Advocate Quotes

Corporate partners help UNICEF fund our programmes for children, advocate with us on their behalf, or facilitate our work through logistical, technical, research or supply support.

Obviously, I have certain policy positions that I push and advocate for that would benefit people dealing in a system that breeds inequality and makes life more difficult for people.

I am running for governor of Kentucky as the people's advocate.

Without an advocate for the poor, without a new state of mind in America, the country lies on the brink of anarchy.

Personally, I'm an advocate for short engagements. Long sometimes means there is a reason for it. Two years engaged and no wedding... I'd be upset.

I am aware that in presenting myself as the advocate of the Indians and their rights, I shall stand very much alone.

I absolutely advocate for comprehensive immigration reform.

I'm an advocate of the great Dr. Johnson, the English man of letters who said that patriotism was the last refuge of the scoundrel.

Things are still in early stages, but one can imagine that as we build up and systematize our theories of these associations, and try to boil them down to their core, the result might point us toward the sort of fundamental principles I advocate.

I'm a strong advocate for music. I think guitars are wonderful.

I have been mislabeled as a big advocate of low-income home ownership over rental.

In this work I have received the opposition of a number of men who only advocate the unobtainable because the immediately possible is beyond their moral courage, administrative ability, and their political prescience.

As I say, I'm a discourse advocate. What form it comes is less important to me than the fact that there is discourse.

I have different hats; I'm a mother, I'm a woman, I'm a human being, I'm an artist and hopefully I'm an advocate. All of those plates are things I spin all the time.

No man should advocate a course in private that he's ashamed to admit in public.

JAG is an acronym for the Judge Advocate General, which is the judicial system of the military.

I've always been a strong family advocate. I had a wonderful family growing up.

I am not just a celebrity, I'm a human-rights advocate for the last 20 years.

If the United Nations is to survive, those who represent it must bolster it; those who advocate it must submit to it; and those who believe in it must fight for it.

We can still find middle ground, truly secure our borders, deal with those already here and address our labor needs. But those who advocate giving current illegal aliens and future guest workers a special path to citizenship must compromise.

Research confirms that both Republican and Democratic women are more likely than their male counterparts to initiate and fight for bills that champion social justice, protect the environment, advocate for families, and promote nonviolent conflict resolution.

I think any advocate who is effective has fully acquainted himself or herself with the legislator they are going to meet. Know what committees they are on, what issues they are interested in, all in an effort to build a bridge for communicating with them.

While I drew, and wept along with the terrified children I was drawing, I really felt the burden I am bearing. I felt that I have no right to withdraw from the responsibility of being an advocate.

I've always tried to be fair, even-handed, not an advocate for any group.

It's to be a person who's able to shoot little arrows into sacred cows and knock politicians off their pedestals, to look out for hypocrisy, advocate for all sorts of things from social justice to peace.

The weapon of the advocate is the sword of the soldier, not the dagger of the assassin.

I'm a very big public school advocate.

Adult life is dealing with an enormous amount of questions that don't have answers. So I let the mystery settle into my music. I don't deny anything, I don't advocate anything, I just live with it.

It may surprise people to know that I advocate the reform of the United Nations, not its abolishment.

To advocate a New Order was to seek freedom and respect for peoples without prejudice, and to seek a stable basis for the existence all peoples, equally, and free of threats.