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For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction. -- Lord Byron
The loudest voices we hear are those who advocate conflict, divisiveness. -- John C. Danforth
I've always tried to be fair, even-handed, not an advocate for any group. -- Dan Rather
Advocating through art is known as propaganda. You should look up the name Goebbels. -- Glenn Beck
No man should advocate a course in private that he's ashamed to admit in public. -- George McGovern
Advocating well with a personal story is not a call to simply Insert Story Here. -- John Capecci and Timothy Cage
I am not unaware how unpopular on this floor are the sentiments I am about to advocate. -- Benjamin F. Wade
Let me be clear: There is no stronger advocate for civil liberties in the Senate than myself. -- Saxby Chambliss
To be President of the United States, sir, is to act as advocate for a blind, venomous, and ungrateful client. -- John Updike
I am aware that in presenting myself as the advocate of the Indians and their rights, I shall stand very much alone. -- Sam Houston
Without an advocate for the poor, without a new state of mind in America, the country lies on the brink of anarchy. -- Louis Farrakhan
As a dedicated and proud father of three, I am a strong advocate of life. I value life whether born or unborn. -- Gresham Barrett
I want to be an advocate for the people who don't have time to read the newspaper... or the money to make a political contribution. -- Richard Codey
The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power. -- Toni Morrison
The opposition has moved from a blaming the victim to blaming the victim's advocate's statistics. Irrespective of what the numbers are, it's far too many. -- Patricia Ireland
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
I do not think that there is a reputable scientist on this planet who would advocate using this technology to generate a human child as was just announced. -- Robert Lanza
You never really know until you put the movie in front of an audience. I am a big advocate of screenings, which are getting harder and harder to do nowadays. -- Keenen Ivory Wayans
If the United Nations is to survive, those who represent it must bolster it; those who advocate it must submit to it; and those who believe in it must fight for it. -- Norman Cousins
I would turn the question around to people, especially those reporters who wrote some of those articles. Are you advocating our daughters shouldn't learn self-defense? Because that's what was taught at that rally. -- Matt Shea
No man can call himself liberal, or radical, or even a conservative advocate of fair play, if his work depends in any way on the unpaid or underpaid labor of women at home, or in the office. -- Gloria Steinem
We can still find middle ground, truly secure our borders, deal with those already here and address our labor needs. But those who advocate giving current illegal aliens and future guest workers a special path to citizenship must compromise. -- John Shadegg
Things are still in early stages, but one can imagine that as we build up and systematize our theories of these associations, and try to boil them down to their core, the result might point us toward the sort of fundamental principles I advocate. -- David Chalmers
Yeah, but you need an experienced radio veteran who is a liberal advocate. And there just hadn't been any radio that did that. And so they weren't trained - they had developed all these bad habits of being objective and balanced and stuff like that. -- Al Franken
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
Advocating democracy has, by other people, often been taken as a form of imperialism, and not without some justification. So the important thing in a democracy is that it doesn't necessarily have to agree with what America's interests are, and it doesn't necessarily have to be serving American interests. -- George Soros
To the families of special needs children all across this country I have a message for you: for years you have sought to make America a more welcoming place for your sons and daughters, and I pledge to you that if we're elected, you will have a friend, an advocate, in The White House. -- Sarah Palin
Americans are willing to go to enormous trouble and expense defending their principles with arms, very little trouble and expense advocating them with words. Temperamentally we are ready to die for certain principles (or, in the case of overripe adults, send youngsters to die), but we show little inclination to advertise the reasons for dying. -- E. B. White
Screw them. Yeah. But not literally. I'm not advocating promiscuity. -- Mark Hoppus
In January 1776, Thomas Paine issued 'Common Sense,' advocating independence from Great Britain. -- Mike Crapo
Well, my husband is supportive of my work, like advocating for dialogue between cultures on YouTube. -- Queen Rania of Jordan
I am neither accusing President Obama of having committed high crimes and misdemeanors nor advocating his impeachment. -- David Limbaugh
Denounce me for advocating freedom if you can, and I will bear your curse with a better resignation. -- Victoria Woodhull
The majority of surveys throughout this Nation show that the American people are advocating for a comprehensive and realistic approach to immigration reform. -- Raul Grijalva
There are no globalized, youth-led, grassroots social movements advocating for democratic culture across Muslim-majority societies. There is no equivalent of Al-Qaeda without the terrorism. -- Maajid Nawaz
