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I have a lot of interests in global issues, as you know, humanity, inequity, arms control, and I continue to be active on all these issues. -- Mohamed ElBaradei
Todays impossibilities are tomorrows miracles. -- Robert H. Schuller
More! More! is the cry of a mistaken soul. -- William Blake
Bad ideas flourish because they are in the interest of powerful groups -- Paul Krugman
What journalism is really about-it's to monitor power and the centres of power. -- Amira Hass
I challenge anybody to show me an example of bias in Fox News Channel. -- Rupert Murdoch
Corruption is not a problem just for some countries; this is a global issue. -- Nguyen Tan Dung
Don't use that foreign word 'ideals.' We have that excellent native word 'lies.' -- Henrik Ibsen
Every single social and global issue of our day is a business opportunity in disguise -- Peter Drucker
Freedom without opportunity is a devil's gift, and the refusal to provide such opportunities is criminal -- Noam Chomsky
Along with issues like global warming, I think a problem with the world today is population decline. -- Talulah Riley
Today in the era of globalization there is no such issue as borders between states of the same nation. -- Fatos Nano
I am for peace. And I am for a negotiated peace. But this accord is not a just peace. -- Edward Said
The failure of world leaders to act on the critical issue of global warming is often blamed on economic considerations. -- David Suzuki
There's not going to be any one replacement for oil: we need to have hundreds of solutions to this global issue. -- Craig Venter
The two defining issues of this century are both universal but felt locally: the global water crisis and the resources boom. -- Jay Weatherill
I don't think there's any other issue out there that young people are more passionate, and more ahead in, than global warming. -- Jose Antonio Vargas
Global health issues remind us - perhaps more than any other issue - that we are all children of the same extended family. -- Kathleen Sebelius
Adoption is a global issue these days - it's certainly current - and it's encouraging for a lot of couples whether they're straight or gay. -- Sara Ramirez
The best way to really make the VPN issue a completely nonissue is through global licensing that we are continuing to pursue with our partners. -- Ted Sarandos
Terrorism and trade cannot be the only issues on which the world unites. We must commit ourselves to a global coalition to deal with exclusion, too. -- Noreena Hertz
There isn't a more important issue in the world than global warming. Even the Cold War and the Bay of Pigs crisis were a notional threat. -- Simon Beaufoy
Where issues used to be, say, parochial or local in Ireland or England and so forth, all politics is global now because all business is global. -- Gabriel Byrne
Every corner of the public psyche is canvassed by some of the most talented citizens to see if the desire for some merchandisable product can be cultivated. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
That wild beast which lives in man and does not dare to show itself until the barriers of law and custom have been removed, was now set free. -- Ivo Andric
In some cases, in order to protect global issues some sacrifice for national interest is worth it in the long run. Global warming, these things, they suffer everybody. -- Dalai Lama
To tackle the underlying roots of violence and conflict, we need a massive international effort to reduce poverty and injustice, and to promote development, democracy and human rights. -- Clare Short
Global warming is a political issue. It is as much a political issue to the left as abortion is. It's as big a political issue as health care is. -- Rush Limbaugh
Climate change is a global issue - from the point of view of the Earth's climate, a molecule of CO2 emitted in Bejing is the same as a molecule emitted in Sydney. -- Jeff Goodell
The question of whether or to what extent human activities are causing global warming is not a matter of ideology, let alone of belief. The issue is simply one of risk management. -- Malcolm Turnbull
[W]hat suffers in the atmosphere of immediacy is analysis. What suffers in this search for speed is depth. The media in the wealthy world are becoming increasingly simplistic, superficial, and celebrity-focused. -- Laurie Garrett
There are many challenges in the global education ecosystem: from top-down systemic issues in how educational services are organized and delivered, to bottom-up issues of curriculum effectiveness, accountability, and human resource allocation. -- Adam Braun
I've always been a fan of issues around race and racialism, and I've loved playing with it. People act as though it isn't an issue, but it's a recurring theme in our lives globally. -- Trevor Noah
Climate is a global issue. Coal is still the energy that is being used more than anything else to make electricity. The United States is using less as we're turning more to gas. But, around the world, that's what they're using. -- Ian Bremmer
The Administration should never have walked away from the Kyoto Treaty. Global warming is real and it is here today. The facts aren't the issue. The policy is the issue. I think the Administration's policy on global warming is dead wrong. -- Ted Kulongoski
A fertilizer bomb that kills hundreds in Oklahoma. Fuel-laden civil jets that kill 4000 in New York. A sanctions policy that kills one and a half million in Iraq. A trade policy that immiserates continents. You can make a bomb out of anything. The ones on paper hurt the most. -- Raj Patel
The US is the most wretchedly villainous state of all times. Anyone aware of global issues can easily imagine how vast the hatred for the United States - a corrupted, swollen, paralysing and suffocating political entity - must be across the Third World - and among the thinking minority of the West too. -- Pentti Linkola
Teaching is almost like an act of prayer for me. I feel that I am present at the intersection of people and ideas in a very holy way. There are not many places where successful adults can take a break from work or domestic issues and freely and safely explore their inner lives or global issues through an ethical lens. -- Erica Brown
I dread our own power and our own ambition; I dread our being too much dreaded....We may say that we shall not abuse this astonishing and hitherto unheard-of-power. But every other nation will think we shall abuse it. It is impossible but that, sooner or later, this state of things must produce a combination against us which may end in our ruin. -- Edmund Burke
Christians and Muslims can still get along. On issues such as global warming and helping the poor. -- Bob Abernethy
I don't get to the global issues or anything like that. I am just trying to be silly. -- Brad Williams
[Photography] puts a human face on issues which, from afar, can appear abstract or ideological or monumental in their global impact. -- James Nachtwey
You are too smart and too knowledgeable to believe much of the nonsense you have been espousing on global warming and many other issues. -- Howard Wolpe
Begin to grow in wisdom and develop an informed approach to more global issues around you and along your path to success and significance. -- Archibald Marwizi
Convergence of our views on global trade issues under the WTO and our common resolve to combat terrorism provide a valuable base for mutual understanding. -- Abdul Kalam
Given the scale of issues like global warming and epidemic disease, we shouldn't underestimate the importance of a can-do attitude to science rather than a can't-afford-it attitude. -- Martin Rees
The world needs a new global architecture, additional layers of governance, to deal with issues that neither nations nor traditional forms of intergovernmental organizations can cope with. -- Amitai Etzioni
Even before I had a daughter, I was passionate about global women's issues, but now that she's here, I'm even more inspired to leave a better world for Evangeline. -- Brandi Carlile
The most pressing and significant problems in the global economy are unsustainable structural issues with regard to the E.U. - fiscal deficits and the structure of the E.U. itself. -- Henry Paulson
Ozone and climate are global issues, and it's hard to find a way in which the benefits of shutting down carbon emissions are going to pay for themselves for any given power-plant, say. -- Ramez Naam
I grew up about 30 minutes north of Boston in a town that was a virtual melting pot - I was exposed to all different backgrounds, cultures, and religions, fueling my personal interests in global issues. -- Alex Newell

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