“Ancestor worship, or filial piety so characteristic of Asian cultures, for example, does not really resonate with Americans who favor children, not grandparents.”
“Political battles are won when the rich favor them.”
“I am in favor of admitting any territory into the Union of States as soon as it has fulfilled the requirements of the Constitution and shall petition for admission.”
“I will not vote in favor of Senator Sessions’ nomination for attorney general.”
“I might be in favor of national healthcare if it required all Democrats to get their heads examined.”
“Trump knows where his strengths exist, and he is emphatically in favor of doubling down on them. This goes far beyond appointing Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court.”
“In the matter of the maintenance and rearing of children the Anarchists would neither institute the communistic nursery which the State Socialists favor nor keep the communistic school system which now prevails.”
“I generally favor permissive abortion laws.”
“I strongly favor shortening the campaign season and putting more primaries and caucuses on the same day, preferably regionally.”
“Under Chief Justice John Roberts, the court has decided a string of 5-4 decisions in which the Republican-appointed majority votes as a block in favor of corporations, overlooking workers and families looking for a fair shake.”
“Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.”
“I’ll take discrimination if it’s in my favor!”
“If we do what is necessary, all the odds are in our favor.”
“He had but one eye and the pocket of prejudice runs in favor of two.”
“When my father announced his campaign for president on Oct. 3, 1991, I had already cast my vote in favor of his candidacy.”
“I have certain physical features that I favor over others. We all have our areas.”
“Marco Rubio continues to this day to be in favor of open borders.”
“This is a public statement: I’m in favor of mixtapes.”
“If I focus on the short-term goals, then the long-term goals are going to be in my favor.”
“I am in favor of reforming our tax code. It’s over-burdensome. It’s complex. It’s unfair. But the one thing that we have to do is make sure that all Americans receive a tax cut.”
“What I’m in favor of is making sure we have security for our country and we can control access to our country.”
“I’m so in favor of gay marriage that I even married a guy.”
“In environments that are energy-rich but liquid-poor, like near the surface of Titan, natural selection may favor organisms that use their metabolic heat to melt their own watering holes.”
“Treaties, agreements and organizations to help settle disputes may be necessary, but they often favor the interests of business over citizens.”
“I’m as deeply suspicious of big government as anyone. I’m strongly in favor of universal coverage but not single payer.”
“I favor strategies that encourage industry to include some sort of key recovery capability in their systems which would also address user requirements for access.”
“In Austin, the eco-capital of Texas, residents tend to favor native plants and wildflowers to the sculpted lawns of the Palm Springs variety.”
“We are in favor of greater free markets.”
“Liberal redistributionists in favor of heavy taxation place less weight on incentive than do small-government conservatives.”
“Even if severe wounds are given, the Indian has many chances in his favor, for his organization is somewhat different from that of white men, and he recovers easily from wounds that would kill any European outright.”
“As long as mixed grills and combination salads are popular, anthologies will undoubtedly continue in favor.”
“Lightness, jesting, and joking, can only be indulged at the expense of barrenness of soul, and the loss of the favor of God.”
“I’m largely in favor of financial reform.”
“I’m in favor of immigration but we also need rules.”
“We should favor innovation and freedom over regulation.”
“I’m very strongly in favor of the auteur theory.”
“Germany is in favor of integration precisely because we don’t want dominance.”
“We need a government policy all-out in favor of more, denser housing.”
“The pitcher has got only a ball. I’ve got a bat. So the percentage in weapons is in my favor and I let the fellow with the ball do the fretting.”
“Humility is the gateway into the grace and the favor of God.”
“In China, export lobbies have fought for policies that favor their interests and limit foreign competition.”
“Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them.”
“Fallout shelters are like bell-bottoms. They’ve gone in and out of favor.”
“I don’t sing. I do everybody a favor and I don’t sing.”
“It has been surprising to me that so few conservatives have voiced concern over the precedence that are being set in favor of suppression by this so-called conservative administration.”