Politics is a contest among people of diverse backgrounds and philosophies, advocating different solutions to common problems. The system only works when principled, energetic people participate. -- Bob Ehrlich
Those who have been outspoken in advocating human rights during these last forty years, have themselves grabbed the most fundamental of human rights from the people of the Third-World countries. -- Ali Khamenei
Throughout my years championing for civil rights, analyzing politics and advocating on behalf of the voiceless, I am disturbed the most when harmless children suffer because of politics or detrimental policies. -- Al Sharpton
I have been very strongly advocating that poverty must not be used as an excuse to continue child labour. It perpetuates poverty. If children are deprived of education, they remain poor. -- Kailash Satyarthi
The problem is that Americans use the state as a moral compass. For libertarians, it is often frustrating to explain that advocating the decriminalization of x is not synonymous with endorsing x. -- David Harsanyi
Whatever feminists may say about their only advocating choices, everyone knows the truth: Feminism regards work outside the home as more elevating, honorable, and personally productive than full-time mothering and making a home. -- Dennis Prager
If I was courting the Muslim vote, I wouldn't have put establishing the partnership ceremony at the forefront of my first term, would I? I go all around London advocating lesbian and gay rights. -- Ken Livingstone
Now we're in the midst of not just advocating for change, not just calling for change - we're doing the grinding, sometimes frustrating work of delivering change - inch by inch, day by day. -- Barack Obama
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
In individual industries where female labour pays an important role, any movement advocating better wages, shorter working hours, etc., would not be doomed from the start because of the attitude of those women workers who are not organized. -- Clara Zetkin
Most Americans are fiscally conservative and socially liberal. I'm advocating a balanced budget. But along with that, look, there should be gay marriage equality. A woman should have the right to choose. Let's not build a fence across the border. -- Gary Johnson
What free-market economists are not telling us is that the politics they want to get rid of are none other than those of democracy itself. When they say we need to insulate economic policies from politics, they are in effect advocating the castration of democracy. -- Ha-Joon Chang
The USDA is not our ally here. We have to take matters into our own hands, not only by advocating for a better diet for everyone - and that's the hard part - but by improving our own. And that happens to be quite easy. Less meat, less junk, more plants. -- Mark Bittman
I'm a lobbyist and had a career lobbying. The guy who gets elected or the lady who gets elected president of the United States will immediately be lobbying. They would be advocating to the Congress, they'll be lobbying our allies and our adversaries overseas. They'll be asking the business community and labor unions. -- Haley Barbour
I'm part of the consumer culture... I'm just using the space I am given to express something that is out of the space so I'm part of the consumer system but I'm advocating stepping out. Which is a contradiction but I could be part of he consumer system and say, 'let's consume even more.' -- Michel Gondry
I'm not advocating we should all be back in the kitchen and cooking all the time, because life's too short and we've got more interesting things to do. But to rediscover the intense pleasure of making a cake and putting it down on the table is ridiculously satisfying, out of all proportion to the work. -- Jane Asher
People ask me a lot, 'Well, can you be pro-life and be feminist? Can you be conservative and be feminist?' And I think that, yeah, maybe personally you can be those things. But I think if you're advocating for legislation, or if you're fighting to limit other women's rights, then you can't really call yourself a feminist. -- Jessica Valenti
I think that one of the primary roles of an attorney, and certainly we try to teach it here to our students, is that you counsel compliance with the law. The lawyer, more than simply being a mouthpiece for the client and advocating at whatever cost the client's interest, is also an officer of the court in questions that appear before the court. -- Viet D. Dinh
I haven't had senators advocating for me. -- Paula Broadwell
I am not advocating a morality based on evolution. -- Richard Dawkins
I go all around London advocating lesbian and gay rights. -- Ken Livingstone
I am passionate about young women and advocating for them. -- Sara Bareilles
Senator Frist is a good man, he's simply advocating a bad policy -- Tom DeLay
I'm not advocating violence but I think somebody should shoot Simon Cowell. -- Martin Gore
I have nothing to do with this pseudo-religious approach that Gandhi is advocating. -- Muhammad Ali Jinnah
We will also never bring up the permanent tax cut the president is advocating. -- Tom Daschle
[John] Bolton is so far out there, he`s advocating bombing everyone in the world. -- Hillary Clinton
This is such music to my ears. James Carville advocating a tax cut to stimulate the economy. -- Mary Matalin
If more people were actively engaged in advocating their positions I think we'd have a better society. -- Jeb Bush
