Issue Quotes

#1. The most important 'speed' issue is often not technical but cultural. It's convincing everyone that the company's survival depends on everyone moving as fast as possible.

Bill Gates

#2. There will always be cases that cry out to me for ultimate punishment. That is not the true issue. The pivotal question instead is whether a system of justice can be constructed that reaches only the rare, right cases, without also occasionally condemning the innocent or the undeserving.

Scott Turow

#3. A critical issue for women is the possibility to be a mother and the ability to participate fully in the workforce.

Erna Solberg

#4. Perhaps the greatest justice issue of all is intergenerational theft. The Eighth Commandment says "Thou shall not steal," but every day we live unsustainably we steal from our children and their children.

Fred Small

#5. They said, "You know, this issue doesn't seem to resignate with the people." And I said, you know something? Whether it resignates or not doesn't matter to me, because I stand for doing what's the right thing, and what the right thing is hearing the voices of people who work.

George W. Bush

#6. For the record, I love my sister. But she is dead wrong on the marriage issue.

Mary Cheney

#7. We're willing to move pretty far on this issue, we're much more tolerant than we used to be, but don't mix it up with religion and God.

Alan Wolfe

#8. I have come to believe that extracting natural gas from shale using the newish technique called hydrofracking is the environmental issue of our time. And I think you should, too.

Sandra Steingraber

#9. If we can ignore an issue long enough and distance ourselves from it far enough, we can actually make it look as if it belongs to someone else altogether.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#10. Gay marriage won't be more of an issue 25 years from now than interracial marriage is today.

Jared Polis

#11. The authenticity thing has never been an issue for me.

Marcus Mumford

#12. The Greek debt issue, for example, is such a threat because if that country ever defaulted, it might cause some bank that's 'too big to fail' to actually fail.

Jerry A. Webman

#13. My beef with the alt-fuel people is not the renewable or alt-fuel ideas themselves. Sooner or later, there's no question we're going to have to rely on them. For me, it's an issue of scale.

James Howard Kunstler

#14. Obviously you have to have talent in order to play so you can't overlook that, but we won't overlook the character issue when it comes to talent because if they have talent and they don't have character, it's going to be very difficult to coach that person.

Tim Buckley

#15. As we have seen, the first public expression of disenchantment with nonviolence arose around the question of 'self-defense.' In a sense this is a false issue, for the right to defend one's home and one's person when attacked has been guaranteed through the ages by common law.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#16. Call it an issue. Call it baggage. But I really hated lies. They're ugly things, festering like wounds, spreading like disease. They're winner-less crimes that hurt everybody in the end.

Cora Carmack

#17. Conservation is a great moral issue, for it involves the patriotic duty of insuring the safety and continuance of the nation.

Theodore Roosevelt

#18. It got to the point where most of my time went toward writing novels. I would still occasionally write short stories, but only when I was commissioned by an editor to write for a themed anthology or special issue.

Tim Pratt

#19. On issue after issue, the Obama Administration has openly ignored, defied, and unilaterally tried to change the law.

Ted Cruz

#20. I think generalizations of any sort are dangerous. I'll say, if that is the case - right now it's an American issue.

Kerry Washington

#21. I smiled, reached into my pockets and pulled out a pair of ultrapowerful earplugs, the kind that are standard issue for skyway construction workers, artillery soldiers, and roadies for the thirty-five most popular teen boy bands.

John Zakour

#22. Rodney King is a progenitor of all these cell phone videos that we have. It was unusual that a person had a video camera to take a picture of the Rodney King beating. Now, of course, everybody has a phone, and that has been one of the key factors in all the new attention to the issue.

Jeffrey Toobin

#23. We are perfectly designed to achieve what we are currently achieving. If Christianity is in decline, at least part of the issue goes to the contemporary way we live out faith in a watching world.

Alan Hirsch

#24. Kristallnacht, the Nazi pogrom that convulsed Germany and at last drove Roosevelt to issue a public condemnation. He told reporters he could scarcely believe that such a thing could occur in twentieth century civilization.

Erik Larson

#25. There is no alternative to action, and that requires faith. The issue is how we are to mold for ourselves a belief system that is worthy of life.

