Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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

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.

Mischa Barton

The only way to be happy and be a more enjoyable person to be around is to embrace what you've got. Everyone has issues about their body, but I feel confident now. I'm healthy and happy.

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.

Paulo Coelho

In Eleven Minutes, I started with the question of why sexuality is considered one of the major issues in life.

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.