Barack Obama Quotes, Thinking Quotes, Issues Quotes

One of the gratifying things, I think, about the end of my presidency even though admittedly my successor ran against a lot of what we stood for, is when you look at the individual issues and the progress that we've made on a lot of those issues, we got the support of a pretty decent majority.

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

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Once we got to know each other, we had such similar impulses. We saw in a similar way, and we developed a strong friendship. We would talk on the phone for hours, philosophically and theologically, about all of these issues.

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It's the reason why I am always interested in engaging in people who are pushing us and pushing against the status quo. But having been an activist, the only thing that I'm always encouraging activists to do is, once you have raised the issue, and even through controversial means, you have to come behind it with an agenda and the possibility of reconciliation if power meets your demands.

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Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles.

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Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Issues Quotes , Principles Quotes

Unfortunately, public debates do not have much room for subtlety. The audience wants a quick thrust at your opponent, not a slow and convoluted series of moves. Whenever Obama uses subtleties in discussing a complex issue, he gets creamed.

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Conservation is a great moral issue, for it involves the patriotic duty of insuring the safety and continuance of the nation.

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I don't feel like I've got all that much too important to say on the kind of big national issues.

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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

Simply that we are mirroring the trends in society, at any given time smuggling was an issue in the seventies, corruption is an issue today, and we faithfully reflect those issues.

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History has many cunning passages, contrived corridors and issues.

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Hasty work and premature decisions may lead to penalties out of all proportion to the issues immediately involved.

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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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Tags : Alan K. Simpson Quotes , Believe Quotes , Issues Quotes

When you buy a used car, you kick the tires, you look at the odometer, you open up the hood. If you do not feel yourself an expert in automobile engines, you bring a friend who is. And you do this with something as unimportant as an automobile. But on the issues of the transcendent, of ethics, of morals, of the origins of the world, of the nature of human beings, on those issues should we not insist upon at least equally skeptical scrutiny?

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