Issues Quotes - Page 26

• In fact, it is often times a detriment for the Government to preemptively legislate on an issue before we can either define it or grasp its impact.

  Steve Buyer

  Impact, Government, Facts

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• 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

  Character, Order, Play

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• I don't have a problem talking about Medicare or Medicaid or some other very important issue.

  Jason Chaffetz

  Talking, Important, Problem

  "Rep. Chaffetz on voting for Ryan's budget cuts for Medicare: 'It's a totally different approach' to Obama's cuts, says Republican plan doesn't call for vouchers". "Starting Point" with Soledad O'Brien, startingpoint.blogs.cnn.com. August 17, 2012.

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• China is responsible for a lot of the major conservation issues we're facing. It's the main market for rhino horn. Tigers are being killed for tiger bone wine. They're driving the tropical timber trade and illegal logging in Indonesia, and the trade in tropical reef fish.

  Mark Carwardine

  Wine, Rhinos, Logging

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• What we're trying to do is address something I saw in Congress that was a major problem, which is to say that energy is arguably the most fundamental issue confronting our country.

  Brad Carson

  Country, Trying, Energy

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• It's kind of fun to hear that other people deal with the same kinds of issues that you do.

  Bryan Clay

  Fun, People, Kind

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• The fundamental issue is the moral issue.

  David Attenborough

  Fundamentals, Moral, Moral Issues

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• The most disappointing thing this week is that Mitt Romney picked Paul Ryan, because he was the intellectual leader of the Republican Party. Because Paul Ryan decided to join Mitt Romney's ticket, he is completely reversed himself on some of the issues he has been very strong on, like the $716 billion in savings that are in two of his budgets.

  Stephanie Cutter

  Strong, Party, Two

  "State of the Union with Candy Crowley". www.cnn.com. August 19, 2012.

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• I've never been a part of a film before that offers such a platform into real issues, that raises social awareness and has the potential to change things.

  Don Cheadle

  Real, Film, Awareness

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• The issue for us is rebuilding a governing majority that is comfortable with differences that can transcend the divisiveness and unify behind the principles that we know our party has succeeded on.

  Eric Cantor

  Party, Differences, Majority

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• Pandemic influenza is by nature an international issue; it requires an international solution.

  Margaret Chan

  Pandemics, Influenza, Solutions

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• My issue in the past with nudity was that these scenes had been written solely for box office draw.

  Neve Campbell

  Past, Office, Nudity

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• I am a bit of a lefty on some issues.

  Vince Cable

  Lefties, Bits

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• You can't win for losing. Either you fulfill their stereotype of being a radical 60's person or you've sold out. In fact, of course, millions of people who were active in the 60's are doing work on issues that try to reflect their values.

  Bernardine Dohrn

  Winning, People, Trying

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• Once we secure our borders - and the federal government has not done a good job - then Congress, I believe, needs to take up the issue and look at how we try and identify those people that are here, that are national security risks to the United States.

  David Dewhurst

  Jobs, Believe, Government

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• I would argue that the issue of God and the issue of science have the same roots.

  Dinesh D'Souza

  Roots, Arguing

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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 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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