Quotes about "Contemporary Issues"

I mean, I think having a great family like I do. You know, I tend to want to give it all I have when I'm at the golf course, and then when I leave I don't want to think about golf at all. And I just remind myself almost daily that golf's just my job, it's not who I am. ”

If I could distil the relevance of Bruce Springsteen's music to Australia it would be this: don't let what has happened to the American economy happen here. Don't let Australia become a down-under version of New Jersey, where the people and the communities whose skills are no longer in demand get thrown on the scrap heap of life. ”

It's often the case that great artists - people like Bruce Springsteen - tend to pick up the subterranean rumblings of profound social change long before the economic statisticians notice them. Changes start long before they become statistics. ”

You can't be a first-world economy in the 21st century if you haven't laid the groundwork to seize the opportunities. ”

You can't be a first-world economy in the 21st century if you're not on the path to a clean energy future. ”

Being married has not affected my career at all other than just making me happier to be on the road. ”

Well, for me the canning factory was minimum wage, which at the time I believe was $3.40 or something. I was just happy to have a job. ”

Early on in my career I had a lot of bad press about my temperament, but I was only a young lad then. ”

As far as cutting jobs, you could cut whole agencies out of the federal government and not miss them. ”

We're headed towards a fascist economy in which you have big government, big corporations and big labor, and they're all in cahoots to strangle the entrepreneur. ”