community groups to support innovative projects that will make San Francisco streets and public places vibrant and healthy."
- Gavin Newsom
(Related: Government, Community, Projects, Public, Support, Will)
"I think there's bipartisan support in the Senate to pass a good reform bill."
- Don Nickles
(Related: Reform, Senate, Support)
"It turned out in the long run that Lincoln's credit and the popular confidence that supported it were as valuable both to his creditors and himself as if the sums which stood over his signature had been gold coin in a solvent bank."
- John George Nicolay
(Related: Confidence, Credit, Gold, Popular)
"A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked."
- Anais Nin
(Related: Coffee, Fire, Joy, Sun)
"As this long and difficult war ends, I would like to address a few special words to the American people: Your steadfastness in supporting our insistence on peace with honor has made peace with honor possible."
- Richard M. Nixon
(Related: Peace, War, American, Honor, Words)
"Tonight - to you, the great silent majority of my fellow Americans - I ask for your support."
- Richard M. Nixon
(Related: Americans, Majority, Support)
"I did not support any more New York. I lived 10 years there, and after September 11, I felt very European. I did not share the opinion of people in the street, who were deeply influenced by what they heard in the media."
- Yannick Noah
(Related: People, Media, Opinion, Support, Years)
"I was opposed to World War II, and indeed on June 22, 1941 when Hitler invaded the Soviet Union I suddenly found myself the lone supporter of peace since everybody else had, because of their communist beliefs, shifted over to become supporters of the war."
- Douglass North
(Related: Peace, War, Beliefs, June, World, World war)
"I thought using the Ayatollah's money to support the Nicaraguan resistance was a neat idea."
- Oliver North
(Related: Money, Thought, Idea, Support)
"My parents were neither wealthy nor academic, but we lived comfortably and they were always extremely supportive of my academic efforts and aspirations, both at school and university."
- Paul Nurse
(Related: Aspirations, Parents, School, University)
"There are patriots who opposed the war in Iraq and there are patriots who supported the war in Iraq. We are one people, all of us pledging allegiance to the stars and stripes, all of us defending the United States of America."
- Barack Obama
(Related: War, People, America, Iraq, Stars, states, United)
"As I've said, there were patriots who supported this war, and patriots who opposed it. And all of us are united in appreciation for our servicemen and women, and our hopes for Iraqis' future."
- Barack Obama
(Related: War, Women, Appreciation, Future, United)
"I'm surrounded by it. I have so many lovely people around me who are supportive, gentle, kind and considerate. I'm so grateful for every day that I'm on the planet and that continues to be so."
- Richard O'Brien
(Related: People, Day)
"All my stories are about the action of grace on a character who is not very willing to support it, but most people think of these stories as hard, hopeless and brutal."
- Flannery O'Connor
(Related: People, Action, Character, Grace, Support)
"In fact, it struck me when we invaded last year that if we did it without European and East Asian support, we were risking losing our alliance in Europe in exchange for Iraq, and that is a very undesirable exchange."
- William Odom
(Related: Alliance, Europe, Fact, Iraq, Losing, Support)
"And I'm asking for your support because I want to defend America, as I've said before, from becoming a socialist nation."
- Christine O'Donnell
(Related: America, Nation, Support, Want)
"Even though we now have the half-century-old new Constitution, there is a popular sentiment of support for the old one that lives on in reality in some quarters."
- Kenzaburo Oe
(Related: Constitution, Now, Old, Popular, Reality, Sentiment, Support)
"I notice increasing reluctance on the part of marketing executives to use judgment; they are coming to rely too much on research, and they use it as a drunkard uses a lamp post for support, rather than for illumination."
- David Ogilvy
(Related: Judgment, Marketing, Post, Research, Support)
"I was appalled and shocked that Bush used the State of the Union to attack same-sex marriages and indicated that he would support a constitutional amendment."
- Jean O'Leary
(Related: State, Support)
"It is said by the rebels at Roxbury that Col. Watson has given his quota to support the people."
- Peter Oliver
(Related: People, Support)
"I support the indigenous people anywhere in the planet."
- Edward James Olmos
(Related: People, Support)
"I don't support violence, period."
- Edward James Olmos
(Related: Support, Violence)
"You have to take strength from the people that love you and the people that love Barbara and the huge number of expressions of sympathy and compassion and support. That has been extremely moving."
- Ted Olson
(Related: Love, Sympathy, People, Strength, Compassion, Support)
"The Misfits pretty much funds the Misfits. It used to cost me money to be in the band. I think we got paid the last gig we ever did. After that, we had to work to support our families."
- Jerry Only
(Related: Money, Work, Pretty, Support)
"They established their patriotic credentials long ago, and are either supportive of the Bush agenda or know when to keep their traps shut."
- Bill O'Reilly
"My Dad was my biggest supporter. He never put pressure on me."
- Bobby Orr
(Related: Dad, Pressure)
"We should be recklessly abandoned to Jesus, and just turn it over to Him. Through the support I think the sacrifices will be made and we'll all be cool with it."
- Stacie Orrico
(Related: Support, Will)
"As far as the girls in my grade, it was always kind of an on-and-off thing. When all this came up, it was kind of hard. My guy friends and my family friends have been so amazing and supportive."
- Stacie Orrico
(Related: Family, Friends, Girls)
"Of course, the kind of support that Cuba could give us was very limited when it came to building up our army, since they didn't manufacture armaments in the quantities that we required. So we turned to Algeria and the Soviet Union for support."
- Daniel Ortega
(Related: Army, Building, Support)
"Supporting the troops has got to mean more than bumper stickers on pickup trucks, my friends. We need to give them what they need."
- Solomon Ortiz
(Related: Friends, Troops)
"In fact, in 2002, the Secretary of Defense authorized such support on a reimbursable basis to organizations formerly components of the Department of Justice and Department of the Treasury and currently components of the Department of Homeland Security."
- Solomon Ortiz
(Related: Defense, Fact, Justice, Security, Support)
"I'm totally grateful for the fans my family has and I have; they gave me a lot of support when I was in treatment. But it was just odd, you know? It's stressful. Just the whole fact of being someone in the public eye."
- Jack Osbourne
(Related: Family, Being, Eye, Fact, Fans, Public, Support, Treatment)
"We do not support the man. We do not support the individual. We support the idea of independent revolution in the Western Hemisphere, free from American intervention."
- Lee Harvey Oswald
(Related: Idea, American, Revolution, Man, Support)
"We come in many different shapes and sizes, and we need to support each other and our differences. Our beauty is in our differences."
- Carre Otis
(Related: Beauty, Support)
"Families are the tie that reminds us of yesterday, provide strength and support today, and give us hope for tomorrow. No government, no matter how well-intentioned, or well-managed, can provide what our families provide."
- Bill Owens
(Related: Government, Hope, Strength, Support, Today, Tomorrow, Yesterday)
"It's a sad day when the leaders of the free world engage in such deception and trickery. I voted against this unnecessary war and will continue to argue that the best way to support our troops is to bring them home."
- Major R. Owens
(Related: Home, War, Day, Deception, Leaders, Support, Troops, Will, World)
"I have been extremely pleased to support the Trust's work in the Lupus Unit ever since. Personal experience also motivated me to become involved to help raise the awareness of the disease and hopefully thereby improve the speed of diagnosis."
- Elaine Paige
(Related: Experience, Work, Trust, Awareness, Disease, Help, Support)
"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it."
- Thomas Paine
(Related: Men, Blessings, Fatigue, Freedom)
"The mind cannot support moral chaos for long. Men are under as strong a compulsion to invent an ethical setting for their behavior as spiders are to weave themselves webs."
- John Dos Passos
(Related: Men, Behavior, Chaos, Mind, Spiders, Support)
"While I do not hesitate to applaud certain aspects of the resolution honoring the sacrifices of our courageous soldiers who are risking their lives in Iraq, I cannot be supportive of capitalizing on these very sacrifices for political gain."
