All Quotes

The issue isn't just jobs. Even slaves had jobs. The issue is wages.
‐‐ Jim Hightower

The issue of civil rights was too much for the establishment to handle. One of the chapters of history that's least studied by historians is the 300 to 500 riots in the U.S. between 1965 and 1970.
‐‐ Tom Hayden

The issue of doing an adaptation of a book is the theater of the mind, and so you always face that.
‐‐ Dana Brunetti

The issue of equal rights for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender individuals has vexed politicians for decades. I have my own cloudy history with the issue, having supported a law in Mississippi that made it illegal for LGBT couples to adopt children. I believed at the time this was a principled position based on my faith.
‐‐ Ronnie Musgrove

The issue of fracking is a stick in the hornet's nest.
‐‐ Titus Welliver

The issue of gender was never my biggest concern; my biggest concern was doing good work. When the feminist movement really got going, I wasn't an active part of it because I was more concerned with my own mental pursuits.
‐‐ Patti Smith

The issue of human rights is one of the most fundamental human issues and also one of the most sensitive and controversial.
‐‐ Ali Khamenei

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

The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.
‐‐ Abraham Joshua Heschel

The issue of remittances where we have millions of Mexicans working in the United States sending back dollars. He said they send back 10 billion dollars a year.
‐‐ Tom Tancredo

The issue of terrorism must be dealt with firmly. We must work very hard to avoid loss of life. We must work very hard to avoid civilian casualties. And those terrorists and Baathists are holding the people of Fallujah hostage. We must release the hostages.
‐‐ Ahmed Chalabi

The issue of the Betrayal was so central to that, I felt the need to comment upon it. My choices were to ignore the games and put them 'outside' of continuity or to integrate them. I chose the latter.
‐‐ Raymond E. Feist

The issue of the environment as seen by Pope Francis is not a matter of purely scientific or, indeed, theological debate: it involves economic and political views on how the world's poor can be brought out of poverty while protecting the environment.
‐‐ John Cornwell

The issue of what my role in the - in persuading the Bush administration to go to war has been greatly exaggerated.
‐‐ Ahmed Chalabi

The issue often with films is how it works with money and trying to get a visible movie star presence in the film.
‐‐ James Marsh

The issue that Mr. Trump is talking about and which, really, frankly, I expect the media should be talking about is protecting the American homeland from national security risks and terrorists.
‐‐ Paul Manafort

The issue which has swept down the centuries and which will have to be fought sooner or later is the people versus the banks.
‐‐ Lord Acton

The issue with international institutions is that there is a crisis of legitimacy. Trust in these institutions is a serious problem.
‐‐ Mo Ibrahim

The issues and challenges surrounding nuclear non-proliferation are continuously evolving. They've changed dramatically at several junctures in recent memory.
‐‐ Spencer Abraham

The issues are by some geometric number - 100 or 200 or 500 - times more complicated today than we appreciated them to be when Franklin Roosevelt was around.
‐‐ Gaylord Nelson

The issues of the day have never seemed more complicated, and yet the conversations over how to solve them increasingly resemble cars passing down a divided highway. Whizzing by without a glance.
‐‐ Lester Holt

The issues of wireless versus wireline gets very messy. And that's really an FCC issue, not a Google issue.
‐‐ Eric Schmidt

The issues surrounding illegal immigration are wide-ranging and complex, but there is no question about the need to secure our borders.
‐‐ Roger Wicker

The issues that matter to me are the social safety nets for people, health care, middle-class concerns. We need to take care of the middle class and the poor in our country.
‐‐ Tim McGraw

The issues that we face as a country and in South Florida aren't broken down by city line or county line.
‐‐ Ted Deutch

The issues we hear Donald Trump talking about are just so contrary to who we are as a people. They are an affront and an insult to our higher angels and our best selves.
‐‐ Cory Booker

The IT bubble is the IT bubble, and of course, we became a company that contracted dramatically in 2001 and 2002: we basically came down by 45,000 people - a dramatic ramp-down.
‐‐ Hans Vestberg

