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"The psychedelic issue is a civil rights and civil liberties issue. It is an issue concerned with the most basic of human freedoms: religious practice and the privacy of the individual mind."
"The things I encounter that I call elves or gnomes, it's just a gloss. I mean, they're small, and they have the archetype. They're more like leprechauns, and this maybe raises a racial issue."
"I think that the whole thing, the crux of the whole psychedelic issue, is that it accentuates personal responsibility by making people take their own experiences seriously."
"When there is an issue, I approach it and hit it head on. I speak the truth. If I do something wrong, then I own it."
"What I do believe is theatre is a medium with a peculiar ability to air vital issues."
"All issues of crime are better addressed at the state level."
"Parents own the children, and it is an issue of freedom and public health."
"Cake is not the issue here."
"Yes, I love white, and I'd wear it all the time if I could. Some people think I have an issue with cleanliness, but to me it's just so pretty."
"The whole concept of higher education is negated unless the sole criterion used to determine if students qualify is the grades they score on standardized tests. Education is purely an issue of learning - we can no longer afford to have it polluted by damn politics. Leave pollution up to the politicians"
"Conservation is a great moral issue, for it involves the patriotic duty of insuring the safety and continuance of the nation."
"I would urge that we all use a little bit of caution in dealing with an issue that is so vital to our national security."
"Economists are like Aeolian harps, and the sounds that issue from them are determined by the winds that blow."
"Financial regulation is the next item on the political horizon, and it doesn't have to be the deathly dull wonk-battle that it sounds like. In fact, if the Democrats do their job, it can just as easily become a platform for addressing the greatest issues of them all."
"What is at stake in the debate over health care is more than the mere crafting of policy. The issue is now the identity of the Democratic Party."
"While Democrats fussed with the details of health care reforms, conservatives spent months telling the nation that the real issue is freedom, that what's on the line is American liberty itself."
"Frankly, I’m suspicious of anyone who has a strong opinion on a complicated issue."
"Once you become a producer, you're really selling something. It is a control issue, because you don't really know how it's going to pan out, but the creative control makes it work it."
"I cannot say that I am in the slightest degree impressed by your bigness, or your material resources, as such. Size is not grandeur, and territory does not make a nation. The great issue, about which hangs true sublimity, and the terror of overhanging fate, is what are you going to do with all these things?"
"Suppression of expression conceals the real problems confronting a society and diverts public attention from the critical issues. It is likely to result in neglect of the grievances which are the actual basis of the unrest, and thus prevent their correction."
