Agendas Quotes · Page 9

We need to consolidate our enlargement agenda but be cautious with new commitments.

— Olli Rehn

My only agenda is to bring attention to otherwise ignored and shunned lives.

— Jim Goldberg

I'm not an artist who has an agenda that's set by the work

— Anish Kapoor

Focus on yourself -- do what you want, when you want, without having to consider anyone else's agenda.

— Lauren Weisberger

I don't like when people try to put a spin and have a second agenda to make a person look bad.

— Robert Atkins

The political and substantive reality is that the agenda has to change. I don't think they have any choice.

— Leon Panetta

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

— Hillary Clinton

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

— Pema Chodron

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,…

— Mitt Romney

I want to state clearly that I am a humanitarian, not an activist. I do not follow any agendas - only that…

— Basmah bint Saud

To say that the vote fraud conspiracy theorists are tilting at windmills is an understatement. They're using a legitimate public process to…

— George Voinovich

Nothing in the outer world makes you feel any way. You decide what you want to feel, and then use outer people…

— Alan Cohen

But the Republican right-wing agenda, these people - Arnold and his patrons - felt it could be accomplished by circumventing the Legislature…

— Warren Beatty

The marketing of homosexuality has an agenda, and that is to repopulate their population by recruiting the children of homosexuals.

— Gordon Klingenschmitt

I've always been interested in combining architecture with a social agenda, and I really think you can invest and be inventive with…

— Zaha Hadid

Holy scripture does not hold women back. It's the people that decide to interpret it in such a way for their own,…

— Queen Rania of Jordan

Maybe we, the cultural workers , could apply ourselves. We're not going to resolve it in this moment or even in this…

— Leonard Cohen

I think that what is always true when you run against an incumbent president is, is that you end up talking more…

— Barack Obama

Obama lost his ability to push his agenda through Congress when he received what he himself called a 'shellacking' in the November…

— John Podhoretz

This is an historic day for American public education and for our nation as we begin the journey to level the academic…

— William Bradley Bryant

For me, one of the most disturbing elements of the right wing's political agenda is that it believes that there is one…

— Barbra Streisand

Generally, the arguments for same-sex marriage go along these lines: 'I have a civil right.' What the homosexual movement wants to do…

— Erwin W. Lutzer

We call upon all communities to be tolerant, to reject prejudice based on caste, creed, sect, colour, religion or agenda to ensure…

— Malala Yousafzai

It's like we're suffering from an identity crisis, and that identity is in our arts and the fact that we don't find…

— Wynton Marsalis

Everyone knows history is written by the winners, but that cliche misses a crucial detail: Over time, the winners are always the…

— Chuck Klosterman

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

I think, ironically, the media's been good for America, but Trump's been good for the media. He's revitalized The New York Times…

— Irvine Welsh

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

— Richard Lindzen

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

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

— Roger Scruton

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

— Michael Porter

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

— Frederick Lenz

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

— Michele Bachmann

It's the height of the Cold War, but I grew up in apolitical family and politics wasn't on the agenda.

— Bill Ayers

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

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

— Ralph Steadman

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

— Rick Warren

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