“Given the difficulty of resisting such temptations over the longer run, a proper concern for the welfare of congressional souls may well be the ultimate argument in favor of term limitations.”
“I’m in favor of dealing with Iran and dealing with the nuclear issue, but I’m not in favor of a bad deal.”
“Let it them be put into any clean oven vessel of china or stoneware which should be wider at the top than at the bottom. so that there may be the largest surface above to favor the evaporation.”
“A little before noon I sent orders to all my batteries to open fire through the streets or at any points where the troops were seen about the city, as a diversion in favor of Jackson.”
“It was 1939. There was no money or jobs around. I did my parents a favor and joined the Navy.”
“I’ve always been in favor of drastic transparency, radical transparency.”
“The man who has gotten everything he wants is all in favor of peace and order.”
“As favor and riches forsake a man, we discover in him the foolishness they concealed, and which no one perceived before.”
“So my attorneys brought litigation in the U.S. federal courts. The judge ruled in our favor.”
“I do favor guest workers, H1B visas and student visas.”
“I’m somebody’s who’s in favor of transparency and openness.”
“Never claim as a right what you can ask as a favor.”
“When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.”
“Our Keystone legislation received strong bipartisan support in the Senate. Although it didn’t receive the 60 votes necessary for passage, 56 senators – a majority – voted in favor of the bill. Despite President Obama’s actively lobbying against the bill, we still won the support of 11 Democrats.”
“Many slaves on this continent are oppressed, and their cries have reached the ears of the Most High. Such are the purity and certainty of his judgments, that he cannot be partial in our favor.”
“Cynically but accurately put, Americans oppose public intervention or regulation if it helps others, but favor it if it helps them – take social security, disaster relief, public works projects, for example.”
“Maybe there’s two types of people in the world: those people who favor humans over ideology, and those people who favor ideology over humans.”
“I have never pressurized a producer to do me any favor.”
“Perhaps the only thing in my favor is that I am very tenacious. I don’t take ‘no’ very well.”
“Most families aren’t all in the public eye as we are. It works as a blessing. It works in our favor.”
“Overall relations between the North and the South have developed in favor of national reconciliation, unity and reunification.”
“I always favor the hero and heroine from whichever book I’ve completed most recently. Yes, I’m faithless and fickle!”
“Many states favor joint custody.”
“We are all in favor of the U.S. taking an active and constructive interest in Asia.”
“What I favor is that we have health care access to people that is not income based. We have to have health care that is acceptable and it’s going to come in a number of forms.”
“If you can’t return a favor, pass it on.”
“A punishment to some, to some a gift, and to many a favor.”
“Being able to disappear into every film that I do really works in my favor.”
“I want to make a policy statement. I am unabashedly in favor of women.”
“Like many modern poets, I tend to conceal rhymes by placing them in the middle of lines, and to avoid immediate alliteration and assonance in favor of echoes placed later in the poems.”
“I am in favor of economic freedom, but I am not a conservative.”
“Our warfighting doctrine is that we don’t want to be in a fair fight, and we want the fight to always be tilted in our favor.”
“Over the course of a year – from January 2014 to March 2015 – millions of Americans, hundreds of businesses, and dozens of policymakers weighed in at the Federal Communications Commission in favor of net neutrality.”
“I still favor alternatives to governmental race-based preferences.”
“People who demand neutrality in any situation are usually not neutral but in favor of the status quo.”
“Of course. I favor passive investing for most investors, because markets are amazingly successful devices for incorporating information into stock prices.”
“It’s hard not to be in favor of taking down monsters.”
“Our entire political system is financed by wealthy private interests buying politicians and making sure the rules are written in their favor.”
“No feature of the Obama presidency has been sadder than its constant efforts to divide us, to curry favor with some Americans by castigating others.”
“Life was given to me as a favor, so I may abandon it when it is one no longer.”
