Issues Quotes - Page 27

• I am neither Republican nor Democrat. I am a registered independent because I find that I cast my votes not on the basis of party loyalty but on the issues of the moment and my assessment of the candidates.

  Walter Cronkite

  Loyalty, Party, Independent

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• There is no issue of States' rights or National rights. There is only the struggle for human rights.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Struggle, Rights, States

  Address to a Joint Session of Congress on Voting Legislation, delivered 15 March 1965, Washington, D.C.

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• Some people draw a comforting distinction between force and violence. I refuse to cloud the issue by such word-play. The power which establishes a state is violence; the power which maintains it is violence; the power which eventually overthrows it is violence. Call an elephant a rabbit only if it gives you comfort to feel that you are about to be trampled to death by a rabbit.

  Kenneth Kaunda

  Power, Elephants, Clouds

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• There is something beyond the natural chaos that is woman or the chaos with implied order that is man, and that's the totality. To stay as we are, is not the issue, but to awake from the dream of life.

  Frederick Lenz

  Dream, Women, Order

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• Would anybody be offended if we gave a $150 million bonus to Gandhi? How about a $250 million bonus to Mother Teresa? Do we have an issue with that? None at all. None at all. Great leaders would never sacrifice the people to save the numbers. They would sooner sacrifice the numbers to save the people.

  Simon Sinek

  Motivational, Mother, Sacrifice

  "Why good leaders make you feel safe". TED Talk, www.ted.com. March 2014.

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• The reality is that everybody makes mistakes. The issue isn't whether you will make them, it's what you will do about them. It's whether you will choose the path of humility and courage or the path of ego and pride.

  Stephen Covey

  Motivational, Mistake, Humility

  Stephen M. R. Covey (2008). “The Speed of Trust: The One Thing that Changes Everything”, p.215, Simon and Schuster

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• The reality is that the founding fathers were land speculators. The fact was that you couldn't vote in this country if you did not own land, and that was basically you had to be a white man who owned land. Now how did they get that land? They basically had to steal it from someone, and that would be probably the Indians. And so most of the initial founding fathers were, while they may have had some really nice ideas about democracy, they had a lot of issues with people of color. They had a lot of issues with people who held things that they coveted.

  Winona LaDuke

  Country, Father, Nice

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• People who have "their own issues" often don't stand back and look at the big picture- they're too busy orchestrating their own issues.

  Laura Schlessinger

  Women, People, Looks

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• If you give Congress a chance to vote on both sides of an issue, it will always do it.

  Les Aspin

  Humorous, Giving, Sides

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• If you have more personal power and you are in higher states of mind, then naturally you can see things and adhere to them or avoid them. Personal power is really the issue.

  Frederick Lenz

  Mind, States, Higher

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• If rewards do not work, what does? I recommend that employers pay workers well and fairly and then do everything possible to help them forget about money. A preoccupation with money distracts everyone - employers and employees - from the issues that really matter.

  Alfie Kohn

  Doe, Pay, Rewards

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• I think there's a fundamental moral issue about whether it's right for a machine to decide to kill a person. It's bad enough that people are deciding to kill people, but at least they have perhaps some moral argument that they're doing it to ultimately defend their families or prevent some greater evil.

  Judy Woodruff

  Thinking, People, Evil

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The thing is that the money issue looms so large in art now. And it has absolutely nothing to do with art. If you're painting goes for ten grand or a hundred grand, it doesn't make painting any easier. And it doesn't make the painting any better if it goes for a hundred grand.

  Joe Bradley

  Art, Painting, Easier

  Interview with Laura Hoptman, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 15, 2013.

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• I loved being on the other side of the camera and interacting with the crew. When you are an actor, you have to stay inside this world, but when you are with the crew, on the outside, you are in the dirt, working through all the issues. It's just a different way of working, and I think I preferred it.

  Angelina Jolie

  Thinking, World, Way

  "Angelina Jolie IN THE LAND OF BLOOD AND HONEY Interview". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. December 19, 2011.

