Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kathleen Hanna

I'm more interested in a feminism that ends discrimination for all people. It's not just about a woman becoming the CEO of a company or something. It's connected to racism and classism and gender issues that go beyond the binary.

Josette Sheeran

Food is one issue that cannot be solved person by person. We have to stand together.

Josh Earnest

The United States played the role of encouraging both sides to come together to try to finally resolve this issue, and we were pleased to see leaders on both sides work courageously to get that done.

Josh Brolin

George W. Bush brought a lot of minorities into his administration, which was a positive thing, and they had some issues that they wanted to press, but 9/11 really gave them direction. It gave them a purpose.

Jim Jeffords

Looking ahead, I can see more and more instances where I will disagree with the president on very fundamental issues. The largest, for me, is education.

Jeremy Sisto

I was always worried with comedy - what if I came to work and I wasn't in a funny mood? That hasn't been an issue.

Technical issues such as the ownership structure and tax status will have to be addressed. But you don't make such a statement unless negotiations are well advanced.

Tom Nelson

Sometimes parents have issues that can be challenging for the umpire, I'll just leave it at that.

Howard Dean

Running away from issues is how you lose elections,

Paul Ryan

We will not duck the tough issues, we will lead.

Paul Goodman

The issue is not whether people are 'good enough' for a particular type of society; rather it is a matter of developing the kind of social institutions that are most conducive to expanding the potentialities we have for intelligence, grace, sociability and freedom.

Justin Amash

Everyone knows about the substantive issues of concern, like federal health care, but very little is said about the process, the lack of accountability.

Judd Gregg

Derivatives are a huge, complex issue.

Lisi Harrison

Those fruity drinks better have a lot of caffeine in them or I'll never make it through World Issues.

Leonardo DiCaprio

Raising awareness on the most pressing environmental issues of our time is more important than ever.

Paul R. Ehrlich

It turns out the population issue is an easier thing to deal with than the consumption issue. Some obvious extremes in consumption we can deal with. The standard cure for a stuttering economy is to go out and buy an SUV and three more refrigerators. That's obviously not the way to go.

Lily Cole

I've always cared about issues, always thought through problems. I don't know how much that comes from my personality or my mum.

Leon Panetta

Throughout the 40 years I've been in Washington, I've always worked hard, particularly with regards to the budget issues.

Learned Hand

It is often hard to secure unanimity about the borders of legislative power, but that is much easier than to decide how far a particular adjustment diverges from what the judges deem tolerable. On such issues experience has over and over again shown the difficulty of securing unanimity. This is disastrous because disunity cancels the impact of monolithic solidarity on which the authority of a bench of judges so largely depends.

Mitch McConnell

I'm really proud of this Supreme Court and the way they've been dealing with the issue of First Amendment political speech.

Mitch McConnell

Where we are now is we have resolved the revenue issue and the question is what are we going to do about spending. I wish the president would lead us in this discussion rather than putting himself in a position of having to be dragged kicking and screaming to the table to discuss the single biggest issue confronting our future.

Mitchell Hurwitz

Violence has not really been an issue. Even in my wildest hopes, I wasn't trying to get violence in.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

We know of no more crucial civil rights issue facing Congress today than the need to increase the federal minimum wage and extend its coverage.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

The great issue of life is to harness the drum major instinct.

Mark Krikorian

The interesting point is that the polarization is not so much among the public, although there's some of that. The polarization on the immigration issue is really between the elites and the public. In other words, this is not so much a right-left issue, which it is partly.

Mark Batterson

Learning isn't a luxury; it's a stewardship issue

Miguel de Unamuno

Science is a cemetery of dead ideas, even though life may issue from them.

Nicholas D. Kristof

There are other issues I have felt more emotionally connected to, like China, where I lived and worked for some time. I was living there when Tiananmen Square erupted

Nicholas D. Kristof

The equivalent of five jumbo jets' worth of women die in labor each day, but the issue is almost never covered.

Mo Ibrahim

The issue with international institutions is that there is a crisis of legitimacy. Trust in these institutions is a serious problem.

R. D. Laing

To mystify, in the active sense, is to befuddle, cloud, obscure, mask whatever is going on, whether this be experience, action, or process, or whatever is "the issue." It induces confusion in the sense that there is failure to see what is "really" being experienced, or being done, or going on, and failure to distinguish or discriminate the actual issues. This entails the substitution of false for true constructions of what is being experienced, being done (praxis), or going on (process), and the substitution of false issues for the actual issues.

Nelson Mandela

AIDS is no longer just a disease, it is a human rights issue.

Rachel Maddow

People who disagree on important issues don't agree on the facts.