Looking for celebrity quotes on various topics.
PRO GUN CONTROL
PRO IMMIGRATION (OR PRO-ILLEGAL ALIEN RIGHTS OR PRO-AMNESTY)
PRO GLOBAL WARMING/CLIMATE CHANGE - ESPECIALLY IF THE QUOTE IS OVER THE TOP. QUOTES ABOUT ACTIONS WE MUST TAKE NOW WOULD BE GREAT.
ALT ENERGY -- WIND, SOLAR, HYDRO, ETC. OR ANTI-COAL, ANTI-NUCLEAR
PRO UNIONS, ANTI-CAPITALISM
PRO UNIVERSAL/GOVERNMENT HEALTHCARE
PRO BIG-GOVERNMENT (OR BIG-GOVERNMENT PROGRAMS LIKE WELFARE, MEDICARE, MIN. WAGE, ETC.)
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M$8 Answers
I’m for gun control; I’m a peace-loving guy. (Arnold Schwarzenegger, Aug 2003)
Pro Immigration:
"It is insulting that the law would call an immigrant a criminal... It's horrible." (John Leguizamo)
Pro Global Warming:
I'd say the chances are about 50-50 that humanity will be extinct or nearly extinct within 50 years. Weapons of mass destruction, disease, I mean this global warming is scaring the living daylights out of me. (Ted Turner)
Pro Alt Energy:
“If you’re going to drive around in a big ol’ Hummer and then buy carbon offsets to mitigate that, that’s like getting drunk on the ends and throwing some money through the window of an AA meeting and thinking you’re doing something.” (Ed Begley Jr.)
Pro Union:
The twentieth century has exhibited a barbarism and lack of respect for human life on a massive scale just about unknown before. (Ron Silver)
Pro Universal Healthcare:
"Do you think the US should have universal healthcare as a right of citizenship why or why not?"
Miss USA Contestant: You know I think this is an issue of integrity regardless of which end of the political spectrum that I stand on. I've been raised in my family to know right from wrong and politics whether or not you fall in the middle, the left or the right it's an issue of integrity whatever your opinion is and I say that with the utmost conviction." Joel: "I stand here before you with integrity whether I'm Miss Arizona or Miss you know whatever the name of another state is like Delzury or Florabama. An integrity state saying absolutely nothing with the utmost integrity I mean everything I'm saying with integrity and not saying. Thank you, with integrity." (Miss Arizona 2009)
Pro Welfare:
We’re no longer certain our kids will be better off than us. (Joe Biden, Feb 2007)
http://www.ontheissues.org/states/CA_Gun_Control.htm
http://24ahead.com/blog/archives/004986.html
http://www.allgreatquotes.com/global_warming_quotes.shtml
http://www.ecorazzi.com/2007/10/11/green-quote-ed-begley-jr-on-hummers/
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/r/ron_silver_2.html
http://www.entertonement.com/clips/ldqyhpjgjj--Awful-Miss-Arizona-Answer
http://www.ontheissues.org/Welfare_+_Poverty.htm
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M$Pro Gun Control Quotes from http://www.guncite.com/gun_control_gcnobody.html:
My general counsel tells me that while firearms are exempted from our jurisdiction under the Consumer Product Safety Act, we could possibly ban bullets under the Hazardous Substances Act.
--- Richard O. Simpson, Chairman, U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission. 1973.
Firearms are currently exempt from the health and safety laws that apply to every other consumer product in America, from toasters to teddy bears. Applying those same standards to guns is the real key to reducing firearm death and injury in America. Under these standards, handguns would be banned because of their high risk and low utility.
--- "The False Hope of the Smart Gun," Violence Policy Center (cited March 16, 1999).
Twenty years ago, I asked Richard Nixon what he thought of gun control. His on-the-record reply: 'Guns are an abomination.' Free from fear of gun owners' retaliation at the polls, he favored making handguns illegal and requiring licenses for hunting rifles.
--- William Safire (originally from a New York Times column), Los Angeles Daily News, June 15, 1999, P. 15.
The only way to discourage the gun culture is to remove the guns from the hands and shoulders of people who are not in the law enforcement business.
