Support Quotes

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

If you look at the purported dangers of salt or fat, there is no consensus of support in scientific literature. So I would ask first: 'Is it possible to have an informed government that actually follows the science?' From what I've seen, it's not likely.

~ Tim Ferriss

Effective teacher support in my mind is the same thing as effective management. Our teachers need strong management, just like anyone in any profession.

~ Wendy Kopp

President Obama and Secretary Duncan have made stronger teacher evaluation a key part of their education reform efforts. Under their signature plan, called 'Race to the Top,' states can win federal support for schools by improving teacher evaluations.

~ Juan Williams

I had a teacher in college who drastically changed the course of my life by telling me that he believed in me as an actor. I never received that support before, and it inspired to me to such a degree that I never looked back. He taught me that it's okay to be crappy; it's okay to fight; it's okay to go to any length.

~ Taylor Schilling

We know the parental support, community support, makes a difference. It's not just the metrics of testing and putting pressure on the schools and on the teachers.

~ Donna Shalala

Teacher compensation isn't the only factor in cultivating great teaching. Other important priorities include changing how we measure student performance, providing more flexibility to teacher-preparation programs, and improving how we train and support principals.

~ Michael Bennet

Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.

~ John Locke

Unlike President Obama, I would say that I support the long-standing bipartisan post-war belief that American global strength and leadership secures our national-security interests, and it also promotes order and stability in the world. And it gives us immense influence in the world and deters our adversaries and reassures our allies.

~ Tom Cotton

I think there's a great strength in having the courage and also having the support to do what you want to do when you're an artist in any way, shape or form.

~ Dave Gahan

I support the death penalty. But I also think there has to be no margin for error.

~ George Ryan

Yes, I support the death penalty. It is an issue that cannot be fudged or hedged.

~ Dianne Feinstein

Marriage is almost as old as dirt, and it was defined in the garden between Adam and Eve. One man, one woman for life till death do you part. So I would never attempt to try to redefine marriage. And I don't think anyone else should either. So do I support the idea of gay marriage? No, I don't.

~ Kirk Cameron

I support anything that broadens the message of gender equality and tempers the stigma of the feminist label. We run into trouble, though, when we celebrate celebrity feminism while avoiding the actual work of feminism.

~ Roxane Gay

In 1919, at the Paris Peace Conference, Japan had put forward a proposal to guarantee racial equality at the League of Nations, but Woodrow Wilson overturned it in the face of majority support.

~ Pankaj Mishra

When Landon Carter, a Virginia plantation owner, read the Declaration of Independence two days after it was issued, he wondered whether its ringing affirmation of equality meant that slaves must be freed. If so, he confided to his diary, 'You must send them out of the country, or they must steal for their support.'

~ Edmund Morgan

You got to fight for quality art and equality and all the things that we're fighting for, the things we believe in. Choice and preference and all those things that we support. We don't want to give up that fight. You got to keep doing it.

~ Christopher Cross

After much deliberation, and after reviewing the legal, public policy and civil-rights questions presented, I support marriage equality for same-sex couples and believe that DOMA should be repealed.

~ Bob Casey

I don't believe in 'thinking' old. Although I've transitioned through many bodies - a baby, toddler, child, teen, young adult, mid-life and older adult - my spirit is unchanged. I support my body with exercise, my mind with reading and writing, and my spirit with the knowing that I am part of the Divine source of all life.

~ Wayne Dyer

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

I came of age believing that, no matter what happened, I would always be able to support myself.

~ William J. Clinton

I became married at a young age and had two daughters and divorced at 26. I had to go on welfare to make ends meet. I had no way to support myself.

~ Clarissa Pinkola Estés

We need to have intimate, enduring bonds; we need to be able to confide; we need to feel that we belong; we need to be able to get support, and just as important for happiness, to give support. We need many kinds of relationships; for one thing, we need friends.

~ Gretchen Rubin

A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.

~ Gilbert K. Chesterton

The first thing I did after getting a Master's degree - and the Air Force was very kind; they let me stay on at school to get a Master's - I went to Denver for the Armed Forces Air Intelligence School, six months. Fundamentally, we had a major effort on in Southeast Asia, and this was training folks to support that effort.

~ Michael Hayden

Well look, CIA is an agency that has to collect intelligence, do operations. We have to take risks and it's important that we take risks and that we know that we have the support of the government and we have the support of the American people in what we're doing.

~ Leon Panetta

White House leaks of classified information put the lives of U.S. service members, intelligence officers, and civilians at risk. That's why I support a measure passed by the Senate Intelligence Committee to crack down on such leaks.

~ Peter T. King

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

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

I wanted to say thanks... and share my gratitude for everything I've been blessed with. Family, friends, and continued support from everyone.

~ Travis Barker

I thank God, Jesus, and my Grandmother for being able to support myself and my family.

~ Steven Adler

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

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

I'm thankful to my family, friends, and fans for all of their support.

~ Serena Williams

I remember saying goodbye to my father the night he left to join the Navy. He didn't have to. He was older than other servicemen and had a family to support but he wanted to be a part of the fight against fascism, not just make movies about it. I admired this about him.

~ Jane Fonda

God created the family to provide the maximum love and support and morality and example that one can imagine.

~ Jerry Falwell

A woman can plan when to have her family and how to support a family.

~ Kathleen Turner

I look to my family for my support. I'm fortunate to have a big family.

~ Chris O'donnell

I have a family to support. And I'm not always going to be doing exactly what I want to do.

~ Patrick Warburton

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 Dürer