“Raillery is a mode of speaking in favor of one’s wit at the expense of one’s better nature.”
“I do not favor the gag order.”
“We’re seeing diamonds coming back into favor.”
“The public is strongly in favor of the Kyoto Protocols, so strongly in favor that a majority of Bush voters thought that he was in favor of it. They are simply unaware.”
“Karl Marx was in favor of socialist and communist-socialist revolutions, but he had a pretty nuanced view about it.”
“Fortune and love favor the brave.”
“I was very much in favor of the Iraq invasion.”
“We are in favor of free trade.”
“I favor the extension of the middle-class tax cuts because in a recession they’re stimulative and they help with demand.”
“Airlines are interesting. They not only favor celebrities, they court them.”
“I have also testified repeatedly and published some articles in favor of Small Science.”
“A gift in season is a double favor to the needy.”
“When you confer a benefit on those worthy of it, you confer a favor on all.”
“To refuse graciously is to confer a favor.”
“I’m not in favor of any discrimination of any form.”
“Governor Kasich has done some things that I applaud and have supported and spoken out in favor of, such as Medicaid expansion.”
“Mankind are apt to be strongly prejudiced in favor of whatever is countenanced by antiquity, enforced by authority, and recommended by custom.”
“How does allowing China to constantly rig trade in its favor advance the core conservative goal of making markets more efficient?”
“And I’m in favor of that because I have a gay son, who’s a very successful theater designer.”
“Do your kids a favor – don’t have any.”
“Tax laws favor capital over labor, giving capital gains a lower rate than ordinary income. The rich get humongous mortgage interest deductions while renters get no deduction at all.”
“I’m all in favor of supporting fancy museums and elite schools, but face it: These aren’t really charities as most people understand the term.”
“Writing about dead white males seems to be out of favor among academics.”
“I favor the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and it must be enforced at gunpoint if necessary.”
“I’m not in favor of any amnesty whatsoever.”
“However, I am willing to hear what you can produce from Scripture in favor of any kind of slavery.”
“Prejudices in disfavor of a person fix deeper, and are much more difficult to be removed, than prejudices in favor.”
“I’m not in favor of manned spaceflight, because I don’t see that it goes anywhere.”
“Many of my supporters, they want to change the system, and they are not in favor of the establishment.”
“Our nation is not a fully representative democracy if we do not have a one-person, one-vote method of directly electing our president. It disproportionately tilts favor to smaller states with smaller populations.”
“I often say my naivete early on in my career worked in my favor.”
“With interest rates artificially low, consumers reduce savings in favor of consumption, and entrepreneurs increase their rates of investment spending.”
“I always tend to favor the newer idea.”
“I’m always in favor of Israel responding strongly when it’s threatened.”
“It’s my job to motivate the audience to believe. I have to get them to suspend their judgment in favor of involvement.”
“Politicians make decisions in favor of their interest groups or their supporters back in their hometowns.”
“I am not, and have never been, in favor of boycotting Israel.”
“Obedience of the law is demanded; not asked as a favor.”
“The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor that theory.”
“The least productive people are usually the ones who are most in favor of holding meetings.”
“The dog commends himself to our favor by affording play to our propensity for mastery.”
“I’m very much in favor of vaccinations, and I’ve been very vocal about that because it’s insane to forgo this.”
“Boxing does not favor boxers over 35 who rely on reflexes.”
“Sadly, the system in this country is rigged in favor of wealthy elites who have purchased tremendous influence in our government.”
“Realism hasn’t fallen out of favor with most people, who are interested in people’s lives rather than gymnastics of style or literary trends. It’s a certain kind of academic who undervalues realism, largely because it is not amenable to endless exegesis.”
“What a rush it was to plunge into the bin of official decision and cast a ballot in favor of FUN.”
“I am in favor of helping the prosperity of all countries because, when we are all prosperous, the trade with each becomes more valuable to the other.”
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