Top 64 Proponent Quotes
#1. My mother was an English teacher before she became a full-time mom, and a huge proponent of reading, so she made sure I was an early and vigorous reader.
Matt Wagner
#2. I'm not a proponent of people watching a movie, and then going out and doing something bad. People have been doing bad things, well before movies.
Ray Liotta
#3. Winston Churchill was an early proponent of eugenic legislation decades before Hitler came to power.
A.E. Samaan
#4. No truly sophisticated proponent of repression would be stupid enough to shatter the facade of democratic institutions.
Murray Levin
#5. APPEAL TO EMOTION Informal Proponent A argues for or against conclusion P by invoking the emotional effects of P. Arguing for the conclusion of an argument by appealing to the emotions of the audience, rather than addressing the matter at hand.
Michael Withey
#6. The innovator is not an opponent of the old, but a proponent of the new.
Lyle E. Schaller
#7. All this has been very formative in both my research and my teaching, so I value it enormously in my life. It's why I'm a strong proponent of general education
because I saw how it opened my eyes.
Paul Rozin
#8. I'm a strong proponent of green tech for anyone who can afford it, having spent the last 40 years working toward achieving a smaller and smaller eco-impact for myself.
Ed Begley Jr.
#9. I have been a strong proponent of helping people understand that during the last decade or so, as it lies at the very bottom of how we know anything. Let me give a couple examples to get that point across.
Edgar Mitchell
#10. I am a big proponent of writing a great outline. That way you can avoid hitting a roadblock. There is no worse feeling than writing yourself into a corner but if you've figured it all out in the outline then you won't have that problem.
Michael Showalter
#11. Insofar as the genocide embodied in residential schooling arises as an integral aspect of colonialism, then colonialism must be seen as constituting that source ... To be in any way an apologist for colonialism is to be an active proponent of genocide.
Ward Churchill
#12. Idea-Advocacy Matrix highlights a couple of things: that good ideas need to be "sold" if they are ever going to see the light of day and bad ideas sometimes do quite well because of the skills of the proponent to sell them.
John Daly
#13. I am and have always been a strong proponent of public education. But by the virtue of its very nature - publicly funded schools cannot offer the type of spiritual education that Catholic schools have long provided.
Mark Foley
#14. It's no coincidence that the man who contributed the most to the study of human anatomy, the Belgian Andreas Vesalius, was an avid proponent of do-it-yourself, get-your-fussy-Renaissance-shirt-dirty anatomical dissection.
Mary Roach
#15. It's troubling to see how often Winston Churchill is a proponent of massive programs that are really aimed at civilians - starvation blockades and chemical warfare stockpiles and so on.
Nicholson Baker
#17. I am a big proponent of adopting dogs through shelters and rescue operations. Having dogs in the office might not be right for everyone, but it has certainly worked well for me. My advice to other offices, on the Hill and off, would be to try it out.
Linda Sanchez
#18. I've always been a proponent of the idea that technology doesn't matter to game design. The example I always like to point out is 'Tetris,' one of the greatest games ever made.
Tim Schafer
#19. I'm a huge proponent of therapy and analysis, but it's something that, in a nonprofessional way, can be abused.
Noah Baumbach
#20. REBEL, n. A proponent of a new misrule who has failed to establish it.
Ambrose Bierce
#21. The President has been a big proponent of the public option since the campaign.
Valerie Jarrett
#22. I'm a big proponent of 'Don't Ask, Don't tell,' in fact, I enforce it strictly on all of my dates. First, I don't ask them for sex, and then I warn them not to tell anyone after I'm through.
Zach Braff
#23. I am not a proponent of the death penalty, but I will enforce the law as this Congress gives it to us.
Eric Holder
#24. Unfortunately the leading proponent of ignorance in our society has become the very same institution that was created to fight it - The Church.
Sunday Adelaja
#25. I'm a big proponent of monogamous relationships regardless of sexuality, and I'm proud of how the nation is steering toward that.
Neil Patrick Harris
#26. I am a big proponent of character arcs that show us how people change over time.
Annalee Newitz
#27. The 'anti-globalisation movement' is the most significant proponent of globalisation - but in the interests of people, not concentrations of state-private power.
Noam Chomsky
#28. I am a giant proponent of giant screens. But I accept the fact that most of my movies are going to be seen on phones.
George Lucas
#29. Here's a nation, one of the founding pillars was freedom of speech and freedom of expression. And yet, we have imposed upon people restrictions on what they can say, on what they can think. And the media is the largest proponent of this, crucifying people who say things really quite innocently.
Ben Carson
#30. So it was a win-win all the way around. It was an amazing moment, not only for myself and the team behind the film, but for DTS and for John Lasseter. He was always a big fan. He was a proponent, a supporter of the whole thing, and it just worked out.
Klay Hall
#31. I'm a big proponent of Hawk-Eye. I think it's a wonderful addition, not only for the players, but more importantly for the fans.
