For me, the issue is if I'm your advocate, if I'm your representative, my job is to stand up for you and talk about you and defend you.
My mother was a great advocate of women's rights, a member of the League of Women's Voters and lifelong member of Planned Parenthood and an advocate of a woman's rights in terms of reproductive issues. She was also a founding member of Common Cause in the state of Indiana.
Throughout my career I have been an advocate for women, in all aspects of their lives.
So far as the advocates of a constructed international language are concerned, it is rather to be wondered at how much in common their proposals actually have, both in vocabulary and in general spirit of procedure.
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.
It's not really that I've been an advocate for hearing aids for a long time, it's just that I've been losing my hearing for a long time! So it's actually very important for me because I'm actually hearing impaired and I simply want to hear better!
I was conducted in the evening to a tavern where several of the weavers who advocate the principles of the People's Charter were in the habit of assembling.
Yeah, but you need an experienced radio veteran who is a liberal advocate. And there just hadn't been any radio that did that. And so they weren't trained - they had developed all these bad habits of being objective and balanced and stuff like that.
JAG is an acronym for the Judge Advocate General, which is the judicial system of the military.
Advocates of unrestricted abortion do not want the public to focus on these undeniable facts of fetal development, but the facts cannot be ignored.
No man should advocate a course in private that he's ashamed to admit in public.
If you're an advocate of gentleness, you're simplistic and naive. If you're an advocate of despair and hate, you're sophisticated.
My family advocates doing what fulfills your soul. They've always said, 'You're a big girl; figure it out on your own.'
I am running for governor of Kentucky as the people's advocate.
Latin Americans glorify their past so ceaselessly that they make it almost impossible to advocate change.
My faith motivates me to really try to work on behalf of and advocate for those who are least able to advocate for themselves.
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 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.
One of the things I'm adamant about as a bandleader is not micromanaging. I'm an advocate for the concept of allowing everyone to be fully vested in what they're doing, so everyone contributes whatever they're inspired to contribute.
The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
The romantic appeal of solar sailing has ensured that its advocates consistently come from the worlds of both science fiction and science fact.
I've always been a strong family advocate. I had a wonderful family growing up.
There is no more an enthusiastic advocate of legal immigration in the U.S. Senate than I am, and that is a message that resonates powerfully in the Hispanic community.
I'm not coming in as an advocate of sports gambling. I'm trying to be more of a realist to say it's going on in a massive way... and I think the right course would be therefore to legalize it and regulate it.
Dad was a great advocate for social justice and a very quiet advocate of the essential Labor values.
I'm an advocate for gay marriage. I have more gay friends than Carter has pills.
Well, I think it's important to stand as an advocate for the mentally ill.
I never expected in a million years that I would have the honor to become an advocate of women's health care and education, and I'd dive on a live grenade to get this message out, so thank you for this forum.
I'm a big advocate of drones.
To be President of the United States, sir, is to act as advocate for a blind, venomous, and ungrateful client.
The Attorney General is the state's chief consumer advocate, fighting to protect the financial security of all Illinoisans.
I'm not going to advocate for a female leader who I'm voting for solely on the basis of gender. And I think a lot of people feel that way.
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.
If I advocate cautious optimism it is not because I do not have faith in the future but because I do not want to encourage blind faith.
I think film is a very powerful advocate and message carrier.
As a dedicated and proud father of three, I am a strong advocate of life. I value life whether born or unborn.