issue quotes

This will be the issue of that darling Plea, of being one and not two; it will be turned upon the Scots with a Vengeance; and their 45 Scots Members may dance round to all Eternity, in thisTrap of their own making.

- Andrew Fletcher (of Saltoun)
  State of the Controversy betwixt United and Separate Parliaments, a critique of the proposed Union.

There are many people in the world who really don't understand, or say they don't, what is the great issue between the free world and the Communist world. Let them come to Berlin!

-John F(itzgerald) Kennedy
   Address in Berlin's Rudolf  Wilde Platz, 26  Jun, 22 months after the erection of the wall dividing the city.

The trouble with poverty, as an issue, is that it has basically exhausted the patience of the general public.

- Paul R Krugman
  The Age of Diminished Expectations.