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Quotes About Issues

Washington quibbled with Hamilton on one or two points but otherwise stood in perfect agreement. His letter to Hamilton again corroborates what the Jeffersonians found difficult to credit: that Washington never shied away from differing with the redoubtable Hamilton but agreed with him on the vast majority of issues.
~ Ron Chernow
The speech lacked soaring cadences or memorable lines, yet it touched on two explosive issues at the finale. He advised Native Americans that their days as a hunting, gathering people were numbered and that he favored "civilization, christianization and ultimate citizenship" for them.89 Then, in sharp contrast to his predecessor, Grant championed black suffrage.
~ Ron Chernow
Far more telling was how he became a divisive issue among Republicans and helped to split the party in 1912 over several issues. One
~ Ron Chernow
Junior welcomed this firsthand exposure to urgent social problems.
~ Ron Chernow
We can't treat the Bible with kid gloves. We really need to wrestle with the issues, because our faith depends on it.
~ Lee Strobel
Si no tiene sentido", dijo el Rey, "eso nos salva de un montón de problemas, sabes, porque no hace falta que le busquemos uno.
~ Lewis Carroll
In order to have a society in which public issues can be openly and vigorously debated, it is not necessary to allow the brutalization of innocent victims.
~ Samuel Alito
No society lies nearer to the cyclonic path of the forces of world change than the United States, and few societies are more intellectually aware of the nature of the issues that have to be faced
~ Christopher Dawson
I have expressed an opinion on public issues whenever they appeared to me so bad and unfortunate that silence would have made me feel guilty of complicity.
~ Albert Einstein
Isabel is looking at several collections of research journals. 'She would understand the issues if she chose to open one of the volumes, but she knew that there were conversations within which she would never have the time to participate in. And that, of course, was the problem with any large collection of books, whether in a library or a bookshop: one might feel intimidated by the fact that there was simply too many to read and not know where to start.
~ Alexander McCall Smith
Small ones too, Mma Sometimes big problems are really tiny ones when you look at them in the right way.
~ Alexander McCall Smith
It was a relief to inhabit someone else's life for a while, to get her personal issues for a brief respite. In a play, she knew exactly how all her character's problems would be resolved. No matter how the cast performed, the end turned out the same. No questions, no worries, no unknowns.
~ Alexandra Robbins
Secretary Powell and I agree on every single issue that has ever been before this administration except for those instances where Colin's still learning.
~ Donald Rumsfeld
The Mask of Sanity—An Attempt to Clarify Some Issues About the So-Called Psychopathic Personality.7
~ Donald W. Black
Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness.
~ B. H. Liddell Hart
When I was young, I wasn't a misfit or anything. I had friends in all the different social groups. But I had issues - just personal issues, insecurities and other things that had happened in my life.
~ Steve Vai
In 1972, political scientist Leo Bogart demonstrated that most of what polls do is manufacture opinion, given that a sizable portion of Americans know nothing or nearly nothing or else hold no opinion about the subjects and issues raised. "The first question a pollster should ask," Bogart wrote, is "' Have you thought about this at all? Do you have an opinion?
~ Jill Lepore
Announcements of collaboration create a mirage of progress, without necessarily furthering the resolution of underlying issues," wrote scholar Evelyn Douek in a 2020 piece critiquing what she's dubbed "content cartels," or multi-stakeholder partnerships involving more than one company and, typically, state partners.
~ Jillian York
Don't miss the heart issues when dealing with the surface problems!
~ Jim Berg
Given the issues with certain SF/F trophies (like the World Fantasy Award, which is 1) butt-ugly and 2) based on one disgustingly racist dude), all trophies from this point forward should be made out of LEGO. That way if you don't like it, you can just make it into something else.
~ Jim C. Hines
no" gets you past emotional issues and trivial issues to essential issues. We want decision-based negotiation, not the emotion-based waste of time known as win-win.
~ Jim Camp
You know what will bring family and social issues front and center? If 2012 America sees middle-schoolers reenacting Lady Gaga videos.
~ Jim Geraghty
The media seems to think only abortion and gay marriage are religious issues. Poverty is a moral issue, it's a faith issue, it's a religious issue.
~ Jim Wallis
Two problems of our country—energy and malaise.
~ Jimmy Carter