Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jennifer Chiaverini

For as long as I can remember, I've always been interested in issues of social justice, political freedom, and civil rights.

Grimes

I'm sad that it's uncool or offensive to talk about environmental or human rights issues.

Harri Holkeri

If there is something I would like to do as President of the General Assembly, it is to place more emphasis on the issue of education, which enables a better life for women.

Harriet Lerner

Underground issues from one relationship or context invariably fuel our fires in another.

Ian Bremmer

Political scientists don't work at banks which is a problem. As political issues become more important for the markets, analysts at banks are asked all sorts of questions they don't have the ability to answer. And if you're getting paid to answer questions as analysts at banks are you never want to be in the position of saying you don't know.

Hannah Arendt

Manipulations of opinion, insofar as they are inspired by well-defined interests, have limited goals; their effect, however, if they happen to touch upon an issue of authentic concern, is no longer subject to their control and may easily produce consequences they never foresaw or intended.

Gore Vidal

Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.

Harvey Pekar

My parents' work ethic amazed me. How could they put in such long hours, day after day? Part of the reason was to keep the family going - to keep me going. I realized that, although we had different values derived from different cultures and wouldn't agree on certain issues, they were good people, incredible people, and I loved and respected them.

James Bovard

We are asking the wrong question. The issue is not who should be trusted with all the power of the Presidency. Instead, we must ask how much power any candidate can be trusted with.

Jim Jeffords

Looking ahead, I can see more and more instances where I will disagree with the president on very fundamental issues. The largest, for me, is education.

Frank Zappa

[Lighting a cigarette] Well, I'm not here to impinge on anybody else's lifestyle. If I'm in a place where I know I'm going to harm somebody's health or somebody asks me to please not smoke, I just go outside and smoke. But I do resent the way the nonsmoking mentality has been imposed on the smoking minority. Because, first of all, in a democracy, minorities do have rights. And, second, the whole pitch about smoking has gone from being a health issue to a moral issue, and when they reduce something to a moral issue, it has no place in any kind of legislation, as far as I'm concerned.

George H. W. Bush

But let me tell you, this gender thing is history. You're looking at a guy who sat down with Margaret Thatcher across the table and talked about serious issues.

Hubert H. Humphrey

Capital, and the question of who owns it and therefore reaps the benefit of its productiveness, is an extremely important issue that is complementary to the issue of full employment... I see these as twin pillars of our economy: Full employment of our labor resources and widespread ownership of our capital resources. Such twin pillars would go a long way in providing a firm underlying support for future economic growth that would be equitably shared.

Howard Rheingold

Democracy is not just voting for your leaders; it's really premised upon ordinary citizens understanding the issues.

Howard Schultz

The issue of managing through a crisis is you have to be decisive even if you don't have perfect information.

Andy Williams

For the most part, a lot of these issues are things that we knew and we've been working to address.

Ivan Illich

I intend to discuss some perplexing issues which are raised once we embrace the hypothesis that society can be deschooled; to search for criteria which may help us distinguish institutions which merit development because they support learning in a deschooled milieu; and to clarify those personal goals which would foster the advent of an Age of Leisure ( schole ) as opposed to an economy dominated by service industries.

Iyanla Vanzant

Once we become aware of our issues and challenges, we become accountable to do something about it.

Iyanla Vanzant

In the process of planning and having a wedding, I forgot there would actually be a marriage, a union of minds, bodies, souls, and issues that would come together as soon as the ceremony was over.

Elton John

Nothing should be an issue when it comes to sexuality in the first place. Music is the one artform where people feel comfortable coming out.

Elton John

When President Mbeki said, if you get AIDS, you can have a shower and it goes away. It's like, oh, come on. Or it's caused by poverty. We faced those kind of issues. But now, with the new regime, they have really woken up, paid attention. And when South Africa speaks, then the whole of Africa will listen. And I have got great hopes for that.

Ellen Barkin

But one of the hardest things for me to do was to access anger. I could do it on stage. But when I did it on film it was hard for me. That probably has to do with the intimacy of film. And my own personal issues with expressing anger. So I had to learn how to do that.

Jerry Brown

Nuclear power will be the Vietnam issue of the 1980s.

John Dalton

I don't think these issues will pull people to the polls, ... I think that those who normally vote in the primary will be the only ones voting on them, unfortunately.

We could have issues with the scoreboard, ... The scoreboard is a $1 million piece of equipment.

Abbas Kiarostami

My last experience of film-making was Tickets, a three-episode film in Italy, the third of which is directed by myself. It's not for me to judge whether it's a good film or a bad film, but what I could say is that nobody had a cultural or linguistic issue with what was produced.

Abbas Kiarostami

The [Iranian] government grapples with more important issues and we can maybe say that these films don't really exist for them. It's not about whether they like it or don't; it's just not very important to them.

We know there will be some issues there. You can replace things, but you can't replace a life.

Ludwig von Mises

The issue is always the same: the government or the market. There is no third solution.

We've been having meaningful discussions. Frankly, there are still significant issues that separate us.

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

Do not forget that the armed forces are the servants of the people. You do not make national policy; it is we, the civilians, who decide these issues and it is your duty to carry out these tasks with which you are entrusted.

There are significant scientific and implementation issues that still must be worked out.

Don Lemon

I don't know if I would have the same take on world matters and social issues if I were not gay.