Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jehane Noujaim

I used to do volunteer work in poor areas of Cairo, and people would gather their money together to get a satellite dish. You'd see them huddling around and for the first time seeing issues being debated on TV that had never been talked about before. And that is the biggest promoter of democracy you could possibly have.

Jello Biafra

I have very mixed feelings about Jesse Jackson. He's very good about labor, and human and civil rights issues, but not so good on cultural issues.

Jeb Bush

I'm not sure we need half a billion dollars for women's health issues.

Geoffrey Canada

The rates of soda consumption in our poorest communities cannot be explained by individual consumer preferences alone, but rather are linked to broader issues of access and affordability of healthy foods in low-income neighborhoods, and to the marketing efforts of soda companies themselves.

Gabe Newell

One thing that we have learned is that piracy is not a pricing issue. It’s a service issue,

Fred Allen

It was once rumored that fledgling executives walked around their offices backwards so they wouldn't have to face an issue.

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.

George W. Bush

I don't feel like I've got all that much too important to say on the kind of big national issues.

George W. Bush

On the issue of evolution, the verdict is still out on how God created the Earth.

George Stigler

The Chicago Economics Department was in intellectual ferment, although the central issues of the 1930s were very different from those in later times. I had never before encountered minds of that quality at close quarters and they influenced me strongly.

George Soros

Sometimes time actually works against you if you refuse to face the relevant issues and explain to the public what is at stake.

George Orwell

The enemies of intellectual liberty always try to present their case as a plea for discipline versus individualism. The issue truth-versus-untruth is as far as possible kept in the background.

Frank Gehry

Green issues have been used as a marketing tool. Sometimes these green claims are completely meaningless.

Ferdinand de Saussure

In general, the philological movement opened up countless sources relevant to linguistic issues, treating them in quite a different spirit from traditional grammar; for instance, the study of inscriptions and their language. But not yet in the spirit of linguistics.

Faye Wattleton

Reproductive freedom is critical to a whole range of issues. If we can't take charge of this most personal aspect of our lives, we can't take care of anything. It should not be seen as a privilege or as a benefit, but a fundamental human right.

Fatos Nano

Today in the era of globalization there is no such issue as borders between states of the same nation.

Eve Ensler

We have not yet made violence against women abnormal, extraordinary, unacceptable. We have not yet come to see it as a pathological issue.

Francis Parkman

The most momentous and far-reaching question ever brought to issue on this continent was: Shall France remain here, or shall she not?

Jennifer Chiaverini

For as long as I can remember, I've always been interested in issues of social justice, political freedom, and civil rights.

Jeff Goodell

Obama's record on climate issues is not all bad.

Jhumpa Lahiri

Relationships do not preclude issues of morality.

Grimes

I'm sad that it's uncool or offensive to talk about environmental or human rights issues.

Harri Holkeri

If there is something I would like to do as President of the General Assembly, it is to place more emphasis on the issue of education, which enables a better life for women.

Harriet Lerner

Underground issues from one relationship or context invariably fuel our fires in another.

Ian Somerhalder

Species conversation is beyond a doubt an issue that truly matters to the American public.

Ian Bremmer

Climate is a global issue. Coal is still the energy that is being used more than anything else to make electricity. The United States is using less as we're turning more to gas. But, around the world, that's what they're using.

Ian Bremmer

Political scientists don't work at banks which is a problem. As political issues become more important for the markets, analysts at banks are asked all sorts of questions they don't have the ability to answer. And if you're getting paid to answer questions as analysts at banks are you never want to be in the position of saying you don't know.

Howard Gordon

I feel like a centrist, an issue-specific person. I'm pretty conservative fiscally and pretty liberal on social issues.

Hannah Arendt

Manipulations of opinion, insofar as they are inspired by well-defined interests, have limited goals; their effect, however, if they happen to touch upon an issue of authentic concern, is no longer subject to their control and may easily produce consequences they never foresaw or intended.