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• My reason for arguing against abolishing these types of sports isn't some kind of lofty, philosophical rationale. It's just that I did it and I liked it. It comes down to a libertarian issue for me. I feel that if I know the risks and I want to take them, I should be allowed to do so.

  Jonathan Gottschall

  Sports, Philosophical, Risk

  "A Talk With The Savage English Professor". Interview with Sam Harris, www.thedailybeast.com. March 5, 2015.

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• I don't have any issues with my age.

  Victoria Beckham

  Age

  "Victoria Beckham, Working Girl" by Sarah Lyall, www.nytimes.com. August 22, 2013.

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• As I grew up and began identifying myself as a feminist, there were plenty of issues that continued to make me question marriage: the father "giving" the bride away, women taking their husband's last name, the white dress, the vows promising to "obey" the groom. And that only covers the wedding.

  Jessica Valenti

  Husband, Father, Names

  "My big feminist wedding" by Jessica Valenti, www.theguardian.com. April 23, 2009.

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• It is convenient for the old men to blame Eve. To insist we are damned because a country girl talked to the snake one afternoon long ago. Children must starve in Somalia for that, and old women be abandoned in our greatest cities. It’s why we will finally be thrown into the lakes of molten lead. Because she was confused by happiness that first time anyone said she was beautiful. Nevertheless, she must be the issue, so people won’t notice that rocks and galaxies, mathematics and rust are also created in His image.

  Jack Gilbert

  Beautiful, Girl, Country

  Jack Gilbert (2012). “Collected Poems”, p.382, Knopf

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• All topics, issues, and subjects in 'The Room' add to the depth of the characters in the movie, and they are equally important.

  Tommy Wiseau

  Character, Important, Depth

  Interview with Steve Heisler, www.avclub.com. June 24, 2009.

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• If school principals have given up on the important things and are focusing on discipline, they are creating a certain, diluted reality. In an organization that functions properly, discipline should be a marginal issue.

  Itay Talgam

  School, Reality, Organization

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• We come humbly to say to the men in the forefront of our government that the civil rights issue is not an Ephemeral, evanescent domestic issue that can be kicked about by reactionary guardians of the status quo; it is rather an eternal moral issue which may well determine the destiny of our nation in the ideological struggle with communism. The hour is late. The clock of destiny is ticking out. We must act now, before it is too late.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Struggle, Destiny, Men

  "The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Volume IV: Symbol of the Movement, January 1957-December 1958". Book by Martin Luther King, Clayborne Carson, Peter Holloran, Ralph Luker, Penny A. Russell (University of California Press), p. 211, 1992.

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• A social impact bond is a new way of bringing financing into social and environmental support issues.

  Judith Rodin

  Impact, Support, Environmental

  "How Modern Finance Promises to Break the Cycle of Recidivism". "PBS NewsHour" with Paul Solman, www.pbs.org. March 14, 2013.

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• At Temple University, and I'm sure this was the way in a lot of film classes, comedy was not an option, and not considered a serious form of expression. You had to make a film about an issue.

  Tim Heidecker

  Expression, Class, Way

  "Tim & Eric". Interview with Josh Modell, www.avclub.com. November 13, 2007.

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• I regard many of the neoconservatives as personal friends, but that's not stopped them from behaving with extraordinary viciousness towards those of us who raised the immigration issue.

  Peter Brimelow

  Immigration, Raised, Extraordinary

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• On Nov. 6, the day before my 94th birthday, our nation will hold one of the most critical elections in my lifetime. We are at a crossroads and there are profound moral issues at stake. I strongly urge you to vote for candidates who support the biblical definition of marriage between a man and a woman, protect the sanctity of life and defend our religious freedoms. The Bible speaks clearly on these crucial issues. Please join me in praying for America, that we will turn our hearts back toward God.

  Billy Graham

  Religious, Heart, Biblical

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