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“It's hard being bisexual, omnisexual, multisexual, whatever you want to call it, when people have their agenda and expect you to just represent their agenda.”

People Want Hard Agendas Bisexual

Author:Meshell Ndegeocello

“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.”

People Giving Felt Sound Republican Wings Spending Accomplished Agendas Bites Right Wing Legislature Patron Spending Money Sound Bites Beatty

Author:Warren Beatty

“They established their patriotic credentials long ago, and are either supportive of the Bush agenda or know when to keep their traps shut.”

Knows Long Literature Agendas Patriotic Long Ago Traps Supportive Credentials

Author:Bill O'Reilly

“Let me even say before I even get inaugurated, during the transition we are going to be having meetings all across the country with community organizations so that you have input into the agenda for the next presidency of the United States of America.”

Country States America Next Community United United States Organization Let Me Meetings Agendas Transition United States Of America Presidency Input

Author:Barack Obama

“Our government needs to adopt a pro-market agenda that doesn't pick winners and losers, but it invites competition and it levels the playing field for everyone.”

Needs Government Levels Fields Picks Competition Winner Agendas Loser Invites Playing Fields Winner And Loser

Author:Sarah Palin

“The Law of Triviality... briefly stated, it means that the time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.”

Mean Law Involved Proportion Agendas Items Corny Time Spent Triviality Inverse

Author:C. Northcote Parkinson

“We will reverse course on the heavy hand of regulation, discarding Dodd-Frank and any other regulations that advance a political agenda at the expense of jobs and investment on Main Street.”

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Author:Rick Perry

“Design is so critical it should be on the agenda of every meeting in every single department.”

Should Design Meetings Critical Department Agendas

Author:Tom Peters

“Obama lost his ability to push his agenda through Congress when he received what he himself called a 'shellacking' in the November 2010 elections. That shellacking was primarily the result of massive policy overreach when he had a Democratic Congress in his pocket.”

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Author:John Podhoretz

“You can't just have slogans, you can't just have catchy phrases. You have to have an agenda. And I think what the Republican Party has to do, if it's going to incorporate the tea party efforts in it, is to come up with an agenda that the American people can see, touch, and actually believe in, and something they believe in.”

People Ifs Thinking Believe Party Effort Republican Come Up Tea Phrases Agendas Republican Party Slogans Tea Party Catchy

Author:Colin Powell

“Some argue that now isn't the time to push the green agenda - that all efforts should be on preventing a serious recession. That is a false choice. It fails to recognise that climate change and our carbon reliance is part of problem - high fuel prices and food shortages due to poor crop yields compound today's financial difficulties.”

“What the Lib Dems have failed to do is offer any meaningful agenda for government or for power.”

Government Offers Meaningful Agendas

Author:Lucy Powell

“The universities deceive when they say they have no agenda other than to open minds.”

Mind University Agendas Deceiving Open Mind

Author:Dennis Prager

“I do have a political agenda. It's to have as few regulations as possible.”

Political Politics Tragedy Agendas Regulation Nerd Political Agendas

Author:Dan Quayle

“The thing is, if you control the Senate meetings, you control the gavel. And the gavel is a very important instrument... an instrument of power. An instrument that establishes the agenda.”

Ifs Important Political Politics Instruments Meetings Agendas Senate Gavel

Author:Dan Quayle

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

People Way Doe Sometimes Political Holy Scripture Agendas Holy Scriptures Political Agendas

Author:Queen Rania of Jordan

“Any organization or any individual that targets civilians and kills them for political agenda is a terrorist organization.”

Political Individual Organization Terrorist Agendas Target Civilians Political Agendas

Author:Feisal Abdul Rauf

“Once the festival achieved a certain level of notoriety, then people began to come here with agendas that were not the same as ours. We can't do anything about that. We can't control that.”

People Certain Levels Agendas Festivals Notoriety

Author:Robert Redford

“The first time that I came to New York to work properly was the mid-'80s, but I was doing eight shows a week. You have no life. Going to a punk rock club - or whatever the music was at that time - would not have been on my agenda.”

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Author:Alan Rickman

“Conservatism has had from its inception vigorously positive, intellectually rigorous agenda and thinking. That agenda should have in my three pillars: strengthen the economy, strengthen our security, and strengthen our families.”

Thinking Should Three Politics Economy Security Positive Positive Thinking Should Have Our Family Agendas Conservatism Pillars Inception

Author:Mitt Romney

“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, I call it reckless.”

Jobs Growth President Lifetime Investment Usa Agendas President Obama Ambitious Reckless

Author:Mitt Romney

“We should be the pro-legal immigration party. A party that has a positive platform and agenda on how we can create a legal immigration system that works for immigrants and works for America.”

Should America Party Positive Immigration Immigrants Agendas Platforms Migrants Legal Immigration Undocumented Immigrants Undocumented Workers

Author:Marco Rubio

“A bold reform agenda is our moral obligation. If we make the case effectively and win this November, then we will have the moral authority to enact the kind of fundamental reforms America has not seen since Ronald Reagan's first year.”

