“If you think about it, candidate Obama, Sen. Obama, was running on sort of long-run economic issues, like restoring prosperity to the middle class, dealing with the perennial problem of health care in the United States. He talked a lot about the budget deficit, about the need to transition to clean energy.” IfsThinkingNeedsLongStatesProblemCareRunningEnergyUnitedClassUnited StatesIssuesEconomicMiddleCleanProsperityHealth CareBudgetsCandidatesMiddle ClassTransitionLong RunsDeficitRestoringClean EnergyEconomic IssuesBudget Deficit Author:Christina Romer
“When you're the president of the United States and you know that the biggest issue facing you is this cliff that we're about ready to head over if we don't get this spending and debt situation under control, it's very irresponsible not to take the action that is necessary to fix the problem.” IfsKnowsStatesProblemActionPresidentUnitedSituationUnited StatesIssuesReadyDebtSpendingCliffsIrresponsible Author:John Thune
“Although eugenics flourished in Nazi Germany, the ideal of a blond-haired, blue-eyed master race wasn’t Adolf Hitler’s. It may surprise many to know that, in Mein Kampf, Hitler credited America with helping formulate his ideas on eugenics, and he admitted he’d studied the laws of US states to familiarize himself with selective reproduction and other eugenics issues.” KnowsMayIdeasStatesHelpingAmericaLawRaceIssuesMastersIdealsBlueSurpriseGermanyNaziReproductionEugenicsSelectiveNazi GermanyMein KampfBlue Eyed Author:James Morcan
“Polio has not been eradicated by vaccination, it is lurking behind a redefinition and new diagnostic names like viral or aseptic meningitis.......According to one of the 1997 issues of the MMWR, there are some 30,000 to 50,000 cases of viral meningitis per year in the United States alone. That's where all those 30,000 - 50,000 cases of polio disappeared after the introduction of mass vaccination” YearsStatesNamesUnitedBehindsCasesUnited StatesIssuesMassIntroductionLurkingViralPolioVaccinationsMeningitis Author:Viera Scheibner
“I was always accused of being too stiff. In 1974, when I ran my first primary race for state rep, I was chief aide to the speaker of the House, I knew the issues and understood state government. But what I found out the hard way is that you can know all the ins and outs but people want to know you, your family.” PeopleKnowsWayWantFirstsHardStatesGovernmentFoundHouseRaceIssuesUnderstoodChiefsPrimariesRanOur FamilySpeakersAccusedState GovernmentHard Way Author:Jim Edgar
“If you're Chris Christie, who is governor of New Jersey, a state that obviously was impacted by 9/11, this gives you an opportunity to talk about how, as governor, you had to deal with terrorism and security issues.” IfsGivingStatesOpportunityDealsIssuesSecurityTerrorismGovernorsJerseyNew JerseyChristie Author:Amy Walter
“Abortion, however, is a big threshold issue for me because the dominant majority of people in my state are pro-choice. I ran as a pro-choice Democrat, and she fills Sandra Day O'Connor's shoes, and they are critical shoes.” PeopleStatesBigsChoicesIssuesMajorityDemocratShoesCriticalRanAbortionDominantThresholdSandra Day O Connor Author:Dianne Feinstein
“So while there is no evidence at all that Iran has any significant quantity of nuclear material or any nuclear weapons, Iran is a much more difficult nuclear issue to resolve for the United States.” StatesDifficultUnitedUnited StatesIssuesMaterialsWeaponsEvidenceNuclearSignificantIranResolveQuantityNuclear Weapons Author:Joseph Cirincione
“There is no issue of States' rights or National rights. There is only the struggle for human rights.” HumansStatesStruggleIssuesRightsHuman RightsStates RightsVoting Rights Act Author:Lyndon B. Johnson
“Some people draw a comforting distinction between force and violence. I refuse to cloud the issue by such word-play. The power which establishes a state is violence; the power which maintains it is violence; the power which eventually overthrows it is violence. Call an elephant a rabbit only if it gives you comfort to feel that you are about to be trampled to death by a rabbit.” PeopleIfsGivingFeelsStatesPlayForcePowerIssuesViolenceComfortDrawsCloudsRefuseDistinctionElephantsComfortingRabbits Author:Kenneth Kaunda
