Famous Quotes & Sayings

Hans Blix

Like I said, I'm more worried long term about the environmental issues then the use of arms.

Gretchen Rubin

The more I examine the issue of clutter, the more effort I put into combating it, because it really does act as a weight.

Geri Halliwell

I'm much more accepting of myself. A lot of my body issues have naturally settled down.

Jean-Marie Le Pen

The government would have preferred not to take a stand, but the constant presence of the Israeli-Arab conflict on our television screens made it an issue that could no longer be avoided.

Jerry Doyle

I call it like I see it. I don't hold back when it comes to being candid on the hot issues.

Jerry Garcia

The bigger issue, was the whole takeover of the food industry by big corporations.

Jeremy Grantham

The language 'It's too late' is very unsuitable for most environmental issues. It's too late for the dodo and for people who've starved to death already, but it's not too late to prevent an even bigger crisis. The sooner we act on the environment, the better.

Jennifer Chiaverini

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

Jeff Goodell

Obama's record on climate issues is not all bad.

Jhumpa Lahiri

Relationships do not preclude issues of morality.

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 Somerhalder

Species conversation is beyond a doubt an issue that truly matters to the American public.

Ian Bremmer

Climate is a global issue. Coal is still the energy that is being used more than anything else to make electricity. The United States is using less as we're turning more to gas. But, around the world, that's what they're using.

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.

Howard Gordon

I feel like a centrist, an issue-specific person. I'm pretty conservative fiscally and pretty liberal on social issues.

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.

Jacques Diouf

Hunger is not an issue of charity. It is an issue of justice.

Jackie Chan

The authorities should stipulate what issues people can protest over and on what issues it is not allowed.

Glenn Reynolds

Bush is quite vulnerable if the Democrats pick the right issues. So far, though, they've shown their usual tendency to go for the capillary.

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.

Jeremy Sisto

I was always worried with comedy - what if I came to work and I wasn't in a funny mood? That hasn't been an issue.

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.

Hu Jintao

China pays a great deal of attention to the Korean nuclear issue. We stand for achieving denuclearization of the peninsula in a peaceful way through dialogue and consultation to maintain peace and stability of the peninsula and Northeast Asia.

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.

Howard Dean

We're going to use Terri Schiavo later on. This is going to be an issue in 2006 and it's going to be an issue in 2008, because we're going to have an ad with a picture of Tom DeLay saying, `Do you want this guy to decide whether you die or not, or is that going to be up to your loved ones?'