Domestic Issues Quotes

You shall have sometime your house so full of glass that we cannot tell where to come to be out of the sun or the cold.

How long will it take the citizens of the United States, one wonders, to recognize that the house their country bombed in Iraq is the same one they were living in until it was foreclosed?

I grew up in a little bit of a broken home.

Partisan politics should stop at the boundaries of the United States.

The U.S. Forces are winning in Iraq. It is to be hoped that they will win at home also.

Barack Obama took office in the middle of a massive financial crisis. He was handed a bunch of messes all around the world and at home.

I am neither a sociologist nor a psychologist, but you don't have to be one to see that Turkey is in a vortex of problems, isolated from the world.

My mother's father drank and her mother was an unhappy, neurotic woman, and I think she has lived all her life afraid of anyone who drinks for fear something like that might happen to her.

Internationally, I propose the radical step of not trying to solve complex political problems with 1,000lb bombs; domestically, I propose they start addressing inequality by paying reparations for slavery. I'm well aware that in a society where war and discrimination are now almost entirely normalised, both options sound like madness.

Historically, we were always complaining about others interfering in our domestic and national issues.

True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.

I consider no man honest who does not observe towards other nations the principles which he desires to be observed towards his own: and therefore I will not interfere in your domestic questions.

Access to basic quality health care is one of the most important domestic issues facing our nation.

I would never seek foreign conflicts just to distract attention from domestic difficulties; that would be frivolous.

The things that happen to people we never really know. What happens in houses behind closed doors, what secrets -

Any hack can safely rail away at foreign powers beyond the sea; but a good writer is a critic of the society he lives in.

There are many domestic issues that give us a lot of common ground to work on. Health, education and immigration are among the areas where we share mutual goals and aspirations. There are also many values that we share as a communities.

When I am back in old Blighty, I am surrounded by the old and familiar concerns: New Labour, Europe, the Middle East and the rest. If you live in Britain, you will know what I mean - except you won't, because you will take it for granted that this is what the world is all about.

In Afghanistan, there is a plan to build democracy; hundreds of thousands of troops are protecting it. There is a plan to rebuild and reconstruct there. But many thousands of Americans die from violence and poverty every year and we don't have a plan for reconstruction at home.

If we can have a surge in Bagdad, why can’t we have a surge here at home.

Divorce is a 50-50 thing, and it can be a number of petty things that finally drive you out of your mind.

You can only really get under anybody's skin if you are married to them.

When the strongest nation in the world can be tied up for years in a war with no end in sight, when the richest nation in the world can't manage its own economy, when the nation with the greatest tradition of the rule of law is plagued by unprecedented lawlessness, and when the President of the United States cannot travel abroad or to any major city at home without fear of a hostile demonstration - then it's time for new leadership for the United States of America.

When I ran I was a first candidate to talk about how immigration was going be so damaging to the American people. When I first ran I talked about affirmative-action.

We are in really bad shape as a country. We are not respected around the world. We are not respected in our own country.