It's a punitive bill. This is a very complicated issue, and I don't see any good coming out of this.

Sara Gonzalez

I told them, 'We've been in worse situations.' We had to press the issue.

Sheryl Krmpotich

In many cases with these districts, the fiscal issue and problems they're facing are recurring issues.

Bobbie Davis

We try to extend the court whenever we can and utilize our quickness. Pressure defense and forcing the issue is what we do.

Todd Kent

I am not hearing a lot of interest in it. There is occasionally pockets of it, but right now, it doesn't seem to be a hot issue with the coaches.

Deb Hauser

The micro-management issue is a huge one for the phone companies.

Jeff Leiper

It's hard to say if companies would leave, but attracting companies in would be an issue, if they see the school system cannot support their growth.

Denis Hanks

I think [traffic] is the biggest issue the city faces this year.

Mayor Helen Klanderud

We've identified this as a top-priority issue.

Linda Rosenstock

This gap is not going to go away. It's going to be a recurring issue.

Randy Hannan

It's something of a frustrating issue. The public thinks not enough is being accomplished. I don't know if we'll ever be able to declare it clean.

David Knoll

It's gonna be a hot issue!

Andrew Matthews

We have already designed the project around that issue.

Bob Gronauer

The oil price is still at a high level. It is definitely still an issue, especially in industries that have higher energy costs.

Juergen Lukasser

The issue is earnings sustainability.

John Rutledge

The fact that (such funds) will flow toward the private sector is a big issue.

Takafumi Horie

I don't think there's any debate this is a critical issue to all of the Great Lakes. The debate is what to do about it and how.

David Reid

I see them more as a safety issue than a privacy issue.

Sga President Basheer Benhalim

I think (telecom exposure) is an issue that's going to be with us for a while, but I think the stocks are discounting the expectations.

Murray Leith Jr

I don't think it is an issue here.

Kai Holm

[The ruling] does chill linking and, in the long run, it chills the Internet. Certainly linking will become a key issue for an appeal now.

Wendy Seltzer

It's time we framed every question - every issue -- not in terms of what's in it for 'me,' but what's in it for all of us?

John Kerry

It's a very complex issue of regulatory policy and wireless science. The issue is often challenging to diagnose.

Art Navarro

Republicans seem to avoid (the issue) like the plague.

Andrew Petty

This is the most important issue facing not just us, but almost all of our constituents.

Karen Carter

I think the issue about the proposed bill was an issue of transparency.

Mick Keelty

This is a difficult issue that's highly charged and emotional. We want to be really informed and separate rumor from fact.

Walter Tejada

As far as the political contributions issue is concerned, this comes under the heading ... of no good deed goes unpunished, ... I don't think there's anything here for me to be concerned about.

Bernard Schwartz

We must do more than identify problems. We have to stay focused on the real issue in these crimes: the victims.

Virginia Svenningsen

This issue, as far as I'm concerned, is resolved. Allegheny County has a base year. Stability is now back in the county.

Dan Onorato

I've not had one stitch of trouble. It's just not an issue.

Jim Norton

She is probably one of the most knowledgeable persons on the issue of healthcare. She?s a real exemplar for a lot of us here.

Susan Lee

I have been here over 20 years, and every year we get calls about fireworks. We will go out and issue citations and confiscate fireworks.

Carl Duke

I'm not going to discuss that, ... I'm not trying to dodge the issue.

Joyce Chen

It's not so clear cut now. It's certainly a subject matter that any defense attorney will make somewhat of a deal out of, somewhat of an issue out of it.

Martin Leppo

We have made a very strong board decision on that issue.

Robert Dupree

This is a community issue that goes to the very core values of what we're trying to protect.

Larry Jenkins

We are treating this as a very serious issue.

Tom Osbourne

But the survey shows they must continue to work on this issue.

David Gallop

A key issue in the upcoming city elections will be the discussion of this question - how much growth can Harrisonburg sustain before it has to sit back and digest it?

David Mcquilkin

That's the biggest issue. Various districts have different definitions of moral turpitude.

