#support

Before this learning experience, I had assumed that with regard to programs that sought to help people out of poverty, the political world was essentially divided into two camps: conservatives who opposed these for a variety of reasons, and liberals who supported them. ↗

— Barney Frank

#before #camps #conservatives #divided #essentially

When community action was put into federal law in the early sixties as part of the effort to combat poverty and social injustice, I supported it intellectually. ↗

— Barney Frank

#combat #community #community action #early #early sixties

A large part of crime is economics - if people are working and and have a home and family to support, then I believe you can reduce the crime rate. ↗

— Vincent Frank

#crime #crime rate #economics #family #home

My family were broadminded enough to support me when I wanted to pursue a life in the theatre. ↗

— Peter Gallagher

#enough #family #i #life #me

I'm sorry I'm not gay or Jewish, so I don't have a special interest group of journalists that support me. ↗

— Vincent Gallo

#group #i #interest #jewish #journalists

If I gain support, the support doesn't seem to mean anything. It's not like anyone really cares about me. ↗

— Vincent Gallo

#anyone #anything #cares #gain #i

I am 100 percent supportive of the stand-alone bill to repeal 'don't ask, don't tell' that Sens. Lieberman and Collins have now proposed, and indeed I will co-sponsor that legislation. It is time for this discriminatory policy to end, and I am willing to pursue any effective legislative path that could lead to that result. ↗

— Carl Levin

#any #ask #bill #collins #could

Women tend to have recognition and peer group support - recognition from friends and family that this has to be a big issue in their lives. They're more comfortable expressing the need for support and receiving it. ↗

— James Levine

#big issue #comfortable #expressing #family #friends

My mother carried on and supported us; her ambition had been to write poetry and songs. ↗

— Philip Levine

#been #carried #had #her #mother

And I managed to arrange to get some research support and to stay in Hong Kong for another year and a half, interviewing people coming out of China, both Westerners and Chinese. And that was my first real research study on thought reform or so-called brainwashing. ↗

— Robert Jay Lifton

#arrange #both #brainwashing #china #chinese