No candidate can win a presidential race advocating gay marriage and opposing the military action in Iraq. -- Dick Morris
I'd like to see more crossover between white and black music. That's something I've been advocating for years. -- Daryl Hall
Let men be compelled to wear our dress for awhile and we should soon hear them advocating a change. -- Amelia Bloomer
The upper hand is with those who are pushing regime change rather than those who are advocating more diplomacy. -- Richard N. Haass
What I'm advocating is an intellectual revolution - it's a different mindset concerning the ethical benchmarks by which we live. -- Tariq Ramadan
I am not advocating doing nothing. I am advocating for you to energetically, actively and vigilantly monitor how you are BEING. -- Brenda Strong
When you're playing something, hopefully, if you're doing your best, you're advocating for your character and you're not trying to think too much. -- Nick Kroll
We believe as much in the purity of races as we think they (the Whites) do...by advocating the purity of all races. -- Mahatma Gandhi
We do not want to destroy any people. It is precisely because we have been advocating coexistence that we have shed so much blood. -- Yasser Arafat
One of the problems we're facing is, in my view, that there are no globalized, youth-led, grassroots social movements advocating for democratic culture across Muslim-majority societies. -- Maajid Nawaz
Whatever I believe here and whatever you think I'm advocating, it's not because I care what happens to the Republican Party. I care about what happens to America! -- Rush Limbaugh
I don't want to commit myself in advocating a definite republican constitution which will get bogged down with the question of who would elect the President and when. -- Tony Benn
As an American I am of course fundamentally opposed to democracy and to anyone advocating or defending democracy, which in theory and practice is the basis of socialism. -- Rose Wilder Lane
Despite our significant public-policy differences, I commend Jim Wallis for advocating religious belief as an invaluable resource in addressing the urgent moral and social crises of our time. -- Richard Land
Since coming to Congress, I have been advocating for increased resources for research in the physical sciences and for the Department of Energy Office of Science in particular. -- Judy Biggert
I don't think there's any need to have essays advocating selfishness among human beings; I don't know what your impression has been, but some things require no further reinforcement. -- Christopher Hitchens
Freedom is living without government coercion. So when a politician talks about freedom for this group or that, ask yourself whether he is advocating more government action or less. -- Ron Paul
Only by advocating 'politically unrealistic' CO2 concentrations can runaway global warming be avoided. But what is politically realistic for humans is whollymunrelated to what is physically realistic for the planet. -- Mark Lynas
Patriotism means advocating plunder in the interests of the privileged class of your particular country. The time will soon come when calling someone a patriot will be the deepest insult. -- Ernest Belfort Bax
There's a difference between loyal opposition that has a different view, and those who are advocating a defeatist approach that sends the wrong message to our troops and the enemy. -- Scott McClellan
You need people who are shaping and advocating for the actual policies and structural changes that need to occur in order to address those issues. That's where the politics and t -- Maya Harris
The spirit that I am advocating is reframing how we view the world, and shifting from the negativity of lack and "not enough" to the positive frame of aligning with Nature. -- Frances Moore LappÃ©
I am personally not advocating violence. I am simply saying that it is a morally acceptable tactic and it may be useful in the struggle for animal liberation. I don't know. -- Jerry Vlasak
advocating women's rights and greater opportunity for women in the workplace and in every avenue of public life is inconsistent with an insistence on mother taking care of children and housework. -- Mary Frances Berry
Deportation is a decision taken by the home secretary under statute, The new grounds will include fostering hatred, advocating violence to further a person's beliefs, or justifying or validating such violence. -- Tony Blair
Whatever feminists may say about their only advocating choices, everyone knows the truth: Feminism regards work outside the home as more elevating, honorable, and personally productive than full-time mothering and homemaking. -- Dennis Prager
New Yorkers should know that no one in the Administration, at the Department of Defense, or at the Selective Service System is advocating the reinstatement of the mandatory draft in any form. -- Jim Walsh
I'm just seeing as I grow older, and hopefully wiser, that a lot of things I see from a race perspective are class problems too, so I should be advocating for all. -- Killer Mike
I do not think that any self-respecting radical in history would have considered advocating peopleâ??s rights to get married, join the Army, and earn a living as a terribly inspiring revolutionary platform. -- Barney Frank
Today the devil as a wolf in supposedly a new suit of sheep's clothing is enticing some men to parrot his line by advocating planned government guaranteed security at the expense of our liberties. -- Ezra Taft Benson

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