Quotes About Issues

I feel like anytime you write about people in an honest way, you can find connections to any issue you would like.

All too often politicians duck issues for fear of the connotations attached to the subject. Leadership, however, means confronting those issues.

The issues and challenges surrounding nuclear non-proliferation are continuously evolving. They've changed dramatically at several junctures in recent memory.

The issues surrounding illegal immigration are wide-ranging and complex, but there is no question about the need to secure our borders.

Honestly, I don't think that the policies and issues surrounding guns will be easily figured out in our country, but we need to take a close look, and we need to have a conversation around those issues.

Since the issues surrounding President Obama's birth certificate began during his campaign in 2008, I have rejected the notion that he is anything other than American.

I suppose I have been contending with issues surrounding my safety and security for years.

Happiness quantification sounds a bit wishy-washy, sure, and through a series of carefully administered surveys across the globe, economists and psychologists have certainly confronted a fair number of sticky issues around how to measure, and even define, happiness.

I try to make a really good spy movie, so the animation has to be good. 'Bot Seeks Bot' was one of my lighter and more playful ones, so it can survive not being visually told as well. I did have some issues with the quality of the inking on some of the animation, but a lot of that will only ever bother me.

I love my 'Survivor's Remorse' cast. They are so funny and crazy, like a big dysfunctional family. It's so much fun, and I love the issues that we talk about on that show. We deal with nuanced and controversial issues, and we do it in a way that's funny. It's comedy.

Ideally, I like to integrate the human issues into the suspense story itself.

We live in an age that's very suspicious of preachy political rhetoric, which means that there's room for art that approaches these issues from the side - as satire, as parody, or as a kind of outlandish speculative proposition.

Since stepping down as laboratory director in 1999, I have devoted an increasing fraction of my time to international issues. I am involved with energy, environment, and sustainability issues, particularly as they involve new energy sources free of greenhouse gases.

I used to work in public health, and the issues were sustainability, how the funds were being delineated, and if the funds were actually helping the people we think they're helping.

We need a completely different type of economy - one which is truly green, sustainable, and embeds the biggest issues of the day into its heart.

I think we're going to start to see a new model of civic advocacy where people get together once in a while to protest, but it's more about an ongoing, sustained engagement in issues, networks and communities about which people care.

I have a sustained distrust for all politicians, even those with whom I agree on more issues than not.

One thing I've been thinking about is taking the social issues out of national politics. For example, if Georgia wanted abortion and Alabama didn't, that's going to be up to the people in Georgia. I can't sway them. Would I give them advice not to? Absolutely. Would I say it's wrong? Yes.

Problems emerge and some people try to sweep them under the rug.

It's up to comedians to shine the light on what's wrong in the world, and we don't want things swept under the rug.

Michigan has always been a swing state, so we understand that the goal is to have two political parties, debating the issues with empathy and respect.

There is a synergy between the way Croatians approach life and the way Jesuits do. Croatians are very real about situations. We don't gloss over things. If there are issues to deal with, you deal with them.

America certainly is a great country with plenty of freedoms, but there are a lot of systemic issues that need to change.

Things I've been talking about for a long time as systemic problems, the American public has also begun to see something needs to be done down here.