Naguib Mahfouz

#26. The quality of life, values that go down to doin' that, that's the issue.

Cecil Taylor

#27. The story of undocumented immigrants in this country is not just about undocumented immigrants. It's about the country as a whole, and it's about us being able to tell the truth about where we are with this issue because we haven't been telling the truth about where we are with this issue.

Jose Antonio Vargas

#28. The action of naming an issue instead of evading it, was so unlike the usual behavior of all the men he knew, it was such a sudden, startling relief ...

Ayn Rand

#29. The real issue is not whether two and two make four or whether two and two make five, but whether life advances by men who love words or by men who love living.

Colin Wilson

#30. By this time the Vietnam War was such a confusing issue to most Americans that Nixon could take as many positions as he liked and find support somewhere for them all. Roughly equal numbers wanted to expand the war as negotiate a peace.

Nancy Gibbs; Michael Duffy

#31. With automobile accidents, mechanical failure is seldom the cause; and most often, operator error. I find the same to be true with corporate failings ... . the people are rarely the issue ... the shortcoming is most often found in the leadership.

Steve Maraboli

#32. I knew at quite a young age that I had an issue with drinking.

Martin Gore

#33. I am 90. I can work day or night. I'm the same guy, but the polls show the effect of age. That's the issue.

Ralph Hall

#34. My work about corruption is to get people to see it less as a moral issue (right/wrong) and more as an economic issue (economies of influence and their effect).

Lawrence Lessig

#35. The media seems to think only abortion and gay marriage are religious issues. Poverty is a moral issue, it's a faith issue, it's a religious issue.

Jim Wallis

#36. I have an issue with others ordering for me, and I spend far too long haranguing people that my choices are the best. I apologize for the amount of conversations I have ruined with this attitude.

Ben Elliot

#37. If I have an idea in my head, within no time it's into the computer, it may take more time to make it sound right, but that's the only issue.

Martin Garrix

#38. If our country is to reach a workable solution to the abortion issue, the Democratic party must be open to and tolerant of opposing views.

Robert Casey

#39. The issue I focus on the most is extreme poverty. I think it's kind of out of sight out of mind. I wish there would be more stories about that to connect people to what's happening. To personalize it, to make it real to people, to inspire them to action.

John Legend

#40. There is no organised encounter group. There is simply a freedom of expression - of feelings and thoughts - on any personally relevant issue.

Carl R. Rogers

#41. Ultimately this issue is on us. We're the ones who make the decisions about what our kids eat.

Michelle Obama

#42. It is absurd to try to confine our knowledge and belief to matters which are conclusively established by sound deductive arguments. The demand for certainty will inevitably be disappointed, leaving skepticism in command of almost every issue.

J. L. Mackie

#43. The issue of human rights is one of the most fundamental human issues and also one of the most sensitive and controversial.

Ali Khamenei

#44. Every race I've been in, I calculated race into the equation. If you're in America, you calculate it into the equation. It is a factor. I never make it an issue. I don't run the campaign wearing it on my sleeve, but I don't run away from it, either.

Harvey Gantt

#45. There is not always 'two sides to every issue.' That statement is a ridiculous slogan invoked by vested interests and perpetuated by minds of limited scope.

Anton Szandor LaVey

#46. This immigration business has been going on in the UK much in advance of the European Union making an issue of it.

Rush Limbaugh

#47. It would be bypassing the issue to say that the artist's business is to work with this and that material or manipulate the findings of perceptual psychology, and that the rest should be left to other professions.

Hans Haacke

#48. He tells me that he has seen me in issue No. 5 of Crablegs and Muletears and that I am getting better, and I tell him that I am a slow starter and being only 42

Charles Bukowski

#49. It's important for me to not historicize. I work to diffuse the issue of identity and to intensify identification. You have to lose your authority in the making of a film to achieve this. The film is about me being absolutely dislocated. I focus on the very personal to arrive at the very political.

Elia Suleiman

#50. I think that I'm a better speechwriter than my speechwriters. I know more about policies on any particular issue than my policy directors. And I'll tell you right now that I'm gonna think I'm a better political director than my political director.

