Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bob Wright

The issue in the near term is these terms aren't all that relevant to consumers. . . . The reality is though if you don't have a set it's not going to be all that much different,

The issue in my opinion is the quality of the leadership at the building.

The issue in my mind is what kind of recovery we get from here.

The issue here is safeguarding the power of the presidential party.

The issue has never been most qualified, the issue is qualified.

The issue has been resolved to our satisfaction.

The issue had been ridiculed in the local papers and I thought, wait a minute - this is a serious issue.

The issue for us is job security for our members.

The issue for Tim, like it is for all of our players in Europe, is how much they play and how well they play.

The issue comes up with volume. If we were to lock up everyone with a firecracker, we wouldn't have enough jails.

I'm not saying it should be made a condition, I just think it is one of the issues that should be taken into consideration.

Michael Anderson

The first thing to do is to get communications going between the different states. The jurisdictional issues will follow.

The first three issues of 'Cemetery Dance' were mainly horror, but now it's really a cross-genre magazine. It's all just snowballed.

The first big issue is 'if', because a lot of people are still talking 'if' - and that's a fundamental misperception.

Jose Padilha

It's all about this abstract entity called the story. It's all about the best way to tell the story, and to make a movie about the issues that this story is about. Filmmaking is storytelling, for me.

Joschka Fischer

The participation in European elections was always not very exciting. People are very interested in European issues, but they don't see the person who is representing Europe.

Jose Antonio Vargas

I'm not a politician. I'm not a policy wonk. I was a political reporter, but that's not really what turns me on. What turns me on is how people perceive the issue and how people see people like me.

Jonny Greenwood

I sometimes wish taste wasn't ever an issue, and the sounds of instruments or synths could be judged solely on their colour and timbre. Judged by what it did to your ears, rather than what its historical use reminds you of.

Kelley Armstrong

Stuffing people into boxes is for those who have issues about their own box.

Kay Granger

Foreign aid must be viewed as an investment, not an expense...but when foreign aid is carefully guided and targeted at a specific issue, it can and must be effective.

Jonathan Raymond

Why do I have an issue with banks? They have their greedy fingers in everyones money. No other industry has the power to deduct a bill or fees directly from your own bank account without so much as a notice.

John Adams

Our whole system of banks is a violation of every honest principle of banks. There is no honest bank but a bank of deposit. A bank that issues paper at interest is a pickpocket or a robber. But the delusion will have its course. ... An aristocracy is growing out of them that will be as fatal as the feudal barons if unchecked in time.

Jacques Ellul

Faith lived in the incognito is one which is located outside the criticism coming from society , from politics , from history , for the very reason that it has itself the vocation to be a source of criticism. It is faith (lived in the incognito) which triggers the issues for the others, which causes everything seemingly established to be placed in doubt , which drives a wedge into the world of false assurances.

Jacque Fresco

There isn't anything that is said that 'someone' won't take issue with.

Henry A. Kissinger

The defining issue is that the government in Taiwan was considered to be the government of all of China, and the authorities in Beijing were not recognized as a government of China. So Taiwan was the residuary for all of China.

Henry A. Kissinger

I do not criticize people who take a public stand on human rights issues. I express my respect for them. But some people are more influential without a public confrontation.

Henry A. Kissinger

The issues are too important to be left for the voters.

Henry A. Kissinger

Taiwan will probably not declare independence. The question isn't independence. The issue is whether Taiwan will declare itself as a sovereign separate state. That will start a huge crisis if that happens.

Henry A. Kissinger

I grew up as a discriminated minority in a dictatorship, so obviously the issue of human rights is a matter of concern for me.

Henry Giroux

The nature of the issues facing U.S. students is a bit more complicated in the U.S. because the assault on the social state, until recently, has been more incremental [i.e. the stripping of public services and so forth], whereas in Britain with the rise of the conservative-liberal government, it was immediate and bold in its assault on the social state and higher education.

Henry Giroux

What is invaluable about Angela Davis work is that she does not limit her politics to issues removed from broader social considerations, but connects every aspect of her scholarship and public interventions to what the contours of a truly democratic society might look like.

Heather Wilson

Border security is a safety issue.

Hedrick Smith

Television's compelling power is its immediacy . .. this immediacy feeds the politics of emotions, gut reactions and impressions rather than the politics of logic, facts and reason; it emphasizes personality rather than issues.