Platform Quotes

The Democratic party of Florida has put a temperance plank in its platform and the Republican party of every state would nail that plank in their platform if they thought it would carry the election.

Our platform calls for a balanced deficit reduction plan where the wealthy pay their fair share. And when your country is in a costly war, with our soldiers sacrificing abroad and our nation facing a debt crisis at home, being asked to pay your fair share isn't class warfare - it's patriotism.

Obama ran on a platform of unmitigated optimism - a promise to usher in a brighter day for America. But there could hardly be a greater contrast between his pledge and his performance in office, between his commitment to the nation and his current abandonment of all hope.

I do not want to be president because I am a woman. Being a woman is important, but it's not the most important. I want to be president because we have the talent and the platform and the vision of a Mexico that we want for all Mexicans, not only for a select few.

Anthropology was the science that gave her the platform from which she surveyed, scolded and beamed at the world.

I look at tennis as a bit of a platform to hopefully touch lives and encourage people.

Purity of speech, of the mind, of the senses, and of a compassionate heart are needed by one who desires to rise to the divine platform.

They developed a platform for me to put up another 12 years, and that was my ticket to Cooperstown. Those were the best years of my life. It was like magic.

Rock 'n' roll offered me a platform to speak what I felt. It also offered me a platform to support my mama and my brothers and sisters - twelve children.

It may be that other developers are finding that their games play better on one platform over the other, so they're choosing to migrate to that platform.

I guess there might come a point when I will want to live an anonymous life. I'm only at the start of my career, so I'm sure that moment will come, but I know how blessed I am to have this platform on which to speak and influence.

As a developing musician, skiffle became a platform for me to start playing music.

Only in a concert situation do I have access to people directly to preach to them, and I don't believe that the bigger your platform is, the more people will pay attention.

I was interested in Java the beginning, but the problem with Java is you do have to switch your platform.

The Republican platform specifically says we don't believe in bailing out private business, and yet we did.

I want a platform that, like a book or a magazine, I can carry into the bath or leave at the beach.

Our two party platforms were emphatic about Jerusalem being the capital of Israel. For the Obama administration to remove this language from the Democratic Party platform drives a wedge into one of the few issues that our two parties agreed on.

Coming back to a television series puts you back in the limelight and gives you a platform for your ideas. If you're not acting on a series, you don't get the ability to communicate to people.

I've never been a part of a film before that offers such a platform into real issues, that raises social awareness and has the potential to change things.

Maintaining a consistent platform also helps improve product support - a significant problem in the software industry.

For myself, Queer Eye feeds more to my heart and my soul than as a platform for a career.

I'm surprised at the extent of the bigotry. But it really plays out when companies or schools take a side and prohibit the other platform at all. We Mac users should be good even when the other side is bad. We should do what we can to accept the other platforms.

The way they had the room that I was in set up, there was some sort of sound deadening platform that I had to stand on in order to get close enough to the microphone.

You need a platform upon which to release an orchestral record, otherwise it's just going to be an obscurity.

People say it's a movie about boxing, but... I don't agree at all. I don't think it's a movie about boxing. Boxing is like a platform. It's just a stage where this is played out.

It created a global platform that allowed more people to plug and play, collaborate and compete, share knowledge and share work, than anything we have ever seen in the history of the world.

The platform of an Ethical Society is itself the altar; the address must be the fire that burns thereon.

I don't want to describe either Governor Mitt Romney or the Republicans as stupid, but I will say this - if you look at their platform, the 2012 platform, it looks like it's from another century and maybe even two. It looks like the platform of 1812.

The Republicans have long had a platform of being pro-life. And I'm someone that believes life begins at conception and should be protected.

I'm very grateful for the platform that I've had in my life to speak out about the things I care about.