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"When the question arose whether I, as a member of the royal family, should take part in active combat in the Falklands, there was no question in her mind, and it only took her two days to sort the issue."
"You have to be interested in inequality. The issue of inequality and that of poverty are not separable."
"The only logical solution to solve the Palestinian issue is to hold free elections with the participation of Palestinians inside and outside the occupied territories and a recognition of the nation's legitimacy"
"Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates."
"If we continue to address the issue of the environment where we live as though we're the only species that lives here, we'll create a disaster for ourselves"
"When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment, it's exciting to have a real crisis on your hands."
"Social and political issues in general seem to me fairly simple; the effort to obfuscate them in esoteric and generally vacuous theory is one of the contributions of the intelligentsia to enhancing their own power and the power of those they serve."
"What do I care about Jupiter? Justice is a human issue, and I do not need a god to teach it to me."
"I read that book Fat is a Feminist issue, got a bit desperate halfway through and ate it."
"Sanitation issues in the developing world affect women more than they affect men."
"The number of Americans killed since 9/11 by terrorism, it's less than 100. If you look at the number that have been killed by gun violence, it's in the tens of thousands. And for us not to be able to resolve that issue has been something that is distressing."
"We define a bargain issue as one which, on the basis of facts established by analysis, appears to be worth considerably more that it is selling for."
"I think we have to really focus on the issues much more than we may have in the past. I think we have to seek to create coalitional strategies that go beyond racial lines. We need to bring black communities, Chicano communities, Puerto Rican communities, Asian American communities together."
"As a writer, I've always believed that while my work and I myself are embedded in whatever period I am writing about, clearly I am sensitive to the winds that are blowing in the culture. At the same time, I have always felt that the issue was not to deal with the problem in the abstract, but to deal with the people who are in that problem. The emphasis is on the people. The general problem begins to resolve itself even before the play is finished."
"Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do that with all thy might and leave the issues calmly to God."
"In the absence of wake-up calls, many of us never really confront the critical issues of life."
"If a change in our lives require individually or socially painful sacrifices, it will be difficult to put into effect no matter how necessary that change might be. However, if we start down the road of transformation with simple, enjoyable, and tangible changes, we will soon be prepared to tackle larger issues."
"The bigger the population gets, the more serious the problems become... We have to address the population issue. The United Nations, with the U.S. supporting it, took the position in Cairo in 1994 that every country was responsible for stabilizing its own population. It can be done. But in this country, it's phony to say 'I'm for the environment but not for limiting immigration.'"
"It is the characteristic excellence of the strong man that he can bring momentous issues to the fore and make a decision about them. The weak are always forced to decide between alternatives they have not chosen themselves."
"There is no western concern for issues of aggression, atrocities, human rights abuses and so on if there's a profit to be made from them"