The IT industry is driven by consumer demand.
‐‐ Renee James

The Italian economy has been held back for decades.
‐‐ Mario Monti

The Italian economy is certainly the weakest of the big European countries.
‐‐ Romano Prodi

The Italian gangster thing has become a form of the modern-day Western.
‐‐ Armand Assante

The Italian journalist Oriana Fallaci used to say that for her, an interview was like a war. I get the sense that we've forgotten that here in the United States. You turn on the TV, and you see very bland interviews. Journalists in the United States are very cozy with power, very close to those in power.
‐‐ Jorge Ramos

The Italian prose tale had begun to exercise that influence as early as Chaucer's time: but circumstances and atmosphere were as yet unfavourable for its growth.
‐‐ George Saintsbury

The Italian Renaissance extends beyond food, of course. Just about every major Italian furniture designer now has a shop in Paris, and Le Bon Marche recently opened an outlet for Santa Maria Novella perfumes, elixirs and soaps from Florence on its ground floor.
‐‐ Elaine Sciolino

The Italian Revolution was fought first of all to obtain the liberty and unity of the nation, and then, with that achieved, to join the freest and most advanced nations in inaugurating a new era of peace, justice, and joint cooperation in the work of civilization.
‐‐ Ernesto Teodoro Moneta

The Italian word 'stanza' means 'a room', and a room is a good way to conceive of a stanza. A room, generally speaking, is sufficient for its own purposes, but it does not constitute a house. A stanza has the same sense of containment, without being complete or independent.
‐‐ James Fenton

The Italians always know that I'm not Italian.
‐‐ Jhumpa Lahiri

The Italians always made good wine, but you had the impression they were friendly guys in straw hats running family vineyards with slaves or something so that the vino was never more than ten bucks a bottle.
‐‐ Joe Bob Briggs

The Italians and Spanish, the Chinese and Vietnamese see food as part of a larger, more essential and pleasurable part of daily life. Not as an experience to be collected or bragged about - or as a ritual like filling up a car - but as something else that gives pleasure, like sex or music, or a good nap in the afternoon.
‐‐ Anthony Bourdain

The Italians are not indulgent, as Americans are. They don't have the patience to teach young singers how to move. They think you should learn in school.
‐‐ Marcello Giordani

The Italians are very strong defensively. They showed in Euro 2000 how good defensively they are.
‐‐ Alan Hansen

The Italians are very unmusical. If I go to a Protestant church in London or Amsterdam or listen to a black choir, I hear four-part harmony. Italians could never do that. In Italy, we all have to sing the melody because we cannot harmonise.
‐‐ Gian Carlo Menotti

The Italians have long known what makes a livable town or city.
‐‐ Norman Foster

The Italians have their priorities right: They're driven, they do their work, but they really enjoy the day-to-day and they don't put off the enjoyment of the everyday for some future goal.
‐‐ Frances Mayes

The Italians live well. They have problems, like all countries, but they are well-dressed, the women are pretty.
‐‐ Francois Pinault

The Italians, who used to be a great motor-manufacturing power, have been absolutely destroyed by the euro - as was intended by the Germans.
‐‐ Boris Johnson

The Italy of my children will be at head of Europe, economically. Because Italy has all the conditions to be the country of the startups, the country of artisans and quality, and the country of the big companies.
‐‐ Matteo Renzi

The itinerary of most antiquities from their source - tomb, temple, quarry - to the shelves of museums or private collectors is murky and often purposely concealed.
‐‐ Peter Landesman

The Jacksonians were libertarians, plain and simple. Their program and ideology were libertarian; they strongly favored free enterprise and free markets, but they just as strongly opposed special subsidies and monopoly privileges conveyed by government to business or to any other group.
‐‐ Murray Rothbard

The Jacksonians were not monetary nationalists; specie was specie, and they saw no reason that foreign gold or silver coins should not circulate with the same full privileges as American-minted coins.
‐‐ Murray Rothbard