Issues Quotes

Most people see no reason to stop arguing just because an issue has been decided.

I'm going to save my public voice largely for the issues where I have some depth.

If you are willing to take the punishment, you're halfway through the battle. That the issues may be trivial, the battle ugly, is another point.

I think there's so many things happening, whether it's gender inequality or immigration, there's just so many issues happening around the world where not doing anything makes you guilty.

The great benefit of computer sequencers is that they remove the issue of skill, and replace it with the issue of judgement

In civilizational issues you don't look at the tiny details as the debate. You have to look at the big picture!

I do a number of things working on human rights issues, prison recidivism rates, and then I also push and have worked a lot on the social issues of rebuilding the family.

The issue of economics is not something I've understood as well as I should. I've got Greenspan's book.

The most important 'speed' issue is often not technical but cultural. It's convincing everyone that the company's survival depends on everyone moving as fast as possible.

One of my realizations in such an earthy atmosphere was that many of the burning theological issues in the church were neither burning nor theological.

I think that civil rights issues take a lot of time to develop.

I think caring more about flags than people is an issue. I'd like to see that change.

To look at the issue of life and abortion, actually we're moving in that direction where most Americans oppose most abortions.

When we face a choice between adding features and resolving security issues, we need to choose security.

Our media, which is very open and report on really everything, tend to exaggerate the crime issue...This is why one gets the impression that we have much more crime than other countries.

Brokenness is the operative issue of our time - broken souls, broken hearts, broken places.

Everybody goes through obstacles and problems and issues and turn their backs on people that we are fond of and love just because we hurt; and everybody goes through that.

I'm six foot four and a half and I have a temper. It's reserved for very important issues. If someone is asking me to make an artistic concession, then I'll become a madman.

The mental act of sensation which issues in reflex movement is so simple as to defy analysis.

Handguns are a public health issue.

I want to commend the [Federalist] Society for bringing together the best minds from right, left, and center to debate the most pressing legal issues of the day.

Watergate is not the sort of issue that changes the vote. I don't know anyone who has changed their vote because of it.

Communities and neighborhoods are affected. Idling trains, traffic backups, grade crossing accidents and other safety issues all affect the quality of life in our neighborhoods.

The real issue behind these people who are gun grabbers, the truth is - based on fact - the reason why is, they want control. They want control of the people. That's what socialism is and communism.

Freight mobility and movement, while not a sexy policy issue, is a highly important one. Capacity constraints and congestion on our nation's freight rail system create many problems.

Identify what all the issues are & when you find them don't hide from them.

Nobody but radicals have ever accomplished anything in a great crisis. Conservatives have their place in the piping times of peace; but in emergencies only rugged issue men amount to much.

We’ve always been involved with issues that deal with the fundamental human rights of people, whether that means the right to political freedom or the right to breathe air that’s clean.

Obviously any group that has to have funding also needs to get attention to their issues.

Liberals have one solution for every economic issue; eat the seed corn.

Producers are so much better-educated in issues related to terrorism.

Gayness is a non-issue.

I want to do something challenging and I want to take risks, but above all, I want people to be entertained...Because the only way of talking about some issues sometimes is through humor.

The issue I have always felt most strongly about is hunger in America, in particular the children.

Because the financial power of the fossil-fuel industry is so great it can, and has, delayed any real action of the climate issues almost everywhere.

Musicians always come off sounding a little bit pretentious, and a little bit... I don't know, hypocritical, from what they do, talking about strong issues.

But my lord, when we addressed this issue a few years ago, didn't you argue the other side?" He said, "That's true, but when I get more evidence I sometimes change my mind. What do you do?

I am not being overly harsh. Overtly hostile, yes, but exactly the right amount of harsh.

It also has potential to cause problems to individuals who had nothing to do with the terrorism issue.

We've got to find ways of confronting the issues that divide - and at the heart of cultural issues, you often find religions.

Frankly, Barack Obama is a standard issue leftist that you would expect of somebody with his particular experience, and he doesn't exactly hide it.

Respectability is joining chastity in the museum of dead issues.

The funniest thing is that all the things every director goes through, I thought I could shortcut, but there was no getting around those issues.

Profundity often goes past the issue to some deep but useless truth.

I was a member of the Armed Services Committee for 18 years. I spent a big chunk of my life studying national security issues and our role in the world.

The first thing that you need to deal with is the issue of equity and poverty.

Michael Tomlinson's music truly explores the issues of the heart.

All beneficent and creative power gathers itself together in silence, ere it issues out in might.

The idea that Parliament somehow wasn't going to be able to discuss, debate, question issues around (Brexit) was frankly completely wrong.

I believe that great weirdness stalks the universe. That's not the issue with me, but it is not tacky. It is not tacky.