Agendas Quotes - Page 5

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

  Jackie DeShannon

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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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• [When we drop our agendas] we begin to cultivate a mind of true goodness and compassion, which comes out of a concern for the Whole. As we live out of such a mind, we become generous, with no sense of giving or of making a sacrifice. We become open, with no sense of tolerance. We become patient, with no sense of putting up with anything. We become compassionate, with no sense of separation. And we become wise, with no sense of having to straighten anyone out.

  Steve Hagen

  Wise, Sacrifice, Compassion

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• The trouble with Islam is deeply rooted in its teachings. Islam is not only a religion. Islam (is) also a political ideology that preaches violence and applies its agenda by force.

  Wafa Sultan

  Teaching, Political, Islam

  "If You Can Keep It". Book by N. C. Munson and Noel Carroll, 2010.

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• In reality, there are very few villains who view themselves as villains. They just have a certain agenda at a certain time.

  Michael Jai White

  Reality, Views, Villain

  "Michael Jai White Talks ARROW Season 2, Bringing Bronze Tiger to Life, Fighting with Knuckle Blades, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 16, 2013.

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• (F)or 50 years, the well-meaning leftist agenda has been able to do to blacks what Jim Crow and harsh discrimination could never have done: family breakdown, illegitimacy and low academic achievement.

  Walter E. Williams

  Years, Achievement, Crow

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• But in the right-wing media, they do have a right-wing bias. And they also have an agenda. So their agenda is: we're an adjunct of the Republican Party, and we're going push that agenda every day, and, as you say, brand these stories that help further the right-wing cause.

  Al Franken

  Party, Wings, Media

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• The Republican agenda is a radical vision in which Medicaid is slashed to the bone - in which we start to balance the budget on the backs of, literally, our most vulnerable citizens.

  Al Franken

  Vision, Balance, Citizens

  "Fighting For America’s Middle Class, Netroots Nation 2011" by Al Franken, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 23, 2011.

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• The corporate media is there to push the agenda of the sponsors, and many of those sponsors are weapons manufacturers. So it stands to reason that you won't get a diversity of opinions on television.

  Michael Franti

  Media, Diversity, Television

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• My secret agenda is to convey my values to my kids.

  Robert Fulghum

  Kids, Secret, Values

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• 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

  Believe, Character, Who I Am

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• We will reverse course on the heavy hand of regulation, discarding Dodd-Frank and any other regulations that advance a political agenda at the expense of jobs and investment on Main Street.

  Rick Perry

  Jobs, Hands, Political

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• They have to convert our agenda into something aggressive. Two guys wanting to be happy together are invading their marriages. Helping a kid who's getting beaten up in school is promoting homosexuality. If you gave me a million dollars, I wouldn't know how to promote homosexuality.

  Barney Frank

  School, Kids, Two

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• My Father taught me how to be a man – and not by instilling in me a sense of machismo or an agenda of dominance. He taught me that a real man doesn’t take, he gives; he doesn’t use force, he uses logic; doesn’t play the role of trouble-maker, but rather, trouble-shooter; and most importantly, a real man is defined by what’s in his heart, not his pants.

  Kevin Smith

  Inspirational, Father, Real

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• A Soul Knowing: You are the sum total of the Body, Mind, and Soul, and each of these aspects of you has a purpose and a function, but only one has an agenda: the Soul.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Knowing, Soul, Mind

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• Instead of making others right or wrong, or bottling up right and wrong in ourselves, there's a middle way, a very powerful middle way...... Could we have no agenda when we walk into a room with another person, not know what to say, not make that person wrong or right? Could we see, hear, feel other people as they really are? It is powerful to practice this way..... true communication can happen only in that open space.

  Pema Chodron

  Inspirational, Powerful, Communication

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• We must regain our vision and hope and move our country forward on an agenda of peace and justice.

  Paul Wellstone

  Country, Moving, Justice

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• Our aims in political activism are not, and should not be, to create a perfect utopia. What we seek is more simply to improve the quality of human life while at the same time respecting the natural environment which sustains it: 'Not a heaven on earth but a better earth on earth.' This is not at all a timid agenda, far from it. The work ahead of us is enormous!

  Paul Wellstone

  Perfect, Political, Heaven

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• Most of us tend to suffer from 'agenda anxiety', the feeling that what we want to say to others is more important than what we think they might want to say to us.

  Nido R Qubein

  Inspirational, Motivational, Thinking

  Nido R. Qubein (1986). “Communicate Like Pro”, Berkley

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• Recognizing that the current form of globalization is nothing more than a generalized downward leveling in which global corporations are extracting more and more of the wealth, power, and productive energies from communities and the environment is the right approach. And knowing that in every specific battle, what we are fighting for is merely the substitution of the human agenda for the corporate agenda is what can guide and sustain us.

  Robin Hahnel

  Fighting, Knowing, Community

  "Panic Rules!: Everything You Need to Know about the Global Economy". Book by Robin Hahnel, 1999.

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• It is unethical for any man to tax another man's home to fund his social agenda. Friends don't do that, your enemies will.

  John Taft

  Home, Men, Enemy

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• Dachshunds have their own agenda and can be stubborn about seeing their plans through to completion. What Rosie lacked in consistency, she made up for in enthusiasm. Most of the time when I called her name, she sprinted back, her long ears cocked and flying like a little girl's pigtails. Each encounter was a glorious reunion, even if we'd been parted for only a minute or two. I had never felt so loved.

  Mary Doria Russell

  Girl, Names, Two

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• Do tell. It might be entertaining to see who gets to you first.” “Excuse me if entertaining you isn’t at the top of my agenda.

  Nalini Singh

  Might, Firsts, Excuse

  Nalini Singh (2009). “Angels' Blood”, p.154, Penguin

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