Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dick Gephardt

I hope we can get back to what I call the kitchen table. Everyday issues that people are really worried about and focused on.

David O. McKay

Today, as never before, the issue is clearly defined-liberty and freedom of choice, or oppression and subjugation for the individual and for nations.

Condoleezza Rice

It is high time that the international community tell Saddam Hussein and his regime that this is not an issue of negotiation with the U.N. about obligations that they undertook in 1991.

Cofer Black

The only way to address terrorism is to deal with the issues that create terrorism, to resolve them where possible, and where that's not possible to ensure that there is an alternative to violence.

Colin Greenwood

People need to focus on bigger issues instead of whether George Bush is an idiot or not.

Dan Fogelberg

It's a very important issue to me, trying to wake people up to the fact that we'd better take better care of our planet.

Daniel Okrent

It's a very complicated issue about when is a fact not a fact in the context of opinions.

Daniel Patrick Moynihan

The issue of race could benefit from a period of benign neglect.

David Platt

We need to know what the Bible says about abortion and marriage, poverty and slavery, and we need to see how all of these issues fundamentally relate to the gospel.

Daniel Suarez

At issue is not whether the global economy will pass away. It is passing away. Rising populations and debt combined with depletion of freshwater sources and fossil fuel make the status quo untenable. The only question is whether civil society will survive the transition.

Dana Spiotta

The issue isn't, Am I good enough? No. The issue is, Do I not have any other choice? Will and desire don't matter. Ability doesn't matter. Need is the only thing that matters.

Dalia Mogahed

We don't want to bury our heads in the sand about serious issues.

David Limbaugh

The political left, which holds itself as progressive, rational and fact-based, is becoming an enemy of academic inquiry, and a practitioner of thought control on a wide variety of issues. Increasingly, from the left's perspective, there is just one acceptable viewpoint.

David Gemmell

The purpose of debates is to explore issues, not end them.

David E. Kelley

We also have issue oriented storylines which are an examination of an issue, be it ethical or social.

Debbie Harry

But, you know, the issues of humanity and what is fair treatment and good treatment of a fellow human being should not really be based on a personal sense of right and wrong or judgment.

Amartya Sen

It seems to me to be kind of inescapable that one has to be interested in the issue of gender and gender equality. I don’t really expect any credit for going in that direction. It’s the only natural direction to go in. Why is it that some people don’t see that as so patently obvious as it should be?

Amartya Sen

Even though I’m pro-globalization, I have to say thank God for the anti-globalization movement. They’re putting important issues on the agenda.

Amartya Sen

Globalization is a complex issue, partly because economic globalization is only one part of it. Globalization is greater global closeness, and that is cultural, social, political, as well as economic.

Amartya Sen

You have to be interested in inequality. The issue of inequality and that of poverty are not separable.

Cindy Gallop

My personal cause and platform, if you like, is women's rights and women's issues.

Cindy Margolis

I felt proud of myself. I worked out really hard, and the reason I wanted to do it the most is because I am posing for a purpose: a portion of the proceeds from each issue sold is going to go to my charity.

Cindy Sheehan

I never go anywhere and encourage people to get married to someone of the same gender or to have abortions - the issue never comes up.

Chuck Todd

Democrats will say the money they give to Planned Parenthood does not go to abortions. That the money they give to Planned Parenthood only goes to other women's health issues, including mammograms and things like that.

Alfie Kohn

If rewards do not work, what does? I recommend that employers pay workers well and fairly and then do everything possible to help them forget about money. A preoccupation with money distracts everyone - employers and employees - from the issues that really matter.

Alexis Herman

To me, it is a process, a process that starts with raising awareness, engaging international partners on this issue, and being committed to a different course of action.

Angela Merkel

Partners like the United States and Germany must always discuss all issues, including these questions. I welcome the fact that a discussion over legitimate methods of questioning and interrogation is taking place in both Germany and the United States.

Andrew Jackson

If congress has the right under the Constitution to issue paper money, it was given them to use themselves, not to be delegated to individuals or corporations.

Amit Bhatia

If we don't have an egalitarian, equitable, and peaceful society, being very wealthy isn't worth much. If I can make a little bit of a dent in addressing this issue, I'll have done my service.

Andy Stern

I would say the issue for the labor movement in the United States is not structural... there is no correlation between the success of workers and how the labor movement is structured.

Mike Quigley

Just the circumstances of being in D.C., people give you books, and there are issues you want to learn more about, so you are tearing into as many as you can.

Zbigniew Brzezinski

I think it is a powerful statement. It raises fundamental issues of morality, trust.

Ted Cruz

I think issues and substance, policy and vision and record should be the meat of politics.