Issues Quotes - Page 13

• See, to me, rock'n'roll doesn't have any point. It's just fun. It has a million different angles and they're all valid. But I think rock might be a world issue.

  Evan Dando

  Fun, Thinking, Rocks

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• Protein engineering is a technology of molecular machines - of molecular machines that are part of replicators - and so it comes from an area that already raises some of the issues that nanotechnology will raise.

  K. Eric Drexler

  Technology, Engineering, Machines

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• Immigration comes up, but the issue that is on everybody's mind is the economy.

  Mario Diaz-Balart

  Mind, Immigration, Economy

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• You talk to the farmers, the ranchers, our small community bankers, and boy, one of the No. 1 issues is the regulations coming out of Washington.

  Steve Daines

  Boys, Community, Farmers And Ranchers

  "MT-1: Daines-Gillan Race Keeps Low Profile". www.realclearpolitics.com. October 12, 2012.

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• I’m really lucky with the people around me. They know me, so they don’t confuse the issues really. They know what a book is and they know who I am and they know the difference between the two.

  Anne Enright

  Book, Who I Am, Two

  "Anne Enright, Author, Answers Questions About ‘The Forgotten Waltz’". The Huffington Post Interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 10, 2011.

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• It is necessary to take an active part in politics to observe how often the welfare of the party organization is put before the issues, even before the welfare of the commonwealth.

  Charles Edison

  Party, Organization, Welfare

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• Rather than disliking theatre, I've expressed a preference for television because it tends to deal in its small way much more with issues and is able to reach a broader church of people than theatre.

  Christopher Eccleston

  People, Church, Theatre

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• What's been important with Flickr is the community that's been there from the beginning and the serious photographers that are there creating and sharing great content. If we lose that at some point then I think we have potential issues, but so far we've been able to do a really good job of maintaining that.

  David Filo

  Jobs, Thinking, Creating

  "Taking an open-minded approach". Interview with Jemima Kiss, www.theguardian.com. May 13, 2009.

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• Which implies that the real issue in art is the audience's response. Now I claim that when I make things, I don't care about the audience's response, I'm making them for myself. But I'm making them for myself as audience, because I want to wake myself up.

  Richard Foreman

  Art, Real, Care

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• Money in politics is a huge issue.

  Russ Feingold

  Money In Politics, Huge

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• By dedicating so much concentration to the issue of security, bilateral matters pass to a secondary level.

  Vicente Fox

  Levels, Matter, Concentration

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• The issue for me is American competitiveness, and how do we best create a climate here that allows international capital to come to these shores to create jobs.

  Vito Fossella

  Jobs, Climate, Shore

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• As kids do, they're smart, and even if parents try to keep things away from them, conflict and issues and whatnot, kids pick up on what's happening.

  Anna Gunn

  Smart, Kids, Parent

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• I'm not against entertainment: if someone wants to read nonsense-mongers, let them, but I resent the appearance of parity between two articles on an issue as serious as climate change when one article is actually gibberish masked in pseudoscience and the other is well informed and accurate.

  Jay Griffiths

  Two, Climate, Pseudoscience

  "Don't give climate change heretics an easy ride" by Jay Griffiths, www.theguardian.com. August 31, 2012.

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• I don't have an issue with whether - from a legal standpoint, with whether or not government can impose the ultimate punishment on people. We do it in capital cases. Police officers shoot fleeing felons.

  Trey Gowdy

  Government, Punishment, People

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• We're talking about the lawyers for the United States of America. And I think it's very, very important that the lawyers be comfortable being very candid and open about their views on very sensitive issues affecting the United States.

  Alberto Gonzales

  Thinking, Views, Talking

  "PBS NewsHour" with Jim Lehrer, www.pbs.org. July 26, 2005.

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• As a matter of fact, you know, Jesus probably would be, except for one or two issues, a liberal Democrat if he were around today.

  Bernard Goldberg

  Jesus, Two, Facts

  "Bernie Goldberg Explains Why We Should Be Thanking Rich Americans". "The O'Reilly Factor", www.foxnews.com. December 13, 2010.

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• My personal cause and platform, if you like, is women's rights and women's issues.

  Cindy Gallop

  Rights, Causes, Platforms

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• People need to focus on bigger issues instead of whether George Bush is an idiot or not.

  Colin Greenwood

  People, Focus, Needs

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• If I am communicating to my readers exactly what the White House believes on any certain issue, that's reporting to them an unvarnished, unfiltered version of what they - the Administration - believe.

  Jeff Gannon

  Believe, White, House

  "Anderson Cooper 360 Degrees", edition.cnn.com. February 18, 2005.

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

  Jeff Goodell

  Climate, Records

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• Americans don't pay much attention to environmental issues, because they aren't sexy. I mean, cleaning up coal plants and reining in outlaw frackers is hugely important work, but it doesn't get anybody's pulse racing.

  Jeff Goodell

  Sexy, Mean, Racing

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• I like that Ben & Jerry's is willing to speak out about social and political issues that aren't always safe - but are the right thing to do.

  Jerry Greenfield

  Speaks Out, Political, Safe

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• Businesses typically look at issues like price, quality, time of delivery. They don't often think about social and environmental impact because they're focused on their financial bottom line.

  Jerry Greenfield

  Thinking, Impact, Environmental

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• Running for office is important, and you don't really need more than to be right on the issues, and to be able to articulate what it is you believe. You don't need a certain background. You don't need to be a lawyer. You don't need to have some professional degree.

  Matt Gonzalez

  Running, Believe, Office

  "All Hope is Local: Quit Whining and Run for Office" by Allison Kilkenny, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 2, 2008.

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