Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gaylord Nelson

Franklin Roosevelt was very concerned about environmental issues.

Gaylord Nelson

If we continue to address the issue of the environment where we live as though we're the only species that lives here, we'll create a disaster for ourselves

Gaylord Nelson

The most important environmental issue is one that is rarely mentioned, and that is the lack of a conservation ethic in our culture.

Lord Acton

The issue which has swept down the centuries and which will have to be fought sooner or later is the people versus the banks.

All of those things that people have been talking about, all the issues surrounding the station, well, Elburn people have been talking about them, too.

All of these issues will be on the table. This is an important issue and it's important we have addressed it the way we have.

All of the issues were on the table.

All sorts of issues of trust, values and priorities come up.

Eddie Bernice Johnson

There is not an issue that a woman cannot bring a perspective to.

Eddie Bernice Johnson

All issues are women's issues - and there are several that are just women's business.

Hoda Kotb

I've had weight issues all my life. I've been on all the diets: Atkins, liquid protein, Scarsdale diet. Now I go to the gym often. I'm always on the StairMaster, and I do weights.

Jose Padilha

It's all about this abstract entity called the story. It's all about the best way to tell the story, and to make a movie about the issues that this story is about. Filmmaking is storytelling, for me.

Joschka Fischer

The participation in European elections was always not very exciting. People are very interested in European issues, but they don't see the person who is representing Europe.

Jose Antonio Vargas

I'm not a politician. I'm not a policy wonk. I was a political reporter, but that's not really what turns me on. What turns me on is how people perceive the issue and how people see people like me.

Jonny Greenwood

I sometimes wish taste wasn't ever an issue, and the sounds of instruments or synths could be judged solely on their colour and timbre. Judged by what it did to your ears, rather than what its historical use reminds you of.

Kelley Armstrong

Stuffing people into boxes is for those who have issues about their own box.

Kay Granger

Foreign aid must be viewed as an investment, not an expense...but when foreign aid is carefully guided and targeted at a specific issue, it can and must be effective.

Jonathan Raymond

Why do I have an issue with banks? They have their greedy fingers in everyones money. No other industry has the power to deduct a bill or fees directly from your own bank account without so much as a notice.

Napoleon Bonaparte

From triumph to downfall is but a step. I have seen a trifle decide the most important issues in the gravest affairs.

Luke Bryan

You get weird, funny requests on Twitter. With our fan club, I was seeing a lot of fans were having some issue with the way the fan club tickets were being handled in one of the shows. So I was able to correspond with that fan, and be like, 'Listen, we'll be on it.'

Lord Chesterfield

Sincerity w the most compendious wisdom, an excellent instrument for the speedy despatch of business. It creates confidence in those we have to deal with, saves the labor of many inquiries, and brings things to an issue in few words.

Major Owens

Washington has been ignoring this issue for too long.

Gail Carriger

My petal. Westminster’s toy had tea issues. Thank Biffy and Lyall. Toodle pip. A.

Frank Lautenberg

I ask the vice president to stop dodging the issue with legalese, and acknowledge his continued ties with Halliburton to the American people.

Frank Luntz

What matters most in politics is personality. It's not issues; it's not image. It's who you are and what you represent.

Norman Tebbit

The mark of a single currency is not only that all other currencies must be extinguished but that the capacity of other institutions to issue currencies must also be extinguished...In the case of the United Kingdom, that would involve Parliament binding its successors in a way that it has hitherto regarded as unconstitutional.

Norman Lear

So we gravitated to shows and issues and causes that made people care.

Orrin Hatch

Because judges may not issue advisory opinions, judicial nominees may not do so either, especially on issues likely to come before the court. That rule has always been honored.

Ellen Goodman

Today, much of journalism and politics are in a kind of collusion to oversimplify and personalize issues. No room for ambivalence. Plenty of room for the personal attack.

Ellen DeGeneres

Our flaws are what makes us human. If we can accept them as part of who we are, they really don't even have to be an issue.

Eric Schmidt

The lack of a delete button on the internet is a significant issue,

Erasmus Darwin

The mass starts into a million suns; Earths round each sun with quick explosions burst, And second planets issue from the first.

Henry Paulson

The most pressing and significant problems in the global economy are unsustainable structural issues with regard to the E.U. - fiscal deficits and the structure of the E.U. itself.