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Last week in the Homeland Security Committee, Republicans were against port security; and today, one week after Democrats unveiled our Real Security Agenda, they're for it -- Jim Clyburn
Last week in the Homeland Security Committee, Republicans were against port security; and today, one week after Democrats unveiled our Real Security Agenda, they're for it. -- Jim Clyburn
The Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness, and the related Accra Agenda for Action, are useful policy instruments that set out the mutual responsibilities of donors and recipient countries. -- Margaret Chan
The secret of your success is determined by your daily agenda. -- John C. Maxwell
Hypocrisy is a detriment to progress. There's always a hidden agenda. -- Larry Flynt
My only agenda is to bring attention to otherwise ignored and shunned lives. -- Jim Goldberg
Unfortunately I'm not a smoker, so cigars have never been a part of my agenda. -- Bobby Sherman
Cancer is such a ruthless adversary because it behaves as if it has its own fiendishly cunning agenda. -- Paul Davies
Therefore it does not help to sneer at the imperfection of today's reality or to preach absolutes as a daily agenda. -- Gustav Heinemann
I think people are distrustful of politicians and are looking for someone who is telling the truth with no hidden agenda. -- Mohamed ElBaradei
In reality, there are very few villains who view themselves as villains. They just have a certain agenda at a certain time. -- Michael Jai White
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
Some people feel good about helping others, and they do so often. They do not realize that their good deeds have a second agenda. They want to be appreciated. -- Gary Zukav
I am ready to sacrifice everything in completing the unfinished agenda of our noble jihad... until there is no bloodshed in Afghanistan and Islam becomes a way of life for our people. -- Mohammed Omar
Monsters will always exist. There's one inside each of us. But an angel lives there, too. There is no more important agenda than figuring out how to slay one and nurture the other. -- Jacqueline Novogratz
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. -- Marco Rubio
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. -- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
I don't like dirt. Cleanliness is high on my agenda, but I don't have a phobia of dirt. I'm just not keen on it. I don't really like dirty people or houses or smelly things. -- Keeley Hawes
These 'mistakes' occur in my books for a reason. I have an agenda: I'm secretly trying to inspire kids to create their own stories and comics, and I don't want them to feel stifled by 'perfectionism.' -- Dav Pilkey
The pen is an instrument of discovery rather than just a recording implement. If you write a letter of resignation or something with an agenda, you're simply using a pen to record what you have thought out. -- Billy Collins
In my opinion, Putin is right on these issues. Obviously, he may be wrong about many things, but he has taken a stand to protect his nation's children from the damaging effects of any gay and lesbian agenda. -- Franklin Graham
As women slowly gain power, their values and priorities are reshaping the agenda. A multitude of studies show that when women control the family funds, they generally spend more on health, nutrition, and education - and less on alcohol and cigarettes. -- Dee Dee Myers
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. -- Cornel West
Issues relating to global health and sustainability must stay high on the agenda if we are to cope with an ageing and ever-increasing population, with growing pressure on resources, and with rising global temperatures. The risks and dangers need to be assessed and then confronted. -- Martin Rees
I suppose, to be fair, I don't miss the energy of youth very much - because I was never fit. So it doesn't matter not being able to walk miles, striding the countryside, taking deep breaths and enjoying the scenery. That was never on my agenda. -- Maeve Binchy
That's what governors do, they wrestle with the issues, they find solutions and they move the agenda forward. At the appropriate time we'll talk about all of these issues, while remembering that our party is a big tent party. We lose when we try to become exclusive to one particular set of issues. -- Jon Huntsman, Jr.
