Advocating Quotes - Page 9

• 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

  Believe, Thinking, Race

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• This flirtation with isolationism in the Republican party is over. It's giving way to a more muscular foreign policy than I've been advocating. But I'm also advocating building up others. Build a small schoolhouse in Afghanistan to help a poor young girl have a say about her children will destroy the ideology more than a bomb.

  Rand Paul

  Girl, Children, Party

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• The last man to try to run for president advocating a tax increase was Walter Mondale. He lost 49 states in 1984, and the "I'll raise your taxes" reputation haunted him all the way to Minnesota last year, where he lost his 50th state in the Senate election.

  Dick Morris

  Running, Men, Years

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• I am a leader in the fight against the national energy tax proposal some Congressional leaders are advocating. I call this bad idea 'cap-and-tax' because of the damage it will do to jobs, manufacturing and our economy.

  Jim Sensenbrenner

  Jobs, Fighting, Ideas

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• I've pretty much always used my positions as a bully pulpit. What that means is strongly advocating for the things I feel are really important. Gun violence, to me, is the highest-priority public-health issue, and I have to make sure Congress is aware of it, the American people are aware of it, the president is aware of it, and that we all begin together to develop policies to exterminate the disease - the epidemic, really - of gun violence.

  Joycelyn Elders

  Mean, Gun, Epidemics

  "Surgeon General’s Warning". Interview with Ken Kelley, www.motherjones.com. January/February 1994.

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• I think dragging someone out of the closet who isn't necessarily engaged in anti-gay activities can have a destructive effect on them and on us. I don't want unwilling gay people advocating on my behalf; I think that's a challenge.

  Christopher Rice

  Gay, Thinking, People

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• I am passionate about young women and advocating for them.

  Sara Bareilles

  Passionate, Young, Young Women

  Source: www.elle.com

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