Serious Issues Quotes

What's public is propaganda, what's secret is serious.

I realized I can do other things. I started developing opinions on serious matters and it's not all sugar and spice.

When I ran for Presidency of the United States, I knew that this country faced serious challenges, but I could not realize - nor could any man realize who does not bear the burdens of this office - how heavy and constant would be those burdens

Medicine really matured me as a person because, as a physician, you're obviously dealing with life and death issues, issues much more serious than what we're talking about in entertainment. You can't get more serious than life and death. And if you can handle that, you can handle anything.

The belief that value judgments are not subject, in the last analysis, to rational control, encourages the inclination to make irresponsible assertions regarding right and wrong or good and bad. One evades discussion of serious issues by the simple device of passing them off as value problems, whereas, to say the least, many of these conflicts arose out of man's very agreement regarding values.

One evades discussion of serious issues by the simple device of passing them off as value problems, whereas, to say the least, many of these conflicts arose out of man’s very agreement regarding values.

We can be or become wise in all matters of secondary importance, but we have to be resigned to utter ignorance in the most important respect: we cannot have any knowledge regarding the ultimate principles of our choices, i.e. regarding their soundness or unsoundness... We are then in the position of beings who are sane and sober when engaged in trivial business and who gamble like madmen when confronted with serious issues.

But because media is what media is today, any stupid, absurd remark made by Donald Trump becomes the story of the week. Maybe, just maybe, we might want to have a serious discussion about the serious issues facing America. Donald Trump will not look quite so interesting in that context.

I didn't need to be speaker because I needed a fancy title or a big office. I wanted to be speaker so I could lead an effort to deal with the serious issues that are facing our country.

But let me tell you, this gender thing is history. You're looking at a guy who sat down with Margaret Thatcher across the table and talked about serious issues.

'Star Trek Into Darkness' isn't that 'Star Trek' is going to be no fun, and dark. It's that the fun's going to be challenged by some serious issues.

Politics is not bean bags. It's serious, tough stuff.

It's very hard to deal with true subject matter, especially when you're writing about such weighty issues.

Governments can't escape from taking tough steps. One can't be populist about it. You can't flirt with such serious issues like security.

I do really like serio-comic movies that treat real difficulties in a real way.

When a humorist ventures upon the grave concerns of life he must do his job better than another man or he works harm to his cause.

If I look at my family tree and follow every generation before us, going all the way back to the slaves, then Eddie Murphy is the highest achievement as far as my bloodline is concerned. How could you be jealous? You can only be proud, unless you got some serious issues.

Republicans do need to communicate that we agree that there are serious health care issues among the American people that we need to solve.

There are serious issues of inequality and injustice in this country... I stand with those opposing such bigotry.

I've done things that should be talked about, and covered serious issues that face our kids, but people aren't interested in that.

Be funny on a golf course? Do I kid my best friend's mother about her heart condition?

I'm not involved in light, frivolous matters. I'm not involved in fringe or side issues. I'm involved in serious issues.

Kids are growing up and they don't know the difference between fact and fiction. The line is getting blurry. I can handle it, you know; I'm a big boy. And the entertainment industry has always been crazy. But the problem is, it spills over into some very serious issues, in politics and real newsworthy stuff.

I am a reflection of what I sing. Sometimes I have to get serious because the things Ive been through are serious.

When the public starts classifying you as thoughtful, someone given to serious issues, you find yourself declassified as a humorist.