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People who disagree on important issues don't agree on the facts. -- Rachel Maddow
I think the Tea Party has brought important issues to the table. -- Roy Blunt
Often times, political games prevent senators from even beginning to debate some of the most important issues. -- Michael Bennet
I hope to bring much more attention to important issues and change for issues and practices that are harming animals. -- Kesha
I've been around racing a fairly long time, but when it comes to the important issues, I'm happy to let others make the big decisions. -- Mats Sundin
Kids instinctively know - although they will argue to the contrary - that they really are not mature enough to make good decisions on some important issues. -- Zig Ziglar
I happened to have the privilege of serving in Congress. It will be 16 years at the end of this term. And I think I made a difference here on important issues. -- Dennis Kucinich
I'm six foot four and a half and I have a temper. It's reserved for very important issues. If someone is asking me to make an artistic concession, then I'll become a madman. -- Tim Robbins
I had hoped to hear the President tonight tell the Congress and the American people exactly how he plans to tackle some of the important issues facing this country, unfortunately I did not. -- Frank Lautenberg
Looking towards the future, one of the most important issues the national community must face is the widening gap between the liberated, modern, independent women and our traditional men who are being left behind. -- Kamla Persad-Bissessar
It's made it easier to communicate important issues, but I wonder if connecting with millions of people online is ever as arresting to someone's attention as one man standing and screaming in front of City Hall. -- Jim Parsons
I have always believed that on important issues, the leaders must lead. Where the leaders fail to lead, and people are really concerned about it, the people will take the lead and make the leaders follow. -- Kofi Annan
I'm delighted to carry on in the tradition of the great reporters like Edward R. Murrow, Ernie Pyle, and Geraldo Rivera to probe vitally important issues of the day, starting with whether I'm Hispanic or Latino. -- Al Madrigal
A Harris poll I've seen says only 12 percent of the electorate names taxes as one of the most important issues facing the nation. Voters put tax cuts dead last, behind education, Social Security, health care, Medicare and poverty. -- Lane Evans
If you believe you can make a difference, not just in politics, in public service, in advocacy around all these important issues, then you have to be prepared to accept that you are not going to get 100 percent approval. -- Hillary Clinton
I really like 'Shameless' because it brings up important issues, but we get to talk and laugh and look at something that's really important that's a problem, like alcoholism and bad parenting. It's done in a funny, smart way. -- Justin Chatwin
Do we really want the FCC to conduct investigations and issue warnings to radio talk show hosts nationwide who simply discuss the important issues of our time? The Constitution says 'freedom of speech,' not 'freedom of government-approved fair speech in rationed amounts.' -- Tim Walberg
My vision for the future always centers around our children - it always centers around our children. So anytime anybody asks me what are the three most important issues facing the Congress, I always say the same thing: 'Our children, our children, our children.' -- Nancy Pelosi
I've always been interested in how people think, how they react to challenges in their lives - what makes people tick. I've also always been passionate about social issues and causes, and I wanted to make films that addressed important issues in very human terms. -- Barbara Kopple
I think the film is beautifully realised. His legacy as a journalist was recorded - as it were - well, and certainly the important issues of the '50s - or even today - are delivered and presented to the audience in a rather honest and objective way. -- David Strathairn
Since Ronald Reagan's election in 1980, conservatives of various sorts, and conservatisms of various stripes, have generally been in the ascendancy. And a good thing, too! Conservatives have been right more often than not - and more often than liberals - about most of the important issues of the day. -- Bill Kristol
I was glad that I could be used as a focal point to possibly bandy around some ideas, and maybe people would open their eyes to Obama's socialist ideology. However, there were so many important issues to be discussed other than the 'Joe the Plumber, Joe the Plumber.' -- Joe Wurzelbacher
In my first year or so at the 'Post,' I began to write with some frequency on the least important issues - so-called light editorials. The titles themselves are revealing of just how light: 'On Being a Horse,' 'Brains and Beauty,' 'Mixed Drinks,' 'Lou Gehrig,' and 'Spotted Fever.' -- Katharine Graham
There are moderates in Israel. There are moderates in Iran, there are moderates in the Republican Party, moderates in the Democratic Party. What we need to do is we need link all of these moderates together and to figure out a way by which this particular coalition can speak to important issues to marginalize the voice of the extremists. -- Feisal Abdul Rauf
