Current Issues Quotes

It's not about the past; it's about knowing your history so that you can fight in the present. Otherwise, you don't know who the real enemy is, what the real issue is, because it had been covered by many layers of bad information, of lies, and manipulation.

Discrimination is not just an ugly stain from this nation’s past. It’s still the reality of the present.

Simply that we are mirroring the trends in society, at any given time smuggling was an issue in the seventies, corruption is an issue today, and we faithfully reflect those issues.

It would be well if, in studying the past, we could always bear in mind the problems of the present

The work of the political activist inevitably involves a certain tension between the requirement that position be taken on current issues as they arise and the desire that one's contributions will somehow survive the ravages of time.

I think in the [Bill] Clinton era, if people hadn't been spending vast amounts of time attacking Clinton, they would have found that they had essentially the same problems as they do now.

There are people who have let the problems of today lead them to conclude that for them life is not the way.

No single conflict from the past can serve as a reliable model for struggles in the present.

I think that's very important for romantic comedies, that they do deal with [modern]issues.

This 2016 election better be about the future, not the past. It better be about the issues our nation and the world is facing today, not simply the issues we once faced.

'Get Skinny' is my sixth book. I look over the books that I've written, and my subject matters are varied, and I write books pertaining to that which I'm dealing with at the moment.

We tend to pay attention to that which is the most current on our radar screen.

With everything on 'PLL,' it's not just a show that's trendy that's going to tell you what to wear next week. They push the issues. They force families into conversation.

Our current tax system is broken.

President Obama and I can meet, shake hands and discuss current issues, we - and I am personally - are always ready for such contacts.

In spite of all the talk and study about our next years, all the silent ponderings about what lies within them...it seems plain to us that many things are wrong in the present ones that can be, must be, changed. Our texture of belief has great holes in it. Our pattern lacks pieces.

If you don't understand history, you will not be able to deal with today's issues.