So, I'm lying on the couch and Laura walks in and I say, 'Free at last,' and she says 'You're free all right, you're free to do the dishes.' So I say, 'You're talking to the former president, baby,' and she said, 'consider this your new domestic policy agenda.' -- George W. Bush
I think cinema should provoke thoughts, sure, but using it as I soapbox I think is the wrong place. I never want to be part of something like that, where there's an agenda there that's not about telling a story, where its someone getting on a soapbox and preaching their own beliefs onto somebody. -- Jeremy Renner
For the past several years, I have remained what others would consider underground. I did this in order to build a community of people, like-minded in their desire for freedom and the right to pursue their goals and lives without being manipulated and controlled by a media protected military industrial complex with a completely different agenda. -- Lauryn Hill
I have no particular career agenda. -- Benjamin Bratt
Everyone has a hidden agenda. Except me! -- Michael Crichton
An agenda is not a bad thing. -- Kathy Ireland
I have no agenda, nothing to control. -- Bob Saget
Leaders set the agenda for the future. -- Bob Anderson
The liberal agenda: Being good to liberals -- George Will
Iraq war has made us overlook domestic agenda. -- Mike Huckabee
Everybody comes to the journalist with an agenda. -- Shepard Smith
Political doesn't necessarily mean you have an agenda. -- Toni Morrison
Never let the other fellow set the agenda. -- James Baker
You are free to love without an agenda -- William P. Young
A leader must not let critics set the agenda. -- Rudy Giuliani
I expect you to work hard on our agenda. -- George W. Bush
The liberal Gluten-free agenda is turning our dogs lesbian. -- Stephen Colbert
Spiritual leadership is moving people on to God's agenda. -- Henry Blackaby
The liberal agenda is the blueprint for national ruin. -- James Cook
Whoever sets the agenda controls the outcome of the debate -- Noam Chomsky
As governor, I learned the importance of having an agenda. -- John Engler
There is a hidden agenda in the fragility of romance. -- Alexander McQueen
Education isn't part of my agenda, it is my agenda. -- Kenny Guinn
I care more about an agenda than story and character. -- Ivy Meeropol
Once you articulate an agenda, you have to follow it. -- Brian Mulroney
I had an agenda. It was a very smooth transition. -- Frank Press
My agenda is trying to help people live a better life. -- Jillian Michaels
Now more than ever, America needs an agenda for real change. -- Rick Larsen
People buy into my agenda. I don't buy into anyone's agenda. -- Marco Rubio
[On her writing agenda:] Make the familiar exotic; the exotic familiar. -- Bharati Mukherjee
My secret agenda is to convey my values to my kids. -- Robert Fulghum
Words are living things. They have personality, point of view... agenda. -- Hannibal
Supporting a murderous political agenda with such an argument is tragic! -- Joseph Bayly
I always went with my agenda, I just couldn't execute it. -- Jackie DeShannon
The secret of our success is found in our daily agenda. -- John C. Maxwell
In the agenda of empty countries, there exists only empty matters! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
The president [Donald Trump] said his three-part agenda is jobs, jobs, jobs. -- Mike Pence
Your love for me is transparent, no hidden agenda, no ulterior motive. -- Euginia Herlihy
I think [Pope] Francis intends to forge ahead with his reform agenda. -- Sylvia Poggioli
The secret of a person's success is discovered in their daily agenda. -- John C. Maxwell
The agenda of the roadblock is the philosophy of the stop sign. -- George W. Bush
The Jews control Hollywood and use it to promote their own agenda. -- Marlon Brando
The unions no longer control the education agenda of the Democratic Party. -- Eli Broad
I didn't have any agenda or plan when I started writing stuff. -- David Byrne
I have no social agenda with my work. I'm deadpan about it. -- Edward Ruscha
I've worked on the urban agenda all my life. All. My. Life. -- Andrew Cuomo
Using terrorism or jihadists or extremists for any political agenda is immoral. -- Bashar al-Assad
My agenda will never change from making good music and staying relevant. -- Kid Ink
We need to consolidate our enlargement agenda but be cautious with new commitments. -- Olli Rehn
The Republicans may be better off without an agenda. They don't scare people. -- Bill Schneider
Choosing an agenda that supports the apparatuses of racial violence always pays better. -- Dean Spade
