Platform Quotes

I guess there might come a point when I will want to live an anonymous life. I'm only at the start of my career, so I'm sure that moment will come, but I know how blessed I am to have this platform on which to speak and influence.

Anthropology was the science that gave her the platform from which she surveyed, scolded and beamed at the world.

The Republican platform specifically says we don't believe in bailing out private business, and yet we did.

I want a platform that, like a book or a magazine, I can carry into the bath or leave at the beach.

Our two party platforms were emphatic about Jerusalem being the capital of Israel. For the Obama administration to remove this language from the Democratic Party platform drives a wedge into one of the few issues that our two parties agreed on.

Coming back to a television series puts you back in the limelight and gives you a platform for your ideas. If you're not acting on a series, you don't get the ability to communicate to people.

As a developing musician, skiffle became a platform for me to start playing music.

Only in a concert situation do I have access to people directly to preach to them, and I don't believe that the bigger your platform is, the more people will pay attention.

I was interested in Java the beginning, but the problem with Java is you do have to switch your platform.

The way they had the room that I was in set up, there was some sort of sound deadening platform that I had to stand on in order to get close enough to the microphone.

You need a platform upon which to release an orchestral record, otherwise it's just going to be an obscurity.

People say it's a movie about boxing, but... I don't agree at all. I don't think it's a movie about boxing. Boxing is like a platform. It's just a stage where this is played out.

I've never been a part of a film before that offers such a platform into real issues, that raises social awareness and has the potential to change things.

Maintaining a consistent platform also helps improve product support - a significant problem in the software industry.

For myself, Queer Eye feeds more to my heart and my soul than as a platform for a career.

I'm surprised at the extent of the bigotry. But it really plays out when companies or schools take a side and prohibit the other platform at all. We Mac users should be good even when the other side is bad. We should do what we can to accept the other platforms.

I don't want to describe either Governor Mitt Romney or the Republicans as stupid, but I will say this - if you look at their platform, the 2012 platform, it looks like it's from another century and maybe even two. It looks like the platform of 1812.

The Republicans have long had a platform of being pro-life. And I'm someone that believes life begins at conception and should be protected.

I'm very grateful for the platform that I've had in my life to speak out about the things I care about.

It created a global platform that allowed more people to plug and play, collaborate and compete, share knowledge and share work, than anything we have ever seen in the history of the world.

The platform of an Ethical Society is itself the altar; the address must be the fire that burns thereon.

I think it's hard to know. Feeling fulfilled, because actors face periods of unemployment, there is nothing worse than being at the top of your game; you have so much to give but do not have the platform to do this.

Years ago nobody was elected on the economic ticket. It was either the education platform, or it was health or it was other issues. It is only recently that economic values have superceded every other human value.

Those of us who believe in God and those of us who have dedicated our lives to helping others in the name of God don't want to take a second seat to anyone who is suggesting that one word out of the platform means that the Democrats across America are godless.

I really understand what that process is all about and how important it is, especially with young folk and creative folk that love looking for some platform that makes it easier for them to express themselves.

You ought to serve on the platform you run on.

I love comedy. God has given me this platform.

We must make it clear that a platform of 'I hate gay men and women' is not a way to become president of the United States.

The original item looked like a little hand cart with the figure of a man mounted on a platform between the wheels. The man's outstretched arm always pointed south.

I know that books I have written will still resonate in 50 years - particularly 'My Sister's Keeper.' It has sold three million copies in the States alone. I strongly feel that, as a novelist, you have a platform and the ability to change people's minds.