--- New York Times, September 24, 1975
There is no reason for anyone in this country, for anyone except a police officer or a military person, to buy, to own, to have, to use, a handgun. The only way to control handgun use in this country is to prohibit the guns. And the only way to do that is to change the Constitution.
--- Michael Gartner, former NBC News President, USA Today, January 16, 1992
The goal is an ultimate ban on all guns, but we also have to take step at a time and go for limited access first.
--- Joyner Sims, Florida State Health Dept., Deputy Commissioner, Chicago Tribune, November 7, 1993
Mr. President, what is going on in this country? Does going to school mean exposure to handguns and to death? As you know, my position is we should ban all handguns, get rid of them, no manufacture, no sale, no importation, no transportation, no possession of a handgun . There are 66 million handguns in the United States of America today, with 2 million being added every year.
--- Senator John H. Chafee, Rhode Island (June 11, 1992, Congressional Record, 102nd Congress, 1991-1992)
Also, a number of celebrity quotes on gun control can be found at http://www.quotatio.com/topics/gun-control.html.
For target shooting, that's okay. Get a license and go to the range. For defense of the home, that's why we have police departments. -- James Brady
What a crazy world we live in! Trying to treat addiction as a legal problem, and trying to treat criminal misbehaviors using guns as a medical problem! Beam me up, Scotty. Ain't no intelligent life down here. -- Julie Cochrane
Pro immigration quotes:
We should insist that if the immigrant who comes here does in good faith become an American and assimilates himself to us he shall be treated on an exact equality with every one else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed or birth-place or origin.
But this is predicated upon the man's becoming in very fact an American and nothing but an American. If he tries to keep segregated with men of his own origin and separated from the rest of America, then he isn't doing his part as an American. There can be no divided allegiance here. . . We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language, for we intend to see that the crucible turns our people out as Americans, of American nationality, and not as dwellers in a polyglot boarding-house; and we have room for but one soul loyalty, and that is loyalty to the American people.
Theodore Roosevelt (http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/r/roosevelt-immigration.htm).
Without comprehension, the immigrant would forever remain shut -- a stranger in America. Until America can release the heart as well as train the hand of the immigrant, he would forever remain driven back upon himself, corroded by the very richness of the unused gifts within his soul.
Anzia Yezierska
1885-1970, Polish Writer
''Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!'' cries she with silent lips. ''Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me; I lift my lamp beside the golden door.''
Emma Lazarus
Pro climate change quotes:
We shall never achieve harmony with land, any more than we shall achieve absolute justice or liberty for people. In these higher aspirations, the important thing is not to achieve but to strive.
Aldo Leopold
American, Environmentalist Quotes (www.great-quotes.com)
"It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it."
- Dan Quayle, U.S. Vice President
http://hollywoodflakes.blogspot.com/2007/10/stupid-celebrity-quotes.html
It is our task in our time and in our generation to hand down undiminished to those who come after us, as was handed down to us by those who went before, the natural wealth and beauty which is ours.
From www.great-quotes.com:
John F. Kennedy
1917-1963, Thirty-fifth President of the USA (www.great-quotes.com)
How to be green? Many people have asked us this important question. It's really very simple and requires no expert knowledge or complex skills. Here's the answer. Consume less. Share more. Enjoy life.
Derek Wall
It's a morbid observation, but if every one on earth just stopped breathing for an hour, the greenhouse effect would no longer be a problem.
Jerry Adler
American Actor
The current collapse of industrial society may well be the planet's way of avoiding a larger death.
Morris Bergman
Further famous climate change quotes can be found at: http://www.quotemonk.com/quotes/famous-c/climate-change.htm
And for quotes by some politicians go to http://earthhour.wwf.org.uk/what_we_do/people/quotes/.
Universal health care quotes:
"The truth is, in order to get things like universal health care and a revamped education system, then someone is going to have to give up a piece of their pie so that someone else can have more. "
Michelle Obama (http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/m/michelleob409145.html)
"I am absolutely determined that by the end of the first term of the next president, we should have universal health care in this country," Barrack Obama (http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2007-01-25-obama-health_x.htm).
Lou Dobbs: "There is no excuse for this country not to provide health care for all -- we've got the best health care system in the world. How can we reasonably deny that system and great care to anyone? And principally, by the way, it's the middle class. It's not the poor. We have medicaid and medicare for the poor and aged and infirm. In the middle class, half of whom are making less than $35,000 a year in this country." (http://www.boycottliberalism.com/biographies/Dobbs.htm).
