Famous Quotes & Sayings

If she wanted something, you better had figured out a way to make her happy. She was a very, very aggressive advocate for Buncombe County.

Jose Serrano

If you believe Elian and his family deserve special treatment, do you also advocate giving the same status to the nearly seven million other undocumented aliens in this country?

He (Starr) was not an advocate for a particular result; he was up there to discuss his findings of fact and law. But it is for Congress to make the judgment on what to do with that evidence, not him.

He's raised his own children to have that sensibility, to advocate for people who cannot advocate for themselves, ... We continue to be so fortunate that Jim has dedicated his life to the Arc.

In the entire country, there is no better Supreme Court advocate than Miguel Estrada.

Rebecca Stead

In so many ways, being a literary agent is an irresistible job to me. Not only does it involve all the things I love - being an advocate for others, problem solving, and going to meetings - yes, that's true, I love meetings, though everyone says it's bizarre! - but most importantly, I love working with people whose writing excites me.

Andie MacDowell

I am an advocate for going to the doctor and going every year. I make sure that part of the checkup is spent talking about my heart with my doctor, and getting my numbers checked, and discussing the results. And I make sure that I understand the answers to my questions.

They're taking the position the sky would be falling ... I think that's advocacy. All these different scenarios and examples have not occurred; the business of the court continues to be pretty much the way it was. I respect Charlie, (but) he's an advocate and I think there's a bit of a stretch concerning the effect of the order.

a great advocate for social justice . . . she fights for affordable housing, civil rights and economic empowerment.

The judge ruled in our favor because they could not prove that work was backed up, or that phone calls went unanswered. We don't advocate goofing off. The public should be served. But if there's not work, it's not his fault.

Damian Marley

The U.K. is one of the places that has always been an advocate of my music and I spend a lot of time touring here. I've got family and friends over here, but more than that, there's a large Jamaican community and the Jamaican culture is very widespread in the U.K. which I love.

Along with holding steady clients, I would also like to do side jobs such as being an advocate for a nonprofit organization, using my PR skills, and giving back to the community that has given so much to me.

an effective advocate for working people long before she and Jon Corzine met.

Anything they do to advocate the education of farmers on the use of risk management choices is good.

As an advocate of intellectual property rights we take these pirates seriously.

Pedro Noguera

School boards are seen as the lowest rung of the political hierarchy, especially by other elected officials. But what that means is they are closer to the electorate than most officials. That to me is a position of influence, and it's not being used sufficiently to advocate policies and programs the schools need.

Kofi Annan

Quite apart from his role as a spiritual guide to more than a billion men, women and children, he was a tireless advocate of peace, a true pioneer in interfaith dialogue and a strong force for critical self-evaluation by the Church itself,

Susan Harris

Quite a few people advocate as much as 1,000 International Units a day, with 1,000 to 1,200 milligrams of calcium.

Our concern with that change is it sets up an adversarial system. We know there are appraisers who testify for landowners and some for condemning parties. They may see their role differently under this, as an advocate rather than a neutral party serving the court.

Robert Bork

the most prominent and intellectually powerful advocate of judicial restraint.

The more people who learn of a crime, the more eyes we have helping us in our communities. Any avenue we can pursue that will help us in that end is something we wholeheartedly support. We're certainly an advocate of the program.

Raul Gonzalez

A lot of people around here don't have money to keep rolling. I mean I'm not an advocate of it, but I understand how it could happen.

Although most Christian churches advocate some sort of mission to non-Christians, no Jewish group advocates a mission to non-Jews. Proselytization seems to be foreign to Judaism.

Although his job required being a public advocate for the Bush economic policies, I found all his public statements well reasoned and moderate.

A lot of people should not pay attention to the ups and downs daily because clearly they cannot discern the next week or two weeks in terms of trends in the markets. Where do you want to put your money long term, and I stress long term. We always advocate a very strong diversification.

Americans ought to be concerned about censorship and the use of information by our government. Similarly, we are citizens of the world, and collectively we ought to advocate an approach to information worldwide that is as open and transparent as possible.

It provides an extra on-call sexual assault advocate for 24 hour emergency calls to the Women?s Center.

It's not something we advocate people doing. This is a prolific and dangerous robber that we're very happy to have behind bars.

For example, in a community where the housing stock was devastated, the Red Cross will work with other organizations to jump-start the rebuilding process. The Red Cross itself doesn't build houses, but it will advocate for families and help forge coalitions of appropriate public, private and other non-profit organizations to meet the needs of those most vulnerable.

Your agent should be invested in the success of your book past the contract stage. After all, if it sells well, she's going to be getting 15 percent of every dime you make. She can be your best advocate in fighting for your book - not just with editing and the cover, but with marketing and sales as well.

This is a troubling situation, Sony is, of course, a strong advocate of content protection. Beyond that, at this point, we don't have enough information.

Nita Lowey

Essentially what that means is that groups that talk about family planning, that advocate family planning, cannot have dollars -- U.S. dollars,

Christopher Cox

As the top lawyer for the SEC ù the investor's advocate ù the general counsel is also the nation's foremost legal advocate for investors.