Ifs Years Firsts Kind America Winning Moral Cases Authority Fundamentals Obligation Reform Agendas November Moral Obligation Moral Authority

Author:Paul Ryan

“If you're keeping yourself in the bubble and only looking at your own data or only watching the TV that fits your agenda then it gets boring.”

Ifs Tvs Fit Boring Data Agendas Bubbles

Author:Nate Silver

“Every parent wants to know that their children are protected against those who have a particular agenda until they get old enough to make decisions for themselves.”

Knows Want Children Enough Parent Decision Particular Agendas Protected

Author:Iain Duncan Smith

“I don't think the Palestinian people or Afghan children or some other things I'm concerned about are at the top of other people's agendas - not right now, when America is going through such a recession and people are suffering across the board financially. But I think all that will change.”

People Thinking Children America Suffering Right Now Concerned Boards Agendas Palestinian Recessions Afghan

Author:Patti Smith

“I never wanted to be one of those actors with a political agenda.”

Wanted Political Actors Agendas Political Agendas

Author:Ian Somerhalder

“I honestly felt no envy or resentment, only astonishment at how much of a world there was out there and how much of it others already knew. The agenda for self-cultivation that had been set for my classmates by their teachers and parents was something I'd have to develop for myself.”

World Self Felt Parent Teacher Envy Honestly Agendas Resentment Cultivation Astonishment Classmates

Book:My Beloved World

Source: My Beloved World

“Although the big word on the left is 'compassion,' the big agenda on the left is dependency.”

Bigs Left Compassion Agendas Dependency

Author:Thomas Sowell

“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.”

Should Social Party Sacrifice Economic Theory Elements Seasons Embrace Immigration Primaries Contribution Agendas Rhetoric Doomed Romney Insensitive

Author:Eliot Spitzer

“The Occupy movement needs an organizing principle, and - just as the Tea Party did - it needs some actual measures of success. Choose one candidate whose agenda is squarely within that of the movement and make his or her electoral success a focal point.”

Needs Party Principles Movement Tea Candidates Agendas Tea Party Measure Of Success Focal Point Occupy Movement

Author:Eliot Spitzer

“What pleases me most is that sustainable development is on almost everybody's agenda now.”

Development Please Agendas Sustainable Development Please Me

Author:Maurice Strong

“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.”

People Way Problem Used Interest Party Tea Agendas Scare Tea Party

Author:Matt Taibbi

“I think we are not serious about attacking the long-term debt problem, and that's one of the things that he's going to have to find a way to get on the agenda.”

Thinking Way Long Problem Term Serious Debt Long Term Agendas Attacking

Author:Michael Bloomberg

“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.”

Writing Trying Enough Song Like You Messages Come Up Mood Agendas Good Enough

Author:Eddie Vedder

“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.”

People Stills Reason Jobs Lasts Three President Economy Clear Months Asking Killing Congress Agendas Allies President Obama Pursued Three Months New Job

Author:John Boehner

“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.”

Facts Interest Agendas Pundits

Author:Rick Warren

“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.”

People Party Republican Benefits Program Impact Democrat Budgets Agendas Republican Party Terrific Explaining

Author:J. C. Watts

“This liberal progressive agenda... is the antithesis of who we are as a constitutional republic.”

Who We Are Agendas Progressive Republic Antithesis

Author:Allen West

“A black agenda is jobs, jobs, jobs, quality education, investment in infrastructure and strong democratic regulation of corporations. The black agenda, at its best, looks at America from the vantage point of the least of these and asks what's best for all.”

Looks Jobs America Asks Strong Black Quality Democratic Investment Corporations Agendas Regulation Infrastructure Quality Education Vantage Point

Author:Cornel West

“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.”

People Running Particular Models Structure Agendas Business Models

Author:Joss Whedon

“Our nation is being led astray by ungodly judges, mayors and governors, who are given to change, defying the Constitution and substituting their own wicked agendas.”

Given Nations Change Judging Constitution Wicked Agendas Governors Mayors Defying

Author:David Wilkerson

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

Fighting Term Immigration Passing Passings Reform Supposed To Be Budgets Agendas Comprehensive Immigration Reform

Author:Juan Williams

“The agendas on the management side of the table now are not in sync like they used to be because you have vastly different entities supplying programming to networks.”

Different Used Sides Management Tables Used To Be Programming Agendas Entity Sync

Author:Dick Wolf

“It is hard to see Judge Roberts as a judicial activist who would place ideological purity or a particular agenda above or ahead the need for thoughtful legal reasoning.”

Needs Hard Particular Judging Purity Reasoning Thoughtful Agendas Activist Ideological Judicial

Author:Ron Wyden

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

People Agendas

Author:Margaret Heffernan

“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.”

Real America Pay Internet Tragedy China Hypocrisy Agendas Iran Dissidents Internet Freedom

Author:Evgeny Morozov

“Everyone has a hidden agenda. Except me!”

Science Agendas

Author:Michael Crichton

“For this reason, the expansion of relations with all countries is on the agenda of the Islamic Republic of Iran. I mean balanced relationships, based on mutual respect and observation of each other's rights.”

Mean Country Reason Rights Relation Observation Islamic Agendas Iran Mutual Republic Balanced Expansion Mutual Respect Balanced Relationship

Author:Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

“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.”

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Author:Christopher Moore

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