Jim Courier
#32. I'm a big proponent of young women dressing appropriately in the workplace to get ahead. We need to demand respect as women, and part of that involves how we present ourselves.
Rachel Roy
#33. I am no proponent of a theocracy. I am a secularist. I want an independent Iraqi government, not a lackey of Tehran.
Ayad Allawi
#34. Im a strong proponent of the restoration of the wetlands, for a lot of reasons. Theres a practical reason, though, when it comes to hurricanes: The stronger the wetlands, the more likely the damage of the hurricane.
George W. Bush
#35. I have been a strong proponent of pay-as-you-go. Every dollar that I've proposed, I've proposed an additional cut so that it matches.
Barack Obama
#36. Churchill's 2,054 page book "Second World War" makes no mention of genocide or the murder of Jews. Coincidentally, Churchill was a strong proponent of eugenic legislation prior to the outbreak of WWII.
A.E. Samaan
#37. I've always been a big proponent of point of view in cinema. Not necessarily that the point of view has to be subjective, but that in all great films the point of view has been taken into account and established.
John Hyams
#38. As a proponent of big-picture analysis, media pioneer and Time founder Henry Luce asserted, there was more money to be made in slow news than fast news.
David Halberstam
#39. I am a big proponent of being in touch with everyone even when I do not have a story to ask about.
Kara Swisher
#40. Lunar mining is absolutely critical for the development of fusion sources. I'm a very strong proponent of the development of nuclear power, of fusion power.
Kesha Rogers
#41. During this period, I became interested in how the new techniques of cloning and sequencing DNA could influence the study of genetics and I was an early and active proponent of the Human Genome Sequencing Project.
Sydney Brenner
#42. I think Mr. Cosby has always been very much an activist and a big proponent of African-American pride. That's how 'The Cosby Show' came about. I think in his older years, he has gotten a lot more direct and vocal about it. But I think he only wants the best for all of us.
Keshia Knight Pulliam
#43. I am a very big proponent of opening the borders with India. Most of our trade is done through unofficial channels. Why not open the trade?
Mian Muhammad Mansha
#44. I'm a big proponent of having a mental health component go along with whatever the physical realities are.
Alan Thicke
#45. I have long been a proponent of a guest-worker program between the United States and Mexico, and in particular I have proposed that Arizona would be an ideal location for a pilot project.
Janet Napolitano
#46. We on our part will stick to our independent foreign policy of peace, acting forever as a strong defender of world peace and a persistent proponent of common development.
Jinato Hu
#47. A proponent of the big bang theory, at least if he is an atheist, must believe that the matter of the universe came from nothing and by nothing.
Anthony John Patrick Kenny
#48. You know that I'm always a proponent of doing things differently.
Roger Goodell
#49. I've always been a huge proponent for education; I graduated high school at 14 years old and graduated college at 17 years old.
Katherine McNamara
#51. They always try to make it like jocks discriminate against gay people. I've been a big proponent of gay marriage for a long time, because as a black person, I can't be in for any form of discrimination at all.
Charles Barkley
#52. I've always been a big proponent of not working for the sake of working, because I don't want to work for the rest of my life - I want to live.
Mila Kunis
#53. "I've always been a proponent of "if you're going to do something, do it right." I applied that across all aspects of my shooting - planning, setting up shoots, getting up early, working with athletes and models, working with clients etc. Just being a pro about it."
Jimmy Chin
#55. You eat a lot of goat stomach when you're in North Africa. You eat whatever's put in front of you. I am a big proponent of that.
Ronan Farrow
#56. I happen to be a proponent of a single-payer, universal health care plan
Barack Obama
#57. The bureaucracy is not great. I don't think Rick Santorum who is not one for being a big proponent of large bureaucracies would be as enthusiastic a supporter of it.
Harold Ford Jr.
#58. I felt every part of that animal music, felt it eat me up and spit me out, and what emerged was a me a thousand times more powerful than Piper Vaughan. I was Piper Vaughan, guitar hero - spiritual descendant of Jimi Hendrix and proponent of pure anarchy. And I ROCKED.
Antony John
#59. I've just always been a proponent of having a lot of diversity in the shows I've done. I just think that's the world we live in.
Robert Greenblatt
#60. Sometimes a movie series that becomes popular can be a blessing and curse because you get known for that. People don't give you a chance, after that ... I'm a big proponent of getting somebody that you always admire and giving them a chance to do something else because they can redefine themselves.
Robert Rodriguez
#61. I'm not an enormous proponent of plot as a reader. It's about other things; my reading has become specialized over the years.
Patrick DeWitt
#62. For mysterious things of faith, rely on the proponent, Heaven's authority.
John Dryden
#63. As a regent, I hope to bring that important perspective of a typical family visitor in combination with my background as a Member of Congress and a proponent of the Smithsonian's efforts to reach all Americans.
Xavier Becerra
#64. I'm a proponent of single-payer health-care, public education, protecting the environment - all the things Democrats rally around.
Cynthia Dill