Wayne Blanton

If they want to criticize us for having only one opinion on an issue instead of two or three, we'll take it.

Gene Pierce

This is a busy place. We don't have enough capacity for the families that come. This will add capacity for us. When guests arrive and there's no childcare, it wrecks their vacation. Capacity is a huge issue for us.

Roger Mccarthy

They've been pretty clear that is an important issue.

David Blanchard

The Department of Energy is a big bureaucracy.... Energy efficiency hasn't been an agency priority, it hasn't been a political priority, and so the issue has been neglected.

Katherine Kennedy

His government's move to give us a pay rise is a separate issue. They won't win our gratitude for this pay-rise plan.

Somsak Kosaisuk

The core of the whole issue is to restore voter confidence in Missouri?s elections.

Sen. Delbert Scott

Understand our priorities and certainly understand the issue that if there's no security, nothing else is going to get done.

Marc Grossman

We want to see this issue resolved by the end of the month.

Ari Adler

That's the big issue: whither goes the full-size SUV, You wouldn't call it a growth market.

Joseph Phillippi

Whether someone thought it was a joke, we take it very seriously. This is a food-tampering issue.

Karen Burk

The right of every American to first-class citizenship is the most important issue of our time.

Jackie Robinson

One would think that as adults that wouldn't be an issue.

Luke Selking

We knew they had concerns, ... I?m happy we?re down to one issue.

Tom Burns

I am very delighted to see Apple take this issue seriously. This was a real issue and most people tried to ignore it.

Matthew Peterson

It's a labeling thing, not a safety issue. They're not going to recall these products.

Dave Dececco

Even though various groups hold very different attitudes, it's important to all sides. It's an issue that can cut both ways.

Mark Dicamillo

The issue is bringing cargo in and bringing cargo out - and Portland, New York, Boston, and Montreal, these are big competitors.

George Bald

We all know that this issue is so volatile that anything can happen.

Frank Sharry

The biggest issue for Saudi Arabia and its neighbors is what happens after Abdullah and Sultan.

Thomas Lippman

It sent up a red flag for everybody to address that issue now so it won't come up at the last minute.

Mason Phelps

Community colleges have been a big issue at the Legislature.

Luci Willits

Every opinion has been heard and that every issue is on the table.

Brian Dolan

Veterans' issues are really his only issue - that's all he has.

Jerry Mcnerney

It's going to be primarily a water issue, ... The big thing is going to be the (storm) surge.

Mike Foster

A mechanism is in place to identify and treat individuals who have TB. It is a very important public health issue.

Rob Kenny

The bone heals itself; that's not the issue.

Gianni Maddalozzo

It was not a funding issue. It's an issue of the design capabilities of these projects.

Carol Sanders

What's the basis for that issue, for the freedom I have?

Joyce Chen

It is not a financial issue, ... We have a lot of people who are willing to write a check and support us financially.

Richard Hodges

India has the right to vote for anyone. But the way it went about in this issue is debatable. This will definitely have an impact on India-Iran relations.

Pr Kumaraswamy

The biggest single issue is we're expecting something to come out of the House on slots.

John Donahue

This is a freedom of speech issue, and we're going to use the First Amendment to declare that abortion is murder. We're going to do it in front of the courthouse and courtroom, and we're going to do it across the nation.

Troy Newman

We are serious in investigating this issue. We hope this will be resolved without American or British intervention.

Hossam Amin

The challenge with the quality grade issue is that it is not very well correlated with one of the most important consumer characteristics and that is tenderness.

Ted Schroeder

This is a major issue in all our towns.

Delegate David Rudolph

One of them desperately needed help with an adoption issue.

Jerry Clements

It's going to be tough, because the issue is going to stir for a long time.

Ron Shapiro

There's no issue that these gentlemen are quite entitled to go about their business, and Ms. Kidman seems able to accept that.

Lee Gilmour

Most of the fairs we talk to are dealing with the same issue.

