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• A boardroom is a collection of individuals, and individuals have varying motives, egos, agendas and qualifications. Sometimes the dynamics can go off track.

  Carly Fiorina

  Track, Ego, Dynamics

  "A very bad business". Interview with Andrew Clark, www.theguardian.com. October 27, 2006.

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• The right-wing of the Republican party isn't so much a political agenda as a plea for help.

  Larry Flynt

  Party, Wings, Political

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• A concrete agenda and landslide victory might not even guarantee a president his mandate in a capital as polarized as Washington.

  Ron Fournier

  Victory, President, Guarantees

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• For a man who has compared himself to Theodore Roosevelt and the nation's challenges to those of the Gilded Age, Obama put forward a tepid agenda.

  Ron Fournier

  Men, Challenges, Age

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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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• As a member of the mainstream media for many years, I've learned just one thing: never to trust anything I read in the mainstream media - not because of any agenda or deliberate dissimulation, but simply because it's filtered and comes very often from someone whose judgment I might not trust in other circumstances.

  Pico Iyer

  Media, Years, Might

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• On the one hand, the financial projection is on the agenda - we will see if this problem can be resolved or not. I think it is a right idea to stage a special summit, which would deal with the question of priorities of European politics.

  Angela Merkel

  Thinking, Hands, Ideas

  Interview with Bertrand Benoit, Andrew Gowers, www.ft.com. July 20, 2005.

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• The days of using my name as a pejorative are now over. The right wing turned me into an accidental spokesperson for the liberal, majority agenda.

  Michael Moore

  Names, Wings, Majority

  "Why I'm Not Now and Have Never Been the Democrats' 'Rush Limbaugh'" by Michael Moore, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 5, 2009.

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• The problem with the Tea Party is that it's been used in a way that scares people into supporting an agenda that's counter to their own interests.

  Matt Taibbi

  Party, People, Tea

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• I am not a good enough writer to have an agenda or come up with a message and try to put it into a song. It's more like you write what comes to you... You try to reflect the mood of the songs.

  Eddie Vedder

  Song, Writing, Trying

  "He Didn't Ask for All This". L.A. Times, May 1, 1994.

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• 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

  Facts, Pundits, Interest

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• The Republican Party is terrific at determining how a program will impact the federal budget, but we're not nearly as good as the Democrats in explaining to people how our agenda will directly benefit them and their families.

  J. C. Watts

  Party, Impact, People

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• The networks have a particular agenda, a particular model and structure. It doesn't have anything to do with content. This is not a dis on them - they are a business model, run by business people.

  Joss Whedon

  Running, People, Structure

  "Joss Whedon at SXSW: ‘You have to become your own network head.’" by Alison Willmore, www.indiewire.com. March 10, 2012.

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• Beyond budget fights, the Obama second-term agenda was supposed to be about passing comprehensive immigration reform.

  Juan Williams

  Fighting, Immigration, Reform

  "Gun Action Central to Obama's Presidency". www.realclearpolitics.com. January 18, 2013.

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• Once you have power, you are inevitably surrounded by people who have their own agendas and will tell you whatever advances them.

  Margaret Heffernan

  People

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• This is the real tragedy of America's 'Internet freedom agenda': It's going to be the dissidents in China and Iran who will pay for the hypocrisy that drove it from the very beginning.

  Evgeny Morozov

  Real, Iran, America

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• If you join the Boy Scouts without understanding the underlying agendas and biases of the organization, you might grow up to believe that being gay is a bad thing.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Growing Up, Believe, Gay

  "Program or be Programmed: The GeekDad". Interview with Jason Cranfordteague, www.wired.com. July 29, 2011.

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• Everyone has a hidden agenda. Except me!

  Michael Crichton

  Science

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• Stop," I said. "Please do not further endorken yourself to me. You have great hair and a car that is most fly, and you have just saved me with your mad ninja driving skills, so do not sully your heroic hottie image in my mind by further reciting your nerdy scholastic agenda. Don't tell me what you're studying, Steve, tell me what's in your soul. What haunts you?" And he was like, "Dude, you need to cut back on the caffeine.

  Christopher Moore

  Cutting, Hair, Skills

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• As Muslims, we are all equals, we abide by the laws and we understand that we have to be active citizens wherever we are. Our goals are first to live by our principles, to remind people of these values, to reconcile our respective societies with these shared universal values and to try our best to push for a spiritual agenda with more ethics in society, in politics, in economics, and in culture.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Spiritual, Law, People

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• One thing that I would like to do that I've seen them not do that well is take women all through the process of the postpartum period in a more meaningful way. That would be my agenda.

  June Diane Raphael

  Meaningful, Would Be, Way

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• If you think you got a better idea in terms of how to approach this that's not gonna result in more pollution, and more asthma, and more illness then put your ideas out there. But don't just oppose things because, "This was Obama's agenda."

  Barack Obama

  Thinking, Ideas, Illness

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• I think that the risk to all the progress we've made was at stake in the election because not just the president-elect but a lot of members of Congress, including now the Speaker of the House and the Senate majority leader, have said that their principal agenda was to undo a lot of this progress. But as I've been talking about over the last several days when it comes to health care, the gains that we've made are there. Twenty million people have health insurance that didn't have it before. The uninsured rate is the lowest it's ever been.

  Barack Obama

  Thinking, Talking, Majority Leader

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• The very essence of the Sufi spiritual tradition requires you to purify your heart, to liberate yourself from your ego and to be courageous in facing any corrupt power, injustice and oppression. Unfortunately, colonial powers pushed an agenda by using Sufism against resistance, and some ulama played that game in the past and in the present.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Spiritual, Heart, Past

  "Tariq Ramadan: My Absence Would Certainly Be The Most Powerful Speech I Have Ever Given At ISNA". The Islamic Monthly Interview, www.theislamicmonthly.com. August 14, 2014.

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• Mitt Romney's primary season embrace of the social and economic agenda of the more rabid elements of his party doomed him, especially the shrill immigration rhetoric and the harshly insensitive theory that no additional sacrifice or contribution should be sought from those at the top.

  Eliot Spitzer

  Party, Sacrifice, Immigration

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