Barack Obama

#51. Old age is when you resent the swimsuit issue of Sports Illustrated because there are fewer articles to read.

George Burns

#52. As a chef, I had started working with groups like Share Our Strength and various local food banks in New York, raising money for hunger-related issues. And not only me, but the entire restaurant industry has been very focused on this issue.

Tom Colicchio

#53. I extend that to the abortion issue, I extend that to the so-called gay rights issue, I think this is a freedom principle and consistent with the analysis in the economic area as well.

William Weld

#54. The days are gone when a country can issue orders to other peoples. Today, mankind needs culture, ideas and logic.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

#55. There's one overriding issue, namely, that we live in a police state so long as the police get to police themselves. And that is why cops go unindicted.

Russell Simmons

#56. It might be a little bit crazy, even. Like, for real crazy. Not just 'oh isn't that charming and endearing' crazy but 'wow that might be a deep-seated psychological issue' crazy.

Lauren Barnholdt

#57. I'm convinced that the man who has learned to meditate upon the Lord will be able to run on his feet and walk in his spirit. Although he may be hurried by his vocation, that's not the issue. The issue is how fast his spirit is going. To slow it down takes a period of time.

Charles Stanley

#58. The source and root of all monetary evil [is] the government monopoly on the issue and control of money. - Friedrich Hayek

George Gilder

#59. Leaders being born vs. made is a bit of a separate issue. The research on this issue is fairly conclusive: 50/50. We have innate predispositions that affect who we are and what we do (nature) but we can learn and develop and grow (nurture).

Dave Ulrich

#60. In a recent issue of Parade Magazine when asked for "Advice for a Younger You," Glenn Close responded: "I'd tell myself to listen to my heart. Listen to that little voice that says, 'Mmm, I don't think so.' Because when you override that, you basically override who you are.

Glenn Close

#61. Even to me the issue of "stay small, sweet, quiet, and modest" sounds like an outdated problem, but the truth is that women still run into those demands whenever we find and use our voices.

Brene Brown

#62. If you have a debt issue or credit card issue, start dealing with it. If you have a tax issue, don't just say, 'I'm not going to file.' There are ways to deal with these things, but you must communicate with your creditors, whether it's a credit card company or tax department.

Hill Harper

#63. The thing about online gambling is that it's never away, it's always accessible. And so, if you have an issue with gambling, it's designed to take advantage of that.

Ben Affleck

#64. A lot of things went incredibly well for 'Scrubs': from a ridiculous number of downloads on the iPods, to whenever they issue a new season on DVD it kinda sells out, and we got nominated for an Emmy. To be picked up for six years is all gravy, man.

John C. McGinley

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

Jerry Garcia

#66. Psychedelics can carry you farther and faster than most people care to go. Once you get to psychedelics, it's no longer a matter of seeking the answer, you have found the answer. Now the issue changes dramatically, you must face the answer.

Terence McKenna

#67. Setting aside the issue of gender while highlighting the symmetry of bodies seemed indispensable in order to focus on the narrative of human beings in the making.

Alante Kavaite

#68. At a certain level of learning and understanding,
right or wrong ain't the issue, but different interest.

Toba Beta

#69. The biggest issue by far is that carbohydrates are absolutely at the cornerstone of all of our major degenerative conditions.

David Perlmutter

#70. Cooperation will save the future. And America should lead it. Every time humanity has been in danger of extinguishing itself, our consciousness and our conscience have led us to come together. That's the big issue of the 21st century.

William J. Clinton

#71. I assume we will have figured out a way to efficiently utilize solar energy and tied that to an efficient way to use nuclear energy in such a way that it doesn't pose a serious environmental issue.

John Hickenlooper

#72. My feeling about executive bonuses is that any candidate for a chief executive job who even raises the issue of bonuses should be dismissed out of hand.

Henry Mintzberg

#73. Most women are pragmatists who have allowed extremists on the left and right to manipulate the family issue for their own purposes.

Christopher Lasch

#74. By wearing cosmetics a woman seeks to look younger or more beautiful than she otherwise would. Honesty doesn't require that she issue a continuous disclaimer: I see you are looking at my face. Please be aware that I don't look this good first thing in the morning.