- Ed Pastor
(Related: Gain, Iraq, Resolution, Soldiers)
"I will support legislation that benefits the American worker and prevents the outsourcing of American jobs."
- Ed Pastor
(Related: American, Benefits, Jobs, Legislation, Support, Will)
"Although I voted against the initial resolution approving the war in Iraq, I have consistently voted to support our troops with much-needed armor and supplies."
- Ed Pastor
(Related: War, Iraq, Resolution, Support, Troops)
"I will continue to support legislation that provides American families and Seniors affordable health care."
- Ed Pastor
(Related: Health, American, Care, Legislation, Support, Will)
"A tax-supported, compulsory educational system is the complete model of the totalitarian state."
- Isabel Paterson
(Related: Tax, State)
"In time it will become clear to everyone that support for the policies of pre-emptive war and interventionist nation-building will have much greater significance than the removal of Saddam Hussein itself."
- Ron Paul
(Related: Time, War, Nation, Support, Will)
"I have never met anyone who did not support our troops. Sometimes, however, we hear accusations that someone or some group does not support the men and women serving in our Armed Forces. But this is pure demagoguery, and it is intellectually dishonest."
- Ron Paul
(Related: Men, Women, Accusations, Support, Troops)
"Cliches about supporting the troops are designed to distract from failed policies, policies promoted by powerful special interests that benefit from war, anything to steer the discussion away from the real reasons the war in Iraq will not end anytime soon."
- Ron Paul
(Related: War, Cliches, End, Iraq, Troops, Will)
"Everyone who supports Israel is a Zionist."
- Tom Paulin
(Related: Israel)
"Everyone should know that most cancer research is largely a fraud, and that the major cancer research organizations are derelict in their duties to the people who support them."
- Linus Pauling
(Related: People, Cancer, Fraud, Research, Support)
"Perfect as the wing of a bird may be, it will never enable the bird to fly if unsupported by the air. Facts are the air of science. Without them a man of science can never rise."
- Ivan Pavlov
(Related: Science, Facts, Man, May, Will)
"I do support enhanced interrogation techniques. Obviously their value is shining through with respect to the bin Laden killing."
- Tim Pawlenty
(Related: Killing, Respect, Support, Value)
"I believe in supporting African solutions to African problems."
- Donald M. Payne
(Related: African, Problems)
"Those who want to reap the benefits of this great nation must bear the fatigue of supporting it."
- Thomas Payne
(Related: Benefits, Fatigue, Nation, Want)
"But while we all pray for peace, we do not always, as free citizens, support the policies that make for peace or reject those which do not. We want our own kind of peace, brought about in our own way."
- Lester B. Pearson
(Related: Peace, Support, Want)
"The FBI has always supported big business and big government."
- Leonard Peltier
(Related: Business, Government)
"As we begin this debate, I am confident that we will hear the supporters of this bill argue in the name of Ronald Reagan that this research is consistent with his long-held views about the sanctity of life."
- Mike Pence
(Related: Life, Debate, Name, Research, Will)
"What I want the Congress of the United States to do, and frankly what I would like to see the President of the United States of America do, is speak a word of support to the people of Iran."
- Mike Pence
(Related: People, America, Congress, President, states, Support, United, Want, Word)
"We support every effort to combat international terrorism through the formulation of international conventions and hope that the international community will take further steps to improve the anti-terrorism international legal framework."
- Li Peng
(Related: Legal, Hope, Community, Effort, Support, Terrorism, Will)
"Comrade Deng Xiaoping - along with other party elders - gave the party leadership their firm and full support to put down the political disturbance using forceful measures."
- Li Peng
(Related: Leadership, Party, Support)
"To stop terrorists before the strike, we must do three things: deny them entry into the country, curtail their freedom of action inside the country, and deprive them of material and moral support from within the country."
- Richard Perle
(Related: Action, Country, Freedom, Support)
"Few governments in the world, for example, praise human rights more ardently than does the government of France, and few have a worse record of supporting tyrants and killers."
- Richard Perle
(Related: Government, Example, France, Rights, Human rights, Praise, World)
"I'm now doing three things: concerts, conducting, and teaching, and they each support each other. I learn to see things from different perspectives and listen with different ears. The most important thing that you need to do is really listen."
- Itzhak Perlman
(Related: Now, Support, Teaching)
"We found that the most exciting environments, that treated people very well, are also tough as nails. There is no bureaucratic mumbo-jumbo... excellent companies provide two things simultaneously: tough environments and very supportive environments."
- Tom Peters
(Related: People)
"Canada has always been a strong supporter of China's accession to the WTO... We look forward to playing a constructive role in helping complete China's accession."
- Pierre Pettigrew
(Related: Canada)
"Even with only two people on board, where maintenance is a large piece of our working day, we still have time to do scientific research. We have to be ready to support those Shuttle visits in a lot of different ways."
- John L. Phillips
(Related: Time, People, Day, Research, Support)
"This means that no single logic is strong enough to support the total construction of human knowledge."
- Jean Piaget
(Related: Knowledge, Logic, Support)
"I don't have the time to tell you all the things I've learned from this cast. It's an extraordinary ensemble because we all support each other so well."
- David Hyde Pierce
(Related: Time, Support)
"It's something that I am going over in my head about the whole video game thing, and whether you support violence by being in a film like this. I mean, to me, it's incredibly unreal and it's all about the action, and just explosions."
- Rosamund Pike
(Related: Action, Being, Film, Support, Violence)
"Events like this mean we can give something back to the people that support us, and hopefully everyone will have a great day and we can put on a good show for them."
- Nelson Piquet
(Related: People, Day, Events, Support, Will)
"I want to improve TSA's counterterrorism focus through intelligence and cutting edge technology, support the TSA workforce, and strengthen the agency's relationships with stakeholders and the traveling public. All of these priorities are interconnected and are vital to TSA's mission - and I would say, all of our collective mission."
- John Pistole
(Related: Intelligence, Technology, Focus, Mission, Priorities, Public, Relationships, Support, Traveling, Want)
"Today, Academies of Science use their influence around the world in support of human rights."
- John Charles Polanyi
(Related: Science, Rights, Human rights, Influence, Support, Today, World)
"Young people ask me if this country is serious about science. They aren't thinking about the passport that they will hold, but the country that they must rely on for support and encouragement."
- John Charles Polanyi
(Related: Science, People, Country, Encouragement, Support, Thinking, Will)
"Moreover, only a strong and united scientific opinion imposing the intrinsic value of scientific progress on society at large can elicit the support of scientific inquiry by the general public."
- Michael Polanyi
(Related: Society, Progress, Opinion, Public, Support, United, Value)
"Like many other Laureates, I have benefit immeasurably from the love and support of my wife and children."
- John Pople
(Related: Love, Wife, Children, Support)
"The generosity of the American public toward the victims of Hurricane Katrina and the Tsunami has been reflected in the outpouring of support for the Pakistani earthquake victims."
- Jon Porter
(Related: American, Generosity, Public, Support, Victims)
"As a Member of Congress from one of the fastest growing States in the country, we hire close to 2,500 new teachers a year, close to 5,000 support staff and faculty."
- Jon Porter
(Related: Congress, Country, states, Support, Teachers)
"War should be the politics of last resort. And when we go to war, we should have a purpose that our people understand and support."
- Colin Powell
(Related: Politics, War, People, Purpose, Support)
"I support anything to do with the welfare and rights of children in a huge way."
- Kelly Preston
(Related: Children, Rights, Support, Welfare)
"He uses statistics like a drunk uses lamp-posts, more for support than illumination."
- Romano Prodi
(Related: Statistics, Support)
"Every success in limiting armaments is a sign that the will to achieve mutual understanding exists, and every such success thus supports the fight for international law and order."
- Ludwig Quidde
(Related: Success, Fight, Law, Order, Understanding, Will)
"But it's important, while we are supporting lessons in respecting others, to remember that many of our youngest kids need to learn to respect themselves. You learn your worth from the way you are treated."
