Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Malcolm Wallop

We're taking on Social Security as a property rights issue. We figure that every single American has an absolute property right interest in the fruits of his or her own labor. What I work for should be my property.

Malcolm Turnbull

The question of whether or to what extent human activities are causing global warming is not a matter of ideology, let alone of belief. The issue is simply one of risk management.

Malcolm Turnbull

I try to talk about policy issues intelligently, I try very hard to avoid thought bubbles. I make sure my speeches are well researched and footnoted. I make sure I am not talking through my hat.

Mahatma Gandhi

Violence is bound sooner or later to exhaust itself but peace cannot issue out of such exhaustion.

John C. Maxwell

As you interact with others, remember this: anytime a person's response is larger than the issue at hand, the response is almost always about something else.

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.

These individuals are thinking about the same issues but their perspectives and priorities often differ.

This is all untested territory. Whatever happens, it's making the issues much more stark and real.

Eric Holder

Though race-related issues continue to occupy a significant portion of our political discussion, and though there remain many unresolved racial issues in this nation, we, average Americans, simply do not talk enough with each other about things racial.

Loni Anderson

When women smoke, it is hard for them to quit because they are so worried about their weight; it's a vanity issue and a mindset.

John Brown

The act of focusing our mightiest intellectual resources on the elusive goal of goto-less programs has helped us get our minds off all those really tough and possibly unresolvable problems and issues with which today's professional programmer would otherwise have to grapple

John Bolton

I'm obviously aware that people are quite focused on the economy rather than foreign policy issues, but that is something that should and can be altered as people see the nature of the threats around the world that we face.

John Boehner

It's easy to kick somebody when they're down. George W. Bush has dealt with more difficult issues than any president since Franklin Roosevelt. And I've told my colleagues it's time that we go stand up for the president.

John Boehner

The American people have issues. They've got concerns. We need solutions, solutions to the issues that the American people care about that are built on our principles.

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

Gloria Steinem

The road itself is informative, because it forces you to respond spontaneously and to encounter the unexpected. It forces you to reassess what you felt about people or issues or places, and it forces you to live in the present.

J. K. Rowling

When I was in my teens I had issues with OCD.

H. P. Lovecraft

Religion as a vital issue is dead except on paper, and whatever beauty-baiting the future may witness will be the work of greed and trade, and not of honest cosmos-facing.

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.

Michele Bachmann

While I am reluctant to cite sexism as a political issue, sexism certainly can exist.

Michael Baumgartner

When you represent the state of Washington, we have a tradition of deciding social issues by vote. Washington State passed abortion rights before Roe v. Wade and affirmed it at the ballot box later.

Ravi Zacharias

Where destruction is the motive, unity is dangerous. For example, if I have evil intent and I galvanize that evil intent with many others, the capacity to destroy is immense. Where goodness is the motive, unity is phenomenal and actually has some good issues to it.

Ray Bradbury

The whole concept of higher education is negated unless the sole criterion used to determine if students qualify is the grades they score on standardized tests. Education is purely an issue of learning - we can no longer afford to have it polluted by damn politics. Leave pollution up to the politicians

Randy Jackson

I was having serious issues with becoming a diabetic.