Brent Edgecomb

Growth going forward is becoming the big issue for stock investors. Things are still OK on the earnings front, but some companies are beginning to be more conservative with their guidance.

Owen Fitzpatrick

The fundamental issue has always been employment security. Outsourcing is seen as an attack on employment security. Fundamentally, the issue of employment security has not gone away. But because of the global economy, it's hard to say you're anti-outsourcing.

Charles Bofferding

She was a very bright, energetic woman who contributed significantly to the community and was not afraid to confront the issue of HIV/AIDS.

Kathleen Farrell

The biggest issue is probably related to arsenic.

George Foster

I think we have found out how to go about this in a reasonable way. I hope this issue will be behind us.

Robert Vaught

The reason for the postponement is to re-examine the issue to explore all the options.

Chuck Ardo

The main issue now is to provide Afghanistan and the government there with the resources to be able to begin reconstruction.

Ahmed Rashid

Education for many people would be the core copyright issue, yet it's largely neglected in this bill.

Michael Geist

I think Dean Johnson's conduct will be an issue throughout the year.

Mark Drake

The most significant challenge, the No. 1 issue, is hiring skilled workers.

Sara Hart

It wasn't that big of an issue for us.

Frank Supovitz

It was a very difficult issue. When the elephant rolls over, the mouse gets squashed.

Pat Binns

We shouldn't underestimate the importance of this issue.

Sen. Donald Defronzo

Once that is complete, we should be able to issue the loans.

Maggie Carson

I've been wearing a lot of hats, doing everyday business and trying to deal with the issue. It would have been helpful if we'd had some resources or even some ideas from larger companies.

Brett Gardner

Social conservatives have discovered this is an issue you can win on.

David Boaz

Length is not an issue for him, ... Heck, he hits it 5-10 yards past me. He hits it as far as he ever did.

Bart Bryant

One big issue is the faith-based initiative.

Adam Hunter

That is an issue that could be handled in some other way. It doesn't require the whole BRAC effort to be derailed.

Paul Taibl

It's always the little things. Timing is always an issue. We have to sell our ideas.

Freeman Thomas

Our initial investigations of each incident has found different root causes for each one, which would not indicate a systemic issue.

Amanda Tobin

The way the government handled lacks grace...the patchwork has made the issue murkier and murkier.

Arun Jaitley

The issue is not whether we should pay (longevity pay), it's whether one elected official should be making $1,000 more (a year) than another.

Mark Roach

Everyone I have talked to has been interested in this issue.

Mike Freeman

We invited 25 in, and unfortunately, that's not what happened, ... It's a security issue -- they knew this ahead of time.

Scott Fear

Our biggest issue is railroad cars. It's a real issue in the Northwest.

Ray Wahlert

The Supreme Court's decision should not be construed as an endorsement of assisted suicide, but a state's rights issue.

Teresa Favuzzi

Lenders say they don't discriminate against age, but I think age was an issue.

Kevin Koelemeyer

The issue is, once you've involved politics in the drug approval process, there's no way to put that genie back in the bottle.

Susan Wood

It's a side issue. The security of Chinese nationals has been an ongoing issue.

Gilles Guiheux

The issue is giving the workers the right to choose whether they want to engage in collective bargaining.

Antony Dugdale

You've often got a 30 mile-an-hour difference in speed, which is an issue for crash involvement.

Scott Cooner

Every business has addressed that issue in one way or another.

Dale Dreiling

We think this is the largest mobilization on the issue of immigration reform ever.

Avril Smith

The issue has been has been and continues to be the decline in AT&T's core businesses, both on the consumer long distance side and in its business services side. On the consumer long distance side, the decline was expected, but the magnitude wasn't.

Mel Marten

This is a community outbreak. This is not an issue with those three facilities. This is a community issue.

Dr. Doug Moore

The issue here is not political. Hence, politics should take the back seat here.

Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

The issue of the Security Council has not been touched in this negotiation.

Heraldo Munoz

We discussed this very important issue yesterday over a beer.

Vladimir Putin

This isn't a strike for more money or less workload. It's about one issue - quality.

