I don't know if I would have the same take on world matters and social issues if I were not gay.
It seems to me the most important issue in the LGBT community is the right to be queer-the right to be free of the heterosexual assumption.
When it comes to the fundamental issues that humanity faces, I think that solutions involve shifting consciousness towards cooperation.
The American people demand results, not rhetoric, especially when it comes to national security issues.
I went to Catholic school in and out. I'm what you call a recovering Catholic. I have many major issues with the church.
For me, journalism has been more a matter of projecting a particular approach to covering policies, to covering issues. It was a continuation of what I tried to do in government.
Noah Vosen: Issue a standing kill order on Jason Bourne, effective immediately.
Who lives long and who dies prematurely, is the defining issue of our time. And I submit to you, there's a significant race dimension, it is basically class-driven.
A simple way to address hidden curriculum issues is to spend time talking with staff and key leaders about their spiritual lives.
'Orphans' reflects unconscious elements in myself that were, at the time, indigestible and butting up against each other in my psyche; issues I wasn't really in touch with but was trying to put into a dramatic framework.
I spend a lot more time than any person should have to talking with lawyers and thinking about intellectual property issues.
I think if you live in a country, basically you share the dominant values of a country although you may disagree on issues all the time.
I take President Obama at his word that he is a Christian and was born here in America. Now, it's time that we focus on the real issues facing this country.
Now where people are - at least the people I talk to - they are focused on issues of trust. Accountability also comes up, to make sure that this doesn't happen again.
A lot of my emotional issues come from dealing with the opposite sex. I've come to terms with the fact that I'll be retired before I can finally enter into a healthy relationship.
After the 9/11 incidents, Islam has become a big question mark among westerners, especially Americans. The mass media constantly raise the issue of relationship between Islam and terrorism.
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.
There are so many issues in society - we talk about the violence, the drugs, the unwanted pregnancies - but at the end of the day, it comes down to what we taught our children to be.
My issue with the state of women became incredibly stimulated when I was visiting developing countries and it became obvious that women bore the brunt of so many things in society.
A significant number of women who have been ill or had marital issues feel they have no value, and society is so keen on telling us that's the case.
My being a teacher had a decisive influence on making language and systems as simple as possible so that in my teaching, I could concentrate on the essential issues of programming rather than on details of language and notation.
