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There's one issue that will define the contours of this century more dramatically than any other, and that is the urgent and growing threat of a changing climate.

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All speech should be presumed to be protected by the Constitution, and a heavy burden should be placed on those who would censor to demonstrate with relative certainty that the speech at issue, if not censored, would lead to irremediable and immediate serious harm.

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Climate change is one of the issues I worry most about because its impacts are enormous. But they're gradual, they're not immediate.

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The available supply of gold and silver being wholly inadequate to permit the issuance of coins of intrinsic value or paper currency convertible into coin of intrinsic value or paper currency convertible into coin in the volume required to serve the needs of the People, some other basis for the issue of currency must be developed, and some means other than that of convertibility into coin must be developed to prevent undue fluctuation in the value of paper currency or any other substitute for money intrinsic value that may come into use.

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Now, at times this issue has tended to degenerate into an 'either-or' type of debate. Either we protect our people from terror or we protect our most cherished principles. But that is a false choice. It asks too little of us and assumes too little about America.

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What I would advise, what I advised before the election, and what I will continue to advise after the election, is that elections matter; voting matters; organizing matters; being informed on the issues matter.

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Religion as a vital issue is dead except on paper, and whatever beauty-baiting the future may witness will be the work of greed and trade, and not of honest cosmos-facing.

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Tags : H. P. Lovecraft Quotes , Issues Quotes , Greed Quotes

I'm not going to Wall Street [after the presidency]. The amount of time that I'll be investing in issues is going to be high. But it'll be necessarily in a different capacity.

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No one is more sensitive to the issue of overeating than the creator of Stuart Smalley.

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The reactionary is always willing to take a progressive attitude on any issue that is dead.

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I'm not an advocate for disability issues. Human issues are what interest me.

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Today the Justice Department did issue a blanket alert. It was in recognition of a general threat we received. This is not the first time the Justice Department have acted like this. I hope it is the last. But given the attitude of the evildoers, it may not be.

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Senator Kerry has been in Washington long enough to take both sides on just about every issue.

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I have tried to talk about the issues in this campaign... and this has sometimes been a lonely road, because I never meet anybody coming the other way.

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Elimination of illiteracy is as serious an issue to our history as the abolition of slavery.

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I'm not a single-issue person, but I spend so much time on Israel because it is so unfairly condemned around the world.

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I consider abortion to be a deeply personal and intimate issue for women and I don't believe male legislators should even vote on the issue.

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History has many cunning passages, contrived corridors and issues.

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Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Issues Quotes , History Quotes

It can be argued - and rightly - that Taiwan is not just another regional issue: after all, the Chinese regard it as part of China. But Taiwan is also a regional issue for three reasons. First, the overthrow or even the neutering of democracy in Taiwan, which is what Beijing effectively demands, would be a major setback for democracy in the region as a whole. Second, if the Chinese were able to get their way by force in Taiwan, they would undoubtedly be tempted to do the same in other disputes. And third, there is no lack of such disputes to provoke a quarrel.

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There are always so many conjectures as to the issue of any event that, whatever the outcome, there will always be people to say: 'I said then that it would be so'

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