Important Issues Quotes - Page 5

• As I've said many times, the nuclear deal was never intended to resolve all of our differences with Iran. But still, engaging directly with the Iranian government on a sustained basis for the first time in decades has created a unique opportunity, a window, to try to resolve important issues.

  Barack Obama

  Unique, Opportunity, Government

  Statement by the President on Iran, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. January 17, 2016.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• One of the things for me, as a biographer, that is so significant is for Eleanor Roosevelt - the child who never had a home of her own, who lives in her grandmother's home and then goes to school and then gets married and lives in her mother-in-law's homes, and then in public housing (like the White House and the State House) - housing becomes for Eleanor Roosevelt the most important issue.

  Blanche Wiesen Cook

  Mother, Children, Home

  Source: www.pbs.org

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• I think that the whole voyeuristic attitude of filmmakers or of me personally - of shooting documentaries and so forth - is an important issue. And it was an important issue to me, personally. And the whole question of when - when do you put the camera down or when do you keep shooting to get the shot. And a number of times in my life I've had that question hit me very hard.

  Haskell Wexler

  Attitude, Thinking, Numbers

  "Remembering Oscar-Winning Cinematographer Haskell Wexler". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. December 29, 2015.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• For a pragmatist like me, the important issues concern the words we might deploy to achieve our purposes, rather than the language we actually use.

  Philip Kitcher

  Issues, Important, Purpose

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• To me, that's the important issue about spiritual principle: that you recognize it as both that which saves you from the self-sabotaging mind and that which heals you and lifts you up when you succumb to it and attract whatever personal disaster you attract.

  Marianne Williamson

  Spiritual, Self, Issues

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I think the issue of marriage is a vitally important issue on which I would campaign heavily.

  Eric Abetz

  Thinking, Issues, Important

  Source: www.abc.net.au

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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.

  Abbas Kiarostami

  Government, Issues, Important

  Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. April 28, 2005.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• This is a very important issue that the corporate media chooses not to talk about a whole lot, that we have an economic system which is rigged, which means that at the same time as the middle class of this country is disappearing, almost all of the new income and wealth in America is going to the top 1 percent. You have the top one-tenth of 1 percent owning almost as much wealth as the bottom 90 percent - 58 percent of all new income is going to the top 1 percent.

  Bernie Sanders

  Country, Mean, Media

  16 Copy quote

• I'm thrilled the president [Barack Obama] has endorsed me. We started off as fierce competitors, and we've ended up as true friends and partners and worked together on so many important issues.

  Hillary Clinton

  True Friend, Issues, President

  Source: www.wbur.org

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• For me the most important issue is climate change because it in some ways trumps every other issue. Everything else we care about falls by the wayside if the Greenland ice shelf falls into the sea. And if suddenly sea levels rise 21 feet, everything we hold near and dear ceases to exist.

  Moby

  Fall, Sea, Feet

  5 Copy quote

• He was making a very serious point. Donald Trump has a way of talking to get people's attention, and it's drawn attention to a very important issue.There was a time when a Democrat president knew where the buck stopped in the White House. And the responsibility for the failed policies in the Middle East that created the environment where ISIS developed belongs to President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and the American people know that.

  Mike Pence

  Responsibility, Talking, White

  Source: www.sfgate.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Really important issues are getting lost, so I can say I'm glad to be a citizen of the planet and do my part.

  Bonnie Raitt

  Issues, Important, Citizens

  "Origin Interview: Diggin' Deep with Bonnie Raitt, Legend, Activist, Musician". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. April 27, 2016.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• There's a lot of important issues being brought to the world about America's role in proliferating weapons, about the lack of responsibility of anyone in authority in this country, you have the torture program, that NSA surveillance is Edward Snowden's fault, just like proliferation of weapons is these kids' fault. It's ridiculous, there's never any consequences, there's never any lessons learned.

  Guy Lawson

  Country, Kids, Responsibility

  Source: collider.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• It's really unfortunate that instead of focusing on the really important issues in our world, Donald Trump chooses to make personal attacks on people.

  Ariel Winter

  Our World, Issues, People

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I think we are obsessed in the U.S. with the personal, in ways that blind us to more important issues of life. I just think if we could take all the obsession with the personal (inaudible), and personal judgment and have people be concerned about the environment, what a different world we would live in.

  Bell Hooks

  Thinking, Issues, People

  Source: nefac.net

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• You can't speak freely and openly on the most important issue of the day because you're fearful that your closet is going to come and haunt you. I choose to air my closet.

  Andrew Breitbart

  Issues, Air, Important

  Source: www.newsbusters.org

  28 Copy quote

  Show source

• If you look at the polls, for all the talk about immigration and even trade, ObamaCare was an extremely important issue for Trump voters in 2016.

  William Kristol

  Obamacare, Issues, Important

  Source: abcnews.go.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I prefer to stay on the important issues facing the American people.

  Bernie Sanders

  Issues, People, Important

  Source: www.truth-out.org

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• Donald Trump needs to stay focused and remember the promises to you, the American people. You know the promises, repeal and replace Obamacare, identify radical Islam, lower taxes, repatriate corporate profits, build the border wall, appoint originalists to the Supreme Court, fix inner cities, energy independence, drain the swamp, send education back to the states, you know, say radical Islam, vet refugees, all of these important issues, free trade.

  Sean Hannity

  Wall, Issues, Cities

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

  19 Copy quote

  Show source

• When it comes to social policies, I believe women have the right to make their own choices, and inequality is a really important issue.

  Edward Snowden

  Believe, Issues, Choices

  Source: www.thenation.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I think this is exactly where the action is, is in the middle. I have seen it when I was governor of the state of California. I have seen it firsthand, that the only way we brought Democrats and Republicans together, we could really solve very important issues. I remember that's how we really started rebuilding California and invested $60 billion in infrastructure.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Thinking, California, Issues

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The light bulb going off in my head was a fear that in this pivotal moment in history, when America faces so many serious problems, when the middle class and working class of this country are being decimated, that there were not voices out there representing the tens of millions of people who needed a voice. And the idea of going through a campaign where there is not a serious discussion about the most important issues facing America, where there are not voices out there representing people who are hurting - that seemed to me unacceptable.

  Bernie Sanders

  Country, Hurt, Light

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

  34 Copy quote

  Show source

• I don't run against Hillary Clinton. I run on the most important issues facing America.

  Bernie Sanders

  Running, America, Issues

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

  14 Copy quote

  Show source

• The truth is that political consciousness in this country is pretty low... To the degree that we can help educate and organize people around the most important issues facing their lives and show that there is support for fundamental changes in the way we do business in the United States of America in terms of income inequality, in terms of low wages, in terms of disastrous trade policies, in terms of being the only major country not to have a national healthcare program - that's success.

  Bernie Sanders

  Country, America, Issues

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Not all of us are as effective as we could be, should be, or need to be, but some of the [most important] issues are slowly starting to be taken up again within black communities [because of their contributions], when we're not obsessed with personal attacks against each other.

  Michael C Dawson

  Taken, Issues, Community

  Source: www.truth-out.org

  4 Copy quote

  Show source