Be an advocate for your loved ones in the hospital. Ask tough questions of your local hospital and health system about preparedness for the likeliest emergencies, and express your views on how medical resources should be allocated in case they ever fall short.
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.
When Hall of Fame voters decide who is inducted, it’s a really difficult process. Players have to have an advocate in the room, and it’s typically their own local beat writer.
Of course, I have a different vested interest in the gay community, because I am gay, and I would certainly enjoy the tax advantages that straight people have, and the inheritance advantages, and things like Social Security, but I’ve always been a civil rights advocate across the board. That’s how I was raised.
What I think you need to do is be aware and be your own best advocate. Get on the Internet, do your research, and find a group that you might be able to get involved with.
I will continue to advocate for projects and funding that will make our citizens’ daily lives better.
I’m an activist and advocate. I have empathy. It is hard to ignore causes.
As a founder and most senior member of the CBC, John Conyers has been an advocate for the Congressional Black Caucus and a respected leader in the House of Representatives.
Drawing a line between work and home is something I strongly advocate for. Only by keeping that balance in check can you continue to be inspired at work and at peace at home.
I’m so tired of the privacy advocates.
Dershowitz may be a genius in some ways, but he’s not necessarily the advocate you want on your side.
I haven’t wanted to portray a manager since Paul E. Dangerously was with the Samoan Swat Team in 1989. I’ve always wanted to do some different presentation in that role. I don’t consider myself a manager – I’m an advocate, and I truly believe that that is the description for the role that I play.
As Public Advocate for the City of New York, I have a duty to speak truth to power and do what is best for our City and its residents.
So long as peace is not attained by law (so argue the advocates of armaments) the military protection of a country must not be undermined, and until such is the case disarmament is impossible.
Environmental advocates say that changing how much power computers and monitors use in idle mode can cut greenhouse gas emissions without requiring consumers to change their behavior.
I’m not an advocate for disability issues. Human issues are what interest me.
If you take a job as a public advocate, then you must advocate publicly.
One of the best things that can happen to any cause, to any people, is to have Bill Clinton as its advocate. That is how needy and neglected causes have become global initiatives.
I am a physician specializing in nutritional interventions for chronic disease and a strong advocate of superior nutrition as the first line of attack to prevent and treat most chronic diseases.
The loudest voices we hear are those who advocate conflict, divisiveness.
It may surprise people to know that I advocate the reform of the United Nations, not its abolishment.
I love using the latest technologies to make life more efficient, but I don’t want to advocate that technology replaces the need to get together and enjoy human connections with people.
I’m not an advocate for disability issues. Human issues are what interest me. You can’t possibly speak for a diverse group of people. I don’t know what it’s like to be an arm amputee, or have even one flesh-and-bone leg, or to have cerebral palsy.
I was one of the most visible and vocal advocates of Secretary Hillary Clinton.
I still drink vodka; I’m not an advocate of drinking, but I’m no angel. I don’t like grass, because it just makes me hungry.
The U.S.-led western alliance, while acting as an advocate of democracy, rule of law and human rights, is acting from the opposite position, rejecting the democratic principle of the sovereign right of states enshrined in the U.N. Charter and trying to decide for others what is good and what is bad.
I have worked for three decades as a staunch advocate of building a ‘big tent’ party that includes both pro-choice and pro-life Republicans.
I’m always a big advocate for adapting to your new team, your new country and your new team-mates.
I feel like, almost overnight, and this is weird to say about myself, I’ve become a queer advocate without even meaning to.
A Conservative party that supports free markets should also advocate the end of corporate welfare.
I just want to recognize, the HIV epidemic was solved by the community, the HIV advocates and activists who stood up when no one was listening and got everyone’s attention.
My family advocates doing what fulfills your soul. They’ve always said, ‘You’re a big girl; figure it out on your own.’
Many environmental advocates argue that agricultural pollution will be reduced only through stronger federal laws.
I advocate for a totally new view of the role of the patient: patient as engaged partner, not passive recipient.
In Congress, I was a relentless advocate for fiscal responsibility.
My mother saw her mother… her father walked out when they were very young and it was a lot of, I’d say more verbal abuse than physical, but it was the same. And my mother, back in the 70s, became an advocate for victims of domestic violence way before anybody in the Legislature was talking about it.
I’m an advocate of ‘it’s not what you are, it’s who you are.’
I believe in artists. I’m an advocate for artists.
I just think that if one is going to preach nonviolence and one is going to advocate for nonviolence, one’s standard should be consistent.
Both at home and abroad, Ivanka Trump has been a strong and confident advocate for female equality.
If you look at great reform, it always starts from parents. If you look at the movement to reform the special education movement, it was driven by parents who were fierce advocates for their children.
I have always been an advocate and was, in my last job at M&S, a supporter of the Al Gore dictum that a sustainable business can be a profitable business. We were the first sizeable company in the U.K. to prove that was the case.
The weapon of the advocate is the sword of the soldier, not the dagger of the assassin.
With fame comes opportunity, but in my opinion, it also includes responsibility – to advocate and share, to focus less on glass slippers and more on pushing through glass ceilings and, if I’m lucky enough, then to inspire.
I often advocate that we look at many sides of an issue, walk in someone else’s shoes, and identify and reject false choices.
No man should advocate a course in private that he’s ashamed to admit in public.
We have to spend a lot more time training people to be good advocates of U.S. business.
I’ve been so lucky – I worked with Jason Reitman twice, who has always been a really strong advocate for my voice, and has always really respected the scripts that I’ve brought him and is just the coolest.
Knowing the law is not much help for an advocate. In fact, it’s a bit of a disadvantage, cramps your style.
I will absolutely be an advocate and a fighter where necessary.
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.
When we are asked to bail out corporations and banks, or pass tax bills that shift billions in public dollars out of government, we must ask ourselves, who were we truly sent here to advocate for?
As a follower of Jesus, I am called to work for justice and reconciliation, and to be an advocate for those who cannot speak for themselves. I plan to focus my future work on human rights and religious freedom – both domestic and international – as well as matters of the culture and the American family.
Mexico doesn’t know whether it should pay more attention to those who advocate militarizing the border or to those – like President Obama – who have come out against it.
Muhammad Ali was unquestionably one of the greatest boxers of the 20th century and a sincere advocate for his religious beliefs. In his life, he defeated the best professional boxers of his era, some of them more than once, which meant he was easily forgiven the excesses of his ringside braggadocio.
Many mainstream winemakers use indigenous yeasts rather than commercially grown ones to ferment their grapes – precisely what natural winemakers advocate.
I’m done with my job. It was my job to be the advocate and spokesman for the President of the United States.
I’m a spokesperson, and advocate of awareness. So when anything comes up on our bodies – if it’s skin cancer or a bump or something we’re not certain of – we need to see our doctors.
I am an advocate of playing in big stadiums.
One of the roles of the Presidency is to lead a political party. Having a President in office is usually a huge advantage to a party because it gives the party a mouthpiece and an advocate at the highest level.
The advocates of abortion on demand falsely assume two things: that women must suffer if the lives of unborn children are legally protected; and that women can only attain equality by having the legal option of destroying their innocent offspring in the womb.
