Issues Quotes

It's an issue that Democrats and Republicans seem to come together on, the over-influence of money in politics and in power.

What I love about the Internet and what I try to do on the issues is insist upon the ability to have bad taste if one wants.

The Tea Party we were told is only about economics; not true. It was always about economics and social issues. They just hid the social issues and now we just see who they really are.

I think right now the focus of people involved in food issues have to be legislative resolution at the county, city, state, and national level. I just don't think we can run away from it anymore.

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

I'm not a philanthropist. While I care about the poor, the issue of local or global poverty doesn't keep me up at night.

I'll never run for office. But I intend, either on the fiscal commission or on issues like immigration, to hopefully have my voice be heard.

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.

My success has been based on the issues. It's easy to fight for mental health or needle exchange or small businesses or whatever, because the machine can't interfere.

It's true that it's within the realm of cultural politics that young people tend to work through political issues, which I think is good, although it's not going to solve the problems

There's a host of difficult issues here, and that's why when you mentioned at the top of the show that the committees were looking at this, that's where I think we should be going.

Never be seduced into believing it isn't the role of business to tackle the big issues, because it absolutely is.

I think progress is a sort of comfortable disease, and we've got a media that says entertainment and celebrity, which isn't bad in itself but it stops the real issues coming forward.

Everybody has problems. Everyone has issues.

As kids do, they're smart, and even if parents try to keep things away from them, conflict and issues and whatnot, kids pick up on what's happening.

The issue is privacy. Why is the decision by a woman to sleep with a man she has just met in a bar a private one, and the decision to sleep with the same man for $100 subject to criminal penalties?

Models today, she explained, don't understand that to be successful you have to have a personality, intelligence, and issues that you support, and Gisele embodies these qualities.

I am blessed to live and work in [France,] a country where women filmmakers are by and large not unfairly treated. So I wouldn't have much to contribute regarding issues faced as a female director.

the issue of war or peace is an issue that concerns not only experts on Foreign Affairs but every citizen of the United States.

I'd rather support the issues I truly believe in than give my vote to parties that court votes at the time of the election. I like to think that my vote strengthens the green foundation stone.

My issue with the state of women became incredibly stimulated when I was visiting developing countries and it became obvious that women bore the brunt of so many things in society.

Human consciousness is now being drawn inexorably toward the same issues, the gaze of collective attention focused like never before.

Yet civil rights issues are very much on the front burner in South Carolina between the Black Lives Matter movement and police shootings.

Newt Gingrich and his fellow conservative Republicans talked a good game but, despite the lip service they offered about poverty and race and other social issues, they didn't really mean it.

I want to continue to speak out on issues that matter to me. I want to have even more of a voice.

It's really unfortunate that instead of focusing on the really important issues in our world, Donald Trump chooses to make personal attacks on people.

I feel its important to talk about the complex issues affecting us.

Working on the themes I was interested in, through the context of a particular family, was a very economical way of dealing with a lot of the issues I was concerned with.

I thing for female filmmakers a big issue is making their second and third films. You see the statistics, and the dropoff on the second and third [films] , are dire.

I want people to feel inspired to reach out and be inclusive and supportive of others in their community who might be facing any kind of challenge, whether it is a health issue or a disability.

I think that literary forms are losing their capacity to connect people to issues, to the experiences that feel most meaningful to them.

In order to fight any issue, it is necessary to fight for something, not merely against something.

There are two side to every issue.

A bad author can take the most moral issue and make you want to just never, ever think about that moral issue.

We've always been divided by some of these big political issues. It's fine. As long as we treat each other with respect and remember that ultimately, we're all Americans, we'll be fine.

I do think that you're starting to see young people pay attention to some longterm issues that they feel Washington has neglected.

People are whupped. I'm whupped. My wife is whupped. Unless it's your job to be curious, who really has the time to sit and ask questions and explore issues?

What is portrayed as high-minded positions on issues sometimes is just designed to carve out some of their commercial interests.

I feel good when I'm engaged in what I think are the core issues of the society, and those core issues to me are what's happening to poor folks in this society.

The Middle East is obviously an issue that has plagued the region for centuries.

What is true, though, is now we've got a bunch of videos that whatever side of the issue you're on, raises the temperature on these issues and makes people really focused .

I would not advise people who feel strongly or are concerned about some of the issues that have been raised during the course of the [president electing] campaign.

One of the things I've learned about being president is that we'll work on issues for long periods of time, sometimes in obscurity.

I think at a certain age I became conscious of the power of words. And it was fairly late. I was kind of a goofball - but I was always subconsciously thinking about issues.

I think that dealing with guns is one way to handle the violent-crime issues that we have in this country.

One of the things I advised Donald Trump to do was to make sure that, before he commits to certain courses of action, he has really dug in and thought through how various issues play themselves out.

To try to blackmail a president into giving them some concessions on issues that have nothing to do with the budget.

Health care has become a proxy for a broader set of issues about how much government should be involved in our economy, particularly coming off a huge economic crisis.

I'm not going to Wall Street [after the presidency]. The amount of time that I'll be investing in issues is going to be high. But it'll be necessarily in a different capacity.

A lot of the issues that I see, it is not an either-or situation.