Politicians often misuse science for political ends and to pursue their own agenda. -- Leonard Mlodinow
So, this is my government's agenda: educate your daughter and save your daughter. -- Narendra Modi
Progressives always like clean energy ideas. But conservatives should like this agenda, too. -- Van Jones
I never wanted to be one of those actors with a political agenda. -- Ian Somerhalder
I don't perceive an anti-religious agenda, especially with regard to Christians and Christianity. -- Bill Nye
I'm not an artist who has an agenda that's set by the work -- Anish Kapoor
What pleases me most is that sustainable development is on almost everybody's agenda now. -- Maurice Strong
The Congressional leaders set the agenda for journalism; it's not the other way around. -- Michael Pollan
The therapeutic concerns of the culture too often set the agenda for evangelical preaching. -- Albert Mohler
We're a democratic society. Shutting down the government should not be on the agenda. -- Alan Greenspan
When someone is trying to interpret something for you, they always have an agenda. -- Penn Jillette
Nevertheless, I have no political agenda whatsoever, even though some might think the contrary. -- Tariq Ramadan
Do not take the agenda that someone else has mapped out for your life. -- John C. Maxwell
If you seek enlightenment, then career is a very important idea on your agenda. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Democrats have no agenda, no plan for the future, and no sense of leadership. -- Jeff Miller
There is a huge agenda behind trying to destroy me and put me down. -- Heather Mills
Part of my agenda has been to support art that engages life with people. -- Jeffrey Deitch
In fiction I think we should have no agenda but to tell the truth. -- Wallace Stegner
I do think there's a lot more we can do on the life agenda. -- Sam Brownback
I do have a political agenda. It's to have as few regulations as possible. -- Dan Quayle
Democrats have no agenda, no plan for the future, and no sense of leadership -- Jeff Miller
Beware of anyone who claims to be neutral, for they always have an agenda. -- Douglas Wilson
Good leaders need a positive agenda, not just an agenda of dealing with crisis. -- Michael Porter
[Donald Trump] campaigned on an enormous tax cut, and he campaigned on a deregulatory agenda. -- Rich Lowry
We all need time to enjoy being alive without an agenda of getting something done. -- Deborah King
The universities deceive when they say they have no agenda other than to open minds. -- Dennis Prager
So long as confusion reigns, there will be no successful global Internet agenda, only contradiction. -- Rebecca MacKinnon
President Obama has made a minimum wage increase a focal point of his economic agenda. -- Thomas Perez
We would certainly encourage the Italian government to put forward an ambitious agenda of reform. -- Rodrigo Rato
Love moves without an agenda. It just moves because that is its nature to move. -- Adyashanti
Barack Obama is an incredibly intelligent, thoughtful, decisive person in pursuing the agenda he sets. -- Hillary Clinton
Pushing a company agenda on social media is like throwing water balloons at a porcupine. -- Erik Qualman
This liberal progressive agenda... is the antithesis of who we are as a constitutional republic. -- Allen West
When religious leaders get involved in elections, it is usually with a reactionary social agenda. -- Elizabeth Joan Smith
The Truth is the only thing youâ??ll ever run into that has no agenda. -- Adyashanti
No human being can prevent you from giving. Because no human being controls God's agenda. -- Rich Nathan
Population growth and the proliferation of mega-cities around the world redefines the entire global security agenda. -- Helmut Schmidt
I'm not afraid of having an agenda. I do have an agenda. It's a positive agenda. -- Rush Limbaugh
Whenever in history, equality appeared on the agenda, it was exported somewhere else, like an undesirable. -- Mary McCarthy
Unless I have hallucinated, I have never made an anti-gay commentary, I have made anti-gay-activist-agenda commentaries. -- Laura Schlessinger
I think Donald Trump is trying to use populist rhetoric to cover up a right-wing agenda. -- Charles Schumer
A devotee has no agenda of his own. For him, the object of devotion is everything. -- Jaggi Vasudev
Beyond budget fights, the Obama second-term agenda was supposed to be about passing comprehensive immigration reform. -- Juan Williams

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