Issue Avoidance Quotes

Every once in a while an issue comes up where I have to make a statement. I can't totally avoid all political issues, but I try my best to minimize them. When I do make a statement, I try to be fairly neutral.

I've never concerned myself with the issues. I'm a political mechanic.

We can't treat issues as taboo because we find them unpleasant.

You cannot duck the difficult issues in the middle of an election campaign.

We have perfected the art of finding problems without fixing real-world issues. We focus too much on complexity, not harm.

I think by laying it out for the viewer I'm avoiding the issue of bias.

If you don't think about or deal with an issue, it gets bigger.

When the Department does respond to telegrams it is invariably to recommend evasion of issues that cannot be evaded.

Matt Rosendale doesn't know what the hell is going on in Montana. That's why he doesn't talk about the issues he believes in, because he doesn't know them.

The more that we choose not to talk about domestic violence, the more we shy away from the issue, the more we lose.

Violence has not really been an issue. Even in my wildest hopes, I wasn't trying to get violence in.

To avoid the issues you make up bogus issues.

It's not in the interest of the corporations who own the networks to actually be educating the American people so that are debating the real issues. It's much better to deflect attention away from issues and get into the story of the day.

It is much easier to bury a problem than to solve it.

I'm focused on energy only. And I know what I'm talking about. And I don't want to be distracted on other things.

This notion that members of Congress are power-hungry—absolutely the opposite. Most members like to duck tough issues.

It's not social issues I care about.

I avoid conflict - like, any conflict - at all costs. I hate it. Even at a restaurant, if I get the wrong order, I'll just eat it anyway because I don't want to make an issue.

It was once rumored that fledgling executives walked around their offices backwards so they wouldn't have to face an issue.

In a personalized world, important but complex or unpleasant issues are less likely to come to our attention at all.

Sometimes time actually works against you if you refuse to face the relevant issues and explain to the public what is at stake.