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“I don't like this vision that Turkey is successful because it is as successful as the western powers in economic terms. But I do think they are trying to find a new space in the multi-polar world, and this is what I am advocating. I don't think that Muslims have an alternative model.”

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Author:Tariq Ramadan

“It was outrageous that [Donald Trump] would be advocating [that] women who exercise their constitutional right and have autonomy over their healthcare decisions would be criminals, along with the doctors that served them. He did try to walk it back - I think pretty unconvincingly.”

Thinking Trying Would Be Decision Walks Trump Exercise Doctors Criminals Healthcare Autonomy Outrageous Advocating

Author:Hillary Clinton

“I was advocating for world peace, but I was waging a violent war against my own body. I was speaking about poverty and starvation, but I was eating more than my fair share. I was a hypocrite.”

World War Body My Own Poverty Share Eating Fairs Violent Hypocrite Starvation Advocating Fair Share

Author:Bryant H. McGill

“I am not advocating doing nothing. I am advocating for you to energetically, actively and vigilantly monitor how you are BEING.”

Doing Nothing Advocating

Author:Brenda Strong

“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!”

Thinking Believe Happens Care America I Believe Party Republican I Care Republican Party Advocating Because I Care

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“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.”

World Enough Spirit Views Negativity Shifting Advocating Reframing

Author:Frances Moore Lappé

“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.”

Ifs Thinking Trying Character Too Much Hopefully Advocating Doing Your Best

Author:Nick Kroll

“Zbigniew Brzezinski, who was really one of the - whose name is impossible to pronounce - who was really one of the architects of this very aggressive American interventionist foreign policy, you know, really stand up to Russia, challenge them, not only Russia but China. He's changed his tune now and is basically advocating for a much more diplomatic and collaborative approach to the other power centers of the world that are just kind of moving on without us right now.”

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Author:Jill Stein

“They're mounting a campaign right now with the ACLU and a lot of different organizations advocating for [Edward Snoden] pardoning before [Barack] Obama leaves office. Wouldn't it be incredible to see something like that happen? I don't know what we can expect. I am interested in the different points and perspectives that people have.”

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Author:Zachary Quinto

“When I was secretary of state, I went around the world advocating for America, but also advocating for women's rights, to make sure that women had a decent chance to have a better life and negotiated a treaty with Russia to lower nuclear weapons. Four hundred pieces of legislation have my name on it as a sponsor or cosponsor when I was a senator for eight years.”

“I [have big plans]. Promoting freedom around the world, particularly with women in the Middle East. Working on global disease. Working on accountability in public schools. And advocating for a free marketplace and an economic environment in which businesses can innovate and create jobs.”

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Author:George W. Bush

“Now teach-ins are fairly common or they become common place. But in 1965, the Students for Democratic Society in Ann Harbor organized the first teach-in. The way it happened was that we were advocating for a strike that we advocated that the faculty should strike in solidarity with the Vietnamese struggle.”

Way Should Firsts Common Teach Struggle Happened Students Democratic Strikes Organized Faculty Solidarity Harbors Advocating Democratic Society Vietnamese

Author:Bill Ayers

“[John] Bolton is so far out there, he`s advocating bombing everyone in the world.”

World Bombing Advocating

Author:Rand Paul

“Because The Honorable Elijah Muhammad makes black people brave enough, men enough to defend ourselves no matter what the odds are, the white man runs around here with a doctrine that Mr. Muhammad is advocating the violence when he is actually telling Negroes to defend themselves against violent people.”

“I haven't had senators advocating for me.”

Havens Senators Advocating

Author:Paula Broadwell

“I think Hamas should be challenged to consider really embracing Gandhi and Dr. Kings philosophy of advocating nonviolence as a way to achieve self determination, end occupation, achieve unity within their country, and gain allies within Israel. I think this idea of an eye for and eye, a rocket for a bomb, will never bring about peace for either side.”

“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.”

Should Problem Grows Race Class Seeing Perspective Hopefully Wiser Advocating

Author:Killer Mike

“This notion that 'what happens in your house doesn't affect what happens in my house' on the subject of the institution of marriage may be the ultimate sophistry of those advocating same-gender marriage.”

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Author:Lance B. Wickman

“It's not the Church that has made the issue of marriage a matter of federal law. Those who are vigorously advocating for something called same-gender marriage have essentially put that potato on the fork. They're the ones who have created a situation whereby the law of the land, one way or the other, is going to address this issue of marriage. This is not a situation where the Church has elected to take the matter into the legal arena or into the political arena. It's already there.”

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Author:Lance B. Wickman

“In America there are people advocating for trans rights and people like Vice President Pence, who is vehemently opposed. In Pakistan, too, you have all kinds of folks - from flamboyant gay fashion designers and female Air Force pilots to the Taliban. A cross-dressed man used to be the top TV talk show host. It was actually quite radical. So the diversity of these societies is often lost on people.”

