Issues Quotes
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People were concerned about national security, and that precluded us from having the opportunity to break through on the issues that we cared most about…
— Tom Daschle
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I would like us to think about it more explicitly, and not take our intuitions as the given of ethics, but rather to reflect on…
— Peter Singer
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Ethics must begin at the top of an organization. It is a leadership issue and the chief executive must set the example.
— Edward F. Hennessey
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I have so much confidence in the good sense of man, and his qualifications for self-government, that I am never afraid of the issue where…
— Thomas Jefferson
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[T]he visibility of styles is itself a product of historical consciousness. ... The very notion of "style" needs to be approached historically. Awareness of style…
— Susan Sontag
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If we're going to make progress on this issue [of contraception], we have to be really clear about what our agenda is. We're not talking…
— Melinda Gates
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People don't see hunger in front of them so they are not directly affected. What I am doing is connecting young people to the issue
— Lauren Bush
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I do think that you're starting to see young people pay attention to some longterm issues that they feel Washington has neglected.
— Barack Obama
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Now, more than ever, we need to connect the dots between climate, poverty, energy, food and water. These issues cannot be addressed in isolation.
— Ban Ki-moon
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Let women issue a declaration of independence sexually, and absolutely refuse to cohabit with men until they are acknowledged as equals in everything, and the…
— Victoria Woodhull
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The beginning point at both conferences must be that everything is a woman's issue. That means racism in a woman's issue, just as is anti-Semitism,…
— Charlotte Bunch
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I had been involved in animal welfare groups, but DDAL presented an opportunity to actually create and pass legislation aimed at issues which really matter…
— Doris Day
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I can't think of any issue that is more important than working to see that no schoolchild in this world goes hungry.
— Drew Barrymore
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Investing in [children] is not a national luxury or a national choice. It's a national necessity. If the foundation of your house is crumbling, you…
— Marian Wright Edelman
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I think it's important for me as an actor that I say these are the issues I'm going to be committed to. One of them…
— Nicole Kidman
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We physicians have focused on the nuclear threat as the singular issue of our era. We are not indifferent to other human rights and hard-won…
— Bernard Lown
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...ordinary men and women may often feel unmotivated to exert their citizenship, either because they cannot tell the difference between the different alternatives, or because…
— Patricio Aylwin
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Emboldened by the progress the Republican National Committee has made to ensure we are effectively engaging the Hispanic community year-round. It's important our party listens…
— Marco Rubio
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I definitely have body issues, but everybody does. When you come to the realization that everybody does that - even the people that I consider…
— Taylor Swift
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In practice a photographer does not concern himself with philosophical issues while working; he makes photographs, working with subject matter that he thinks will make…
— John Szarkowski
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