Quotes About Advocacy

As someone who grew up in public housing, I've known these conditions.

TDP is always very assertive for public interest.

The abortion issue has intersected with my public life from the very beginning.

When I came out in September 1994, I was, as far as I know, the only out lesbian in British public life.

I am a big fan of seeing more women in public life.

Often, I'm up against both - position and money power. And yes, a system that needs to be more 'woman-friendly.' I believe these experiences will probably give birth to a more public life, where I can address the issues of women that need help in being heard, for I have understood what it is to be in that position.

Honestly, if you are going to run for public office, I think it's incumbent... to speak up.

If you don't know anybody who is out of work, who needs housing, if you've never taken a call at 2 o'clock in the morning from a neighbor who is running out of heating fuel in the middle of February, then you don't know what you do in a tough situation. To me, that's the measure of whether you should be in public office.

As public officials, we have a duty to protect all of our communities and our number one priority must be saving lives.

Public opinion must be heard.

My appetite for public policy and changing it, and not only being a part of the conversation, but affecting it in a positive way, never diminished after 10 years in Congress.

I was definitely one of those kids who, for whatever reason, followed politics and public policy.

Concealed carry reciprocity is a dream for the gun lobby lobbyists and a nightmare for public safety.

As governor, I'll keep fighting for policies that will actually put more money in the pockets of workers, make it easier for everyone to get health care, and improve our public schools.

Public schools have given so much to our family - I've been proud to fight for them as a state senator and lieutenant governor.

Passion helps you in protecting the community, and public service will follow it. That has been my career. It is the passion that drives me to do what I do every day.

All I know is, I think I would like to continue to do public service.

I passionately support Hillary Clinton for president because she has devoted her life to public service and has been willing to learn and change along the way by listening to the people she serves.

Confrontational or not, my approach to public service has always been fighting for my families.

I didn't like my hair and makeup one time on a photo shoot, and my publicist told me, 'You should just be happy with it - they haven't had a black girl on the cover since forever.' She's no longer my publicist.

Throughout my life, I have publicly and privately denounced military interventions in domestic politics. In fact, I have been advocating for democracy for decades.

Often it's the case that we have to do a lot of exploration and marketing of the material we publish ourselves to get a big political impact for it.

We tried to just convince big publishers like EA or other people to make games like 'Cloud'... It's just almost impossible.

What really is nasty is showing your back to the Puerto Rican people.