Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Shields

You have to understand that Republicans are on lockstep on one issue. They will not raise taxes. Democrats are in lockstep on another issue, pro-choice in all cases on abortion.

Marilyn vos Savant

Know how your representatives stand on major national or state issues.

Mats Sundin

I've been around racing a fairly long time, but when it comes to the important issues, I'm happy to let others make the big decisions.

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.

Philip Sidney

My thoughts, imprisoned in my secret woes, with flamy breaths do issue oft in sound.

Peter Drucker

Increasingly, politics is not about "who gets what, when, how" but about values, each of them considered to be absolute. Politics is about "the right to life." It is about the environment. It is about gaining equality for groups alleged to be oppressed. None of these issues is economic. All are fundamentally moral.

Peter Akinola

I didn’t create poverty. This church didn’t create poverty. Poverty is not an issue, human suffering is not an issue at all, they were there before the creation of mankind.

Penelope Leach

Your toddler will be "good" if he feels like doing what you happen to want him to do and does not happen to feel like doing anything you would dislike. With a little cleverness you can organize life as a whole, and issues in particular, so that you both want the same thing most of the time.

Mariah Carey

I'm very hard on myself and I have too many issues.

Max Mosley

The nature of search engines is that they can make a major issue out of something small that no person would otherwise be able to find.

Max Baucus

It is pretty hard to find the right result to a controversial issue.

Merrill Markoe

A wacky, trendy outfit on a guy over 40 indicates he's got big issues.

Mason Cooley

Most people see no reason to stop arguing just because an issue has been decided.

Mason Cooley

Cynicism formulates issues clearly, but only to dismiss them.

Mason Cooley

Respectability is joining chastity in the museum of dead issues.

Michael Franti

It shouldn't be a Republican or Democratic issue whether we take care of the environment. That should be a human issue.

Melody Beattie

Much of the time, the things we feel guilty about are not our issues. Another person behaves inappropriately or in some way violates our boundaries. We challenge the behavior, and the person gets angry and defensive. Then we feel guilty.

Ted Nugent

There are multi-scatterings of various and associated issues and concerns, but it all boils down to accountable people versus those unwilling to be accountable.

Ted Cruz

I'm a big believer that good policy is good politics. And so, when it comes to making decisions on policy issues, what I endeavor to do is simply speak the truth.

Theodore Roosevelt

With a great moral issue involved, neutrality does not serve righteousness; for to be neutral between right and wrong is to serve wrong.

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.