Let's take up the most important issues first. Let's take up the reauthorizations first; let's take up the appropriations bill first, not wait until four days beforehand - no one has mentioned anything, and, all of a sudden, somebody looks at their watch and says, 'Hey, in four days, the government is going to run out of money.' -- Daniel Webster
When an audience is affected in a way that I've seen with some people, it's so inspiring to me an actor. You know that you're on the right track and you're doing work that can affect people. When that goes hand-in-hand with important issues that we're still living with, and we will be for a long time, sadly, it's so confirming of everything. -- Sally Hawkins
Animal welfare issues have always been important to me. -- Cathy Guisewite
The issues are too important to be left for the voters. -- Henry A. Kissinger
I feel its important to talk about the complex issues affecting us. -- Asghar Farhadi
I prefer to stay on the important issues facing the American people. -- Bernie Sanders
I should focus on other important issues like people's livelihoods and the economy. -- Donald Tsang
I think that's very important for romantic comedies, that they do deal with [modern]issues. -- Jennifer Lopez
I don't watch TV. I think that tends to polarize us and diminish important issues. -- Daryl Hannah
Issues are important, yes, but issues come and go. America as an ideal is timeless. -- Paul Kengor
The most important thing is to have a more open and honest dialogue about gender issues. -- Sheryl Sandberg
Tim Cook has not been afraid to confront the government on issues he considers morally important. -- Laura Sydell
Raising awareness on the most pressing environmental issues of our time is more important than ever. -- Leonardo DiCaprio
Access to basic quality health care is one of the most important domestic issues facing our nation. -- Ed Pastor
Conversations between parents and kids are important - about race issues, about all kinds of things, about heritage. -- Garcelle Beauvais
It's important for people of color to link up with issues around globalization, food security, health, the environment. -- Danny Glover
Without food, we cannot survive, and that is why issues that affect the food industry are so important. -- Marcus Samuelsson
The good life for me always meant connecting with those big, important issues that grown-ups get so excited about. -- Frances Moore LappÃ©
It's important to be informed about issues like usability, reliability, security, privacy, and some of the inherent limitations of computers. -- Brian Kernighan
In a personalized world, important but complex or unpleasant issues are less likely to come to our attention at all. -- Eli Pariser
I don't feel like I've got all that much too important to say on the kind of big national issues. -- George W. Bush
A civilization in which there is not a continuous controversy about important issues is on the way to totalitarianism and death -- Robert M. Hutchins
A civilization in which there is not a continuous controversy about important issues is on the way to totalitarianism and death -- Robert M. Hutchins
It is extremely important to me that the social and environmental issues associated with the production of fashion clothing are addressed. -- Bonnie Wright
From triumph to downfall is but a step. I have seen a trifle decide the most important issues in the gravest affairs. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
I've got a bit of an independent streak. I'm not afraid of bipartisan compromise on issues that are important to the nation. -- Heather Wilson
Really important issues are getting lost, so I can say I'm glad to be a citizen of the planet and do my part. -- Bonnie Raitt
'Green' issues at last are attracting serious attention, owing to critically important links between the environment and the economy, health, and our security. -- Sylvia Earle
Green' issues at last are attracting serious attention, owing to critically important links between the environment and the economy, health, and our security. -- Sylvia Earle
Even though IÂ?m pro-globalization, I have to say thank God for the anti-globalization movement. TheyÂ?re putting important issues on the agenda. -- Amartya Sen
All topics, issues, and subjects in 'The Room' add to the depth of the characters in the movie, and they are equally important. -- Tommy Wiseau
A lot of attention has been going to social values - abortion, gay rights, other divisive issues - but economic values are equally important. -- Robert Reich
It's really unfortunate that instead of focusing on the really important issues in our world, Donald Trump chooses to make personal attacks on people. -- Ariel Winter
It's important to be honest with and respectful of each other and deal with issues as they arrive, as opposed to letting them simmer. -- Ivanka Trump
The more important reason is that the research itself provides an important long-run perspective on the issues that we face on a day-to-day basis. -- Ben Bernanke
Members of trusting teams admit weaknesses and mistakes, take risks in offering feedback and assistance, and focus time and energy on important issues, not politics. -- Patrick Lencioni
For a pragmatist like me, the important issues concern the words we might deploy to achieve our purposes, rather than the language we actually use. -- Philip Kitcher
