Advocate Quotes

I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.
Hunter S. Thompson

Hate, Alcohol, Violence

I'm a big advocate of freedom: freedom of speech, freedom of expression, freedom of thought.
Jimmy Wales

Freedom, Thought, Big

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

Public, Private, Admit

No man can call himself liberal, or radical, or even a conservative advocate of fair play, if his work depends in any way on the unpaid or underpaid labor of women at home, or in the office.
Gloria Steinem

Work, Women, Home

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.
Aung San Suu Kyi

Faith, Future, Optimism

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.
Bruce Springsteen

Life, Music, Live

To be President of the United States, sir, is to act as advocate for a blind, venomous, and ungrateful client.
John Updike

Ungrateful, Act, President

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.
Annie Lennox

Time, Mother, Woman

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.
Calvin Klein

Makes, Vodka, Drink

The biggest danger to the European Union comes not from those who advocate change, but from those who denounce new thinking as heresy. In its long history Europe has experience of heretics who turned out to have a point.
David Cameron

Change, History, Experience

The loudest voices we hear are those who advocate conflict, divisiveness.
John C. Danforth

Hear, Conflict, Voices

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.
Diablo Cody

Strong, Him, Lucky

But 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.
Dee Dee Myers

Women, Fight, Justice

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.
Dee Dee Myers

Women, Fight, Justice

I'm a big advocate of financial intelligence.
Daymond John

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

Mind, Country, America

Our universities advocate fragmentation in their course systems.
Arthur Erickson

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.
George Galloway

Great, Patriotism, Said

Lawyers advocate more so than state their own positions.
Arlen Specter

State, Lawyers, Positions

To the families of special needs children all across this country I have a message for you: for years you have sought to make America a more welcoming place for your sons and daughters, and I pledge to you that if we're elected, you will have a friend, an advocate, in The White House.
Sarah Palin

Children, Friend, Country

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.
Norman Cousins

Fight, United, Survive

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

Group, Fair, Tried

I didn't get into acting to be a public service announcer or an advocate and yet, by virtue of this show and how we handle the subject matter that we've been given, that's kind of how it's evolved in certain ways.
Christopher Meloni

Acting, Service, Matter

No one has been a greater advocate for the power of love in this world than I; both in my life and in my music.
Stevie Wonder

Life, Love, Music

Normally, I am a vocal advocate for 'looking both ways' and 'knowing the size of one's own body.' But working, socialising and simply running errands in Manhattan, means I am bound to break my own rules on occasion.
Sloane Crosley

Working, Means, Knowing

The opposition has moved from a blaming the victim to blaming the victim's advocate's statistics. Irrespective of what the numbers are, it's far too many.
Patricia Ireland

Far, Victim, Statistics

I have always been drawn to child-related causes. I find that people listen to me more when I advocate for children now that I have my own.
Jennifer Garner

Children, Find, Listen

I'm an advocate for gay marriage. I have more gay friends than Carter has pills.
Patti Stanger

Marriage, Gay, Friends

The challenge is to lend conviction even to the voices which advocate views I find personally abhorrent, whether they are political Islamists or officers justifying a coup.
Orhan Pamuk

Political, Find, Challenge

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

Last, Celebrity

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