Agendas Quotes - Page 37

• Since I have no agenda and nobody tells me what to do I get to say anything I want to and I like it very much when my forum allows me to broach subjects to the public that have never been done before.

  Marc Morrone

  Say Anything, Done, Want

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• I care more about an agenda than story and character.

  Ivy Meeropol

  Character, Stories, Care

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• The absolute necessity to create a proper Earth government' - we should inscribe this as the priority item on the agenda of world affairs.

  Robert Muller

  Government, Priorities, World

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• I don't have a social agenda. I just don't choose to ignore what's in front of me.

  John Sayles

  Social, Fronts

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• With an agenda dominated by global security and U.N. reform, it appears that the decisions needed to lift millions of people from abject poverty are not being given the prominence they deserve.

  Kumi Naidoo

  People, Decision, Reform

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• I don't really usually push an agenda, and I don't feel that my main job is to persuade people of something. My main job is to help them think about something.

  Louis Menand

  Jobs, Thinking, People

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• I sometimes find that my family's emphasis on stories, characters, and art that appeals directly to children rather than over their heads to adults is not fully appreciated by parents who may have more narrowly adult concerns and agendas.

  Mike Berenstain

  Art, Children, Character

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• Strong states and blocs of strong states are the only source of power and legitimacy capable of driving an international agenda in today's world.

  Ian Bremmer

  Strong, World, Today

  Source: bigthink.com

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• There isn't much of an agenda lyrically. And I definitely didn't want to write about things I don't know anything about.

  Mick Barr

  Writing, Want, Knows

  Source: pitchfork.com

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

  Eyvind Kang

  Thinking, Generosity, Listening

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I want evangelicals to be known not for what they're against, but what they're for. Yes, there are some things that I believe are flat out wrong. There is no doubt about it, and I'm not wishy-washy about it. But my agenda is bigger than simply those issues. My agenda is to be as big as the agenda of Jesus.

  Rick Warren

  Jesus, Believe, Issues

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I think The New York Times is one of the most dishonest media outlets I`ve ever seen in my life. The worst. The worst. The absolute worse. They have an agenda that you wouldn`t believe.

  Donald Trump

  New York, Believe, Thinking

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• If the research agenda reflects "market forces", the problems of the poor are likely to be even more neglected than they already are.

  Philip Kitcher

  Research, Problem, Poor

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• I was occupied by a range of questions, often different from those fashionable in the professional philosophy of the past half century, that have sometimes troubled philosophers in the past. It's taken me several decades to work out my own philosophical agenda, and it is wide.

  Philip Kitcher

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Taken

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• If you seek enlightenment, then career is a very important idea on your agenda.

  Frederick Lenz

  Careers, Ideas, Important

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• Essentially I see the new atheism as largely part of the crisis of the left. Having failed to carry through its agenda in relation to political and economic life it's rounding on religion, ignoring the fact that, in some key respects, many believers are likely to share leftist aspirations.

  George Pattison

  Keys, Political, Atheism

  "Towards hope". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. July 18, 2014.

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• If you seek enlightenment, then career is a very important idea on your agenda. Approach your career from this standpoint and you will have a very different career. You will be successful.

  Frederick Lenz

  Success, Buddhism, Careers

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• Don't miss God's fingerprints all over the events, lining up people and circumstances in perfect timing to preserve His people and advance His agenda.

  James MacDonald

  People, Perfect, Missing

  James MacDonald (2011). “Always True: God's 5 Promises When Life Is Hard”, p.77, Moody Publishers

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• All social space is suffused with political meanings and agendas, the very stones and walls a kind of testament to the ongoing struggles for liberation and justices.

  Mark Kingwell

  Wall, Struggle, Space

  Mark Kingwell (2000). “The World We Want: Restoring Citizenship in a Fractured Age”, p.174, Rowman & Littlefield

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• After listening to the debate on unemployment I can see a danger that Liberals lose to the Tories their claim to have new and sensible ideas and are left saying "Me too" to a Socialist conventional wisdom which is failing. The salient need of this country to produce more and much more efficiently hardly figured on the agenda.

  Jo Grimond

  Country, Ideas, Listening

  The Sunday Times, September 19, 1976.

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• The Obama administration's agenda of maximizing dependency involves political favoritism cloaked in the raiment of "economic planning" and "social justice" that somehow produce results superior to what markets produce when freedom allows merit to manifest itself, and incompetence to fail. The administration's central activity - the political allocation of wealth and opportunity - is not merely susceptible to corruption, it is corruption.

  George Will

  Opportunity, Justice, Political

  "Tincture of Lawlessness". www.realclearpolitics.com. May 14, 2009.

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• I think we need an American jobs agenda for the climate challenge which means American renewable grid, more renewable energy.

  Martin O'Malley

  Jobs, Mean, Thinking

  "Where does Democrat Martin O'Malley stand?". Interview with The Des Moines Register, www.desmoinesregister.com. March 22, 2015.

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• A state rep in Oklahoma gave a horrific speech where she felt the homosexual agenda was a greater threat to America than terrorism. People like this - there's not hate in their hearts. They believe what they believe because of the book that they prescribe to. You can't argue with these people.

  Leslie Jordan

  Hate, Book, Believe

  "Candid Q & A with gay icon Leslie Jordan". Today Interview, www.today.com. July 16, 2008.

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• So I shamelessly say, no, I want him [Obama] to fail, if his agenda is a far- left collectivism, some people say socialism, as a conservative heartfelt, deeply, why would I want socialism to succeed?

  Rush Limbaugh

  People, Heartfelt, Want

  "Rush Limbaugh's Shocking Words for President Obama". "The Hannity Show", www.foxnews.com. January 22, 2009.

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• The black agenda, from Frederick Douglas to Ida B. Wells to Martin King, has always been the most broad, deep, inclusive, embracing agenda of the nation.

  Cornel West

  Kings, Black, Frederick Douglas

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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