Economics is a strange science. Our subject deals with some of the most important as well as mundane issues that impinge on the human condition. -- Dale T. Mortensen
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
If you control the flow of information, you can control the conversation around important issues. If you can control the conversation, you can change this country. -- Al Franken
One important part of scientific training is that scientists learn the boundaries, the safety issues, how to properly deal with and dispose of chemicals and reagents. -- Craig Venter
Your unwillingness to change to my view point is purely on the justifiable basis that you have your own strongly held beliefs about important life issues. -- Archibald Marwizi
It's important for people to figure out their own lives before involving someone else - to gauge where you are and work on your own issues. -- Scarlett Johansson
I believe that the camera has aided animal welfare by giving a platform and a vision [for bringing] awareness to the most important animal-welfare issues worldwide. -- Katie Cleary
In subsequent years the groups you named had important roles in educating people about the real issues in Washington and Raleigh, and within the Democratic Party. -- Jesse Helms
It's also important for those who promote those issues within the white community - the somewhat privileged community - to talk about issues affecting people of color -- Danny Glover
One of the most important accomplishments of the Caucus is raising awareness with law enforcement and communities nationwide on the issues of child safety and Internet safety. -- Nick Lampson
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
It's also important for those who promote those issues within the white community - the somewhat privileged community - to talk about issues affecting people of color. -- Danny Glover
I think you need people of principle, of character, that are leaders, that take stands on important tough issues that will affect the future of this country. -- Sean Hannity
While I hold my own views, it's important not to get too wrapped up in individual candidates and personalities, but instead to focus on the real issues -- Marcus Samuelsson
I will always stand firm to protect the sanctity of marriage. I believe it is important to work with people to find common ground on difficult issues. -- George W. Bush
If the president of the United States says that attacks on civilians, starvation, and denial of religious freedom in Sudan are important international issues, they become so. -- Elliott Abrams
I think it's very important not to confuse the importance of dealing with Social Security in the long term with these short-term deficit reduction challenges. They're different issues. -- Jacob Lew
I feel privileged to be a U.N. ambassador. It gives me an opportunity to use my voice to help raise awareness about important social and environmental issues. -- Gisele Bundchen
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
While I hold my own political views, it's important not to get too wrapped up in individual candidates and personalities, but instead to focus on the real issues. -- Marcus Samuelsson
But if we're going to make our immigration system work, then we have to be prepared to talk honestly and without fear about these important and very sensitive issues. -- Donald Trump
But the dollars spent on economic incentives and new investment strategies are wasted unless we seriously address the two most important economic issues in Kansas: education and health care -- Kathleen Sebelius
But the dollars spent on economic incentives and new investment strategies are wasted unless we seriously address the two most important economic issues in Kansas: education and health care. -- Kathleen Sebelius
Necessary preparations have been discussed and taken for the complete and fundamental elimination of this concern, which occupies an important place in the exalted state's list of vital issues. -- Talaat Pasha
It's my opinion that if you're trying to tell a realistic story that centers around realistic characters, you can't help but touch on important issues. Those issues are what make us human. -- Patrick Rothfuss
I'm thrilled the president [Barack Obama] has endorsed me. We started off as fierce competitors, and we've ended up as true friends and partners and worked together on so many important issues. -- Hillary Clinton
The risks of transporting deadly nuclear waste, the environmental justice impacts and the long-term health effects of both these projects are untenable...We cannot afford to be silent on these important issues. -- James Cromwell
When we are deeply divided over important issues facing our country and the world, "In God We Trust" for the guidance and wisdom to do what's both right and necessary for our Republic. -- Marco Rubio
I regard reduction in Federal spending as one of the most important issues of this campaign. In my opinion, it is the most direct and effective contribution that Government can make to business. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Folk music has always contained a concern for the human condition. And since it brings people into it from different points of view, that can help illuminate what a consensus might be to important issues. -- Mary Travers

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