- Anna Quindlen
(Related: Kids, Respect, Worth)
"Madam Speaker, I have spent more than half my life as a member of the Resources Committee. In that time I have supported numerous wilderness designations. In fact, I cannot recall ever opposing a wilderness bill."
- Nick Rahall
(Related: Life, Time, Committee, Fact, Wilderness)
"I strongly support the call to greatly expand our human intelligence capability to penetrate al Qaeda and gather critical intelligence to prevent terrorist attacks on our homeland."
- Jim Ramstad
(Related: Intelligence, Support)
"Everyone town of 100,000 in the United States should have a Classical Theater supported by the town, or the state of the county, or the Federal Government, as they have in every civilized country."
- Tony Randall
(Related: Government, Country, State, states, Theater, United)
"And then you might decide that the country can just spend maybe years or decades to regain that credit, or maybe give that county the support, the financial support that the market is not willing not do."
- Rodrigo Rato
(Related: Financial, Country, Credit, Support, Years)
"Ideally citizens are to think of themselves as if they were legislators and ask themselves what statutes, supported by what reasons satisfying the criterion of reciprocity, they would think is most reasonable to enact."
- John Rawls
(Related: Legislators, Reciprocity)
"For the first time, individual hackers could afford to have home machines comparable in power and storage capacity to the minicomputers of ten years earlier - Unix engines capable of supporting a full development environment and talking to the Internet."
- Eric S. Raymond
(Related: Home, Power, Time, Development, Environment, First, Internet, Machines, Talking, Unix, Years)
"We need to remind our core supporters that we have not forgotten their concern with the way our democracy is being replaced by European bureaucracy in so many areas."
- John Redwood
(Related: Being, Bureaucracy, Concern, Democracy)
"I'm not just a model who plays volleyball, or a volleyball player who supports herself modeling. I'm a female athlete personality."
- Gabrielle Reece
(Related: Personality)
"I'm angry when we have to use state dollars to fill holes in our low-income heating assistance program because there isn't enough support from Washington."
- Jodi Rell
(Related: State, Support, Washington)
"I have been surrounded by some of the smartest, brightest, most caring lawyers, by agents who are willing to risk their lives for others, by support staff that are willing to work as hard as they can."
- Janet Reno
(Related: Work, Caring, Lawyers, Risk, Support)
"Many athletes competing in Atlanta wouldn't be here if it weren't for corporate support."
- Mary Lou Retton
(Related: Athletes, Corporate, Support)
"Companies that support sports developmental programs in our communities should also be applauded."
- Mary Lou Retton
(Related: Sports, Support)
"It's a unique situation as well because England is a small country, so it makes it easy for the fans to travel. If we play down in London, they get buses and we'll get three or four thousand fans come down. They'll all sit in the same area and show their support for the team."
- Claudio Reyna
(Related: Travel, Country, EnglFans, London, Play, Support)
"I'm so critical of myself. I'm actually really, really proud of the film. It's really cool to see a movie at Sundance because everybody is so supportive."
- Giovanni Ribisi
(Related: Film)
"The proportions, too, in which the capital that is to support labour, and the capital that is invested in tools, machinery and buildings, may be variously combined."
- David Ricardo
(Related: May, Support, Tools)
"You don't want the biggest record deal as far as money goes, you just want to make sure that the people at the label really support your band and the music and stuff."
- Adam Rich
(Related: Money, Music, People, Support, Want)
"Financial support is one thing, but I always think what becomes really sacrificial is your time."
- Cliff Richard
(Related: Time, Financial, Support)
"I realised that God has placed Christians everywhere, to support each other, to support the needy in those areas, and that is the thing that I find is a great plus."
- Cliff Richard
(Related: God, Support)
"Rock 'n' roll offered me a platform to speak what I felt. It also offered me a platform to support my mama and my brothers and sisters - twelve children."
- Little Richard
(Related: Brothers, Children, Sisters, Support)
"There would be no supporting life were we to feel quite as poignantly for others as we do for ourselves."
- Samuel Richardson
(Related: Life)
"However saying that I totally support the concept of civil partnerships in the eyes of the law, and think it a disgrace that same sex couples have had to wait so long for legal rights, protection and recognition."
- Adam Rickitt
(Related: Legal, Sex, Disgrace, Eyes, Rights, Law, Protection, Saying, Support)
"Every week Rangers have different former players come out at half-time. Spurs should have a couple a former players on the board, who know what the supporters want."
- Graham Roberts
(Related: Want)
"But Rangers don't need to go there and win, they need to go there and get a point. I think the hardest thing about it is there will be no supporters. Playing in an empty ground will be a problem for the players."
- Graham Roberts
(Related: Will)
"I believe strongly in writing groups such as Romance Writers Of America that offer support, information and networking."
- Nora Roberts
(Related: Romance, America, Information, Support, Writers, Writing)
"We need to continue our full support of the nascent Iraqi government by helping to rebuild their economic infrastructure and maintain security while training the Iraqi security forces."
- Pat Roberts
(Related: Government, Security, Support, Training)
"The Committee supports the idea that there should be, within the University of California, a campus which puts particular emphasis on the education of undergraduates within the framework of a College system."
- Abraham Robinson
(Related: Education, Idea, College, Committee, University)
"I like to make music, I like rap music. Even if I'm white, I support that music. If I want to support it or any other white kid wants to support it more power to them."
- Kid Rock
(Related: Power, Music, Rap, Support, Want)
"I suspect that many corporations have begun to understand that they have an important role to play in the lives of their communities, and that allocating funds to support local groups helps them discharge that function and also burnish their image."
- David Rockefeller
(Related: Corporations, Play, Support)
"The Body Shop Foundation is run by our staff and supports social activism and environmental activism. We don't tend to support big agencies."
- Anita Roddick
(Related: Environmental, Activism, Body, Support)
"It feels like my job is to support people. I support great artists. When I worked with a symphony, I sat in the third chair, not the first chair."
- Nile Rodgers
(Related: People, Artists, First, Job, Support)
"When Queer Eye hit, the church told my mom they were praying for me. She said, God loves him too. And I support him 100 percent."
- Jai Rodriguez
(Related: Mom, God, Church, Eye, Support)
"To the extent that tenure supports academic freedom, I support tenure. I want no person or system to have any power, real or apparent, to chill academic freedom."
- James E. Rogers
(Related: Power, Freedom, Support, Want)
"I support this war on terror and the war on radical Islam."
- Dana Rohrabacher
(Related: War, Islam, Radical, Support, Terror)
"I rise in support of the separation of powers as established by our Founding Fathers in the Constitution. The Constitution clearly delegates the power to deal with criminal matters, like the use of drugs, to the States."
- Dana Rohrabacher
(Related: Power, Constitution, Drugs, Fathers, Founding, Separation, states, Support)
"I feel that L.A. has not always been my strongest base for support. That can be for various reasons."
- Sonny Rollins
(Related: Support)
"Whoever stands for 'one China' will get our support. We can have talks with them, and our talks will cover anything."
- Zhu Rongji
(Related: Support, Will)
"It is really quite amazing that all of the folks supporting privatization, from the president on down, keep invoking the name of my grandfather, Franklin Delano Roosevelt."
- James Roosevelt
(Related: Name, President)
"Honest people, mistakenly believing in the justice of their cause, are led to support injustice."
- Elihu Root
(Related: People, Cause, Injustice, Support)
"I suppose you all grant that woman is a human being. If she has a right to life she has a right to earn a support for that life. If a human being, she has a right to have her powers and faculties as a human being developed. If developed, she has a right to exercise them."
- Ernestine L. Rose
(Related: Life, Being, Exercise, Right, Support, Woman)
"I was 37 years old. I wanted to support myself by writing."
- Judith Rossner
(Related: Old, Support, Writing, Years)
"My first book took five years to write and I made $1,000 on it. The second took three years and I made $3,000. All this time I was a housewife being supported by a husband. I was very lucky."
- Judith Rossner
(Related: Time, HusbBeing, First, Housewife, Years)
"I think that cognitive scientists would support the view that our visual system does not directly represent what is out there in the world and that our brain constructs a lot of the imagery that we believe we are seeing."
