Issue Quotes - page 3

[Same-sex marriage] is probably the biggest issue that will impact our state and our nation in the last, at least, thirty years. I am not understating that. (Michele Bachmann)
Composition is a side issue. Its role in my selection of photographs is a negative one at best. By which I mean that the fascination of a photograph is not in its eccentric composition but in what it has to say: its information content. And, on the other hand, composition always also has its own fortuitous rightness. View quote
Gerhard Richter
[Apple and RIM] are probably restricted, in some sense, to a certain maximum. ... If you want to reach more people than that, you sort-of have to separate the hardware and the software issue. View quote
Steve Ballmer
The fundamental issue is the moral issue. View quote
David Attenborough
Science is a cemetery of dead ideas, even though life may issue from them. View quote
Miguel de Unamuno
I believe it is the best method to get the buy-in for the road we have to travel. I believe it is a problem-solving process about how we collectively come forward with a strategy to deal with the issue. View quote
Brian Cowen
Hopefully that will be seen as a response, a leadership responding to an issue and therefore one's authority, while it's not as high if you didn't have the problem, it does mean that people say 'well he used his authority to come up with a solution in double-quick time that met with broader public acceptance. View quote
Brian Cowen
Without calling the overall national issue a bubble, it's pretty clear that it's an unsustainable underlying pattern. View quote
Alan Greenspan
The basic confrontation which seemed to be colonialism versus anti-colonialism, indeed capitalism versus socialism, is already losing its importance. What matters today, the issue which blocks the horizon, is the need for a redistribution of wealth. Humanity will have to address this question, no matter how devastating the consequences may be. View quote
Frantz Fanon
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. View quote
Al Gore
[M]y administration is committed to a leadership role on the issue of climate change. (George W. Bush)
To those who say - My friends, to those who say that we are rushing this issue of civil rights, I say to them we are 172 years late. To those who say - To those who say that this civil-rights program is an infringement on states' rights, I say this: The time has arrived in America for the Democratic party to get out of the shadow of states' rights and to walk forthrightly into the bright sunshine of human rights. View quote
Hubert Humphrey
It is a mistake to suppose that the whole issue is how to free man. The issue is to improve the way in which he is controlled. View quote
B. F. Skinner
I still hear people say that I should not be talking about the rights of lesbian and gay people and I should stick to the issue of racial justice. But I hasten to remind them that Martin Luther King Jr. said, "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." I appeal to everyone who believes in Martin Luther King Jr.'s dream to make room at the table of brother- and sisterhood for lesbian and gay people. View quote
Coretta Scott King
Worn with tights it is not an issue, although there is something deeply unfeminist about not being able to sit down in one comfortably. View quote
Sienna Guillory
We didn't raise this issue, the courts raised it. The courts jammed it down our throats, at the risk of insulting any of my gay male fans. View quote
Ann Coulter
The human overpopulation issue is the topic I see as the most vital to solve if our children and grandchildren are to have a good quality of life. View quote
Alexandra Paul
The overarching issue, as I see it, is the elitism of America's political system; the fact that regular, ordinary Americans aren't considered in policy debates or legislation, and regularly get shafted by the powers-that-be in Washington. View quote
Jerry Springer
The purchase of a bargain issue presupposes that the market's current appraisal is wrong, or at least that the buyer's idea of value is more likely to be right than the market's. In this process the investor sets his judgement against that of the market. To some this may seem arrogant or foolhardy. View quote
Benjamin Graham
The primary political and philosophical issue of the next century will be the definition of who we are. View quote
Ray Kurzweil
I don't have an issue with what you do in the church, but I'm gonna be up in your face if you're gonna knock on my science classroom and tell me they've got to teach what you're teaching in your Sunday school. Because that's when we're gonna fight! (Neil deGrasse Tyson)
[I] can't actually imagine a time in which the need for more diversity would ever cease. Affirmative action has been an issue since segregation practices. The question is not when does it end, but when does it begin [..] When do people of color truly get the benefits to which they are entitled? View quote
Eric Holder
I think people are smart enough to sort it out. They know when they're watching one of these food fight shows where journalists sit around and yell and scream at each other, versus serious issue reporting. View quote
Bob Woodward
The opening of the doors to 29 million Romanians and Bulgarians is going to become a huge issue. View quote
Nigel Farage
Net neutrality would require that every search engine produce an equal number of results that satisfy every disagreement about [every] issue... Just think of it as Fairness Doctrine for the Internet. I'm not making this up. View quote
Rush Limbaugh