Famous Quotes & Sayings

Janet Reno

I wanted to do everything I could to be a team player in the Cabinet, and I think on so many different issues we were able to do that.

Ernst Mayr

To take an unequivocal stand, it seems to me, is of greater heuristic value and far more likely to stimulate constructive criticism than to evade the issue.

Jean-Marie Le Pen

The government would have preferred not to take a stand, but the constant presence of the Israeli-Arab conflict on our television screens made it an issue that could no longer be avoided.

Christian Smith

Adults have their own issues and their own problems, which are understandable, and some adults are working through their own adolescent issues.-

Chris Hughes

The more connected that individual is to an issue they care about, the higher probability there is they will stay involved over a longer period of time.

Chris Hayes

There`s that issue of if you attack someone you don`t know where the votes are going to go.

Faith Evans

My business issues are just that - business - and I deal with them like they are business.

George W. Bush

[M]y administration is committed to a leadership role on the issue of climate change.

In my case, the lead and water issue made me support this even more.

Igor Ivanov

I know there are a lot of people looking for conflict. There are a lot of issues on which we don't agree, but that is not unnatural,

Nathaniel Branden

If my aim is to prove I am 'enough,' the project goes on to infinity-because the battle was already lost on the day I conceded the issue was debatable.

Julie Christie

Living in America, I became aware of many issues and went through a period of politicization

Julie Andrews

You know, making an animated movie is such a lonesome thing. You mostly don't see your fellow actors or anything. You go into your booth, you record all your dialogue. It's very much an issue of trust. You leave it all up to the director.

John Adams

Our whole system of banks is a violation of every honest principle of banks. There is no honest bank but a bank of deposit. A bank that issues paper at interest is a pickpocket or a robber. But the delusion will have its course. ... An aristocracy is growing out of them that will be as fatal as the feudal barons if unchecked in time.

Stuart Rose

We live in a world where there are a hell of a lot of new inputs that need to be factored in to your business. It used to be just about your employees and your customers. Now there are all the issues about global warming, about sustainability, about ethics and now about gender and the distribution of wealth.

Stockwell Day

In the United States, commentators recognize that, generally speaking, most people who hold liberal positions over a range of issues will likely vote Democratic, while most people, again generally speaking, who hold conservative positions will vote Republican.

Stevie Wonder

People love to hear music on their personal devices, but the issue really becomes, if you're able to download music, you should know this download and the quality of it is going to be of the highest, and that it has a value to it and on it.

Vic Toews

The issue won't be then a policy matter that needs to be worked out.

The issue with Bode is to keep him motivated to be on the top. Is he? That's the question. If he is, he's shown he can be on the top.

The issue was, was he going to be decisive? What was he going to do?

The issue was, did it make sense to operate these if the owner couldn't get the tax credits?

The issue to me has always been a racial issue.

The issues were in Fredericksburg. They had more trouble maneuvering than they expected. It took a lot longer to get through the city.

The king has not touched the issues raised by the seven party alliance.

Peter Singer

History is not going to look kindly on us if we just keep our head in the sand on armed autonomous robotics issue because it sounds too science fiction.

Terence McKenna

For me it's an issue of are we afraid of ourselves? And we inherit a huge bunch of idealogical baggage, not only Christianity, but Freudianism, and Marxism . . . We inherit all kinds of idealogical baggage designed to make us fear ourselves.

Terence McKenna

Psychedelics can carry you farther and faster than most people care to go. Once you get to psychedelics, it's no longer a matter of seeking the answer, you have found the answer. Now the issue changes dramatically, you must face the answer.

Richard Rohr

Much of the work of midlife is to tell the difference between those who are dealing with their issues through you and those who are really dealing with you.

Richard Rohr

If our love of God does not directly influence, and even change, how we engage in the issues of our time on this earth, I wonder what good religion is.

Richard Carmona

The overarching issue, really, is our surgeon general should be able to communicate transparently and honestly with the American public on all issues.

Frank Chodorov

Posterity does not pay off anything of the national debt. Each administration adds to the debt left to it, and the promise of liquidation implied in every bond issue is a false promise.

Paulo Coelho

The issue is not answering questions, but leaving discussions open. Not in the sense that probably one day you are going to have an answer or you are not going to have an answer. Just live your life, do what you have to do, what you are enthusiastic about doing.

Mischa Barton

The only way to be happy and be a more enjoyable person to be around is to embrace what you've got. Everyone has issues about their body, but I feel confident now. I'm healthy and happy.