Ted Montgomery

If there is not a more important national issue than Iraq, I don't know what it is.

Sean Conway

It's really clouding the issue here. It's not an anti-homeless thing.

Frank Furtaw

I don't like it, just like everyone else doesn't like it, but it's a safety issue, and as much as it bugs us, there really isn't anything we can do about it.

Aaron Kramer

They weren't a stuffy family at all. They were very well-rounded. The play deals with the issue of the father's death.

Dona Henry

Even though the parties are far apart rhetorically on this issue, they turn out not to be that far apart when it comes to the practicalities.

Paul Beck

When you're dealing with academics, ... it's a very serious issue.

Lew Perkins

We're going to have to force the issue a little earlier than we wanted to.

Steve Sherman

I do not believe for us as Lutherans, human sexuality is a church-defining or church-dividing issue, ... We can live with some ambiguity about these questions.

Mark Hanson

This (lawsuit) allows the bankruptcy court to resolve the Winslow tank issue.

Michelle Firmbach

I don't think that'll be an issue.

Ryan Getzlaf

Bring it on - I appreciate a good debate. This is going to stir up some of these people who would rather not talk about the issue.

Mary Foster

This is not media hype. This is a real issue for us.

Dr. Julie Gerberding

What they are trying to do is make the indecency problem as big an issue as possible.

Marv Johnson

I think it is really time for this to be a national issue.

Patrick Fleming

The NUC skirmish is only a prelude...the real issue is in my view the new constitution.

Su Chi

Rep. Nunes has led this effort for many years and been a tireless advocate on this issue.

Chip Kunde

Franklin has to be No. 1. There is no issue that is greater. Something has to be done and I'd like to see this move forward.

Gene Stamm

As long as [the initiative] passes, I don't care who endorses it as long as the students get to vote and decide on the issue.

Susan Henriques

He certainly understands their concerns. The cuts are unfortunate. However, this is an issue for the university system.

Pam Walsh

I don't see them budging on this peaceful use issue. It was clever on their part.

Daniel Pinkston

We heard about the church restitution issue. It is important. But it seems it is a minor issue compared to the fight against corruption.

Joost Lagendijk

I'm in favor of what the Planning Board has recommended. It's pretty much a divided community on this issue, and I think what we're going to come up with is a compromise.

Tom Mcdaniel

There is no ambiguity here. It's beyond question the courts may not issue an injunction prohibiting further reporting in this case.

Peter Scheer

The issue is smoking, not smokers. Smoking is the problem, not the smoker.

Regina Carlson

The issue is whether a citizens? group can (use a lawsuit to) force agencies to comply with the law if they?re taking actions that are not effective. They?re trying to create immunity.

Heidi Mcintosh

Qualification and experience are the real issues; some are framing it as a race issue. Race didn't come up in our decision.

George Griffin

The issue to me has always been a racial issue.

Linda Johnson

The biggest issue facing us right now, of course, is the human resources issue.

Greg Stringham

This is a training issue. This is totally a training issue.

Joe Laud

It was a production issue. The final weight of the (overhead) equipment was more than our ceiling.

Tim Reese

This is more of a theoretical issue because we don't believe this has actually occurred.

Andrew Weinstein

It's already a huge issue, and from what I can tell, it's getting bigger every day.

Bill Armstrong

I think punting this issue to the Arts Commission is the fairest way of doing this at this point.

Alan Gerson

The issue is not the supply of crude oil. Where there is an issue is natural gas in the U.S.

Daniel Barcelo

Florida is the microcosm of the entire nation. What issue is there nationally that is not an issue in Florida?

Rep. Marco Rubio

The suicides were not a reserve issue alone. It's very much a shared issue.

Roxane Snyder

We are very much concerned about the Taiwan issue. The army must improve its capability in defense and dealing with emergencies.

Yang Xuhua

The urgency around this issue kind of dissipated. I think it's an example of how unpredictable things are. We got distracted.

John Treanor

This is just the first step. This is an important issue and it affects everyone.

