"In Eleven Minutes, I started with the question of why sexuality is considered one of the major issues in life."
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"It's important to remember, when we're out there aggressively working for reform, that, even if our particular issue doesn't get resolved, we are adding peace to the world. We have to do our best and at the same time give up all hope of fruition."
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"Theodore Roosevelt was always getting himself in hot water by talking before he had to commit himself upon issues not well-defined."
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"Families want their child to get an education; families want safe access to healthcare; families want a roof over their head. When we silo issues, we end up with solutions that are in conflict with each other."
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"[It is] one of the most complex and emotional issues of out time."
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"We do know that a percentage of LGBT people avoid and delay screening and care because of fear about or experience of stigma, discrimination or simply lack of knowledge about LGBT people and their health amongst providers. If you avoid or delay screening and care and you have an issue that may be precancerous, by the time you get into screening and care you’re there because it has become acute and you already have a progressed disease."
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"There were a lot of Romneys. There's the Romney who was going to be better on gay rights than Ted Kennedy; now there's a Romney who checks with Rick Santorum on that issue."
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"The issue is not that morals be applied to public policy, it's that conservatives bring public policy to spheres of our lives where it should not enter."
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"Government, possessing the power to create and issue currency and credit as money and enjoying the right to withdraw both currency and credit from circulation by taxation and otherwise, need not and should not borrow capital at interest as a means of financing government work and public enterprises."
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"It is a moral issue how we are going to treat workers. On these issues, these are moral issues, principled issues, where there aren't compromises."
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"Judges are appointed by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. And it is our duty to ask questions on great issues that matter to the American people and to speak for them."
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"God looked upon His work and saw that it was good. That is where the clergy take issue with him."
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"As life developed, I faced each problem as it came along. As my activities and work broadened and reached out, I never tried to shirk. I tried never to evade an issue. When I found I had something to do--I just did it."
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"I have control issues. For sure, no question."
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"What of the Exodus? That too, is a wonderful story, but from the viewpoint of an historian, it is - to use a word scholars love - problematic. Let's say there are doubts, to say the least, among many scholars, as to whether the Exodus actually occurred. That's a historical issue."
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"I don't want to overstate the gender difference. But women are more sensitized to the way that larger issues affect their pocketbooks, like pay equality or cost of living changes."
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"I wanted to see Democrats out there talking about our core set of issues. And let people around this country vote, let - people have caucuses, let them do it however they're going to do it."
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"The importance of balance is huge but I think it is for everybody. It's a big issue for at least anyone that I talk to in any career."
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"A lot of the issues of the Dallas Cowboys yesterday having pressure on Tony Romo, came from the outside pressure."
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"I'd hopefully work through all my issues with men first so then I'd be okay being with a woman."
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