Famous Quotes & Sayings

John F. Kennedy

There are many people in the world who really don't understand-or say they don't-what is the great issue between the free world and the Communist world. Let them come to Berlin!

Jonathan Haidt

Economic issues are just as much moral issues as social issues.

Jonathan Dimbleby

Not every programme dealing with issues of global significance has to be fronted by last weeks winner of Have I Got News For You-but I suppose you might be wrong.

Jon Tester

Healthcare is very much a high priority for me. Healthcare is also a huge issue for business, both big and small.

Julie Christie

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

Laura Bush

In almost every single way, George and I share the same values. And if we differ on some issues, it's very, very minor.

Thom Yorke

We're at a time when we are being presented with undeniable changes in the global climate and fundamental issues that affect every single one of us, and it's the time we're listening to the most hokey shite on the radio and watching vacuous bullshit celebrities being vacuous bullshit celebrities and desperately trying to forget about everything. Which is fine, you know, but personally speaking, I can't do that.

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.

Simone de Beauvoir

If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male's arrogance made it "a discussion

Simon Mainwaring

We now see numerous examples of brands working together to address issues such as environmental degradations, climate control, pollution, poverty and disease.

Ross Gelbspan

It's very important to understand that climate change is not just another issue in this complicated world of proliferating issues. Climate change is THE issue which, unchecked, will swamp all other issues.

Ross Kemp

Riots born out of political issues aren't the same as those born out of personal greed.

Roger von Oech

Most burning issues generate far more heat than light.

Russ Feingold

If a senator or congressman notices 25 phone calls, on any issue, on any given day, it is noted.

Russ Feingold

Money in politics is a huge issue.

Rush Limbaugh

This immigration business has been going on in the UK much in advance of the European Union making an issue of it.

Rush Limbaugh

Global warming is a political issue. It is as much a political issue to the left as abortion is. It's as big a political issue as health care is.

Ray Kurzweil

The key issue as to whether or not a non-biological entity deserves rights really comes down to whether or not it's conscious.... Does it have feelings?

How many times will this Congress waste time on an issue that a majority of Americans do not want?

Rashida Jones

I have no issues with my identity.

Robin G. Collingwood

Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue.

Robert Winston

The trouble with climate change is it's an extraordinarily diverse and complex issue, but for example if the BBC would let me make some of the programmes I'd like to make on climate change, I bet you there would be a change of emphasis.

Robert Redford

If we want energy security, then we have to reduce our appetite for fossil fuels. There's no other way. Other issues may crowd the headlines, but this is our fundamental challenge. Big challenges require bold action and leadership. To get the United States off fossil fuels in this uneasy national climate of terrorism and conflict in the Persian Gulf, we must treat the issue with the urgence and persistance it deserves. The measure of our success will be the condition on which we leave the world for the next generation.

Hence a ship is said to be tight, when her planks are so compact and solid as to prevent the entrance of the water in which she is immersed: and a cask is called tight, when the staves are so close that none of the liquid contained therein can issue through or between them.

Yevgeny Zamyatin

Sentences of the court on moral issues are always passed in absentia.

William Kristol

Since Ronald Reagan's election in 1980, conservatives of various sorts, and conservatisms of various stripes, have generally been in the ascendancy. And a good thing, too! Conservatives have been right more often than not - and more often than liberals - about most of the important issues of the day.

Woody Allen

It seems to me that making escapist films might be a better service to people than making intellectual ones and making films that deal with issues. It might be better to just make escapist comedies that don't touch on any issues. The people just get a cool lemonade, and then they go out refreshed, they enjoy themselves, they forget how awful things are and it helps them - it strengthens them to get through the day.

William Weld

There are several such issues where I have departed radically from the Republican orthodoxy.

Samuel Smiles

Good sense, disciplined by experience and inspired by goodness, issues in practical wisdom.

Whoopi Goldberg

We're dealing with old issues that aren't ours. We carry them and we pass them on to those who come after us. I am hoping to crack some of those.

Xi Jinping

Of course, we also are soberly aware that historical problems remain in cross-strait relations, and that there will be issues in the future that will require time, patience and joint efforts to resolve.

Xi Jinping

The issue [Israeli-Palestinian conflict], already lasting more than half a century, has brought deep suffering to the Palestinian people and remains an important reason of extended turbulence in the Middle East region.

Wiz Khalifa

Music really helps me stay centered. I can listen to music and forget about any issue that I have.