Mayor Perry Barse

It's not just an academic issue. These are people who want to quit, should quit and can't quit.

Roland Griffiths

Every time she missteps, she hurts herself more. Katherine Harris is letting herself become the issue.

David E. Johnson

I do think this is an important issue in society today, and it hasn't gotten better.

Dexter Webb

This isn't a free speech issue. You can't just go on and say anything about anybody ? and keep your job.

Carol Thorp

I don't expect them to change their views, and they shouldn't expect us to change our views. The issue is how we work together in spite of that.

Sandy Berger

The committee will investigate the antiquities issue, including the current issues facing the institution and how the collection was built.

John Biggs

I would expect that issue will be settled in the next five or 10 years.

Michael Bishop

To my knowledge, there's never been a case reversed or stayed because of a venue issue.

David Berg

By the time of the Civil War slavery was not an issue in the North. The issue was in the South and so it was very easy to continue to demonize the South after the Civil War.

Valerie Cunningham

If he fails to come to see the police after another two more summons, we could issue an arrest warrant.

Ajirawid Subarnbhesaj

If not [the students], who? It's their tomorrow we're dealing with here. We've got to get them engaged on this issue. Students carry a lot of power.

Laurie David

Young people having access to firearms is an issue that parents, communities and schools are all addressing.

Kelli Durham

That's really going to help us address a large issue.

Adrienne Worthy

I came to the issue by accident.

John Tanner

She never smoked and that gets to the issue of secondhand smoke.

Corey Miller

We'll be watching the case with a lot of interest, but to be perfectly honest it's not a major issue in New Zealand.

Geoff Walker

It has improved significantly. This has been an issue over the years. We have tightened up the controls.

Joe Rinaldo

My kids are more important to me than my campaign. I'm not going to make it a campaign issue or a campaign promise.

Gifford Miller

That only becomes an issue if the athletic director makes it an issue. You squash that very easily if you get support from your athletic department.

Chico Furtado

It's a moral issue. I can't sign something that says I agree to stop doing something I never did.

Patricia Santangelo

One issue is, what are they going to cost and the other is, what is their quality of life going to be.

Amy Bernstein

[Sept. 12, 2005 issue - It wasn't exactly a surprise.] This ain't gonna last, ... The water's coming into the city.

Oliver Thomas

We've received no communication from the Venezuelan government on this issue ... It's an internal matter for Venezuela.

Brian Penn

We thought it was at first, but once it warmed up it wasn't an issue, so it will be interesting to see what happens in February.

Sara Winthrop

We are not talking about a tax issue, we are talking about a constitutional requirement.

Melissa Merz

It is not a closed chapter. The UDF government will continue discussions with the concerned communities on the issue and arrive a solution.

Ramesh Chennithala

The passport issue will be one of the key economic considerations at the conference.

Arlene White

We just learned of this issue and are looking into it.

Sonya Boralv

At this point we're anxious to begin discussions with FDA to address this issue.

Tony Plohoros

It shouldn't be a big divisive issue.

Tim Stanley

Since this is new, we probably will issue some warnings.

Andy Doniger

You have to address the basic issue of supply or you will forever be chasing this problem.

Nat Roberts

Most of them, almost 100 percent, are young between 18 and 19 years old and they decided that the security issue was a little complicated.

William Brownfield

Student accounting services is up to 50 calls a day regarding this issue.

Marilyn Pollack

We need this. We've come all this way and we've put so many hours into studying the issue that we shouldn't turn back.

David Koch

The board will deal with that issue as we find candidates and visit with them about expectations.

Tad Perry

The big issue facing any school is very simple. It boils down to one word - excellence.

Dan Bonner

It's dramatics, just another minor thing that's turned into a big issue.

Bryan Robinson

Reliable power to this building is a chronic issue.

Joey Spatafora

This issue - whether to put them on trial again, and on the basis of what law ... is currently in the hands of the attorney general.

Tzippi Livni

I don't think that the college has gained more diversity because of our change. It certainly is an issue but I feel that it is separate and distinct.

Michele Hutchins