Agendas Quotes

• It is not enough for journalists to see themselves as mere messengers without understanding the hidden agendas of the message and the myths that surround it.

  John Pilger

  Understanding, Messengers, Messages

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The secret of your success is determined by your daily agenda.

  John C. Maxwell

  Leadership, Secret, Determined

  John C. Maxwell (2015). “The Leadership Handbook: 26 Critical Lessons Every Leader Needs”, p.238, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The Law of Triviality... briefly stated, it means that the time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.

  C. Northcote Parkinson

  Mean, Law, Corny

  Parkinson's Law ch. 3 (1957)

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• I've done it with Broadcast News-where there was no finish line, there was no agenda that I had to move all the characters to this point, that I was sort of open to what happens.

  James L. Brooks

  Moving, Character, News

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• You should be careful what you wish for, as the reasons for war get confused. One person can be very clear in their motives, but others can have different agendas.

  Dougray Scott

  Confused, War, Wish

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• I always went with my agenda, I just couldn't execute it.

  Jackie DeShannon

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• It is hard to see Judge Roberts as a judicial activist who would place ideological purity or a particular agenda above or ahead the need for thoughtful legal reasoning.

  Ron Wyden

  Thoughtful, Judging, Needs

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• President Obama instituted the most anti-growth, anti-investment, anti-jobs measures that we have seen in our lifetime. Now he called his agenda ambitious, I call it reckless.

  Mitt Romney

  Jobs, Usa, Growth

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• When you're in the minority, it doesn't matter what you're agenda is, you're not going to have the degree of freedom that you have as a member of the majority.

  Tom Daschle

  Majority, Degrees, Minorities

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• We only have one agenda, which is to make 'em laugh their pants off. Unless they are girls, of course, when it is to make them laugh their bras off so we can get a quick look.

  Ade Edmondson

  Girl, Laughing, Looks

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I am ready to sacrifice everything in completing the unfinished agenda of our noble jihad...until there is no bloodshed in Afghanistan and Islam becomes a way of life for our people.

  Mohammed Omar

  Sacrifice, People, Islam

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• Once the festival achieved a certain level of notoriety, then people began to come here with agendas that were not the same as ours. We can't do anything about that. We can't control that.

  Robert Redford

  People, Levels, Festivals

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• I had an agenda. It was a very smooth transition.

  Frank Press

  Transition, Smooth

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• The agendas on the management side of the table now are not in sync like they used to be because you have vastly different entities supplying programming to networks.

  Dick Wolf

  Different, Tables, Sides

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• We should restore a proper balance in environmental regulation and energy production that is based on common sense, not political agendas.

  Mac Thornberry

  Common Sense, Political, Balance

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• Our government needs to adopt a pro-market agenda that doesn't pick winners and losers, but it invites competition and it levels the playing field for everyone.

  Sarah Palin

  Government, Competition, Needs

  Keynote Speech at the Inaugural Tea Party Convention, delivered 6 February 2010, Nashville, Tennessee

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• They established their patriotic credentials long ago, and are either supportive of the Bush agenda or know when to keep their traps shut.

  Bill O'Reilly

  Patriotic, Long Ago, Supportive

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• Our nation is being led astray by ungodly judges, mayors and governors, who are given to change, defying the Constitution and substituting their own wicked agendas.

  David Wilkerson

  Change, Judging, Wicked

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• If there is a ground zero in the cultural wars, it is Missouri, a state where pro-life groups are strong and well organized and their agenda dominates local politics.

  Eleanor Clift

  Strong, Zero, War

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• The unionists also for their part, want to minimise the potential for change, not only on the equality agenda but on the issues of sovereignty and ending the union.

  Gerry Adams

  Equality, Issues, Unions

  Gerry Adams (2007). “An Irish Eye”, Brandon Books

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• This liberal progressive agenda... is the antithesis of who we are as a constitutional republic.

  Allen West

  Republic, Who We Are, Progressive

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• What pleases me most is that sustainable development is on almost everybody's agenda now.

  Maurice Strong

  Please Me, Development, Please

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• As a reporter, I approach every situation knowing that everyone has his or her own agenda. It's not a bad thing; it's just a fact.

  Maria Bartiromo

  Knowing, Literature, Facts

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• Bringing democratic control to the conduct of foreign policy requires a struggle merely to force the issue onto the public agenda.

  Eric Alterman

  Struggle, Issues, Force

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• On the other hand, we have in Israel, an Israeli government which has been elected by the Israeli people. Their political agenda is not for peace. They are from the camp anti-peace.

  Rafik Hariri

  Hands, Government, Israel

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