Quotes with issues

Quotes 81 till 100 of 117.

  • Bob Edwards That's the problem with news interviews, you work your tail off to get prominent figures in the news on the radio, but once they've been on, the event passes, the urgency, the issues you talked about evaporate.
    Bob Edwards
    American broadcast journalist
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  • Brooke Shields The difficulty of IVF or of any fertility issues is the hope and the shattered hope, the dream that it might happen this time and then it doesn't happen.
    Brooke Shields
    American actress and model (1965 - )
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  • Susan Sontag The hard truth is that what may be acceptable in elite culture may not be acceptable in mass culture, that tastes which pose only innocent ethical issues as the property of a minority become corrupting when they become more established. Taste is context, and the context has changed.
    Susan Sontag
    American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
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  • Ali Hosseini-Khamenei The issue of human rights is one of the most fundamental human issues and also one of the most sensitive and controversial.
    Ali Hosseini-Khamenei
    Iranian ayatollah
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  • Barbara Olson The mainstream media has chosen their candidates and their issues, and they're not the same as the GOP's. They are going to be painted as the bad guys.
    Barbara Olson
    American lawyer (1955 - 2001)
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  • Theodore Roosevelt The old parties are husks, with no real soul within either, divided on artificial lines, boss-ridden and privilege-controlled, each a jumble of incongruous elements, and neither daring to speak out wisely and fearlessly on what should be said on the vital issues of the day.
    Theodore Roosevelt
    American statesman (1858 - 1919)
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  • Barry Commoner The peak of the campaign happened in Albuquerque, where a local reporter said to me, Dr. Commoner, are you a serious candidate or are you just running on the issues?
    Quoted in Thomas Vinciguerra, At 90, an Environmentalist From the 70s Still Has Hope, The New York Times (2007-06-19}
    Barry Commoner
    American cellular biologist, college professor, and politician (1917 - 2012)
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  • David Gemmell The purpose of debates is to explore issues, not end them.
    David Gemmell
    British author of heroic fantasy (1948 - 2006)
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  • Arthur Levitt The tension between centrality, on the one hand, and competition, on the other, is probably the oldest of all market structure issues.
    Arthur Levitt
    American SEC chairman (1931 - )
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  • Campbell Brown The thing that bothers me about journalism is the false equivalency we sometimes place on certain issues.
    Campbell Brown
    American journalist (1968 - )
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  • Angela Davis The work of the political activist inevitably involves a certain tension between the requirement that position be taken on current issues as they arise and the desire that one's contributions will somehow survive the ravages of time.
    Angela Davis
    American political activist, philosopher, academic, and author (1944 - )
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  • Bob Menendez There are many domestic issues that give us a lot of common ground to work on. Health, education and immigration are among the areas where we share mutual goals and aspirations. There are also many values that we share as a communities.
    Bob Menendez
    American politician (1954 - )
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  • Brad Carson There are philosophical issues involved in that about choosing the right discount rate, the value, the future, and things like that which drive it. But its start with the premise that global warming is real and if you're a denier of that fact, then you're not going to find climate change mitigation policies to have particular appeal.
    Brad Carson
    American lawyer and politician (1967 - )
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  • Bob Graham There are some legitimate security issues, but I believe many of the objections the administration is making are not for security reasons, but to disguise mistakes that were made prior to Sept. 11.
    Bob Graham
    American politician and author (1936 - )
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  • Brandi Carlile There are still civil rights issues. There are still people who can't be visited by their spouse in the hospital because they're gay. These are humanitarian issues. At the end of the day, all you want is for people to be happy in the pursuit of life, love and liberty.
    Brandi Carlile
    American singer-songwriter and producer (1981 - )
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  • Cate Blanchett There are very few issues that lie specifically in one region now. Polio in Syria doesn't affect Syria alone. I don't think any issue can ever be isolated into local politics these days, because we all know too much.
    Cate Blanchett
    Australian actress and theatre (1969 - )
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  • Bill Luther These issues are so important. I just felt the best thing to do right now is contribute and go forward.
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  • Cary Fowler To begin with, I've always known that I was a little bit different. And, I have a lot of relatives who own farms. I grew up in the American South where political issues and issues of justice were at the forefront. What I do now is a combination of all these factors.
    Cary Fowler
    American agriculturalist and businessman (1949 - )
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  • Jacob Bronowski To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them.
    Jacob Bronowski
    British Scientist, Author (1908 - 1974)
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  • Barbara Boxer Tonight, you are hearing from the Democratic women of the Senate... We stand together on so many issues: economic prosperity, quality education for all, protecting a woman's right to choose.
    Barbara Boxer
    American politician (1940 - )
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