“From what we've heard about George W., he has a lot issues that he wants to run on. They're positive. They're good. He thinks he's got a good vision for America.” ThinkingWantRunningAmericaVisionIssuesHeard Author:Barbara Olson
“I think that's going to be an issue: Whether or not voters are going to get more of the same in a Clinton candidacy or whether she really is something unique and has something to offer apart from her husband.” ThinkingIssuesOffersHusbandUniqueClintonVotersCandidacy Author:Barbara Olson
“I think there is a shared sense of urgency in Washington on fiscal issues.” ThinkingIssuesUrgencySense Of Urgency Author:Jacob Lew
“But sovereign debt is a wider question not only in Europe but across the globe. While every country is a unique case, I think it's not an issue of countries acting on their own. We need a more coordinated strategy not only in Europe but around the world.” ThinkingWorldNeedsCountryActingCasesIssuesUniqueEuropeStrategyDebtAround The WorldGlobesSovereign Author:George Papandreou
“If that's your definition of the Clinton faction, then I think that that seems to be in ascendancy. That might include a guy like John Edwards, who's just starting this new center in Chapel Hill to deal with issues of poverty and work.” IfsThinkingSeemsMightGuyDealsPovertyIssuesClintonStartingDefinitionsHillsFactionsChapelAscendancyChapel Hill Author:John Podesta
“Ultimately I think what people care about, particularly on an issue like Social Security, is not really what's right and what's left but what's right and what's wrong.” PeopleThinkingCareLeftSocialIssuesSecuritySocial Security Author:John Podesta
“I think there's an awful lot of noise about the Church being persecuted but there is a more real issue that the conventional churches face - that the people who are really driving their revival and success believe in an old-time religion which, in my view, is incompatible with a modern, multi-ethnic, multicultural society.” PeopleThinkingBelieveRealFacesChurchViewsIssuesModernDrivingNoiseAwfulConventionalRevivalPersecutedMulticulturalOld TimeMulticultural Society Author:Trevor Phillips
“I'm not saying standardized tests are the worst ever, but there's an in-between and I don't think we're there yet. That's what I mean when I say I have an issue with it. There's no way a kid can learn in a class with 40 to 45 people. I had the power to get out of that system and pursue things that I wanted to do and I did that.” PeopleThinkingWayMeanKidsWantedClassIssuesWorstTestsPursue Author:Ashley Rickards
“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
“I was a big and un-ironic fan of Dear Abby when I was a kid in Chicago. I think I sort of internalized her. So I have this inner Abby: cranky, proper, folksy yet scathing, with a beehive hairdo. But that's my issue.” ThinkingBigsKidsIssuesFansDearChicagoIronicAbbyCrankyHairdosBeehives Author:George Saunders
“I don't think the current regime of South Korea will deal actively with the issue of North Korean defectors.” ThinkingDealsIssuesSouthCurrentsRegimesKoreaNorth KoreaKoreanNorth KoreanSouth KoreaDefectors Author:Kim Young-sam
“I think that it has to be a very humane approach to this issue, and we have to come up with solutions to it. But we also have to do something about the drugs that are coming across our southern border that are killing our kids... I think there are some people who want to leave this country and return to the country they came from, but obviously it requires a broader solution that that, and we all know that.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWantCountryKidsIssuesReturnRepublicanDrugApproachSolutionsKillingCome UpBordersSouthernHumane Author:John McCain
“I've always wanted to make 'Swamp Thing.' I like 'Swamp Thing.' I think it's a good idea, and I thought it would be a good venue for a 3-D movie, but there were rights issues with 'Swamp Thing.'” ThinkingIdeasWould BeWantedIssuesRightsGood IdeasVenuesSwamps Author:Joel Silver
“Jamestown changed the world in many ways, but perhaps it shaped our nation most profoundly the day Africans arrived. I can't think of a more relevant place to talk about the issues facing our community today than the place where African culture became American culture.” ThinkingWorldWayI CanTodayCultureNationsCommunityIssuesChangedRelevantAmerican CultureOur CommunityAfrican CultureJamestown Author:Tavis Smiley
“If, hypothetically, Western Catholicism were to review the issue of celibacy, I think it would do so for cultural reasons, not so much as a universal option.” IfsThinkingReasonIssuesUniversalWesternCatholicismReviewsCelibacy Author:Pope Francis
“I have a Christian worldview and so it shapes the way that I view issues. I don't apologize for that, and I don't think people of faith ought to shrink away from being in the public arena.” PeopleThinkingWayChristianViewsIssuesOughtShapesApologizingArenaShrinksWorldviewWorld ViewChristian Worldview Author:John Thune
“But I will say, I think there are some Democrats that don't want to address pension reform. I have taken on the issue of seniority and tenure. I think we have to address entitlements and the president has done that in his budget. I think we have to extend Medicare and the president has done that. But also reinvest in that program.” ThinkingWantDonePresidentIssuesTakenProgramDemocratReformBudgetsAddressesEntitlementMedicarePensionTenureSeniority Author:Antonio Villaraigosa
“I think people are smart enough to sort it out. They know when they're watching one of these food fight shows where journalists sit around and yell and scream at each other, versus serious issue reporting.” PeopleThinkingKnowsEnoughShowsFightingLiteratureIssuesSeriousSmartJournalistScreamVersusSerious Issues Author:Bob Woodward
“Black community, I think as a whole America is dealing with the issue of homophobia. We got to be really honest about whether we believe in civil rights for all people or not. As Black people we need to remember the moment that we say it's okay to disenfranchise one segment of society, we're opening the door to move backward on ourselves.” PeopleThinkingNeedsBelieveWholeMomentsAmericaRememberMovingBlackIssuesRightsDoorsHonestOkayOpeningCivil RightsBlack PeopleHomophobia Author:Kerry Washington
“The point is that there is tremendous hypocrisy among the Christian right. And I think that Christian voters should start looking at global warming and extreme poverty as a religious issue that speaks to the culture of life.” ThinkingShouldChristianCultureSpeakReligiousPovertyIssuesExtremesHypocrisyGlobal WarmingVotersChristian RightExtreme Poverty Author:Al Franken
“The American people want a balanced budget. They want Congress to stop this barbaric practice of perpetual deficit spending. It really, if you think about it, is a form of taxation without representation. We fought a war over that issue and we won that war.” PeopleIfsThinkingWantWarFormPracticeIssuesCongressSpendingBudgetsPerpetualBalancedRepresentationTaxationDeficitBarbaricBalanced BudgetDeficit SpendingTaxation Without Representation Author:Mike Lee
“Yes, I love white, and I'd wear it all the time if I could. Some people think I have an issue with cleanliness, but to me it's just so pretty.” PeopleIfsThinkingWhiteIssuesIf I CouldCleanliness Author:Sandra Lee
“I feel like in America, we don't have a kid problem. You think about all these issues that these kids are dealing with, we have an adult problem. We have adults that do not place the priority on our kids to get a valuable education.” ThinkingFeelsProblemKidsAmericaIssuesAdultsValuablePriorities Author:Alonzo Mourning