Quotes About Issues

You can't be in business with international development and not understand basic issues of colonialism, postcolonialism and white privilege.

I think that when you get right down to it, people do evolve on different issues. And, you know, I'm pro-life. And I was begrudgingly the other way.

I was a problematic kid, to be sure.

There's different problems to face every day, man.

I really try to say things as they basically are and it so happens that it is a good message that things are getting better, but there are still problems.

There is only one cure for the evils which newly acquired freedom produces, and that cure is freedom.

I am now concerned with women's issues in a different way: women from Afghanistan, from Cambodia.

There is a certain highlighting of issues, be it emotional, be it social, or simply an entertainment one: they can be written or directed by a woman differently, with a different voice. I feel that their voice needs to be given more stage and more space.

We need to focus on issues where we all agree, which is spending discipline and control and making sure that government, both in Springfield and in Washington, doesn't take more from your family budget.

Politics isn't something that really interested me; I, of course, care about what's going on in the world, but so much of political discourse now is not necessarily about doing what's right.

It's important to discuss the issues that we have in our country.

Be who you are, do what you do and let us get on with discussing the real issues of this country.

It would be disingenuous to say I don't have some sensitivity to the seamy side of issues.

I would never, ever use a novel to do thinly disguised political information dissemination. For me, all these experiences, they sat in me, and they got broken down into my body, and I sweated it out. It's not because I want to talk about 'issues.' For me, a novel is a way of seeing the world.

My job is to make sure our caucus and our movement is united. That means not bringing up divisive issues that would divide even our own party.

A lot of people think I am the one to turn to for dog behavior issues. I'm not. All you have to do is meet Tucker; you'll know that I'm not an expert at training dogs.

I have tended to speak out on the issues that are in the purview of my professional expertise - business ethics, corporate ethics, and government ethics.

What I've found is if you get the right characters in the right story and put them in the right setting - and let them go - they tend to do all the exploring of the issues for you. Because people are interesting and political and funny and sad.

I can't say I follow politics extremely closely, but I'm definitely aware of what's going on in the world.

I have not had any negative experiences. But I am fully aware of the issues that some of the female actors faced in the industry. Some of them shared their bad experiences with me.

Family issues and a failing career would be enough to consume most young actresses.

I've certainly done more than my fair share of pouncing on a stupid issue to win the news cycle of the day, to distract from what are real and important issues.

There's been a false sense of security in the American people when it comes to environment issues and our water, because they believe that the EPA is there to protect us, and unfortunately, that system's not working right now. They're overburdened, understaffed, and underfunded.

Families in which nothing is ever discussed usually have a lot not to discuss.