My parents were very supportive. They went to every show. And they never told me not to do what I was doing.
~By Annette Bening ~
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.
~By Gerald R. Ford ~
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.
~By Stephen Cambone ~
Uncertainty! fell demon of our fears! The human soul that can support despair, supports not thee.
~By David Mallet ~
I didn't want my parents to support me. I wanted to prove that I could do it by myself.
~By Linda Vester ~
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.
~By Thora Birch ~
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.
~By John Negroponte ~
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.
~By Loretta Sanchez ~
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.
~By Joe Biden ~
Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports.
~By Kenneth Branagh ~
A finite world can support only a finite population; therefore, population growth must eventually equal zero.
~By Garrett Hardin ~
I've never heard an agency say, 'Unless you industrialize I will not support you'.
~By Yoweri Museveni ~
My favorite language for maintainability is Python. It has simple, clean syntax, object encapsulation, good library support, and optional named parameters.
~By Bram Cohen ~
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.
~By Helen Suzman ~
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.
~By Claudio Reyna ~
Our ministry is supported entirely by faith, through the missions gifts of readers who receive my messages every three weeks. We seldom mention money, and we never burden supporters.
~By David Wilkerson ~
I think IT projects are about supporting social systems-about communications between people and machines. They tend to fail due to cultural issues.
~By Tim Berners Lee ~
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.
~By Kit Bond ~
But we also think that we've got more quite alot more support than any new format has ever had.
~By Trip Hawkins ~
The current minimum wage simply is not supporting Ohio's working families.
~By Sherrod Brown ~
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.
~By Meir Kahane ~
You know in the West they support realistic forces.
~By Eduard Shevardnadze ~
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.
~By Ron Kind ~
My parents are my backbone. Still are. They're the only group that will support you if you score zero or you score 40.
~By Kobe Bryant ~
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.
~By Loris Malaguzzi ~
I support transitioning from the progressive tax to a flat tax system - both individual and corporate/business.
~By Allen West ~
Support the strong, give courage to the timid, remind the indifferent, and warn the opposed.
~By Whitney M. Young ~
My dad was an Arsenal supporter and he used to take me there, but I've always been Chelsea.
~By Eric Bristow ~
The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.
~By Victor Hugo ~
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.
~By John Updike ~
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.
~By Michael Ledeen ~
God is, even though the whole world deny him. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.
~By Mohandas Gandhi ~
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.
~By Corazon Aquino ~
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.
~By Steve Israel ~
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.
~By Sanjay Dutt ~
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.
~By Anita Hill ~
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.
~By Bob Filner ~
The planet does nothing but support us, and we are constantly committing crimes against nature.
~By Daphne Zuniga ~
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.
~By Ferguson Jenkins ~
In Europe, there is no television filmmaking legislation that could assist film production because private broadcasters are not interested in supporting Polish film.
~By Andrzej Wajda ~
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.
~By Ludwig Quidde ~
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.
~By John Redwood ~
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.
~By Alfred Marshall ~
I do support enhanced interrogation techniques. Obviously their value is shining through with respect to the bin Laden killing.
~By Tim Pawlenty ~
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.
~By Pete Coors ~
'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.
~By Richard V. Allen ~
Very hard, very hard to represent a country, or carry out a policy that does not have consensus support.
~By John Negroponte ~
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.
~By Susan Hampshire ~
I have always supported measures and principles and not men.
~By Davy Crockett ~
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.
~By Michael Irvin ~
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.
~By Martin Sheen ~
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.
~By Mark Dayton ~
They established their patriotic credentials long ago, and are either supportive of the Bush agenda or know when to keep their traps shut.
~By Bill O'Reilly ~
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.
~By Richard Perle ~
If you are ever at a loss to support a flagging conversation, introduce the subject of eating.
~By Leigh Hunt ~
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.
~By William O. Douglas ~
The need for improved technical support in schools has expanded as the Government and schools have increased their investment in information and communications technologies.
~By Estelle Morris ~
My parents have been really supportive right from the very beginning.
~By Benjamin Cohen ~
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.
~By David Ogilvy ~
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.
~By Richard O'Brien ~
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.
~By Naguib Mahfouz ~
I will support legislation that benefits the American worker and prevents the outsourcing of American jobs.
~By Ed Pastor ~
We are the only state that does not have a State Film Corporation there to support the commercial industry.
~By Ann Macbeth ~
It was a complex endeavor so without Robert Redford's constant support we wouldn't have gotten to the end.
~By Walter Salles ~
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.
~By William Kingdon Clifford ~
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.
~By Allyson Schwartz ~
I support anything to do with the welfare and rights of children in a huge way.
~By Kelly Preston ~
My demographic of people have been very supportive.
~By Paul Anka ~
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.
~By Chanakya ~
Today, Academies of Science use their influence around the world in support of human rights.
~By John Charles Polanyi ~
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.
~By Piers Anthony ~
One thing that attracted me to Buddhism was the support for this larger vision of values.
~By Herbie Hancock ~
It's discouraging for me to come out there and watch the lack of fan support for a good team.
~By Jerry West ~
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.
~By Solomon Ortiz ~
While I support immigration regulated through a legal framework, I do not support rewarding those who broke the law to get here.
~By Kit Bond ~
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.
~By Joan Blades ~
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.
~By Michael K. Simpson ~
I can support going in after Saddam Hussein, but I want to make sure I don't go alone.
~By John Dingell ~
Both parents supported my becoming a world class athlete.
~By Edwin Moses ~
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.
~By Joichi Ito ~
I do not support abortion rights. Although what I would support in this vexed area is not clear to me.
~By Stanley Fish ~
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.
~By Rose Byrne ~
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.
~By William Devane ~
If you ever have to support a flagging conversation, introduce the topic of eating.
~By Leigh Hunt ~
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.
~By Alexander Hamilton ~
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.
~By David Ginola ~
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.
~By Katharine Hepburn ~
I am in support of the NRA position on gun control.
~By William J. Clinton ~
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.
~By Katherine Harris ~
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.
~By John Blair ~
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.
~By Robert Casey ~
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.
~By Lee H. Hamilton ~
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.
~By Steve Nash ~
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.
~By Joan Blades ~
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.
~By John L. Lewis ~
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.
~By Chen Shui-bian ~
The threat to free television. The reason television is free is because it is a life support system for commercials. That fundamental aspect is about to change.
~By Dick Wolf ~
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.
~By Pete Stark ~
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.
~By Richard M. Daley ~
The only way to support a revolution is to make your own.
~By Abbie Hoffman ~
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