Advancing Quotes

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The McCarthy boys, at the proper moment, gave orders to fire upon the advancing enemy.

- Buffalo Bill

Racism is when you have laws set up, systematically put in the way to keep people from advancing, to stop the advancement of a people. Black people have never had the power to enforce racism, and so this is something that white America is going to have to work out themselves. If they decide they want to stop it, curtail it, or to do the right thing then it will be done, but not until then.

- Spike Lee

Opportunity means advancing American values in the world by protecting human rights, meeting human needs, and opening global markets.

- Joseph Lieberman

We are not retreating - we are advancing in another direction.

- Douglas MacArthur

I`m very pleased with each advancing year. It stems back to when I was forty. I was a bit upset about reaching that milestone, but an older friend consoled me. `Don`t complain about growing old - many, many people do not have that privilege.`

- Earl Warren

Black leadership has to recognize that principles more than speech, character more than a claim, is greater in advancing the cause of our liberation than what has transpired thus far.

- Louis Farrakhan

The technology of oil and gas drilling in the Gulf of Mexico is advancing fast, but the costs in the (hard-to-reach) frontier areas increased substantially.

- Paul Kelly

From Chirac and Schroeder we have seen a rhetorical commitment for France and Germany to co-operate but when they have combined it has been to block reforms. They have not produced an actual agenda for advancing the union, unlike the days of Helmut Kohl and Francois Mitterand, when France and Germany really were driving Europe.

- Julie Smith

While the men of the steel industry were going through blood and gas in defense of their rights and their homes and their families, elsewhere on the far-flung C.I.O. front the hosts of labor were advancing and intelligent and permanent progress was being made.

- John L. Lewis

Our alliances and our credibility are crucial elements of our working capital in advancing America`s interests in the world, and they have been eroded over the last four years.

- Patrick Leahy

The Clinton Administration has seemed to put more concern on scoring political points than advancing serious reform.

- Jonathan Adler

I think it`s critical that you feel you`re working for a person who is committed to advancing your career.

- Akeim Claborn

Our markets have not achieved their great successes as a result of government fiat, but rather through efforts of competing interests working to meet the demands of investors and to fulfill the promises posed by advancing technology.

- Al Ford

I agree that liberty at home depends on liberty in other lands, and that the force of human freedom is advancing throughout the world.

- Alan Lloyd

Human beings and their actions constitute the advancing front, the surging crest of an ongoing movement that never stops.

- Alan Mattox

So one begins to wonder what is going to happen to the human race. Technology keeps on advancing with greater and greater power, either for good or for destruction.

- Alan Reiter

The rise or fall of wages is common to all states of society, whether it be the stationary, the advancing, or the retrograde state.

- Alan Skrainka

Opportunity means advancing American values in the world by protecting human rights, meeting human needs, and opening global markets.

- Alice McGrew

The EU and the U.S. often work together to develop international standards. This is the case in fighting terrorism and transnational crime, advancing trade liberalization, and combating piracy and intellectual property violations.

- Alicia Rice

The European Union is the world`s most successful invention for advancing peace.

- Alicia Rice

By helping readers understand these mechanics, I hope they will appreciate why freedom is for everyone, why it is essential for our security and why the free world plays a critically important role in advancing democracy around the globe.

- American Council

To him who, though by no means near the end, is yet advancing, He is the way; to him who has put off all that is dead He is the life.

- Amitai Sandy

Politics is about the improvement of people`s lives. It`s about advancing the cause of peace and justice in our country and the world. Politics is about doing well for the people.

- Amy Colella

The new soft totalitarianism that is advancing on the left wants to have a state religion It is an atheist, nihilistic religion - but it is a religion that is obligatory for all.

- Andre Chabot

Neglected by Congress below, distressed with the small-pox; want of Generals and discipline in our Army, which may rather be called a great rabble, our credit and reputation lost, and great part of the country; and a powerful foreign enemy advancing upon us, are so many difficulties we cannot surmount them.

- Andrew Wihtol

He was a criminal lawyer, but he couldn`t find it in him to defend the Mafiosi. So he entered the police force. He was a man who strove to make institutions accessible to the people, advancing a process of democratization of the forces of order.

- Anju Bobby George

Clearly, 2,000 people can`t all be stupid, which is what petition organizers keep saying. This process was flawed from the beginning, driven more by extreme politics than by the grassroots. We know we can`t stop the petition from advancing to the Legislature, but this is wrong, plain and simple.

- Ashley Underwood

(Arkansas`s approach may prove one of the most popular business models for funding and operating government portals today, but it is not a sustainable option, says Robert Atkinson, director of the technology and new economy project at the Progressive Policy Institute, a Washington, D.C.-based organization with the mission of advancing the government`s agenda for the information economy.) Governments that aren`t willing to pay any money into (electronic services) can get up and running and put some applications online, ... Most jurisdictions in this country don`t have the expertise to do this (in-house). The risk of the outsourcing model is that they`re getting the revenue from the users. Ultimately, I don`t think the consumer is going to be paying for this. You don`t pay now when you go to look at a deed.

- Azyumardi Azra