Pro welfare quotes:
http://www.famous-quote.net/quotes-welfare.shtml
In general, the art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other. -- Voltaire, 1764
I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion of the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. -- Benjamin Franklin
And from http://www.quotesdaddy.com/tag/Welfare:
“Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other's welfare, social justice can never be attained.”
Helen Keller
“The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.”
Helen Keller
“Welfare and dependency grants, personal income tax relief, and cuts in those costs which would make housing more affordable for middle and low income earners are likely to buoy consumption expenditure, and manufacturing.”
Colen Garrow
“People from both political parties have long recognized that welfare without work creates negative incentives that lead to permanent poverty. It robs people of self-esteem.”
Mitt Romney
Minimum wage quotes:
"No family gets rich from earning the minimum wage. In fact, the current minimum wage does not even lift a family out of poverty." – Jon Corzine (http://www.quotes-museum.com/quote/20293).
Lou Dobbs: "I've been calling for the minimum wage to be raised for years. You pointed out, $5.15 an hour. The fact that the Senate blocked it, we put up on our website those Senators who insisted upon business tax breaks to be coupled with a minimum wage increase. To me it is absolutely heinous and reprehensible that Congress, and both parties, frankly, are responsible, but primarily the Republican party, chose not to raise the minimum wage. This nonsense that the minimum wages somehow will make it impossible for small business to function, to make profits and create jobs, is absurd." (http://www.boycottliberalism.com/biographies/Dobbs.htm).
Medicare quotes (from (http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/m/michael_burgess.html):
In a system where the cost of care is hidden by taxes levied on your income, property, and business activities, it is no wonder why so many Americans rely on Medicaid to pay their long term care.
Michael Burgess
Al Gore may think Medicare is at a crossroads, but his plan puts it on a highway to bankruptcy.
Dan Bartlett
And because of these programs like Medicare, Medicare prescription drugs
, Social Security, we now have the healthiest and wealthiest group of senior citizens that the world has ever seen. This is a continuing commitment to that.
James T. Walsh
As a former professional patient advocate, I believe prescription drugs are an essential part of high-quality medical treatment, and I supported enactment of the Medicare Prescription Drug and Modernization Act.
Sue Kelly
I believe honor thy mother and father is not just a good commandment to live by, it is good public policy to govern by. That is why I feel so strongly about Medicare.
Barbara Mikulski
Labor Union quotes from http://en.thinkexist.com/quotes/with/keyword/unions/:
In our glorious fight for civil rights, we must guard against being fooled by false slogans, as 'right-to-work.' It provides no 'rights' and no 'works.' Its purpose is to destroy labor unions and the freedom of collective bargaining... We demand this fraud be stopped.” - Martin Luther King Jr
“For the ordinary man is passive. Within a narrow circle (home life, and perhaps the trade unions or local politics) he feels himself master of his fate, but against major events he is as helpless as against the elements. So far from endeavoring to influence the future, he simply lies down and lets things happen to him.” - George Orwell
“Although it is true that only about 20 percent of American workers are in unions, that 20 percent sets the standards across the board in salaries, benefits and working conditions. If you are making a decent salary in a non-union company, you owe that to the unions. One thing that corporations do not do is give out money out of the goodness of their hearts.” - Molly Ivins
“With all their faults, trade unions have done more for humanity than any other organization of men that ever existed. They have done more for decency, for honesty, for education, for the betterment of the race, for the developing of character in man, than any other association of men.” -Clarence Darrow
Renewable Energy quotes from http://www.woopidoo.com/business_quotes/renewable-energy.htm:
Renewable energy is proven technology, the price is dropping, the rest of the world is going that way, that's where our investment should be going as well.
Bob Brown –
We need to push ourselves to make as many reductions as possible in our own energy use first.. and that takes time. But we must do this quickly.. the climate will not wait for us.
Rupert Murdoch
The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun.
Ralph Nader
We want a national emissions trading scheme, the Government does not and has rejected one for years. We want to boost the mandatory renewable energies target, the Government has failed to do that. We want a national demand side management strategy for the country to reduce electricity consumption and the Government, up until now, has done very little on that score.