- Galen Rowell
(Related: Scientists, Support, World)
"And as I ask for your forgiveness, I also ask for your support to keep all things in perspective and keep all things in proportion. The good of nine years versus the bad."
- John Rowland
(Related: Forgiveness, Perspective, Support, Years)
"Test ideas in the marketplace. You learn from hearing a range of perspectives. Consultation helps engender the support decisions need to be successfully implemented."
- Donald Rumsfeld
(Related: Ideas, Decisions, Hearing, Support)
"Singles needed to come back. And what I tried to do in my online experiment was to change the rules for myself and make available at a more regular pace the fruits of my labour, for people who decided they wanted to support my recordings."
- Todd Rundgren
(Related: Change, People, Rules, Support)
"It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this."
- Bertrand Russell
(Related: Life, Man, Support)
"I support the death penalty. But I also think there has to be no margin for error."
- George Ryan
(Related: Death, Error, Support)
"My husband travels a lot with his job, so we have a lot of frequent flyer miles so we can hop on a plane with no notice. That's a nice luxury and he is very supportive."
- Jeri Ryan
(Related: Husband, Job, Luxury)
"And that's what makes this a great game, is the support and the commitment that the fans give the game."
- Nolan Ryan
(Related: Commitment, Fans, Support)
"While the political debate over abortion will continue for a very long time, the federal government can and should be doing more to support programs and services that provide women with better options."
- Tim Ryan
(Related: Government, Women, Time, Abortion, Debate, Options, Support, Will)
"You try to get out there and live. I've always had good friends who've been very supportive and help make me feel good and grounded because I've never felt attached to the film industry."
- Winona Ryder
(Related: Film, Friends, Help)
"As I said a moment ago, there is no higher priority in our budget, or certainly in the budgets of the past few years, than providing for what is needed for the protection and security of our country and support of our troops."
- Jim Ryun
(Related: Budgets, Country, Past, Protection, Security, Support, Troops, Years)
"Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strength to them all ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all founded on lust."
- Marquis de Sade
(Related: Life, Strength, Ambition, Cruelty, Lust, Revenge)
"Um, I have an enormous faith in God. I have an enormous support system that also has that same belief."
- Katey Sagal
(Related: Faith, God, Belief, Support)
"We have new developing ties with Japan whom always supports our democratic process and economic development."
- Ali A. Saleh
(Related: Development)
"It was a complex endeavor so without Robert Redford's constant support we wouldn't have gotten to the end."
- Walter Salles
(Related: End, Support)
"Globalization presumes sustained economic growth. Otherwise, the process loses its economic benefits and political support."
- Paul Samuelson
(Related: Growth, Benefits, Globalization, Support)
"I try to support groups that are about educating people about different races, different religions, different cultures and different situations so that we can break down the barriers of prejudice and bigotry."
- Loretta Sanchez
(Related: People, Bigotry, Prejudice, Support)
"Until 1943 I received no stipend. I was able to support myself as my mother was the daughter of a relatively wealthy cotton manufacturer."
- Frederick Sanger
(Related: Mother, Daughter, Support)
"Women of the working class, especially wage workers, should not have more than two children at most. The average working man can support no more and and the average working woman can take care of no more in decent fashion."
- Margaret Sanger
(Related: Women, Care, Children, Class, Fashion, Man, Support, Wage, Woman, Workers)
"What we should be teaching are the problems and holes and I think there are legitimate problems and holes in the theory of evolution. And what we need to do is to present those fairly from a scientific point of view. And we should lay out areas in which the evidence supports evolution and the areas in the evidence that does not."
- Rick Santorum
(Related: Evolution, Present, Problems, Teaching, Theory)
"The reason they keep it so tight is that no one liked them, so that without each other, actually, they couldn't exist. They support each other. They support their flaws and everything else."
- Jennifer Saunders
(Related: Flaws, Reason, Support)
"Be able to analyze statistics, which can be used to support or undercut almost any argument."
- Marilyn vos Savant
(Related: Argument, Statistics, Support)
"From the time I moved to San Francisco in 1967 to play with the Steve Miller Band, there was a lot of support in the music community for one cause or another, but this one was special because it was put on by people who understood where musicians' hearts are."
- Boz Scaggs
(Related: Music, Time, People, Cause, Community, Musicians, Play, Support)
"Our funding is based on our support of ideas like limited government, individual rights and a strong defense."
- Richard Scaife
(Related: Government, Ideas, Defense, Rights, Support)
"The trade unions and the Labour Party... failed miserably. Instead of giving concrete support, and calling upon workers to take industrial action, they did nothing."
- Arthur Scargill
(Related: Action, Giving, Nothing, Party, Support, Trade, Workers)
"The objective of the demonstrators is to win the affection of the armed agents of the government. Most of the Kiev police have now pledged their support for the people."
- Bob Schaffer
(Related: Government, People, Affection, Now, Police, Support)
"So this guy, Jeff Johnson, who is an accountant who cares nothing at all about a free press and cares nothing about journalism, he's a right winger who supported the war, you know, who two years ago told people he couldn't stand a word that I wrote."
- Robert Scheer
(Related: War, People, Journalism, Nothing, Press, Right, Word, Years)
"It had run as a column - I had worked at the paper since 1976, but the column had been running for 13 years, and I think it was a strong column, criticizing the war when the paper was supporting it."
- Robert Scheer
(Related: War, Running, Years)
"Saudi Arabia was, until just a few years ago, probably one of the most safe countries on earth. And now the paper is daily full of activities and shootouts between Islamists who supported Osama bin Laden and the government there."
- Michael Scheuer
(Related: Government, Countries, Earth, Now, Osama bin laden, Years)
"The terrorists who committed the 2003 Istanbul attacks were locals, that is, Turks. And when filmmaker Theo van Gogh was murdered in the Netherlands last year, the murderer and his supporters were also part of the Muslim community."
- Otto Schily
(Related: Muslim, Community)
"People think that child-support enforcement benefits children, but it doesn't."
- Phyllis Schlafly
(Related: People, Benefits, Children)
"It is a mystery why any Americans would support the concept of the EU."
- Phyllis Schlafly
(Related: Americans, Mystery, Support)
"Don't expect anyone else to support you. Maybe you'll have a trust fund. Maybe you'll have a wealthy spouse. But you never know when either of them might run out."
- Mary Schmich
(Related: Trust, Support)
"We certainly could have voted on making the middle-class tax cuts and tax cuts for working families permanent had the Republicans not insisted that the only way they would support those tax breaks is if we also added $700 billion to the deficit to give tax breaks to the wealthiest 2 percent of Americans. That's what was really disturbing."
- Debbie Wasserman Schultz
(Related: Americans, Tax, Republicans, Support, Tax cuts)
"We know we want to support our troops. We want to make sure that they have all the equipment they need."
- Allyson Schwartz
(Related: Support, Troops, Want)
"The serious crimes by the Sudanese government and the government-supported militias must be met with serious consequences. We must work for tough international economic sanctions on the Sudanese government."
- Allyson Schwartz
(Related: Government, Work, Consequences)
"Iran's continued pursuit of nuclear weapons, support for international terrorist organizations, and abhorrent human rights practices pose one of the greatest threats to global security."
- Allyson Schwartz
(Related: Rights, Human rights, Pursuit, Security, Support, Weapons)
"In Congress, I am a strong supporter of the New Apollo Energy Act. This plan would help to establish our energy independence, create jobs, and provide cleaner, reliable, and more affordable energy."
- Allyson Schwartz
(Related: Act, Congress, Energy, Independence, Help, Jobs)
"The support that we have from the network in terms of watching us at an unusual time in the year and playing our episodes three times in a given week until we built an audience... is exceptional."
- Josh Schwartz
(Related: Time, Network, Support)
"I think there's only one or two films where I've had all the financial support I needed. All the rest, I wish I'd had the money to shoot another ten days."
- Martin Scorsese
(Related: Money, Financial, Rest, Support)
"Statistics are used much like a drunk uses a lamppost: for support, not illumination."
