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"The single greatest issue for me as an environmentalist is climate change. I'd have to say that climate change is the single most important issue facing the environmental community and communities as a whole."
"Veterans' issues are quite close to my heart. I find it quite hard to talk about, actually."
"It's basically a home-rule issue. I think the governing authority that appoints people as assessors certainly has reasons for doing it. ... And it certainly ought to be the board of assessors' right to say who is best qualified to serve as an appraiser."
"When the public starts classifying you as thoughtful, someone given to serious issues, you find yourself declassified as a humorist."
"Ask God to fill your mouth with the words you need to say today. No issue is so small that it doesn't require God's wisdom."
"The job of the school is to teach so well that family background is no longer an issue."
"We know of no more crucial civil rights issue facing Congress today than the need to increase the federal minimum wage and extend its coverage."
"Nonviolent direct action seeks to create such a crisis and establish such creative tension that a community that has consistently refused to negotiate is forced to confront the issue."
"There's no expert on this planet who says that the government telling people what to do actually does any good with this issue, this is going to require an effort on everyone's part."
"Childhood obesity issue is critically important to me because it's critically important to the health and success of our kids, and of this nation, ultimately."
"While we have come a long way since the Stonewall riots in 1969, we still have a lot of work to do. Too often, the issue of LGBT rights is exploited by those seeking to divide us. But at its core, this issue is about who we are as Americans. It's about whether this nation is going to live up to its founding promise of equality by treating all its citizens with dignity and respect."
"To resolve this issue will require Iran to come to the table and discuss in a clear and forthright way how to prove to the international community that the intentions of their nuclear program are peaceful. [...] The question is going to be whether in these discussions they show themselves moving clearly in that direction."
"I feel good when I'm engaged in what I think are the core issues of the society, and those core issues to me are what's happening to poor folks in this society."
"The Middle East is obviously an issue that has plagued the region for centuries."
"That's what the leadership was teaching me, day by day: that the self-interest I was supposed to be looking for extended well beyond the immediacy of issues, that beneath the small talk and sketchy biographies and received opinions, people carried with them some central explanation of themselves. Stories full of terror and wonder, studded with events that still haunted or inspired them. Sacred stories."
"I do think that you're starting to see young people pay attention to some longterm issues that they feel Washington has neglected."
"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."
"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."
"Their [the evangelicals'] success also points to a hunger for the product they are selling, a hunger that goes beyond any particular issue or cause... They need an assurance that somebody out there cares about them, is listening to them."
"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?"