Kevin Rudd
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M$"It has become part of Harrelson's approach to live his life lightly on the Earth. "I try to walk the talk as much as possible," he told me. "I run my car on biodiesel. All the paper I use is nonwood, postconsumer waste. I'm vegan and eat raw as much as I can. And we mostly grow our own food -- probably 90 percent. I played a farmer for so long it's ironic I finally got around to it. Although I can't take credit for doing most of the work, it does feel good puttin' my fingers in the dirt."
Source: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/gate/archive/2005/07/20/gree.DTL
Jodie Foster
When talk turned to gun control, a subject many movie critics will likely tackle in reviews for The Brave One, Foster commented:
“Isn’t it possible that we all have that bit of insanity in us?
“That’s why I’m for gun control. Absolutely. I don’t believe that people should have access to life-or-death situations at any emotional time in their life.
“I don’t really believe that a human being who feels things should have the option at their fingertips.”
Source: http://www.alphecca.com/?p=346
Robert Redford
"I think the environment should be put in the category of our national security. Defense of our resources is just as important as defense abroad. Otherwise what is there to defend?"
Source: http://www.saidwhat.co.uk/topicquote/environment
Leonardo DiCaprio
“It’s not just global warming, it’s not just a loss of biodiversity, it’s not just the pollution of our oceans and the clearing of our rainforests and all these complicated systems, The Hour movie talks about the world economy, it talks about politics, it talks about personal transformation and environmental consciousness that we need to have in this generation to implement a lot of these changes that need to occur.”
Source: http://famousquoteshomepage.com/Leonardo_DiCaprio_Movie_Star_Celebrity_Environmental_Film_Producer.htm
Brad Pitt
“By employing the intelligence of natural systems we can create industry, buildings, even regional plans that see nature and commerce not as mutually exclusive but mutually coexisting."
"Six thousand people are dying a day--a day--needlessly because they don't have access to the drugs that we have. I feel it is our responsibility to make those available. I had a woman who just heard about the drugs last week. She grabbed my hand. She said, 'Please, please help us get the drugs.' I visited many orphanages. You literally want to grab as many children as you can and take them home with you."
Source: http://usliberals.about.com/od/celebrityactivists/p/BradPitt.htm
George Clooney
"You don't want to be a spokesperson unless you are absolutely committed to a cause because you can hurt it. I've been asked to help represent environmental groups. I'm a big proponent of cleaning up the environment. I have two electric cars. But I also have a big weak spot because I've flown on private jets. However, I welcome any of these dumb pundits who make celebrities out to be bad guys to a discussion about Darfur. Because I've been there and I've met all the players, and I guarantee you the pundits haven't."
Source: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000123/bio
Arnold Schwarzenegger
"I think that if it is.. has to do with global warming, or if it has to do with raising the minimum wage, or if it has to do with lowering prescription drugs for vulnerable citizens.. all of those things are people issues, not Democratic issues or Republican issues."
"We simply must do everything we can in our power to slow down global warming before it is too late. The science is clear. The global warming debate is over."
Source: http://www.woopidoo.com/business_quotes/authors/arnold-schwarzenegger/index.htm
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M$http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0206636/quotes
“One man with a gun can control 100 without one. ”Vladimir Lenin
http://thinkexist.com/quotes/with/keyword/gun_control/
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M$PRO IMMIGRATION: http://24ahead.com/blog/archives/005823.html
you know what i give up. it seems dtvrivera has put so much work into this question.
plus i think ii did it wrong
more:
PRO IMMIGRATION
" I have to admit I am glad to see fires in southern ca, because it means Illegal aliens and gang members and rich Iranians and the Kardashians and Oprah are put out. Just weeks ago , Oprah was telling WIll Smith that she felt so shut out because she was black so excluded and this millionaire neighborhood is where she has one of her houses. When she was born she would only have been allowed to be a maid in a place like this and yet she complains about her current status?"
Chris Ayres in Los Angeles
http://stoptheinvasionoforegon.wordpress.com/2008/11/16/is-god-punishing-hollywood-for-supporting-pro-amnesty-obama/
Ronald Reagan
Put not your trust in princes.
The Bible
America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves. abraham lincoln
oh wait you wanted liberal quotes? ooops. :P
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