Barack Obama Quotes, Thinking Quotes, Issues Quotes

Members of Congress on both sides of the aisle, are motivated by all kinds of issues. They're sincerely interested in the economy, in terrorism, in social issues. But the one overriding thing they're interested in is getting reelected. And if they think that it's harder for them to get reelected by cooperating with each other, then they won't cooperate.

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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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Violence is bound sooner or later to exhaust itself but peace cannot issue out of such exhaustion.

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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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What is portrayed as high-minded positions on issues sometimes is just designed to carve out some of their commercial interests.

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Get involved in an issue that you're passionate about. It almost doesn't matter what it is ... We give too much of our power away, to the professional politicians, to the lobbyists, to cynicism. And our democracy suffers as a result.

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The pious and just honoring of ourselves may be thought the fountainhead from whence every laudable and worthy enterprise issues forth.

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To be concerned with the issue; soul versus non-soul, is to be in bondage to craving for becoming and non-becoming.

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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'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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A typical vice of American politics the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues, and the announcement of radical policies with much sound and fury, and at the same time with a cautious accompaniment of weasel phrases each of which sucks the meat out of the preceding statement.

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People are whupped. I'm whupped. My wife is whupped. Unless it's your job to be curious, who really has the time to sit and ask questions and explore issues?

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In the past, I had workaholic issues.

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You have to be involved in terms of what's happening in your local neighborhood and what issues are there.

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We but half express ourselves, and are ashamed of that divine idea which each of us represents. It may be safely trusted as proportionate and of good issues, so it be faithfully imparted, but God will not have his work made manifest by cowards.

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Democracy is a hegemonic tool of the West and contrary to Islam. Why do you act as though the entire world needs democracy? And when it comes to homosexuality, the issue is clearly dealt with by the Koran. It says it is forbidden and should be punished.

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I have somehow something like "influence" ... In the Anti-Semitic Correspondence ... my name is mentioned in almost every issue. Zarathustra ... has charmed the anti-Semites; there is a special anti-Semitic interpretation of it that made me laugh very much.

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Without calling the overall national issue a bubble, it's pretty clear that it's an unsustainable underlying pattern.

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All religions issue bibles again Satan, and say the most injurious things against him, but we never hear his side.

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The problem was, and we saw some of this in the immigration-reform issues as well, was they hadn't done sufficient homework to know that I didn't have all the capacity they thought I did in order to just execute this through the stroke of a pen.

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