Issue Analysis Quotes

If you can't summarize an issue on one page, you don't understand the issue well enough.

I believe our editorial decisions reflected our constant desire to make sure that we fully cover and analyze any issue and give our viewers all the information they need.

You cannot solve a problem unless you diagnose the problem.

Hope is not the basis for policy. Wise policymakers analyze major issues such as immigration carefully and look at facts and probabilities instead of just hoping for the best.

History, well taught, is the demythologising of the past... Take any important issue of our time - Northern Ireland, Nuclear Disarmament, Race, The Welfare State, South Africa - and it becomes impossible to seriously confront any of them without understanding their historical background.

When I first came to Washington, what I admired most was that people were just really, really smart with a tremendous amount of intellectual horsepower and the ability to look at an issue and say something fresh.

And frankly, being a woman I think gives me a slightly different take on a lot of the issues and on a lot of the solutions to the problems we face.

The purpose of debates is to explore issues, not end them.

Issues are never simple. One thing I'm proud of is that very rarely will you hear me simplify the issues.

I've heard everything that anybody can make up or spin, and I know how to cut right through and get to the heart of any issue.

I try to use and, furthermore, strive to focus on the actual facts surrounding and impacting any issue.

We cannot solve a problem until we understand the full extent of the problem.

I think my reaction to most issues is to get the facts and circumstances.

All of our issues come from us not being aware enough or not seeing through our problems to the depths of the issues.

I don't want to make public statements about issues that I have not studied in detail.

I guess you'd call me an independent, since I've never identified myself with one party or another in politics. I always decide my vote by taking as careful a look as I can at the actual candidates and issues themselves, no matter what the party label.

Realism in foreign policy means careful consideration of all aspects pertinent to the issue, before taking a decision. This is the only way you can move from where you are to someplace else.

I mean, it's fun for us to talk about issues. You know, there's no one issue we spend a lot of time on probably, because he gets to do that all day with somebody else who's a lot more expert at issues than I am.

I think about issues. I use my economic training to devise solutions.

When you have a problem, the first thing to do in addressing it is to honestly identify it.

Don't automatically obey Presidential directives if you disagree or if you suspect he hasn't considered key aspects of the issue.

There is not an issue that a woman cannot bring a perspective to.

The mark, to me, of a constructive argument is one that looks at a specific problem and says, 'What shall we do about this?' And a nonconstructive one is one that tries to label people.

I'm a common sense person who tries to analyze and I have to look at all sides of the issue because you don't want software that only does something but doesn't fix the other errors.

I always try to find the truth in a situation. That unvarnished, pure nugget of truth at the core of every issue that I write about.