- Vin Scully
(Related: Statistics, Support)
"I had very supportive parents that made the way for me, even at a time when there were very few women - no women, really; maybe two or three women - and very few, fewer than that, African-American women heading in this direction, so there were very few people to look up to. You just had to have faith."
- Leah Ward Sears
(Related: Faith, Time, Women, People, African, Direction, Parents)
"All things share the same breath - the beast, the tree, the man... the air shares its spirit with all the life it supports."
- Chief Seattle
(Related: Life, Man, Spirit)
"It's easier in some ways being on the life raft and the other guy's in the boat and you can row alongside and be supportive. In some ways, that's an easier role."
- Kyra Sedgwick
(Related: Life, Being)
"Lean your body forward slightly to support the guitar against your chest, for the poetry of the music should resound in your heart."
- Andres Segovia
(Related: Music, Poetry, Heart, Body, Guitar, Support)
"The Romans were not inventors of the supporting arch, but its extended use in vaults and intersecting barrel shapes and domes is theirs."
- Harry Seidler
"That's the reason support for the National Endowment of the Arts is so important. It enables those ventures that aren't viable commercially to be done."
- David Selby
(Related: Reason, Support)
"You have to support your children to have a healthy relationship."
- Connie Sellecca
(Related: Children, Support)
"I support all Australian films."
- Yahoo Serious
(Related: Support)
"The President also talked at length about how well the American economy is doing. Apparently, he got his information on this topic from his millionaire supporters. For the average working family, these are trying economic times."
- Jose Serrano
(Related: Family, American, Economy, Information, President, Trying)
"In a country with an overabundance of food, no one should go hungry because of a lack of funds or technical and professional knowledge. We have the food, and we have the networks; we now need to support the providers."
- Jose Serrano
(Related: Food, Knowledge, Country, Support)
"In the inhalation and exhalation there is an energy and a lively divine spirit, since He, through his spirit supports the breath of life, giving courage to the people who are in the earth and spirit to those who walk on it."
- Michael Servetus
(Related: Life, People, Courage, Earth, Energy, Giving, Spirit)
"I support any procedure that allows photographers to express themselves, whether that involves color, black and white, platinum, palladium and digital technology."
- John Sexton
(Related: Technology, Support)
"What happens if you're the guy who's been on the show ten years and is highly paid but they have nothing for you to do is that they bring in other people, and you become a supporting character to those people."
- Ted Shackelford
(Related: People, Character, Nothing, Years)
"The reality is that the workforce relative to the number of people retired has shrunk and today in America there are only 3.3 working Americans paying payroll taxes to support each individual currently retired and collecting Social Security taxes."
- John Shadegg
(Related: People, America, Americans, Reality, Security, Support, Taxes, Today)
"An amateur is someone who supports himself with outside jobs which enable him to paint. A professional is someone whose wife works to enable him to paint."
- Ben Shahn
(Related: Wife, Jobs)
"'Tis not enough to help the feeble up, but to support them after."
- William Shakespeare
(Related: Help, Support)
"I was unaware of the dispute in Brooklyn. I would never knowingly wear any clothes or support any company who produced clothing with alleged wage and labor violations."
- Shakira
(Related: Clothes, Company, Labor, Support, Wage)
"Just as the 99% of Soviet citizens who supported the Soviet regime in 1985 was no indication of what the people inside the USSR really thought, the army of true believers that we think we see in the Arab world is an illusion."
- Natan Sharansky
(Related: Thought, People, Army, Illusion, World)
"Democratic leaders, whose power is ultimately dependent on popular support, are held accountable for failing to improve the lives of their citizens. Therefore, they have a powerful incentive to keep their societies peaceful and prosperous."
- Natan Sharansky
(Related: Power, Leaders, Popular, Support)
"A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul."
- George Bernard Shaw
(Related: Government, Support)
"I would love to support Hillary for president if she would come out against the travesty in Iraq. But I don't think she can speak out against the occupation because she supports it."
- Cindy Sheehan
(Related: Love, Iraq, Occupation, President, Support)
"I believe that any candidate who supports the war should not receive our support. It doesn't matter if they're Senator Clinton or whoever."
- Cindy Sheehan
(Related: War, Support)
"It is my pleasure to support a candidate who truly reflects our values and highest ideals."
- Martin Sheen
(Related: Values, Ideals, Pleasure, Support)
"I have been accused of being a traitor, and I have been accused of not supporting the military. Nothing could be further from the truth."
- Martin Sheen
(Related: Truth, Being, Military, Nothing)
"I got a publishing deal with BMG, they were supportive, and some money to record demos."
- Duncan Sheik
(Related: Money, Publishing)
"I support the president 100 percent - when he's right."
- Richard Shelby
(Related: President, Right, Support)
"I never apologize for my efforts to support worthy projects that Alabama."
- Richard Shelby
(Related: Projects, Support)
"But there are many, and I'm a supporter of a great deal of charities."
- Bobby Sherman
"You know in the West they support realistic forces."
- Eduard Shevardnadze
(Related: Support)
"If I were John Bolton, I'd take great consolation in the words of my principal supporter on the committee, who gave a ringing endorsement, which was, There is no evidence that he has broken any laws."
- Mark Shields
(Related: Committee, Laws, Words)
"George Bush says what John Kerry did was noble. Yet he sees him being savaged by his own supporters."
- Mark Shields
(Related: Being)
"When the size of the group supporting your cause reaches a critical mass, any legislator or elected official has to pay attention."
- Mark Shields
(Related: Attention, Cause)
"I am proud that the Republican Party stands for strong support for the military, and I am sure we will consistently support our men and women serving in dangerous places around the world and their families."
- John Shimkus
(Related: Men, Women, Military, Party, Republican, Support, Will, World)
"All the Baltic countries have been steadfast in support of allies of the United States since they gained their independence following the fall of the Soviet Union and have continued to be supportive in the ongoing war on terror."
- John Shimkus
(Related: War, Countries, Independence, states, Support, Terror, United)
"It is not the time spent with the child at their activity that is going to produce the highest level athlete. It is in supporting the child in an organized activity - and Bill alluded to this - so the child can find what they truly like to do and let them go."
- Frank Shorter
(Related: Time)
"I understand the harsh feelings and sentiments from my opponents and their supporters because I myself have been defeated twice in my political life in the past and I understand very well it is hard to accept your own failure."
- Chen Shui-bian
(Related: Life, Feelings, Failure, Opponents, Past)
"A war can perhaps be won single-handedly. But peace - lasting peace - cannot be secured without the support of all."
- Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva
(Related: Peace, War, Support)
"We're quickly moving to the point where we will have no military bases in the Northeast, and this undermines support for the military. We are a nation of citizen soldiers."
- Rob Simmons
(Related: Military, Nation, Soldiers, Support, Will)
"While I recognize the great value and importance of prescription drugs and strongly support a continued U.S. focus on pharmaceutical research and development, our nation's seniors cannot be asked to subsidize the drug costs of other wealthy industrialized nations any longer."
- Michael K. Simpson
(Related: Development, Drugs, Focus, Importance, Nation, Nations, Research, Support, Value)
"Recent demonstration projects have shown that with some Federal support, a little funding can go a long way toward ensuring that low-income children have access to good oral health care."
- Michael K. Simpson
(Related: Health, Care, Children, Projects, Support)
"I started a theater called Steppenwolf. We've been very supportive of the veterans there."
- Gary Sinise
(Related: Theater, Veterans)
"Yeah, I volunteered to support the troops, and get out there and show them that we care about them."
- Gary Sinise
(Related: Care, Support, Troops)
"It was something I was more interested in myself. When I went to see my sister dance at ballet, I was really into costumes and the arts, and my family was also supportive of whatever me and my sister wanted to do. I would say I pushed myself the most to be into design."
- Christian Siriano
(Related: Design, Family, Sister, Dance, Ballet)
"I don't have a boyfriend right now. I'm looking for anyone with a job that I don't have to support."
