Agendas Quotes · Page 5

Good leaders need a positive agenda, not just an agenda of dealing with crisis.

— Michael Porter

The art establishment has turned away from the old curriculum which puts beauty and craft at the top of the agenda.

— Roger Scruton

The Tea Party is an organic, spontaneous movement that rose up in opposition to to the Pelosi-Reid-Obama agenda.

— Michele Bachmann

You have to come to the world of enlightenment with open hands, not clinched fists, without an agenda.

— Frederick Lenz

When you open the door and invite in all sentient beings as your guests, you have to drop your agenda.

— Pema Chodron

No wise man is ever interested in stupid matters like wars! Wars are always on the agenda of only stupid man!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

Thank god Shonda Rhimes had this agenda to make television look like life, to make it look like the real world.

— Ellen Pompeo

Barack Obama is an incredibly intelligent, thoughtful, decisive person in pursuing the agenda he sets.

— Hillary Clinton

One thing that I would like to do that I've seen them not do that well is take women all through the…

— June Diane Raphael

Children need parents who will let them grow up to be themselves, but parents often have personal agendas they try to impose…

— Harold S. Kushner

Each achieves one or both of two objectives — making liberals feel good about themselves and being good to liberal candidates.

— George Will

Who approaches collaboration with agenda in terms of content? The agenda is only in terms of process, which is generosity, listening, careful…

— Eyvind Kang

Now whatever you think of the liberal agenda on its merits, until very recently nobody thought the Constitution meant what liberals now…

— Joseph Sobran

[Ronald] Reagan had an agenda, three agenda items. George W. Bush had some. But [Donald] Trump, because people weren't listening, Trump has…

— Rush Limbaugh

As I was saying, half a democracy is showing up and people have got not only to agree with this agenda, some…

— Ralph Nader

Successful people take their current limitation and put it on their agenda as a job to do, as a thing to figure…

— Brendon Burchard

By all means, let's have free trade and no trade barriers and a common market. But where did it all suddenly become…

— Lloyd Dorfman

September 11 shocked many Americans into an awareness that they had better pay much closer attention to what the U.S. government does…

— Noam Chomsky

Martin Luther King Jr. really understood the role of the churches when he said, 'The church is not meant to be the…

— Jim Wallis

The problem with merely writing so that you can be understood is that the wrong people, in advancing their agendas, are only…

— William A. Dembski

The agenda in sexual activity, whether it's appropriate or not, has to do with lust, affection, passion, love, but the agenda in…

— Claudia Kennedy

A true friend is someone who is always there for you, with no agenda other than the friendship itself. We rely on…

— Tonya Hurley

The musicians, Duke Ellington, his thing was not about separating himself from the rest of America. Louis Armstrong - go to the…

— Wynton Marsalis

The United States doesn't have the will to work against al-Nusra or even ISIS, because they believe that this is a card…

— Bashar al-Assad

Climate science has been targeted by a major political movement, environmentalism, as the focus of their efforts, wherein the natural disasters of…

— Richard Lindzen

The manufacturing industry is starting to press for some kind of national healthcare. Now it's beginning to put it on the agenda.…

— Noam Chomsky

For three decades and longer we have been developing the ideas, science, and technological wherewithal to build a sustainable society. The public…

— David W. Orr

The truth is that family values, as used by the American Family Association, Dan Quayle, and the southern Baptists, has nothing to…

— Morris Sullivan

The loan crisis and the increasing slashing of funds for students, coupled with the astronomical rise in tuition, represent an unparalleled attack…

— Henry Giroux

The Federal Building's large Ceremonial Courtroom, reserved for show trials, is veneered in executive teak. Bench, counsel tables, jury boxes, entrances, and…

— Shana Alexander

The new puritans have been highly successful. All of the preconditions for new prohibitions on alcohol and tobacco are in place. ...…

— Mark Thornton

Though I am flattered that Governor Palin has chosen to cite me as a source of wisdom, what I said had nothing…

— Madeleine Albright

“Oddly enough, we can destroy the very things that allowed us to pursue our agendas in the first place.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

If [Donald Trump] really has an agenda to help, let him move forward with it. We'll see.

— Michel Martin

Progressives always like clean energy ideas. But conservatives should like this agenda, too.

— Van Jones

“Histories of morality are rarely written in order to inform the reader.”

— John Gray

A devotee has no agenda of his own. For him, the object of devotion is everything.

— Jaggi Vasudev

To fulfill your mission will require that you abandon your agenda and accept God’s agenda for your life.

— Rick Warren

Governments are not running the show anymore. Scumbag Entrepreneurs are, and they have a harsh and ruthless agenda.

— Ralph Steadman

I'm not a policymaker, I'm not a pundit. In fact, I don't have any interest in it. It's not on my agenda.

— Rick Warren