Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ian Johnson

They needed to understand what issues are at stake,

Michael Anderson

The first thing to do is to get communications going between the different states. The jurisdictional issues will follow.

The first three issues of 'Cemetery Dance' were mainly horror, but now it's really a cross-genre magazine. It's all just snowballed.

The first big issue is 'if', because a lot of people are still talking 'if' - and that's a fundamental misperception.

Friedrich August von Hayek

If freedom is to flourish the philosophic foundations of a free society must be kept a living intellectual issue and its implementation a task which challenges the ingenuity and imagination of the liveliest minds.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

I regard reduction in Federal spending as one of the most important issues of this campaign. In my opinion, it is the most direct and effective contribution that Government can make to business.

Jon Postel

There was one issue on which there seemed to be almost unanimity: the Internet should not be managed by any government, national or multinational.

Jon Kyl

I was pleased to see that Chief Justice [John] Roberts refused to prejudge issues or make promises in exchange for confirmation votes. We're all better off because of his principled stand.

Jon Kyl

No judicial nomination should answer any question that is designed to reveal how the nominee will rule on any issue that could come before the court.

Lynn Margulis

Neo-Darwinian language and conceptual structure itself ensures scientific failure: Major questions posed by zoologists cannot be answered from inside the neo-Darwinian straitjacket. Such questions include, for example, 'How do new structures arise in evolution?' 'Why, given so much environmental change, is stasis so prevalent in evolution as seen in the fossil record?' 'How did one group of organisms or set of macromolecules evolve from another?' The importance of these questions is not at issue; it is just that neo-Darwinians, restricted by their resuppositions, cannot answer them.

Luis Fortuno

Republicans cannot continue to oppose every Hispanic issue.

James Cook

Liberals have one solution for every economic issue; eat the seed corn.

Jacques Ellul

Faith lived in the incognito is one which is located outside the criticism coming from society , from politics , from history , for the very reason that it has itself the vocation to be a source of criticism. It is faith (lived in the incognito) which triggers the issues for the others, which causes everything seemingly established to be placed in doubt , which drives a wedge into the world of false assurances.

Jacque Fresco

There isn't anything that is said that 'someone' won't take issue with.

Henry A. Kissinger

The defining issue is that the government in Taiwan was considered to be the government of all of China, and the authorities in Beijing were not recognized as a government of China. So Taiwan was the residuary for all of China.

Henry A. Kissinger

I do not criticize people who take a public stand on human rights issues. I express my respect for them. But some people are more influential without a public confrontation.

Henry A. Kissinger

The issues are too important to be left for the voters.

Henry A. Kissinger

Taiwan will probably not declare independence. The question isn't independence. The issue is whether Taiwan will declare itself as a sovereign separate state. That will start a huge crisis if that happens.

Henry A. Kissinger

I grew up as a discriminated minority in a dictatorship, so obviously the issue of human rights is a matter of concern for me.

Henry Giroux

The nature of the issues facing U.S. students is a bit more complicated in the U.S. because the assault on the social state, until recently, has been more incremental [i.e. the stripping of public services and so forth], whereas in Britain with the rise of the conservative-liberal government, it was immediate and bold in its assault on the social state and higher education.

Henry Giroux

What is invaluable about Angela Davis work is that she does not limit her politics to issues removed from broader social considerations, but connects every aspect of her scholarship and public interventions to what the contours of a truly democratic society might look like.

Heather Wilson

Border security is a safety issue.

Hedrick Smith

Television's compelling power is its immediacy . .. this immediacy feeds the politics of emotions, gut reactions and impressions rather than the politics of logic, facts and reason; it emphasizes personality rather than issues.

Malcolm Wallop

We're taking on Social Security as a property rights issue. We figure that every single American has an absolute property right interest in the fruits of his or her own labor. What I work for should be my property.

Malcolm Turnbull

The question of whether or to what extent human activities are causing global warming is not a matter of ideology, let alone of belief. The issue is simply one of risk management.

Malcolm Turnbull

I try to talk about policy issues intelligently, I try very hard to avoid thought bubbles. I make sure my speeches are well researched and footnoted. I make sure I am not talking through my hat.

Mahatma Gandhi

Violence is bound sooner or later to exhaust itself but peace cannot issue out of such exhaustion.

John C. Maxwell

As you interact with others, remember this: anytime a person's response is larger than the issue at hand, the response is almost always about something else.

And that is what we have done. As to the origins of the horn, that is not what is at issue here. We are simply registering a trademark.

Ben Bernanke

These are issues that we are going to have to address, because they are significant.

These issues are prevalent in Kossuth County. This is no longer an issue where we can say it isn't our problem. It is our problem and it's on the rise.

These issues are not going to be resolved overnight. There is no short-term quick fix.

These individuals are thinking about the same issues but their perspectives and priorities often differ.