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• My parents called themselves progressives. The agenda was a Soviet America...the slogan of the communist party in those days was peace, jobs, democracy. Sound familar? The communist party is the democratic Party.

  David Horowitz

  Jobs, Party, America

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• That eugenics was part of the progressive agenda is one of the most heavily-airbrushed features of history.

  Arnold Kling

  Eugenics, Politics, Progressive

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• Over the eons I've been a fan of, and sucker for, each latest automated system to 'simplify' and 'bring order to' my life. Very early on this led me to the beautiful-and-doomed Lotus Agenda for my DOS computers, and Actioneer for the early Palm.

  James Fallows

  Beautiful, Order, Fans

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• I have my team. Like if you see everyone around me - I have my hair and makeup girl, my assistant. They're very calm, they're all about positive energy. There're no drama queens. Everyone wants everyone else to have a positive experience. There are no agendas. I think it creates a healthy environment and there are no boundaries to cross.

  Fergie

  Girl, Queens, Drama

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• Our generation, like the one before us, must choose. Without the threat of the Cold War, without the pain of economic ruin, without the fresh memory of World War II's slaughter, it is tempting to pursue our private agendas -- to simply sit back and let history unfold. We must resist the temptation.

  William J. Clinton

  Pain, Memories, War

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• My agenda is trying to help people live a better life.

  Jillian Michaels

  People, Trying, Helping

  "Jillian Michaels On Motherhood And Her Return to The Biggest Loser". Interview with Carita Rizzo, www.tvguide.com. January 4, 2013.

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• The White House, in advancing the agenda for a [school] "choice" plan, rests its faith on market mechanisms. What reason have the black and very poor to lend their credence to a market system that has proved so obdurate and so resistant to their pleas at every turn?

  Jonathan Kozol

  Education, School, White

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• We like to think we're superior to the people who, centuries ago, burned 'witches' for no better reason than a neighbor's belief that his crop failure or impotence was caused by that woman's action. But reporters are still prone to the same mental errors that caused these killings: seeing patterns where there are none, finding causes where there is only coincidence, ignoring our sources' political agendas and turning scanty evidence into panic.

  John Stossel

  Thinking, Errors, People

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• But it was very hard for people to separate me out from Hillary Clinton. All their ads were Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, John Edwards, and me. They said I was more liberal than these guys, and that if I went to Washington I'd be supporting their agenda. I found that extremely difficult to overcome.

  Brad Carson

  People, Guy, Overcoming

  "Central Casting" by Jeffrey Goldberg, www.newyorker.com. May 29, 2006.

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• I am a technological activist. I have a political agenda. I am in favor of basic human rights: to free speech, to use any information and technology, to purchase and use recreational drugs, to enjoy and purchase so-called 'vices', to be free of intruders, and to privacy.

  Bram Cohen

  Technology, Rights, Political

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• I really like playing the bad guy. There are so many more objectives to play when you're mad or villainesque, or when there's some agenda that you have. That's drama, that's where the heart lives. I love playing the bad guy, but especially the bad guy who's still with the girl.

  Keegan Allen

  Girl, Drama, Heart

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

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• Using official government resources to help bankroll an explicit political agenda - whether on the right or left - is flat out wrong.

  Gary Ackerman

  Government, Political, Helping

  "Rep. Gary Ackerman Wants To Tread On Tea Party License Plates In Arizona" By Michael McAuliff, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 20, 2011.

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• 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

  New York, Patriotic, Cities

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• 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.

  Joe Conason

  Patriotic, Cutting, Two

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• 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.

  Leland Ryken

  Christian, Philosophy, Issues

  Leland Ryken (2011). “The Christian Imagination: The Practice of Faith in Literature and Writing”, p.23, Shaw Books

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• I think politicians know how to misrepresent data in order to support a political agenda. Politicians and the people that work for them - I should say - are expert at that.

  Seth Gordon

  Thinking, Order, Data

  Interview with Evan Narcisse, www.ifc.com. September 30, 2010.

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• I actually think agendas are more often found in State of the Union speeches than in inaugural speeches.

  Gwen Ifill

  Thinking, Unions, Speech

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• I've been talking about income inequality in America for twenty years, and when I was president, people didn't pay much attention to it, probably because wages were going up. But I don't think I've given a single solitary speech since I left office that I hadn't talked about it. It's a problem around the world and within the United States. So these people have put that on the agenda.

  William J. Clinton

  Thinking, Talking, Years

  "Bill Clinton: Someone We Can All Agree On". Interview with Charles P. Pierce and Mark Warren, www.esquire.com. January 18, 2012.

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• For me, there is only one question to ask when I am thinking, saying, or doing anything: "What does this have to do with the agenda of my soul?"

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Thinking, Soul, Doe

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• A balanced tone on Europe will free us to address in depth the domestic, economic and social agenda which we neglected throughout the last parliament.

  Kenneth Clarke

  Europe, Depth, Addresses

  "Edited highlights of Ken Clarke's address". www.theguardian.com. June 26, 2001.

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• Jesus refers to the poor over and over again. There are 2,000 verses of Scripture that call upon us to respond to the needs of the poor. And yet, I find that when Christians talked about values in this last election that was not on the agenda, that was not a concern. If you were to get the voter guide of the Christian Coalition, that does not rate. They talk more about tax cuts for people who are wealthy than they do about helping poor people who are in desperate straits.

  Tony Campolo

  Christian, Jesus, Cutting

  "Meet Evangelist Tony Campolo" by John Oliver Mason, progressive.org. August 5, 2005.

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• I have been very careful to put forward new ideas - on tackling inequality, extending democratic reform and the green agenda, because I think these are all absolutely fundamental to a successful next period of office for Labour

  Peter Hain

  Successful, Thinking, Ideas

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• Ethics must be reintroduced to public service to restore people's faith in government. Without such faith, democracy cannot flourish. Your ambitious agenda is filling a desperate need.

  Walter Cronkite

  Integrity, Government, People

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• What is childlike humility? It’s not the lack of intelligence, but the lack of guile. The lack of an agenda.

  Todd Burpo

  Humility, Guile, Childlike

  Todd Burpo (2014). “Heaven is for Real Movie Edition: A Little Boy's Astounding Story of His Trip to Heaven and Back”, p.74, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The matter of the abuse and cruelty we inflict on other animals has to fight for our attention in what sometimes seems an already overfull moral agenda. It is vital, however, that these instances of injustice not be overlooked.

  Desmond Tutu

  Fighting, Animal, Abuse

  "Desmond Tutu On Animal Welfare: We Must Fight Injustice To Animals". www.huffingtonpost.com. December 27, 2013.

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