Quotes About Advocacy

If you don't have a seat at the table, you're on the menu.

We're lawyers. We present the arguments, and the court sorts out the merits.

Since Sandy Hook, I have sat back as a father and been mesmerized by the inability of the federal government to do anything substantively on gun safety.

If you don't have a good case, and you don't have a good message, then shining a light on it is not going to get you very far.

It's not that sexual liberation or feminist messages are dead.

There aren't any messages in my social protestations.

What a lot the media, and especially Fox News, has messed up with me is they've made it seem like I'm trying to take away people's guns - that I'm against the Second Amendment.

I became the messenger who had to be killed.

I think, for a lot of people, men or women, it's easy to have things not affect you because, it doesn't affect you. So to be a better ally, you have to look at it as if it's someone you know instead of this abstract person you've never met.

To know the first lady is to love Michelle.

Those of us who care about food and where it comes from will miss both Obama and Michelle. Even though Obama failed to do many things he indicated he would do around food, Michelle Obama has done a lot to shine a light on the link between diet and health, which is really important.

Michelle Obama. She is big on encouraging kids to eat healthy - which is great.

Michigan is a state that wants access for women to healthcare.

We did 'Jack & Bobby' in the middle of the Kerry/Bush election. It hurt it a little bit. No matter what we did, everyone thought we were advocating for one person over the other. The stuff I work on is more about the people.

Bill Clinton has done more to help the middle class than any leader in decades.

I want to help the middle class.

It's the middle class that feels the luxury of being able to have causes.

What has always made the Clintons great politicians and better people is their unyielding commitment to expanding the middle class for everyone.

The people who talk about the middle class aren't upholding their interests in the legislature.

You want to help gay kids, you have to reach them in middle school and high school, when they're being bullied.

It is easy to stand for freedom and justice in the midst of peace.

I truly believe being a midwife is the greatest job for a feminist. It's women helping women, believing in them at a time when they're thinking, 'Am I ever going to get through this?'

Female politicos mostly represent a rather militant faction.

I was very lucky to hear the story of Harvey Milk, it was life-saving for me. I wanted to share it in case it helped others, but the story of one gay man isn't going to do it.