- Anna Nicole Smith
(Related: Boyfriend, Job, Now, Right, Support)
"But quite honestly I can't help being a passionate football supporter. If that's my sin, I'm guilty."
- Delia Smith
(Related: Being, Football, Help, Sin)
"I had assumed that Bush's seemingly inflexible policy to support Sharon was for political reasons of his getting elected. But as to whether he really believes his actions are going to hasten the day of the final conflict, I do not know."
- Huston Smith
(Related: Policy, Actions, Conflict, Day, Support)
"The only violence was when these so-called 'freedom fighters' terrorized the poor Africans in the villages... They were told what to do and who to support."
- Ian Smith
(Related: Poor, Support, Violence)
"Some artists imagine they've got a hold on this apparatus, which in fact has got a hold of them. As a result, they end up supporting a cultural prison that is out of their control."
- Robert Smithson
(Related: Control, Artists, End, Fact, Prison, Result)
"I think when you're doing a lead role, there is so much more pressure. If you fail, not only do you fail, but everybody else fails, too. As opposed to when it's a supporting role and it's only you that sucked."
- Leelee Sobieski
(Related: Pressure)
"Don't you know that silence supports the accuser's charge?"
- Sophocles
(Related: Silence)
"I give away something up to $500 million a year throughout the world promoting Open Society. My foundations support people in the country who care about an open society. It's their work that I'm supporting. So it's not me doing it."
- George Soros
(Related: Work, Society, People, Care, Country, Open, Support, World)
"My foundations support people in the country who care about an open society. It's their work that I'm supporting. So it's not me doing it. But I can empower them. I can support them, and I can help them."
- George Soros
(Related: Work, Society, People, Care, Country, Help, Open, Support)
"I went into acting because I had to make a good living. I had a child now and I had to support him any way I could... I wasn't happy, but I wasn't unhappy. I was just doing what I had to do to survive."
- David Soul
(Related: Acting, Living, Now, Support)
"Anyone who still supports George Bush would still let Michael Jackson babysit their kids."
- Hal Sparks
(Related: Kids)
"If Bush, as I believe, has reliable information on the fact that Saddam Hussein is making weapons of mass destruction, I cannot not support the policies of his government."
- Steven Spielberg
(Related: Government, Destruction, Fact, Information, Support, Weapons)
"I'm not a pacifist. I was very much for the war against Hitler and I also supported the intervention in Korea, but in this war we went in there to steal Vietnam."
- Benjamin Spock
(Related: War, Vietnam)
"That no government, so called, can reasonably be trusted, or reasonably be supposed to have honest purposes in view, any longer than it depends wholly upon voluntary support."
- Lysander Spooner
(Related: Government, Support)
"Democrats and Republicans alike support our military personnel."
- John Spratt
(Related: Democrats, Military, Republicans, Support)
"I was always concerned with writing to my age at a particular moment. That was the way I would keep faith with the audience that supported me as I went along."
- Bruce Springsteen
(Related: Age, Faith, Writing)
"We've got a support system that gives our players a wonderful opportunity to graduate. If they go to class and give good effort, they can graduate from this school, and I believe that's important when you go out recruiting."
- Steve Spurrier
(Related: Opportunity, Class, Effort, School, Support)
"We did a show called The Orphan Train, during the depression, when families didn't have enough money to support their children, they'd put them on the train and hope someone would pick them up who had enough money to support their children."
- Robert Stack
(Related: Money, Hope, Children, Depression, Support)
"Like I said, I've got too much respect for women to marry them, but that doesn't mean you can't support them emotionally and financially."
- Sylvester Stallone
(Related: Women, Respect, Support)
"Women of all classes are awakening to the necessity of self-support, but few are willing to do the ordinary useful work for which they are fitted."
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
(Related: Women, Work, Necessity, Self)
"It is time we had a defense budget that lives within its means, accounts for what is truly required in Iraq and provides the best possible support for all our troops."
- Pete Stark
(Related: Time, Defense, Iraq, Support, Troops)
"I want to thank all the fans for their support over the years. Keep supporting the Knicks, we're moving in the right direction here and we will be exciting to watch and competing against the best in the NBA. Come back to the Garden for those exciting games."
- John Starks
(Related: Direction, Fans, Games, Garden, Right, Support, Want, Will, Years)
"Anyone can support a team that is winning - it takes no courage. But to stand behind a team to defend a team when it is down and really needs you, that takes a lot of courage."
- Bart Starr
(Related: Courage, Winning, Needs, Support)
"First, the firearms industry has been around and has been respected for generations. They provide a valuable service and a highly desirable product to millions of sportsmen and supporters of those second amendment rights."
- Cliff Stearns
(Related: First, Rights, Generations, Service)
"We have a lot to gain through furthering stem cell research, but medical breakthroughs should be fundamentally about saving, not destroying, human life. Therefore, I support stem cell research that does not destroy the embryo."
- Michael Steele
(Related: Medical, Life, Gain, Research, Support)
"Sculpture is made with two instruments and some supports and pretty air."
- Gertrude Stein
(Related: Pretty, Sculpture)
"I was often misquoted. I was supportive of my managers, even though they all may not think so."
- George Steinbrenner
(Related: Managers, May)
"I've devoted a lot of my time and effort during the past few years to developing my advertising copywriting business to the point of where I can support my family and don't have to depend on writing fiction for my income."
- George Stephen
(Related: Business, Family, Time, Advertising, Effort, Fiction, Income, Past, Support, Writing, Years)
"There have been no sects in the Christian world, however absurd, which have not endeavoured to support their opinions by arguments drawn from Scripture."
- Laurence Sterne
(Related: Christian, Arguments, Opinions, Scripture, Support, World)
"It's very difficult to ignore humanitarian disasters. The royalties from my albums continue to support my charity work."
- Cat Stevens
(Related: Work, Charity, Disasters, Support)
"There are not as many women who support the national defense budget now as men. I really think there is a gender gap in the support for the large expenditures that are necessary to modernize the force."
- Ted Stevens
(Related: Women, Defense, Force, Gender, Now, Support)
"President Bush remained undeterred by the massive display of American opposition, even though much of it came from the hundreds of thousands of voters who supported him by voting for Nader."
- Jon Stewart
(Related: American, Opposition, President, Voting)
"I very rarely saw Tom Kite around. I've talked to Tom about it. I don't think Michael Jordan needed to be on the captain's cart with Kite; he needed to be walking in the gallery, supporting them from outside the ropes."
- Payne Stewart
(Related: Walking)
"I feel this music has nurtured me as I've been immersing myself in it. I've felt supported by it."
- Sting
(Related: Music)
"In all, we investigated, I think, close to 50 rumors about offers to kill Dr. King around the country. But we found no evidence to support rumors of FBI involvement in the assassination."
- Louis Stokes
(Related: Assassination, Country, Rumors, Support)
"Let's be very clear, if you check the F.E.C. records you will see I am supporting George W. Bush."
- Roger Stone
(Related: Will)
"It was not always easy because I was always an individual and found it difficult to be one of a group. One person who was very supportive was my father. My mother was great but my father really recognised my individuality and supported me in that."
- Sharon Stone
(Related: Mother, Father, Individuality)
"I phoned Joe Roth, who was head of the studio at the time, and told him how beautiful the film was, and that I was fully ready to support it, that Michael's work was wonderful and I imagined that Daniel would feel the same. He listened quietly and read between the lines."
- Madeleine Stowe
(Related: Work, Time, Film, Support)
"The Legislature of Lower Canada, consisting chiefly of Roman Catholics, could hardly be expected to support a church which they were taught to consider heretical, and in Upper Canada the scanty means at the disposal of the Government, precluded all hope."
- John Strachan
(Related: Government, Hope, Church, Canada, Support)
"And I have the support of the writers: I have a great relationship with the creative team, and they have a good hold of my character and my personality, and they come up with some great stuff, and I'm forever trying to change it up, keep it fresh."
- Trish Stratus
(Related: Change, Character, Personality, Support, Trying)
"I find languages that support just one programming paradigm constraining."