Sam Harris

#75. I have never, nor will I ever, have an issue with anyone's sexuality. Gay, straight, bi, lesbian, it doesn't matter to me. I believe everyone has a right to find their own happiness. I would never ridicule or stand in the way of love,

Anonymous

#76. Somewhere on the periphery of that total Vietnam issue whose daily reports made the morning paper too heavy to bear, lost in the surreal contexts of television, there was a story that was as simple as it had always been, men hunting men, a hideous war and all kinds of victims.

Michael Herr

#77. The predominance of moral factors in all military decisions. On them constantly turns the issue of war and battle. In the history of war they form the more constant factors, changing only in degree, whereas the physical factors are different in almost every war and every military situation.

B.H. Liddell Hart

#78. An unsuspected yearning uncovered, discovered. For a simpler time and a simpler life. Before Internet, and climate change, and terrorism. When neighbors worked together, and separation was not a topic or an issue or wise.

Louise Penny

#79. Either a species learns to control its own population, or something like disease, famine, war, will take care of the issue.

Chuck Palahniuk

#80. It's important to wallow and grieve when you have a health issue. I don't think you really get the best stuff out of life until you've had the worst stuff.

Natalie Cole

#81. Food is one issue that cannot be solved person by person. We have to stand together.

Josette Sheeran

#82. It's upsetting that it is such a big deal. I wish it weren't an issue all the time. It's funny that people say it's a departure, because I've been acting since I was a child. I've played three gay roles out of hundreds.

Randy Harrison

#83. The real issue is how to make appropriate choices about what to do at any point in time. The real issue is how we manage actions.

David Allen

#84. It is observed at sea that men are never so much disposed to grumble and mutiny as when least employed. Hence an old captain, when there was nothing else to do, would issue the order to scour the anchor.

Samuel Smiles

#85. I'll give you a great example of an issue that no one brought up during this Florida primary, the fact that we're going to have a Chinese made oil rig put in place about 60 miles off the coast of Florida.

Allen West

#86. The whole issue of how women's management styles are viewed is an incredibly interesting subject.

Jill Abramson

#87. But again, to dealing with border security, is an issue that - it's like having a fire in the back of your house that you need to put out first before you talk about who, who you're going to let in the front door.

Henry Bonilla

#88. This issue has brought out the ugly in our society.

Sharon Har

#89. When anyone has the power to destroy the whole human race in a matter of hours, it becomes a moral issue. The church must speak out.

Billy Graham

#90. I think the first decision I took when I became a government minister was to reverse the planned closure of Monklands Accident and Emergency. It's an issue close to my heart.

Nicola Sturgeon

#91. People keep framing this as a religious freedom issue, but there's a difference between practicing your religion - which everyone has the right to do - and rubbing your religion in people's faces as a triumphalist political statement, which is what's happening here.

Pat Condell

#92. I actually thought and believed that the story would be compelling enough to cause a real sea change in the way Congress reacted to that issue. I thought they would be startled, too. And they weren't.

Al Gore

#93. Sexual difference is probably the issue in our time which could be our 'salvation' if we thought it through.

Luce Irigaray

#94. It is our responsibility as Americans to provide for the families of those who have died to defend our nation. Raising the military death benefit is not a Democrat or Republican issue - it is an American issue.

Brian Baird

#95. I am not second-guessing or questioning my understanding of the issue

Christine Maggiore

#96. Food availability is not really the issue. The quality of the food is what we recognize is the problem.

Catherine Bertini

#97. When the average American consumes 43 times as much as the average African, we've got to think that consumption is an issue. It's not just about population.

Jason W Clay

#98. You do design because you feel it inside; you have a moral issue to spread quality in our environment.

Massimo Vignelli

#99. For nearly a decade Democrats have sought a religious wedge issue that could separate big chunks of white evangelical voters from their Republican home. Now they've found it, and are thrusting at the Social Darwinist/Ayn Rand underbelly of American conservatism.

Marvin Olasky

#100. The fact of the matter is, most of our orders are not supersized. Less than five per cent are supersized - that's never mentioned. The whole issue has been supersized itself.

Jim Cantalupo