Proponents Quotes

Wolf proponents expound that more cattle and sheep die of disease, [or from] coyote or dog predation than they do from wolves... I don't know what I'm missing but that doesn't sound like a good argument to add wolves into the mix to me. - Sharon Beck

Will not be adopted by Congress this year, nor next year, nor any time soon until a substantial majority of Americans are persuaded that such a consequential action is as vitally important and necessary as the proponents feel it is today. - John McCain

What has gone on in Pittsburgh is what has gone on in lots of other cities, which are often faced with convention centers that don't perform as their proponents had hoped or promised, and so it is argued that what you need is an adjacent hotel. - Heywood Sanders

We're talking about eliminating millions of dollars in revenue from less than 900 taxpayers. That is such a miniscule portion of the population that it is hard to register where the proponents of repeal have a leg to stand on. - Laura Granruth

We applaud those in Congress who have refused to let drilling proponents manipulate them and the democratic process. Although there are some still willing to do Big Oil?s bidding, the drilling lobby and their allies will be hard-pressed to keep Arctic drilling in the budget knowing that it is dead on arrival in the House. - Carl Pope

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