“There is always the risk in advocating for democracy that the first people to wake up might not be your team, but that is a risk worth taking. I would rather have citizens I don't agree with organized and active than an oligarchy of people that I agree with.”

People Firsts Might Democracy Risk Team Citizens Wake Up Agree Active Organized Advocating Oligarchy

Author:Naomi Wolf

“I believe that the teachers unions are doing exactly what they're supposed to be doing. They were designed to be professional organizations that protect the rights and privileges and pay of their members. The problem is that we don't have an organized national interest group with the same heft as the teachers union that's advocating on behalf of children.”

“What is irreversible in the Arab world is this intellectual revolution, the awakening that we can get rid of dictators. That is here, and the people have this sentiment and this political power. They feel that they can do it, and it's still there. At the same time, we don't know what is going to happen. So to be very quick by saying, "Oh, revolutions and Arab Spring," and - you know, what I'm advocating is to take a cautious optimism as the starting point of our analysis and to look at what is happening.”

“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.”

Thinking Humans Children Technology Planets Scientist Advocating

Author:Robert Lanza

“I go all around London advocating lesbian and gay rights.”

Rights Gay London Gay Rights Advocating

Author:Ken Livingstone

“No man should advocate a course in private that he's ashamed to admit in public.”

Men Should Courses Ashamed Advocating

Author:George McGovern

“We live in a strange bubble.”

Strange Bubbles Advocating

Author:Brian Molko

“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.”

Self Ability Imagine Strange Tests Brilliant Familiar Advocating

Author:Toni Morrison

“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.”

Sometimes Calling Midst Inches Frustrating Delivering Advocating

Author:Barack Obama

“Writers sometimes give up what is most strange and wonderful about their writing - soften their roughest edges - to accommodate themselves toward a group response.”

Giving Writing Sometimes Wonderful Groups Strange Giving Up Response Edges Accommodate Advocating

Author:Mary Oliver

“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.”

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Author:Sarah Palin

“If we were living in ancient Rome or Greece, I would be considered sickly and unattractive. The times dictate that thin is better for some strange reason, which I think is foolish.”

Ifs Thinking Reason Would Be Strange Ancient Foolish Rome Greece Advocating Unattractive Ancient Rome

Author:Gwyneth Paltrow

“It still strikes me as strange that anyone could have any moral objection to someone else's sexuality. It's like telling someone else how to clean their house.”

Stills House Moral Strange Clean Sexuality Strikes Objections Phoenix Advocating

Author:River Phoenix

“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.”

Knows May Home Choices Feminism Regard Feminist Productive Honorable Advocating Mothering Elevating

Author:Dennis Prager

“War makes strange giant creatures out of us little routine men who inhabit the earth.”

Men Littles War Earth Literature Strange Creatures Giants Routine Advocating

Book:Here is Your War: Story of G.I. Joe

Source: Here is Your War: Story of G.I. Joe

“Well, my deliberate opinion is - it's a jolly strange world.”

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Book:The Title: A Comedy in Three Acts

Source: The Title: A Comedy in Three Acts

“Well, my husband is supportive of my work, like advocating for dialogue between cultures on YouTube.”

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Author:Queen Rania of Jordan

“I've always tried to be fair, even-handed, not an advocate for any group.”

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Author:Dan Rather

“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.”

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Author:Mark Bittman

“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.”

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Book:My Life on the Road

Source: My Life on the Road

“I'm one of those strange beasts who really likes a corset.”

Acting Strange Likes Beast Advocating Corsets

Author:Cate Blanchett

“I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.”

“To be President of the United States, sir, is to act as advocate for a blind, venomous, and ungrateful client.”

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Author:John Updike

“What a strange world this would be if we all had the same sense of humor.”

Ifs World Humor Would Be Strange Sense Of Humor Advocating Strange World

Author:Bernard Williams

“A lot of hacking is playing with other people, you know, getting them to do strange things.”

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Author:Steve Wozniak

“I feel coming on a strange disease - humility.”

Feels Humility Strange Disease Architecture Advocating

Author:Frank Lloyd Wright

“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.”

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Author:Clara Zetkin

“It's the first time it's happened to me and maybe the last. It's a strange sensation, not normal for me. I can't remember scoring three goals, even when I was a kid.”

Firsts I Can Kids Lasts Remember Time Three Goal Happened Strange Normal First Time Soccer Sensations Advocating

Author:Zinedine Zidane

“It's strange how the simple things in life go on while we become more difficult.”

Difficult Simple Strange Goes On Things In Life Simple Things Advocating Life Goes On Simple Things In Life

Author:Richard Brautigan

“There is no virtue in compulsory government charity, and there is no virtue in advocating it. A politician who portrays himself as "caring" and "sensitive" because he wants to expand the government's charitable programs is merely saying that he's willing to try to do good with other people's money. Well, who isn't? And a voter who takes pride in supporting such programs is telling us that he'll do good with his own money - if a gun is held to his head.”

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