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• The great responsibility that we have today is to put the poor and the near poor back on front of the American agenda.

  Jesse Jackson

  Responsibility, Today, Human Rights

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• I came to the conclusion that in order to end racial barriers, I needed to run for the office of the president and put forth an agenda of social justice and world peace. In addition, I concluded that someone needed to run and challenge the liberal orthodoxy.

  Jesse Jackson

  Running, Order, Justice

  Interview with Michael Bendetson, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 8, 2009.

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• Negroes' problem is that they do not have their egos. That's why our churches end up having a white service, because our preacher is not arrogant enough to take God's word, so he have to go and get some white fellow's agenda and put it in his church.

  Jesse Jackson

  White, Ego, Church

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• When someone is trying to interpret something for you, they always have an agenda.

  Penn Jillette

  Trying

  Interview with Paul Hoffman, bigthink.com. June 8, 2010.

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• The best way to begin genuine bipartisanship to make America stronger is to work together on the real crises facing our country, not to manufacture an artificial crisis to serve a special interest agenda out of touch with the needs of Americans.

  John F. Kerry

  Country, Real, America

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• As the President reviewed the state of the union and unveiled his second-term agenda, he fell short of adequately explaining how he intends to set America back on the course of fiscal responsibility and secure the fiscal health of the nation.

  Ron Kind

  Responsibility, America, President

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• Let's be honest about this; the liberal agenda with failed stimulus plans and government entitlement programs is crippling our economy and our quality of life.

  Alveda King

  Government, Quality, Honest

  "Here's Hoping Herman Cain Will Stay In the Race" by Alveda King, www.foxnews.com. December 02, 2011.

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• The Republican agenda is, and always has been, to repeal Roe v. Wade, and at the very least, erode it to the greatest extent possible.

  Madeleine M. Kunin

  Wade, Erode, Republican

  "Women Decide" by Madeleine M. Kunin, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 29, 2010.

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• If we are to create a new agenda for family/work policies, employers and employees have to take a seat at the same table and recognize their mutual gains.

  Madeleine M. Kunin

  Tables, Gains, Employers

  "The Business Case for Workplace Flexibility: How Employers and Employees Can 'Have it All'" by Madeleine M. Kunin, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 23, 2012.

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• If we allow our self-congratulatory adoration of technology to distract us from our own contact with each other, then somehow the original agenda has been lost.

  Jaron Lanier

  Technology, Self, Lost

  "The virtual visionary" by Oliver Burkeman, www.theguardian.com. December 29, 2001.

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• I'm not afraid of having an agenda. I do have an agenda. It's a positive agenda.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Not Afraid

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• Obama has now lost his trustworthiness. He has lost any hope of majority support from the American people for his agenda. Obamacare has wiped that out. It really has.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Obamacare, People, Support

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

  Robert Fulghum

  Kids, Secret, Values

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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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• 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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• We have to make sure that women's issues are an essential element on the agendas of all heads of state, all governments.

  Michelle Bachelet

  Government, Issues, Essentials

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

  Michele Bachmann

  Party, Rose, Tea

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• But the Republican right-wing agenda, these people - Arnold and his patrons - felt it could be accomplished by circumventing the Legislature and spending money and organizing and giving sound bites.

  Warren Beatty

  Wings, People, Giving

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• It's pretty clear that over the last three months the economy has paused. And it's also pretty clear the American people are still demanding and asking the question, 'Where are the jobs?' And the reason we don't have new jobs is because of the job-killing agenda pursued by President Obama and his allies in the Congress.

  John Boehner

  Jobs, People, New Job

  "Meet the Press" Interview, www.realclearpolitics.com. August 8, 2010.

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• The Republicans have put together serious detailed counter-proposals when we have objected to this administration's agenda. And so, I want to tell the President and remind him again, we're not voting no for political expediency. We've got our principles, and we're going to stand up and defend those.

  Eric Cantor

  Political, Voting, President

  "POLITICO Interview: Eric Cantor". Interview with Mike Allen, www.politico.com. January 29, 2010.

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• But, as we've seen over the last several months, the people in this country are very dissatisfied with the direction that this administration is taking this country. And what we heard last night was absolutely the ignoring of that fact. It was: We're going to continue with this agenda. In fact, we're going to double down on healthcare.

  Eric Cantor

  Country, Night, People

  "POLITICO Interview: Eric Cantor". Interview with Mike Allen, www.politico.com. January 29, 2010.

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• Once you start saying, 'Let's talk political, my own politics, my own aspirations,' it can become not just distracting in that it takes time, but it can become confusing and frustrating, and is this now a political agenda or a governmental agenda.

  Andrew Cuomo

  Political, Confusing, Aspiration

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• Cancer is such a ruthless adversary because it behaves as if it has its own fiendishly cunning agenda.

  Paul Davies

  Cancer, Ruthless, Cunning

  "Cancer can teach us about our own evolution" by Paul Davies, www.theguardian.com. November 18, 2012.

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• The problem with merely writing so that you can be understood is that the wrong people, in advancing their agendas, are only too ready to misunderstand you. Writing so that you cannot be misunderstood anticipates and preempts those who would willfully distort what you are trying to say.

  William A. Dembski

  Writing, People, Misunderstood

  "Peerless: A Radically Decentralized Digital Monetary Framework" by Bill Dembski, billdembski.com. November 23, 2016.

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• I was anorexic in the 60s and 70s, although it wasn't called anorexia then. I thought people would be nicer to me if I looked very small and delicate, so food wasn't high on my agenda. But it is now.

  Marianne Faithfull

  People, Anorexia, Would Be

  "Marianne Faithfull: 'My father belonged to a commune, and the food was always ghastly'". Interview with John Hind, www.theguardian.com. March 12, 2011.

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