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The most important issue we have to deal with is freedom of movement. -- Anna Lindh
I don't have a problem talking about Medicare or Medicaid or some other very important issue. -- Jason Chaffetz
The right of every American to first-class citizenship is the most important issue of our time. -- Jackie Robinson
The most important issue for the killer is the ability to get a victim easily and successfully. -- Pat Brown
I'm not feeling undertaxed. Tax reform is an important issue. You have to have an inherent sense of fairness. -- Stephen A. Schwarzman
In spite of what some people claim, we are not in a post-racial era. I think it's still an important issue to bring up. -- Malcolm-Jamal Warner
It seems to me the most important issue in the LGBT community is the right to be queer-the right to be free of the heterosexual assumption. -- Jasmine Guy
I believe Aids is the most important issue we face, because how we treat the poor is a reflection of who we are as a people. -- Alicia Keys
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
The most important issue is clearly not the quality of treatment and care of these prisoners; rather it is the perplexing issue of what we now do with them. -- Charles Bass
We were in Little Rock. We were assessing a very important issue. In the midst of our discussions, we were receiving urgent inquiries from The Washington Post asking about interviews. -- Ken Starr
According to various polls conducted, the single most important issue in last week's election was not the Iraq War, not the War on Terror, not even the economy. It was the cultural war. -- John Doolittle
Our reactor actually burns nuclear waste as fuel. So not only is it safe and powerful, it solves an important issue: It actually reduces nuclear waste instead of creating. It's the reactor of your dreams. -- Nathan Myhrvold
I am the parent of teenagers, my daughters are 13 and 15, so the issue of Internet safety has been an important issue. I have been visiting middle schools to talk about some of the challenges that they face. -- Melissa Bean
As the president of the Council of Fashion Designers of America, I represent the designers. And while we can by no means take the blame for eating disorders, we can play our part in addressing this important issue. -- Diane von Furstenberg
I think that driving is the least important issue. We as women have a lot more things to tackle before we get to the issue of driving, such as the opportunity to work in any field we choose. -- Lubna Olayan
Our success in this matter is important to all Americans. Whether you are in the forest land business or just enjoy the shade of a majestic oak gracing your lawn, we all have an interest in this important issue. -- Leonard Boswell
With the club now in administration and concern about where the money for land sale has gone, I know there are huge commercial difficulties to be resolved, but I hope that football will once again become the most important issue. -- Anne Campbell
I think the most important issue for all of us is our economy and jobs and creating opportunities for young people to be able to get the education that you need to be able to afford to go to college. -- Debbie Stabenow
Security is still the most important issue facing Washington state residents and millions of Americans - the security of having a job, of access to affordable health care, of a quality education, and of protecting our homeland and defending our nation. -- Patty Murray
When our most important issue is the debt that we're piling on our children and grandchildren, I think it's pretty helpful to have someone in the U.S. Senate who has actually managed billions of dollars and knows how to cut billions of dollars. -- Carly Fiorina
I've talked to law enforcement officials at the state and local level who say that violence against women is going up. In any case, we think that it's an important issue whether it's going up or not. And we are determined to stop it. -- Patricia Ireland
I can't think of any more important issue. If we get this right, we'll not only preserve our landscape for future generations we'll be able to generate I think more investment and more job opportunities in the inland and we sure as hell need those jobs. -- John Anderson
Gay marriage is absolutely something that I am in full support of and a big advocate of, and I think it's an important issue, but there's a reason that I don't talk about politics and why I'll never be in politics. I am not the person to ever do that. -- Jamie-Lynn Sigler
I've always believed that immigration reform is important, but it won't decide the White House in 2016. The most important issue for Hispanics - just like with all Americans - is the economy. If Republicans can do a better job of articulating positive, conservative policies to grow our economy, we will do better with Hispanics. -- Raul Labrador
But ours was intended to be a citizen government. It is what of, by and for the people means. And when our most important issue in California is the creation of jobs, I think it's quite helpful to have someone in the U.S. Senate or in the governor's seat who actually knows where jobs come from. -- Carly Fiorina
We discussed this very important issue yesterday over a beer. -- Vladimir Putin
Education is the single-most important civil rights issue that we face today. -- Michelle Obama
Within any important issue, there are always aspects no one wishes to discuss. -- George Orwell
The fate of the living planet is the most important issue facing mankind. -- Gaylord Nelson
Job creation is important I think, but it's not the critical issue for Republicans. -- Greg Gutfeld
If the abortion issue is important to me, this is how you tackle that issue. -- Donald Miller
The most important issue of the 21st century will be the condition of the global environment. -- Ian McHarg
... on every important issue life transcends logic and it is folly to depend on reason alone. -- Robert Gordis
There is no more important issue than restoring the protection of the law to pre-natal infants. -- Gordon J. Humphrey
I think the issue of marriage is a vitally important issue on which I would campaign heavily. -- Eric Abetz
Regardless of what is being discussed . . . the issue is never more important than the quality of the interaction. -- Bill Crawford
Boys and boys' body image and clothes have become just as important an issue for boys as for girls. -- Rosalind Wiseman
The single most important issue for traumatized people is to find a sense of safety in their own bodies, -- Bessel van der Kolk
