Proponent Quotes

Wage hike proponents may be acting with the best of intentions, however, it is impossible to escape the drastic negative economic consequences of job loss for the least-educated. Such a measure would actually hurt the people it is intended to help. - Mike Flynn

Utilities are going to have to write off some of their debt. We are not going to compensate them for mistakes of judgment they made; they were big proponents of deregulation back in 1996. - Gray Davis

This question was the subject of a noisy debate over the years leading to NEAR, with strong proponents on both sides. With the NEAR result, the question is settled. - Andy Cheng

This is the report that the WTO didn't want the public to see. It reveals that the big corporations that stand behind the WTO failed to get the big win they were hoping for. Free trade proponents needed a clear victory in this dispute to be able to push governments in the EU and the developing world to accept genetically modified food. They failed and now is the time to build a consensus that the WTO, with its business-only agenda, is the wrong place to decide on what people eat and how we protect our environment. - Adrian Bebb

This continues the venerable Darwinian tradition of making grandiose claims based on piddling results. There is nothing in the paper that an ID proponent would think was beyond random mutation and natural selection. In other words, it is a straw man. - Michael Behe

Thirty states are already allowing some form of baiting, including Arkansas. I'm not ready to say that I'm a huge proponent of it, and I'm not sure anyone on the Commission is ready to bring the matter up for a vote. But some people have made some interesting arguments in favor of hunting deer over bait. - Bill Cox

They are horrible. You only need half a dozen hours behind the wheel. I'm a big proponent of parents doing it themselves. - Ron Shaffer

There's a bigger area from which to attack... I was one of the proponents of this kind of hockey several years ago. We built our early team in Toronto around that. But it became clear (the league) didn't want style and speed, they wanted people who could knock heads off. - Mats Sundin