Agenda Quotes - page 11

The Patriotic Millionaires campaign, pulled together quickly by the Agenda Project in New York City, just happens to appear on the same day as a new study from the Center for Responsive Politics revealing that half of the members of the House and the Senate are millionaires. (Joe Conason)
Not surprisingly, some of the super-rich declined to join the Patriotic Millionaires when the Agenda Project reached out to them. At least two airily dismissed the Bush tax cuts for millionaires and above - which will cost well over $700 billion over the coming decade - as small potatoes. View quote
Joe Conason
As governor, I learned the importance of having an agenda. View quote
John Engler
It was necessary, as a black historian, to have a personal agenda. View quote
John Hope Franklin
Obama lost his ability to push his agenda through Congress when he received what he himself called a 'shellacking' in the November 2010 elections. That shellacking was primarily the result of massive policy overreach when he had a Democratic Congress in his pocket. View quote
John Podhoretz
I love time with family and friends, but completely relish time on my own when I have no agenda to follow, no to-do's, just me and time alone. View quote
Jacqueline Winspear
Beyond budget fights, the Obama second-term agenda was supposed to be about passing comprehensive immigration reform. View quote
Juan Williams
I feel the whole issue has been a witchhunt from day one as part of a broader Republican political agenda. View quote
Kojo Annan
I don't like dirt. Cleanliness is high on my agenda, but I don't have a phobia of dirt. I'm just not keen on it. I don't really like dirty people or houses or smelly things. View quote
Keeley Hawes
Some argue that now isn't the time to push the green agenda - that all efforts should be on preventing a serious recession. That is a false choice. It fails to recognise that climate change and our carbon reliance is part of problem - high fuel prices and food shortages due to poor crop yields compound today's financial difficulties. View quote
Lucy Powell
What the Lib Dems have failed to do is offer any meaningful agenda for government or for power. (Lucy Powell)
A Christian philosophy of literature begins with the same agenda of issues that any philosophy of literature addresses. Its distinctive feature is that it relates these issues to the Christian faith. View quote
Leland Ryken
The Republican agenda is, and always has been, to repeal Roe v. Wade, and at the very least, erode it to the greatest extent possible. View quote
Madeleine M. Kunin
If we are to create a new agenda for family/work policies, employers and employees have to take a seat at the same table and recognize their mutual gains. View quote
Madeleine M. Kunin
I love the energy of an independent film set. No one is there for the money. Everyone is there 'cause they really want to be there. It makes all the difference in the world. It's without ego and agenda, other than just wanting to fulfill a creative dream. View quote
Mamie Gummer
I was anorexic in the 60s and 70s, although it wasn't called anorexia then. I thought people would be nicer to me if I looked very small and delicate, so food wasn't high on my agenda. But it is now. View quote
Marianne Faithfull
I get frustrated by the fact that comics go on stage with some kind of agenda beyond comedy - I'm not sure it should be about that. View quote
Andrew Lawrence
There is a widespread assumption that simply because my generation of women has the good fortune to live in a world touched by the feminist movement, that means everything we do is magically imbued with its agenda, but it doesn't work that way. View quote
Ariel Levy
He wasn't, but producers are by definition annoying because they have a different agenda from you. They're trying to stop you spending money and you're trying to not spend money, but at the same time we're great artists. View quote
Michael Apted
There are versions of the pro-gay and anti-gay agenda that assume a simplistic rather than simple understanding of the issue - at least from a biblical perspective. Reject it or embrace it: that's the easy choice that makes for great sound-bites but ruins lives. View quote
Michael Horton
You've got to understand that in Bollywood, every actor is an instrument, and yet a human being. They come to the set with a set agenda, believing, 'This is who I am, this is what I want, and no, I am not going to become that character you want me to.' (Mira Nair)
The United States should pursue a more robust agenda for U.S. competitiveness and innovation focused on a lower-carbon economy, including investments in education, basic research and development, infrastructure, retraining, retirement security, and universal health care. View quote
Mona Sutphen
I rarely get a moment to myself, but I love the way that my agenda is dictated by the children, not my work. View quote
Monica Ali
He just was being four. He just was being a child. He wasn't interested in what my agenda was. He wanted to do what he wanted to do and it started because he saw the lights on in Toys R Us. View quote
Nia Long
I'm enjoying the opportunity that Parks And Recreation affords me to exploit my own soapbox agenda, which is to try to encourage people to make things with their hands. View quote
Nick Offerman