It's very important to know that we packed it right because it is a safety issue for coming home. -- Linda M. Godwin
Statehood for the District of Columbia is the most important civil rights and social justice issue in America today. -- Jesse Jackson
Indeed, the distribution of wealth is too important an issue to be left to economists, sociologists, historians, and philosophers. -- Thomas Piketty
The most important thing I have done is to combine something esoteric with a practical issue that affects many people. -- Benoit Mandelbrot
You know, as attorney general, there's no issue more important than making sure you are safe, that your families are safe. -- Charlie Crist
I can't think of any issue that is more important than working to see that no schoolchild in this world goes hungry. -- Drew Barrymore
The most important environmental issue is one that is rarely mentioned, and that is the lack of a conservation ethic in our culture. -- Gaylord Nelson
If you are an intelligent human being then you are interested in climate change because it's the most important issue of our time. -- Franny Armstrong
In America, there seems to be more focus on the idea that it's important to do things differently. In Britain, it's not an issue. -- Thom Yorke
It's a very important issue to me, trying to wake people up to the fact that we'd better take better care of our planet. -- Dan Fogelberg
When it comes to social policies, I believe women have the right to make their own choices, and inequality is a really important issue. -- Edward Snowden
The environment is the most important, the most fundamental, civil-rights issue.... Four out of every five toxic-waste dumps in America is in a black neighborhood. -- Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
I think that the whole voyeuristic attitude of filmmakers or of me personally - of shooting documentaries and so forth - is an important issue. -- Haskell Wexler
If you look at the polls, for all the talk about immigration and even trade, ObamaCare was an extremely important issue for Trump voters in 2016. -- William Kristol
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. -- Michelle Obama
The most important 'speed' issue is often not technical but cultural. It's convincing everyone that the company's survival depends on everyone moving as fast as possible. -- Bill Gates
No issue is more important to this Congress than securing our borders and protecting our homeland, and I guarantee it is very important to our constituents. -- Ginny Brown-Waite
Global warming competes with cancer and competes with AIDS for a finite amount of money. Nobody ever won that fight by saying: My issue isn't important. -- Patrick Michaels
There isnt 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
I believe that sensitivity to issues of race and ethnicity is important, and nuanced, even more so when it intersects with the issue of free speech. -- Gene Weingarten
The issue of Palestine has been there since more than 60 years. But more important since 1967 when the war was, ended in the defeat of some Arab countries. -- Al-Waleed bin Talal
There is no wrong way to knit. ... We should all agree to stop correcting each other and deal with the more important issue. How wrong crochet is. -- Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
Intellectual property is an important legal and cultural issue. Society as a whole has complex issues to face here: private ownership vs. open source, and so on. -- Tim Berners-Lee
I was honored to spend time with the President on an issue that is clearly important to him. I was also impressed by his wide receiver skills. -- Drew Brees
...the single most important issue in all of life (is) your relationship with the living God... how you can know Him in a personal and meaningful way. -- Charles R. Swindoll
The securities laws of the 1930s were so important because it forced companies to file registration statements and issue prospectuses, and it remedied the imbalance of information. -- Ron Chernow
The most important ways in which I think the Internet will affect the big issue is that it will make it more difficult for government to collect taxes. -- Milton Friedman
Freight mobility and movement, while not a sexy policy issue, is a highly important one. Capacity constraints and congestion on our nation's freight rail system create many problems. -- Bill Lipinski
It's really important that people know about it and the issue in schools because it happens every day to people and it really hurts when people get bullied. -- Kaitlyn
Address these environmental issues and you will address every issue known to man. And we keep dabbling in things that aren't really that important in the long term. -- Ted Danson
The important issue for us is bringing (people) who recognize the Palestinian people's rights and work on ending the occupation (to the Palestinian territories) and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. -- Mohammed Dahlan
He [Rubio] is so knowledgeable about this issue ... I'm glad to see somebody with his background step forward and say it's important and we need to look at it. -- Saxby Chambliss
Looking good has never been the most important thing to me. Maybe it's because I'm more conventionally, um, acceptable, so it's not an issue for me. I don't know. -- Kim Cattrall
I think the immigration thing has really stuck to Marco Rubio. He was on the wrong side of what`s emerged as probably the most important issue for the conservative base. -- Josh Barro
You can't speak freely and openly on the most important issue of the day because you're fearful that your closet is going to come and haunt you. I choose to air my closet. -- Andrew Breitbart
Now, I feel that if somebody looks through all the numbers through all those years, they will find one for Julius Rosenberg, and it is worth finding if it is such an important issue. -- Julius Rosenberg
Now, I feel that if somebody looks through all the numbers through all those years, they will find one for Julius Rosenberg, and it is worth finding if it is such an important issue. -- Julius Rosenberg
I think that trade is an important issue. Of course, we are 5 percent of the world's population; we have to trade with the other 95 percent. And we need to have smart, fair trade deals. -- Hillary Clinton
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. -- Jerome Ringo
From New Hampshire forward, for reasons that absolutely mystified me, the press thought the most important issue in the race was the middle class tax cut. I never did meet any voter who thought that. -- William J. Clinton

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