Among the most urgent political priorities of our age is…

The performance of international institutions will be symptomatic of the domestic political priorities of influential member states. International institutions don't really have a life…

— Samantha Power

“The United States should interact with other nations realistically, first, not on the basis of domestic political priorities. Very often the problems in distant…

— Mark Bowden

I read so ravenously that I would read through whole categories. I was crazy about reading biographies. [...] I think biographies are very urgent…

— Joan Didion

They [leaders in Western Europe] do not misuse financial instruments, financial injections, but, first of all, seek structural change. This is urgent for our…

— Vladimir Putin

The most successful businessmen were often uneducated when measured by the scholastic standards of the teaching profession. But they were equal to their social…

— Ludwig von Mises

The poet's first rule must be never to bore his readers; and his best way of keeping this rule is never to bore himself-which,…

— Robert Graves

Nothing is more urgent than a serious, dare I say compassionate, debate as to where we are going at home and abroad. Technicians cannot…

— Henry A. Kissinger

Urgent optimism is the desire to act immediately to tackle an obstacle, combined with the belief that we have a reasonable hope of success.

— Jane McGonigal

The property of the people belongs to the people. To take it from them by taxation cannot be justified except by urgent public necessity.…

— Calvin Coolidge

We embark unhesitatingly on the path, in a direction that is absolutely right and urgent, supported by everyone, in the knowledge that this path…

— Yehudi Menuhin

The next thing you do today will be the most important thing on your agenda, because, after all, you're doing it next. Well, perhaps…

— Seth Godin

God puts you where God needs you. You are where you are supposed to be. The job you are doing may not be any…

— Lawrence Kushner

Importunity is a condition of prayer. We are to press the matter, not with vain repetitions, but with urgent repetitions. We repeat, not to…

— Edward McKendree Bounds

In New York, you are constantly faced with this very urgent decision that you have to make, about every twenty minutes...you have to decide,…

— David Cross

People will pay a price for putting political obstruction over progress in a time that is so critical and urgent.

— Tim Kaine