Famous Quotes & Sayings

Scott Bakula

Lots of people still live with fears about anything. It can be lots of different things. One of the hardest things to do is to be present and open and clear about who you are and what you stand for. We all have issues with that.

Michelle Obama

Education is the single-most important civil rights issue that we face today.

Michael Pollan

People in Slow Food understand that food is an environmental issue.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

On some issues, I'm a staunch Conservative — like curtailing greenhouse gas emissions so that we can Conserve the environment.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Today, scientists sound the alarm on other environmental dangers. Vested interests still hire their own scientists to confuse the issue. But in the end, nature, will not be fooled.

John Thune

When you're the president of the United States and you know that the biggest issue facing you is this cliff that we're about ready to head over if we don't get this spending and debt situation under control, it's very irresponsible not to take the action that is necessary to fix the problem.

John Schuerholz

Our issue isn't when we get something done, ... it's how appropriate it is when we do it.

Martin Luther

A gospel that doesn't deal with the issues of the day is not the gospel at all.

Mark Spitz

When you need a lifestyle change due to [health issues], a dietary change is usually the first thing you need to take control of.

Todd Phillips

You're only as good as your body of work, and everybody has issues, whether it's Steven Spielberg or Martin Scorsese. I'm not comparing myself to those guys, but you learn more from the misses than the hits.

Titus Welliver

The issue of fracking is a stick in the hornet's nest.

Sienna Guillory

Worn with tights it is not an issue, although there is something deeply unfeminist about not being able to sit down in one comfortably.

Mel White

Doing justice, loving mercy, seeking truth...these are the issues [the Bible] is clear on.

The rich are depressed because they realize their money can't buy them out of their issues.

Michael Sheen

It has to be absolutely believable. It's also going between images and scenes with nudity and sexuality that would be seen, in conventional terms, as kind of sexually exciting. It's up against things that are much more medical and gynecological, and notoriously we, as a culture and a society, have some issues with that kind of thing.

Thabo Mbeki

The issue of racism and racial prejudice is very, very difficult to discuss. It is difficult to discuss the history of apartheid - many people have made the observation that it is very, very difficult to find anybody in South Africa who ever supported apartheid: because everybody was opposed to that; it was against our will and so on.

Margaret Heffernan

As long as it (an issue) remains invisible, it is guaranteed to remain insoluble.

Michael Lewis

The incentives are still rotten, and people are still paid to do things they shouldn't be doing. The reforms did not really address the incentives, the system is still dysfunctional and there are still behavioural issues that need to be addressed.

Michael Foley

But there is a compelling reason to develop a personal strategy for living. Rejecting issues, which often feels liberating, is actually enslavement. Those who do not produce their own solutions must be using someone else's. As Nietzsche warned 'he who cannot obey himself will be commanded'.

Michael Bloomberg

The politics of partisanship and the resulting inaction and excuses have paralyzed decision-making, primarily at the federal level, and the big issues of the day are not being addressed, leaving our future in jeopardy.

Michelle Alexander

Mass incarceration is the most pressing racial justice issue of our time.

Michelle Bachelet

I'm working for the women in the world, today; that's my essential issue.

Michelle Bachelet

We have to make sure that women's issues are an essential element on the agendas of all heads of state, all governments.

Michele Bachmann

When migraines briefly became a campaign issue for me, it appeared that political foes were maybe playing the gender card.

Michele Bachmann

I'm not involved in light, frivolous matters. I'm not involved in fringe or side issues. I'm involved in serious issues.

Michele Bachmann

While I am reluctant to cite sexism as a political issue, sexism certainly can exist.

Michael Baumgartner

When you represent the state of Washington, we have a tradition of deciding social issues by vote. Washington State passed abortion rights before Roe v. Wade and affirmed it at the ballot box later.

Ravi Zacharias

Where destruction is the motive, unity is dangerous. For example, if I have evil intent and I galvanize that evil intent with many others, the capacity to destroy is immense. Where goodness is the motive, unity is phenomenal and actually has some good issues to it.

Ray Bradbury

The whole concept of higher education is negated unless the sole criterion used to determine if students qualify is the grades they score on standardized tests. Education is purely an issue of learning - we can no longer afford to have it polluted by damn politics. Leave pollution up to the politicians

Randy Jackson

I was having serious issues with becoming a diabetic.

Rand Paul

All issues of crime are better addressed at the state level.

You can see the so-called lobbyist issue is nationwide.

James Cook

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