Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Patricia Ireland

I have a very personal interest. I am a Miami-Dade voter. One of the issues is that my vote and so many other votes of women and African Americans in Florida are being discounted or discarded. I want my vote to count.

Phil Klay

Fiction offered me tools that allowed me to approach a wider variety of issues than the events of my own life would.

Martin Rees

The politics is far harder than the science. And even if we accept the science we have a big issue of how to deal with it.

Martin Rees

In the case of climate change, the threat is long-term and diffuse and requires broad international action for the benefit of people decades in the future. And in politics, the urgent always trumps the important, and that is what makes it a very difficult and challenging issue.

John Travolta

In my own life if I knew I was going to pass away I'd love to sit down and resolve every issue so I could go peacefully.

John Sununu

People in New Hampshire know that I'll talk thoughtfully, substantively about any issue.

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.

Nigel Farage

The opening of the doors to 29 million Romanians and Bulgarians is going to become a huge issue.

Myrtle Reed

Making an issue of a little thing is one of the surest ways to spoil happiness.

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.

The key issue will be cost, and the carrier to watch is United.

The key issues to watch from here would be the negotiations and litigations with other DRAM suppliers,

The key issue for me was the process or the lack thereof.

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.