Famous Quotes & Sayings

Burton Richter

Since stepping down as laboratory director in 1999, I have devoted an increasing fraction of my time to international issues. I am involved with energy, environment, and sustainability issues, particularly as they involve new energy sources free of greenhouse gases.

Alan Dershowitz

All speech should be presumed to be protected by the Constitution, and a heavy burden should be placed on those who would censor to demonstrate with relative certainty that the speech at issue, if not censored, would lead to irremediable and immediate serious harm.

Alan Dershowitz

I'm not a single-issue person, but I spend so much time on Israel because it is so unfairly condemned around the world.

Alan Dershowitz

My goal is always to keep support for Israel a bi-partisan issue and never make a national election any kind of referendum on Israel.

Al Franken

No one is more sensitive to the issue of overeating than the creator of Stuart Smalley.

Al Franken

We need to start by having a conversation about climate change. It would be irresponsible to avoid the issue just because it's uncomfortable to talk about.

Al Gore

My fellow Americans, people all over the world, we need to solve the climate crisis, it's not a political issue, it's a moral issue. We have everything we need to get started, with the possible exception of the will to act, that's a renewable resource, let's renew it.

Al Gore

There are many who would much prefer that the word 'climate' never be mentioned and that the issue be eliminated from our national conversation.

Al Gore

It should be lifted above partisanship because it's a question of survival. It's a moral issue.

Al Gore

I don't really consider this a political issue, I consider it to be a moral issue.

Ajay Devgan

Simply that we are mirroring the trends in society, at any given time smuggling was an issue in the seventies, corruption is an issue today, and we faithfully reflect those issues.

Aimee Mullins

I'm not an advocate for disability issues. Human issues are what interest me.

Aimee Mullins

I'm not an advocate for disability issues. Human issues are what interest me. You can't possibly speak for a diverse group of people. I don't know what it's like to be an arm amputee, or have even one flesh-and-bone leg, or to have cerebral palsy.

Charles Bass

There are things I want to get done, and If I can reconnect where I was before, working on the issues I'm interested in, that's exciting to me.

Brad Pitt

Democracy doesn't work unless people are well informed, and I don't know that we are. People just don't have the time. Most people's daily lives are just about surviving. Most people don't have time to really study [crucial] issues.

Bono

I will admit that we are attracted to issues that unify people rather than divide them.

Barbara Boxer

Tonight, you are hearing from the Democratic women of the Senate... We stand together on so many issues: economic prosperity, quality education for all, protecting a woman's right to choose

Artur Davis

With respect to Barack Obama, let's face it; Barack Obama is an iconic figure in the African-American community. We respect that. We understand that. African-Americans are going to vote for the first black president, especially when he happens to share the liberal politics on economic issues that many in that community hold.

Dwight Yoakam

I quit eating red meat a long time ago. I'm a vegetarian, but not by a moral issue or any kind of stand. I still eat dairy. And I quit eating sugar about the same time I quit eating red meat, but I eat fruit.

Andy Roddick

There's no doubt there are issues with clay. Our issues have issues that are issues right now. That's not a secret.

America Ferrera

It would be impossible to be a woman in Western culture and not have your own issues about your image and what you look like.

Annie Lennox

Women's issues have always been a part of my life. My goal is to bring the word 'feminism' back into the zeitgeist and reframe it.

Clay Shirky

How we put our collective talents to work is a social issue, not solely a personal one.

D. A. Carson

Sin defies God, utterly corrupts each individual, corrodes all social relationships, and issues in death.

D. H. Lawrence

Try to find your deepest issue in every confusion, and abide by that.

Cullen Hightower

There are people who can talk sensibly about a controversial issue; they're called humorists.

Conrad Black

I always keep a firewall between my own travails and my perception of public-policy issues; otherwise I would retain no credibility as a commentator.

Dan Brown

Futurists don't consider overpopulation one of the issues of the future. They consider it the issue of the future.

David Attenborough

The fundamental issue is the moral issue.

Daryl Hannah

And then of course, obviously as far as issues such as global warming, something has to be done on the corporate side, there has to be some mandate or some legislation.

Doug Ose

A safe, affordable and plentiful supply of food is a national security issue.

Donna Shalala

Sure, it is apparent that presidents are looking at polls, but they are also stepping up on issues. President Clinton stepped up on tobacco. He shaped the polls on the tobacco issue.

Donna Shalala

By putting people around me who will calm me down and slow me down and make sure I work through an issue.