“If you have more personal power and you are in higher states of mind, then naturally you can see things and adhere to them or avoid them. Personal power is really the issue.” IfsMindStatesIssuesSeeingHigherState Of MindPersonal Power Author:Frederick Lenz
“Look, America is no more a democracy than Russia is a Communist state. The governments of the U.S. and Russia are practically the same. There's only a difference of degree. We both have the same basic form of government: economic totalitarianism. In other words, the settlement to all questions, the solutions to all issues are determined not by what will make the people most healthy and happy in their bodies and their minds but by economics. Dollars or rubles.” PeopleMindLooksStatesBodyGovernmentAmericaFormDifferencesDemocracyIssuesEconomicHealthyDegreesSolutionsEconomicsDollarsDeterminedRussiaCommunistTotalitarianismForms Of GovernmentSettlementHealthy And Happy Book:Another Roadside Attraction Source: Another Roadside Attraction
“In the United States, there is a broadly shared view that the U.N. is one of many potential instruments to advance U.S. issues, and we have to decide whether a particular issue is best done through the U.N. or best done through some other mechanism.” StatesDoneUnitedViewsUnited StatesIssuesParticularInstrumentsMechanism Author:John Bolton
“If happiness is a state of the inward life, we have to look for its chief obstructions not in outward conditions but in deeper places. Happiness depends in the last issue, as we saw, on the essential view of life. It is not a matter of distractions, nor even of mere pleasurable sensations. There may be an appearance of great prosperity with incurable sadness hidden at the heart, as there is an outward peace which is only a well-masked despair. The way to happiness is indeed harder than the way to success; for its chief enemies entrench themselves within the soul.” IfsWayWellsLooksHeartMaySoulMatterStatesLastsHappinessViewsEnemyIssuesSawsSadnessConditionsDependsEssentialsDespairHarderMereProsperityAppearanceDeeperChiefsSensationsDistractionInwardObstructionWay To Success Book:Happiness Source: Happiness
“On almost every issue involving postwar Iraq, [Bush's] assumptions and policies have been wrong. This strange combination of arrogance and incompetence has not only destroyed the hopes for a new Iraq. It has had the much broader effect of turning the United States into an international outlaw.” Has BeensStatesUnitedUnited StatesIssuesEffectsPolicyStrangeInternationalIraqDestroyedCombinationArroganceAssumptionInvolvingIncompetenceOutlaw Author:Fareed Zakaria
“I think even nation states should be and will be obsolete. I think nationalism will be seen in the future as a form of tribalism and I think what we call "Democracy" will be "Netocracy", where people, globally, can work on issues.” PeopleThinkingShouldStatesFormNationsDemocracyIssuesNationalismObsoleteTribalism Author:Deepak Chopra
“A party should not contain utterly incongruous elements, radically divided on the real issues, and acting together only on false and dead issues insincerely painted as real and vital. It should not in the several States as well as in the Nation be prostituted to the service of the baser type of political boss. It should be so composed that there should be a reasonable agreement in the actions taken by it both in the Nation and in the several States. Judged by these standards, both of the old parties break down.” ShouldWellsRealStatesActionTogetherPoliticalNationsPartyActingBreakIssuesTakenTypeElementsStandardsReasonableAgreementBossDividedJudgedBreaking DownActing Together Author:Theodore Roosevelt
“The issue presented is whether the Federal Constitution confers a fundamental right upon homosexuals to engage in sodomy, and hence invalidates the laws of the many States that still make such conduct illegal, and have done so for a very long time.... Respondent would have us announce, as the Court of Appeals did, a fundamental right to engage in homosexual sodomy. This we are quite unwilling to do.” LongStillsStatesDoneLawIssuesLong TimeConstitutionFundamentalsCourtAppealsIllegalHomosexualUnwilling Author:Byron White
“What we've begun to do is discuss the issue, the constitutional issues around that idea, again the privacy issue, which may not be unconstitutional but may pertain to our unique sense of privacy in the United States.” MayIdeasStatesUnitedUnited StatesIssuesUniquePrivacyUnconstitutional Author:Chris Asplen