Agendas Quotes - Page 29

• Today, the scale and horror of modern warfare - whether nuclear or not - makes it totally unacceptable as a means of settling differences between nations. War should belong to the tragic past, to history; it should find no place on humanity's agenda for the future.

  Pope John Paul II

  War, Mean, Past

  Pope John Paul II (1987). “Pope John Paul II, Pilgrim of Peace”, Random House Value Pub

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• The media do not set their own investigative agendas independently, but operate as part ... of the political establishment.

  Peter Dale Scott

  Media, Political, Establishment

  Peter Dale Scott, Jonathan Marshall (1998). “Cocaine Politics: Drugs, Armies, and the CIA in Central America, Updated Edition”, p.174, Univ of California Press

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• While the Constitution is what the judges say it is, a public issue is something that Walter Cronkite or John Chancellor recognizes as such. The media by themselves do not make the decisions, but on behalf of themselves and larger interests they certify what is or is not on the nation's agenda.

  Fred W. Friendly

  Issues, Media, Judging

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• Make sure it is not too diverse or spread out so people don't know where to go or what to do. So keep a sharp focus. It can be ambitious but should have a small agenda.

  Amy Ziering

  Should Have, People, Focus

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• NIE presents a major obstacle to those who are pushing for military confrontation. In many ways it is a severe blow to their agenda. However, I wouldn't go as far as to say that the risk has been significantly reduced or eliminated.

  Trita Parsi

  Military, Blow, Risk

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• The Republican leadership is quite hopeful at this time that they will have wide latitude. [Donald] Trump is a big visionary guy, not a detail guy, obviously. They are preparing to charge ahead with a Republican, a conservative agenda that Paul Ryan talked about a lot on the campaign trail.

  George Stephanopoulos

  Hopeful, Guy, Details

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• You have the same mandate whether it's a close result or - you're the President of the United States, you have to act like the President of the United States. You're the person in charge. You have to set the agenda. That's how you get yourself reelected by a much bigger number, if you want to get reelected. And that's the way you govern the country.

  Rudy Giuliani

  Country, Numbers, President

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• The world has to tell us. In other words, we don't have an agenda or a battle plan or a map or a direction or anything. We're just going along, and our world is telling us.

  Jerry Garcia

  Our World, Battle, Maps

  Source: medium.com

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• The Western model for a meeting is you have an agenda and you come in and everyone says things.

  Howard Rheingold

  Meetings, Western, Models

  Source: medium.com

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• There is fear, police in fear, people if are in fear, children are fear, but fear and hate must not drive our agenda, love and hope and healing must drive the agenda.

  Jesse Jackson

  Children, Hate, Healing

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• Usually based on an economic agenda, white working-class voters don't buy into this whole biology-chemistry-abortion-gender agenda as much as they want more take-home pay. They want affordability.

  Kellyanne Conway

  Home, Class, White

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• Social Security Works! puts expanding Social Security front and center on the national agenda, where it belongs. Everyone who has a stake in the debate should read this important book.

  Bernie Sanders

  Book, Important, Debate

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• I am convinced that wise planning is good. But plans, like material possessions, must always be held loosely. Yes - always! Plan wisely, but be ready for God to rearrange things and take you along paths that may feel dangerous to you. Don't sweat it; He knows what He's doing. And He isn't obligated to inform you ... or request permission to upset your neat little agenda!

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Wise, Sweat, Upset

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• One of the most annoying habits of liberals is their tendency to confuse their political agenda with moral virtue.

  Robert Stacy McCain

  Political, Moral, Annoying

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• Enlightened legislation or enlightened social activity of whatever kind, does play into the hands of people with agendas of their own. If you legalize euthanasia, you provide a field day for people who like killing other people.

  J. G. Ballard

  Hands, Killing Others, Play

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• The liberal agenda is the blueprint for national ruin.

  James Cook

  Ruins, Blueprints

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• We're all puppets, and our best hope for even partial liberation is to try to decipher the logic of the puppeteer. Just because natural selection created us doesn't mean we have to slavishly follow its peculiar agenda. (If anything, we might be tempted to spite it for all the ridiculous baggage it's saddled us with.)

  Robert Wright

  Mean, Trying, Peculiar

  "The Moral Animal". Book by Robert Wright, www.wired.com. 1994.

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• Jesus existed, and those vocal persons who deny it do so not because they have considered the evidence with the dispassionate eye of the historian, but because they have some other agenda that this denial serves.

  Bart D. Ehrman

  Jesus, Eye, Denial

  Bart D. Ehrman (2012). “Did Jesus Exist?: The Historical Argument for Jesus of Nazareth”, p.7, Harper Collins

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• No nation like the United States of America can continue to grow and be a strong nation if we are going to judge people because they disagree with our agenda rather than the content of their statements. We have to be critical thinkers. We have to be analytical. We should understand facts from emotion.

  Steve King

  Strong, America, People

  "One Tea Party Congressman Is Becoming Republicans' Worst Nightmare On Immigration Reform" by Brett LoGiurato, www.businessinsider.com. July 25, 2013.

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• Population growth and the proliferation of mega-cities around the world redefines the entire global security agenda.

  Helmut Schmidt

  Cities, Growth, Population

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• The word feminism has negative connotations for men. Rather, we are wanting to celebrate females and their confidence. There is no political agenda behind my work. I'm just trying to make music that makes me feel good and confident. We've got a cool message.

  Nicole Scherzinger

  Men, Feel Good, Political

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• The Internet is light at the end of the tunnel. I don't care if it's being used to peddle pornography, I don't care if it's being trivialized in a thousand ways. Anything can be trivialized. The important point is that it is leveling the playing field of global society. It is creating de-facto an entirely new set of political realities. None of the constipated, oligarchic structures that are resisting this were ever asked. Their greed betrayed them into investing in this in the first place without ever fully grasping what the implications of it were for their larger agenda.

  Terence McKenna

  Reality, Tunnels, Light

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• The Earth itself is stepping in to aid in the agenda of cultural transformation. There are too many doorways in nature that lead to heaven, there are too many paths to the mystery for any institution or social policy to be able to thwart the intent of the human species to evolve.

  Terence McKenna

  Heaven, Earth, Doorways

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• A Western writer came up to me and said, how come nobody at this demonstration spoke of German unity? I told him, because it isn't on the agenda. People were interested in having another, better GDR, another, better socialism.

  Stefan Heym

  People, Unity, Socialism

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• Putting first things first means organizing and executing around your most important priorities. It is living and being driven by the principles you value most, not by the agendas and forces surrounding you.

  Stephen Covey

  Mean, Priorities, Important

  Stephen R. Covey (2013). “The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness”, p.152, Simon and Schuster

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