- Bjarne Stroustrup
(Related: Programming, Support)
"First, I'd like to see the basic tools such as compilers, debuggers, profilers, database interfaces, GUI builders, CAD tools, and so forth fully support the ISO standard."
- Bjarne Stroustrup
(Related: First, Support, Tools)
"On the justice of the cause of Prince Edouard, adding insurances of greatest sincerity to help it and support it and give him on all occasions of the marks of the same feelings as I have for the King his father."
- Henry Benedict Stuart
(Related: Father, Feelings, Cause, Help, Justice, Sincerity, Support)
"The peoples of Asia, Africa, and Latin America have common interest and are in the position to support each other in their anti-imperialist and anti-U.S. struggle. As long as Africa and Latin America are not free."
- Kim Il Sung
(Related: America, Interest, Struggle, Support)
"I do not support raising the minimum wage, and the reason is as follows. When the minimum wage is raised, workers are priced out of the market. That is the economic reality that seems, at least so far, to be missing from this discussion."
- John Sununu
(Related: Reality, Reason, Support, Wage, Workers)
"My own electorate, which I represented for 36 years as an anti-apartheid politician, had a considerable number of Jewish voters supporting me throughout my career."
- Helen Suzman
(Related: Career, Years)
"In its current form, globalization cannot be sustained. Democratic societies will not support it. Authoritarian leaders will fear to impose it."
- John J. Sweeney
(Related: Fear, Globalization, Leaders, Support, Will)
"Wonder if there is life on another planet? Let's suppose there is. Suppose further, that only one star in a trillion has a planet that could support life. If that were the case, then there would be at least 100 million planets that harbored life."
- Ben Sweetland
(Related: Life, Support, Wonder)
"We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more."
- Madame Swetchine
(Related: Strength, Fancy, Needs, Support, Weakness)
"In a relationship each person should support the other; they should lift each other up."
- Taylor Swift
(Related: Support)
"I confidently affirm that the greater part of those who are supposed to have died of gout, have died of the medicine rather than the disease - a statement in which I am supported by observation."
- Thomas Sydenham
(Related: Disease, Medicine, Observation)
"Many have left their families to defend our freedom. We salute their bravery; we express our appreciation and support to their families. And we pray for their safe return."
- Bob Taft
(Related: Appreciation, Bravery, Freedom, Support)
"Everything depends on a good job - strong families, strong communities, the pursuit of the American dream, and a tax base to support schools for our kids and services for our seniors."
- Bob Taft
(Related: Dream, American, Tax, Job, Kids, Pursuit, Schools, Support)
"The only method by which people can be supported is out of the effort of those who are earning their own way. We must not create a deterrent to hard work."
- Robert A. Taft
(Related: Work, People, Effort, Hard work)
"The art music of the West has developed through out its history by means of individual geniuses, and out of the soil supporting them; non-Western musicians were born, and grew like the grasses of the field."
- Toru Takemitsu
(Related: Art, History, Music, Musicians)
"The right to kill another person is not a right that I would agree with and support."
- Tom Tancredo
(Related: Right, Support)
"As has repeatedly been stated, the underlying hypothesis, which in a number of cases has been supported by direct experimental evidence, is that each gene controls the production, function, and specificity of a particular enzyme."
- Edward Lawrie Tatum
(Related: Production)
"I think we lost a great deal of sympathy and support with the way in which the crisis was handled, most importantly I think when we appeared to be grasping for too much at one time instead of identifying our priorities in a much more responsible fashion."
- Billy Tauzin
(Related: Time, Sympathy, Crisis, Fashion, Priorities, Support)
"While the President leads his potential adversaries in almost every state, his support is soft. He is seen as honest, sincere, just, and friendly but gets mediocre or relatively poor ratings being competent strong, intelligent, and a forceful leader."
- Robert Teeter
(Related: Leader, Being, Poor, Potential, President, State, Support)
"To us Americans much has been given; of us much is required. With all our faults and mistakes, it is our strength in support of the freedom our forefathers loved which has saved mankind from subjection to totalitarian power."
- Norman Thomas
(Related: Power, Strength, Americans, Faults, Freedom, Mankind, Mistakes, Support)
"You don't need to be for or against the war to provide morale and support to the men and women who are fighting over seas. These are human beings who are doing a service."
- Mike Thompson
(Related: Men, War, Women, Fighting, Service, Support)
"I am particularly disturbed that our country is the largest financial supporter of an organization that not only wastes a lot of our money but also seems to be increasingly anti-American in its policies and conduct."
- Mac Thornberry
(Related: Money, Financial, Country)
"The political status legislation which emerged in Congress in 1990 and 1991 did not receive the support needed for enactment into law during my tenure as Attorney General."
- Dick Thornburgh
(Related: Congress, Law, Legislation, Support)
"Now is not the time to compromise on the economy. Instead, we should be doing everything in our power to support long-term economic growth. Permanent repeal of the death tax will mean more high-quality, high-paying jobs for Americans."
- Todd Tiahrt
(Related: Death, Power, Time, Growth, Americans, Compromise, Economy, Tax, Jobs, Now, Support, Will)
"I shall always be consistent and never change my ways so long as I am in my senses; but for the sake of precedent the Senate should beware of binding itself to support the acts of any man, since he might through some mischance suffer a change."
- Tiberius
(Related: Change, Man, Senate, Senses, Support)
"It helps when 1 can send the children off to their fathers so I can support my new book with a national publicity tour. I started writing the book when my daughter was 5. It took me almost four years."
- Meg Tilly
(Related: Daughter, Children, Fathers, Publicity, Support, Writing, Years)
"I have really great, great parents, and they were very supportive of me."
- Justin Timberlake
(Related: Parents)
"Sadly, I've seen a lot of bands hit that sort of peak and then eventually start supporting again, you know, which we will never do. We always put a lot of thought into the way that we are going to go, and we always change."
- Glenn Tipton
(Related: Change, Thought, Will)
"We took an approach, supported by the Prime Minister, the Home Secretary and the Mayor for London, that we had very real fears of violence and damage being caused across the streets of London."
- Michael Todd
(Related: Home, Being, London, Violence)
"The fans and supporters are also part of the Olympic family."
- Bill Toomey
(Related: Family, Fans)
"I'm definitely doing better. I never realized that I would get the support that I've gotten from everybody - from my fans, to people that I've idolized my whole life. So it's overwhelming, it's amazing and I believe that everything happens for a reason so I'm in a really good place right now."
- Pia Toscano
(Related: Life, People, Fans, Now, Reason, Right, Support)
"In the polls, over 80% support the right to die and have done for the last 25 years. Even 80% of practising Catholics and Protestants support it, plus 76% of Church Times readers."
- Polly Toynbee
(Related: Church, Right, Support, Years)
"The government doesn't really prosecute for polygamy anymore, but a lot of the arrests are of groups supporting themselves through welfare scams or for child abuse. So that was all I'd really heard about polygamists."
- Jeanne Tripplehorn
(Related: Government, Abuse, Welfare)
"I support health care for people. I want people well taken care of. But I also want health care that we can afford as a country. I have people and friends closing down their businesses because of Obamacare."
- Donald Trump
(Related: Health, People, Care, Country, Friends, Support, Want)
"It is straightforward for me to be ethical, responsible, and kind-hearted because I have the resources to support that."
- Edward Tufte
(Related: Support)
"In days of doubt, in days of dreary musings on my country's fate, you alone are my comfort and support, oh great, powerful, righteous, and free Russian language!"
- Ivan Turgenev
(Related: Comfort, Country, Doubt, Fate, Support)
"A woman can plan when to have her family and how to support a family."
- Kathleen Turner
(Related: Family, Support, Woman)
"I have health. I have a wonderful support system. I have the admiration of millions of strangers, which I do not underestimate."
- Kathleen Turner
(Related: Health, Admiration, Strangers, Support)
"Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it."
