Quotes by Issues The issue is we're losing leverage. Governments are increasingly getting more power and we are increasingly losing our ability to control that power, and even to be aware of that power. Edward Snowden issuesgovernmentlosing The central fact for me is, I think, that the [role of the] intellectual... cannot be played without a sense of being someone whose place it is publicly to raise embarrassing questions, to confront orthodoxy and dogma (rather than to produce them), to be someone who cannot easily be co-opted by governments or corporations, and whose raison d'etre is to represent all those people and issues that are routinely forgotten or swept under the rug. Edward Said embarrassing-questionsissuesthinking It is very easy to make wild generalizations about Islam. All you have to do is read almost any issue of The New Republic and you'll see there the radical evil that's associated with Islam, the Arabs as having a depraved culture, and so forth. These are impossible generalizations to make in the United States about any other religious or ethnic group. Edward Said issuesreligiousevil It is a moral issue how we are going to treat workers. On these issues, these are moral issues, principled issues, where there aren't compromises. Edward Kennedy issuesmoralcompromise Judges are appointed by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. And it is our duty to ask questions on great issues that matter to the American people and to speak for them. Edward Kennedy issuesjudgingpeople I teach child development and social policy as an undergraduate course, and I tell my students, "Look, on any of these issues, if you don't want to work on it for thirty years, don't start." Edward Zigler issueschildrenyears I look at modern life and I see people not taking responsibility for their lives. The temptation to blame, to find external causes to one's own issues is something that is particularly modern. I know that personally I find that sense of responsibility interesting. Edward Zwick issuesresponsibilitylife I'm not saying Cubans don't deserve asylum, but if it is a national security issue, there are people who are coming from Cuba on hijacked airplanes. Why isn't that a national security issue? Edwidge Danticat airplaneissuespeople Fame confers a rank above that of gentleman and of kings. As soon as she issues her patent of nobility, it matters not a straw whether the recipient be the son of a Bourbon or of a tallow-chandler. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton issueskingsson If I am traitor, who did I betray? I gave all my information to the American public, to American journalists who are reporting on American issues. If they see that as treason, I think people really need to consider who they think they're working for. The public is supposed to be their boss, not their enemy. Edward Snowden issuespeoplethinking A prime minister has to keep a certain balance when dealing with sensitive issues. Ehud Olmert sensitiveissuesbalance We've already seen, in practically every country around the world where these issues have been covered, that the general public has recoiled at the ideology behind these programs. Edward Snowden issuescountryworld People at civil-liberties organizations say it's a sea change, and that it's very clear judges have begun to question more critically assertions made by the executive. Even though it seems so obvious now, it is extraordinary in the context of the last decade, because courts had simply said they were not the best branch to adjudicate these claims - which is completely wrong, because they are the only nonpolitical branch. They are the branch that is specifically charged with deciding issues that cannot be impartially decided by politicians. Edward Snowden issuesorganizationsea I'm not a movie guy. I don't know all this stuff that comes with celebrity. I don't know who the actors will be and stuff like that. But anybody who wants to talk about the issues - that's great. Edward Snowden issuesguystuff I'm not a communist, a socialist or a radical. But these issues have to be addressed. Edward Snowden communistradicalissues 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 issueschoicesbelieve Rediscovering the controversies that occupied early Christianity sharpens our awareness of the major issue in the whole debate, then and now: What is the source of religious authority? For the Christian the question takes more specific form: What is the relation between the authority of ones own experience and that claimed for the scriptures, the ritual and the clergy? Elaine Pagels issuesreligiouschristian That's one of the biggest issues that we see in the question of governments right now, I think, in the Western world. Is that increasingly all of our elected officials are pulled from the same class. These aren't normal people. I don't want to say they're all terrible people, but at the same time, they're not like you and me. These are people who have sort of a nine to five working history. Edward Snowden issuesgovernmentthinking I talk to cryptographers, some of the leading technologists in the world, all the time about how we can deal with these issues. It is not possible to create a back door that is only accessible, for example, to the FBI. Edward Snowden issuesdoorsworld The issue I brought forward most clearly was that of mass surveillance, not of surveillance in general. Edward Snowden surveillanceissuesmass«5455565758596061626364»
