Barack Obama Quotes, Issues Quotes, Climate Quotes

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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A lot of the issues that I see, it is not an either-or situation.

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Before we can study the central issues of life today, we must destroy the prejudices and fallacies born of previous centuries.

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Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Issues Quotes , Prejudice Quotes

I can never bring you to realize the importance of sleeves, the suggestiveness of thumb-nails, or the great issues that may hang from a boot-lace.

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Tags : Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes , Issues Quotes , Nails Quotes

Back in the '50s and '60s, most politicians were concerned about not talking about faith, partly because there were consequences you had to deal with - (for instance) Catholicism had been made an issue.

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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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I was a huge fan of 'Mad' magazine when I was 11, 12, 13 years old. I'd scour used bookstores trying to find back issues, and I'd wait at the newsstand for a new issue to come out. My life revolved around it.

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Tags : Al Yankovic Quotes , Years Quotes , Issues Quotes

Religions contradict one another-on small matters, such as whether we should put on a hat or take one off on entering a house of worship, or whether we should eat beef and eschew pork or the other way around, all the way to the most central issues, such as whether there are no gods, one God, or many gods.

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Tags : Carl Sagan Quotes , Religious Quotes , Issues 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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Tags : Alan Lightman Quotes , Moving Quotes , Issues Quotes

Initiative and referendum make government more responsive to its citizens, neutralize the power of the special interests and stimulate public involvement in state issues.

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Tags : George W. Bush Quotes , Government Quotes , Issues Quotes

I think the Prime Minister is the first to acknowledge that Malaysia's still got some work to do. Just like the United States, by the way, has some work to do on these issues. Human Rights Watch probably has a list of things they think we should be doing as a government.

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Tags : Barack Obama Quotes , Thinking Quotes , Issues Quotes

There is no doubt the charge was an awful gamble and that no normal precautions were possible. The issue as far as I was concerned had to be left to Fortune or to God - or to whatever may decide these things. I am content and shall not complain.

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Tags : Winston Churchill Quotes , Adversity Quotes , Issues Quotes

One of the great qualities of Chancellor Merkel is that she is steady. She analyzes a situation. She's honest. Sometimes we've had disagreements, but when we do, it's very constructive. And we are consistently open with each other about how we should approach these issues.

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Tags : Barack Obama Quotes , Issues Quotes , Quality Quotes

I think that I'm a better speechwriter than my speechwriters. I know more about policies on any particular issue than my policy directors. And I'll tell you right now that I'm gonna think I'm a better political director than my political director.

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