- Mark Twain
(Related: Government, Patriotism, Time, Country)
"I love my dad, although I'm definitely critical of him sometimes, like when his pants are too tight. But I love him so much and I try to be really supportive of him."
- Liv Tyler
(Related: Love, Dad)
"We have to support our own films. If we don't, how can we expect others to support them?"
- Cicely Tyson
(Related: Support)
"Well the appeals happening because we believe the certification process uh, hasn't worked out the way it should, that there hasn't been substantial evidence to support their certification."
- Tom Udall
(Related: Support)
"It's nice to know you have support. Last night I got a marriage proposal. I just laughed."
- Carrie Underwood
(Related: Marriage, Night, Support)
"The essential support and encouragement comes from within, arising out of the mad notion that your society needs to know what only you can tell it."
- John Updike
(Related: Society, Encouragement, Needs, Support)
"But try if you can to support, whether it's AIDS or the cancer foundation, so that someone else might survive, might prosper, and might actually be cured of this dreaded disease."
- Jim Valvano
(Related: Cancer, Disease, Support)
"I don't support abortion. I could never participate in one. But I think it would be a mistake to make them illegal again."
- Jesse Ventura
(Related: Mistake, Abortion, Support)
"Our goal has been to more effectively promote the value of publicly-supported research at our universities, both to the Congress and to the general public."
- Charles Vest
(Related: Goal, Congress, Public, Research, Value)
"We are trying to make up these other elements by gaining cost efficiencies through our reengineering process and through overt fund-raising activities to better support graduate education."
- Charles Vest
(Related: Education, Support, Trying)
"Nonetheless, the research budgets of the Department of Defense are under enormous stress-and they are extremely important because they support more than 40 percent of all federal funding for engineering schools across the country. So the threat was and is real."
- Charles Vest
(Related: Budgets, Country, Defense, Engineering, Research, Schools, Stress, Support)
"I didn't want my parents to support me. I wanted to prove that I could do it by myself."
- Linda Vester
(Related: Parents, Support, Want)
"My father had a brilliant scholastic record in high school and was awarded a college scholarship. Unfortunately he had to turn it down so that he could continue to support his family."
- Tony Visconti
(Related: Family, Father, College, School, Support)
"We are witnessing a slow, steady takeover of our true freedoms. We are becoming a socialist nation, and whoever can't see this is probably hoping it isn't true. If we permit Mr. Obama to take over all our industries, if we permit him to raise our taxes to support unconstitutional causes, then we will be in default. This great America will become a paralyzed nation."
- Jon Voight
(Related: America, Causes, Nation, Support, Taxes, Will)
"Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them."
- Voltaire
(Related: Virtue, Laws, Support)
"All that running around in my underwear put money in my pockets. I can focus on working in interesting movies without having to worry about supporting myself."
- Mark Wahlberg
(Related: Money, Movies, Focus, Running, Worry)
"While Kuwait is not a democracy, giving only half the population a voice in their government is not a policy this Congress should support and one that I am glad that Kuwait's leaders are changing."
- Ginny B. Waite
(Related: Government, Policy, Congress, Democracy, Giving, Leaders, Population, Support, Voice)
"Since President Bush took office in 2001, this Congress has supported an agenda of democracy, freedom and expansion of rights for all peoples throughout the world."
- Ginny B. Waite
(Related: Congress, Democracy, Freedom, Rights, Office, President, World)
"In Europe, there is no television filmmaking legislation that could assist film production because private broadcasters are not interested in supporting Polish film."
- Andrzej Wajda
(Related: Europe, Film, Legislation, Production, Television)
"Also a great part of Polish industry proved to have existed only to support the Soviet military industry, and it became superfluous and incapable of being transformed into anything else. We did not foresee that or the magnitude of these phenomena."
- Andrzej Wajda
(Related: Being, Military, Support)
"We are taking steps to fight the production of meth on our own soil through limiting access to precursor ingredients, supporting educational efforts and providing necessary resources to law enforcement."
- Greg Walden
(Related: Fight, Law, Production)
"Most American fascists are enthusiastically supporting the war effort. They are doing this even in those cases where they hope to have profitable connections with German chemical firms after the war ends."
- Henry A. Wallace
(Related: War, Hope, American, Effort)
"When evangelical leaders can persuade the president to be concerned about what's happening in Sudan, or sex trafficking around the world, or HIV-AIDS, that's a very good thing. I am completely supportive of that."
- Jim Wallis
(Related: Sex, Leaders, President, World)
"I'm a big supporter of immigration."
- Malcolm Wallop
"Rest assured that my support for any eventual reform package will be based firmly upon what is in the best interests of the people of Upstate New York, not any party or president."
- James T. Walsh
(Related: People, Party, President, Reform, Rest, Support, Will)
"Certainly, we need to support the communities around the country, and we do."
- Jim Walsh
(Related: Country, Support)
"There are realities we all share, regardless of our nationality, language, or individual tastes. As we need food, so do we need emotional nourishment: love, kindness, appreciation, and support from others."
- J. Donald Walters
(Related: Food, Love, Appreciation, Kindness, Language, Nationality, Support)
"All school districts receive funds from the federal government, through the Department of Education, to support anti-drug education efforts."
- John Walters
(Related: Education, Government, School, Support)
"Each Wal-Mart store should reflect the values of its customers and support the vision they hold for their community."
- Sam Walton
(Related: Values, Vision, Community, Support)
"Thank you for the sacrifices you and your families are making. Our Vietnam Veterans have taught us that no matter what are positions may be on policy, as Americans and patriots, we must support all of our soldiers with our thoughts and our prayers."
- Zack Wamp
(Related: Policy, Thoughts, Americans, May, Soldiers, Support, Veterans, Vietnam)
"I have a family to support. And I'm not always going to be doing exactly what I want to do."
- Patrick Warburton
(Related: Family, Support, Want)
"We are ever mindful the risks our troops face every day and the sacrifices made by the families and the communities that support them as those who have been removed from power seek to delay their inevitable defeat."
- John Warner
(Related: Power, Day, Defeat, Delay, Support, Troops)
"My success was due to good luck, hard work, and support and advice from friends and mentors. But most importantly, it depended on me to keep trying after I had failed."
- Mark Warner
(Related: Success, Work, Advice, Friends, Hard work, Luck, Mentors, Support, Trying)
"How does he support Clinton's urban agenda? He doesn't know what it is."
- Maxine Waters
(Related: Support)
"One could not be a successful scientist without realizing that, in contrast to the popular conception supported by newspapers and mothers of scientists, a goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid."
- James D. Watson
(Related: Successful, Contrast, Mothers, Newspapers, Popular, Scientists)
"We should be able to support our own economy within our own borders."
- Dennis Weaver
(Related: Economy, Support)
"If we had a hydrogen economy worldwide, every nation on earth could create its own energy source to support its economy, and the threat of war over diminishing resources would just evaporate."
- Dennis Weaver
(Related: War, Earth, Economy, Energy, Nation, Support)
"In 1972, I got my first electric bass and started playing the kind of instrument I play now. I found that the majority of musicians couldn't bear that. They are not used to listening to the bass because they think the bass is in the background to support them."
- Eberhard Weber
(Related: First, Listening, Majority, Musicians, Now, Play, Support)
"The ecclesiastical establishments of Europe which serve to support tyrannical governments are not the Christian religion but abuses and corruptions of it."
- Noah Webster
(Related: Religion, Christian, Europe, Support)
"I would say that my parents were supportive of me."
- Sanford I. Weill
(Related: Parents)
"Parents need all the help they can get. The strongest as well as the most fragile family requires a vital network of social supports."
- Bernice Weissbourd
(Related: Family, Help, Network, Parents)
"We have seen a central government promote the power of labor-union bosses, and in turn be supported by that power, until it has become entirely too much a government of and for one class, which is exactly what our Founding Fathers wanted most to prevent."
- Robert Welch
(Related: Government, Power, Bosses, Class, Fathers, Founding, Labor)
"Any film that supports the idea that things can be changed is a great film in my eyes."
- Wim Wenders
(Related: Idea, Eyes, Film)