Favor Quotes

I am in favor of reducing all budget items. But the item I don't want to reduce is the pension expenditure because it affects the weakest part of society.

I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.

I'm in favor of immigration but we also need rules.

Never claim as a right what you can ask as a favor.

When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.

Airlines are interesting. They not only favor celebrities, they court them.

Listen friends, you have to face the truth: You are never going to be rich... The system is rigged in favor of the few, and your name is not among them, not now and not ever.

I am in favor of stem-cell research. I am not in favor of creating new human embryos through cloning.

I favor the abolition of all Social Security, Medicare and estate taxes. In their place, we should create a simple income tax system that has no deductions or credits at all.

I'm very much in favor of focused responsibility, and so in the main areas that I'm worried about, I try to have a single person who is basically the key person in that area.

I always tend to favor the newer idea.

The interest which lay behind Federalism was that of well-to-do citizens in a stable political and social order, and this interest aroused them to favor and to seek some form of political organization which was capable of protecting their property and promoting its interest.

I still favor alternatives to governmental race-based preferences.

A person may rightfully be happy if in this life he could do a great favor for widows and orphans, could assist support than, and facilitate fate of people.

People who demand neutrality in any situation are usually not neutral but in favor of the status quo.

The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.

As favor and riches forsake a man, we discover in him the foolishness they concealed, and which no one perceived before.

Two of the cruelest, most primitive punishments our town deals out to those who fall from favor are the empty mailbox and the silent telephone.

Those who invest in South Africa should not think they are doing us a favor; they are here for what they get out of our cheap and abundant labor, and they should know that they are buttressing one of the most vicious systems.

The dog commends himself to our favor by affording play to our propensity for mastery.

I want to make a policy statement. I am unabashedly in favor of women.

By the time I entered high school, I had forsaken academics altogether in favor of my burgeoning acting career.

If any difference should be made by law between husband and wife, reason, justice and humanity, if their voices were heard, would dictate that it should be in her favor.

Raillery is a mode of speaking in favor of one's wit at the expense of one's better nature.

Today, no less than in the past, the tetrahedral form of the earth and the relation of the tetrahedron to the poles and to the equator preserve the conditions that favor rapid evolution.

I favor the extension of the middle-class tax cuts because in a recession they're stimulative and they help with demand.

Socialism appeals to better classes and has far more strength. Attack the state and you excite feelings of loyalty even among the disaffected classes; but attack the industrial system and appeal to the state, and you may have loyalty in your favor.

The free, independent spirit who commits himself to no dogma and will not decide in favor of any party has no homestead on earth.

I have certain physical features that I favor over others. We all have our areas.

We've got a daunting enough task to provide a definitive account of what happened in 9/11, without fear or favor, something that will last and will survive criticism over time. And we think we can do that with integrity in a bipartisan report.