Agendas Quotes - Page 26

• Social Security Works! puts expanding Social Security front and center on the national agenda, where it belongs. Everyone who has a stake in the debate should read this important book.

  Bernie Sanders

  Book, Important, Debate

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• Usually based on an economic agenda, white working-class voters don't buy into this whole biology-chemistry-abortion-gender agenda as much as they want more take-home pay. They want affordability.

  Kellyanne Conway

  Home, Class, White

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• NIE presents a major obstacle to those who are pushing for military confrontation. In many ways it is a severe blow to their agenda. However, I wouldn't go as far as to say that the risk has been significantly reduced or eliminated.

  Trita Parsi

  Military, Blow, Risk

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Make sure it is not too diverse or spread out so people don't know where to go or what to do. So keep a sharp focus. It can be ambitious but should have a small agenda.

  Amy Ziering

  Should Have, People, Focus

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• While the Constitution is what the judges say it is, a public issue is something that Walter Cronkite or John Chancellor recognizes as such. The media by themselves do not make the decisions, but on behalf of themselves and larger interests they certify what is or is not on the nation's agenda.

  Fred W. Friendly

  Issues, Media, Judging

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• The media do not set their own investigative agendas independently, but operate as part ... of the political establishment.

  Peter Dale Scott

  Media, Political, Establishment

  Peter Dale Scott, Jonathan Marshall (1998). “Cocaine Politics: Drugs, Armies, and the CIA in Central America, Updated Edition”, p.174, Univ of California Press

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• Today, the scale and horror of modern warfare - whether nuclear or not - makes it totally unacceptable as a means of settling differences between nations. War should belong to the tragic past, to history; it should find no place on humanity's agenda for the future.

  Pope John Paul II

  War, Mean, Past

  Pope John Paul II (1987). “Pope John Paul II, Pilgrim of Peace”, Random House Value Pub

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• The president [Donald Trump] said his three-part agenda is jobs, jobs, jobs.

  Mike Pence

  Jobs, President, Three

  Source: www.dailyjournal.net

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• I'm not going to tell people that I will raise your incomes and not your taxes, and not mean it, because I don't want to see the kind of struggle that the middle class is going through exemplified by these promises that would raise taxes and make it much more difficult for many, many Americans to get ahead and stay ahead. That is not my agenda.

  Hillary Clinton

  Struggle, Mean, Class

  Hillary Clinton's speech at the Clinton-Sanders Democratic presidential debate in Durham, New Hampshire, hosted by MSNBC, www.nytimes.com. February 4, 2016.

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• Jesus existed, and those vocal persons who deny it do so not because they have considered the evidence with the dispassionate eye of the historian, but because they have some other agenda that this denial serves.

  Bart D. Ehrman

  Jesus, Eye, Denial

  Bart D. Ehrman (2012). “Did Jesus Exist?: The Historical Argument for Jesus of Nazareth”, p.7, Harper Collins

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• We're all puppets, and our best hope for even partial liberation is to try to decipher the logic of the puppeteer. Just because natural selection created us doesn't mean we have to slavishly follow its peculiar agenda. (If anything, we might be tempted to spite it for all the ridiculous baggage it's saddled us with.)

  Robert Wright

  Mean, Trying, Peculiar

  "The Moral Animal". Book by Robert Wright, www.wired.com. 1994.

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• The liberal agenda is the blueprint for national ruin.

  James Cook

  Ruins, Blueprints

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• Enlightened legislation or enlightened social activity of whatever kind, does play into the hands of people with agendas of their own. If you legalize euthanasia, you provide a field day for people who like killing other people.

  J. G. Ballard

  Hands, Killing Others, Play

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• One of the most annoying habits of liberals is their tendency to confuse their political agenda with moral virtue.

  Robert Stacy McCain

  Political, Moral, Annoying

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• I am convinced that wise planning is good. But plans, like material possessions, must always be held loosely. Yes - always! Plan wisely, but be ready for God to rearrange things and take you along paths that may feel dangerous to you. Don't sweat it; He knows what He's doing. And He isn't obligated to inform you ... or request permission to upset your neat little agenda!

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Wise, Sweat, Upset

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• I'm not particularly optimistic, but I hope that the lack of alternatives will lead to it. I would like to remind you of the fact that before May 2015 there was no overall European agenda on immigration. Nothing, zero. It wasn't until after yet another tragedy in the Mediterranean that, in response to an Italian initiative, (Europe) began thinking about setting policies for the registration of refugees, their distribution or their deportation.

  Paolo Gentiloni

  Zero, Optimistic, Thinking

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• There's not much more to do on the gay agenda. They got gay marriage, and we're close to putting you in jail if you won't bake a cake for a gay wedding. We've got pretty much everything, but you have to keep the group happy.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Gay, Cake, Jail

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• In times of uncertainty, we tend to move away from deterministic world views. And when we try to find moral footing for our actions, we compare ourselves to the foil of all foils, the Nazi period. It's a quest for moral certainty by saying, "Even if we're not doing great these days, at least we're not the Third Reich." Which can be consoling or alarmist. There's always a present-day agenda behind it.

  Gavriel David Rosenfeld

  Moving, Views, Trying

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• It's a supporting role, and I relish the opportunity to take those relationships I've developed, the experiences I've developed, to carry the president's agenda to our nation's capital, to leaders there, but also to leaders in state capitals around America.

  Mike Pence

  Opportunity, America, Leader

  Source: www.dailyjournal.net

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• If [Donald Trump] is got a program and an agenda and an infrastructure and all of that that he's going to do, let him come forward.

  Michel Martin

  Program, Trump, Infrastructure

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Even CEOs police their own bureaucracy. Trump is not that. He does have more in common with these guys than most elected officials would have, particularly in the Obama administration. Obama didn't have anybody that'd ever worked in the private sector. All they had is a bunch of theoreticians who thought they were smarter than everybody that runs businesses in the private sector. And who knows what kind of pressure was brought to bear. Remember, Obama's agenda was one that was to be governed against the will of the people.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Running, People, Guy

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• When people get this consciousness of the way things are supposed to be in America - that the locus of agency is in them, that they are supposed to be the ones setting the agenda - if people believe this, they get very energized. Yeah, it's annoying to have this extra burden of saving the country.

  Naomi Wolf

  Country, Believe, America

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• If we look at the last decades, we see that the US rightist-fundamentalist alliance demonized partnership-oriented families and painted women's rights as a threat to "tradition" - which of course it is to traditions of domination. These people had an integrated political agenda that recognizes that a "traditional" authoritarian, male dominated, punitive family is foundational to an authoritarian, male dominated, punitive politics. We can see this connection in sharp relief in brutal top-down regimes, be they secular like Nazi Germany or religious like ISIS in the Middle East.

  Riane Eisler

  Religious, Top Down, Rights

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• The Western model for a meeting is you have an agenda and you come in and everyone says things.

  Howard Rheingold

  Meetings, Western, Models

  Source: medium.com

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• I think the relationships that we [with Donald Trump] developed on Capitol Hill are the reason why he's asked me to be a part of the team that's working to move our agenda forward in the House and in the Senate.

  Mike Pence

  Team, Moving, Thinking

  Source: www.dailyjournal.net

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