Famous Quotes & Sayings

Romano Prodi

I've been working on the government agenda for a few days now. There is no problem (regarding Berlusconi), it doesn't impede our actions. But it's sad.

The public officials drafting these (zoning codes) have extreme conflicts of interest. Yet they are allowed to drive and perpetuate an agenda that is mean-spirited and not in the public interest.

Maxine Waters

The public is saying get this thing over so we can focus on America's agenda for progress,

We're very excited by an endorsement of such a respected and influential organization. It carefully went over the records and agendas of all candidates, and we're proud they chose to endorse Al Gore.

APEC is overloaded with micro-issues, which has made it less attractive to the senior people, and the agenda has tended to take on pet projects of the host countries,

Kathy Sierra

The international community has now started to worry about these issues in a more robust way. Last summer the G8 meeting at Gleneagles put climate change on the agenda as a major international problem that has to be solved. This summer, the Russians are going to be leading the thinking about energy security as part of their initiative under the G8.

Rajnath Singh

The issue of inflation in the country will be on top of our agenda during the forthcoming elections.

The centerpiece of Bush's education agenda is a voucher that would drain money away from public schools.

I'm going to rehab 24 hours (a day) and hopefully I can assist the team in some fashion on Sunday. That's my goal. The doctor gave me my length of time that I'm out, (but) I have my own agenda now to try to rehab and prove that I can get back sooner than what they think. If I'm 80 percent, 70 percent, 60 percent, there's certain routes that I can run in the offense.

I'm not going to predict anything, but we've had a very successful operation in getting our agenda passed and we're confident we'll be successful a second time around.

In just a few days, he met with the secretary of Homeland Security, the chief of staff to the White House and the most influential congressional members on this particular issue. He continued pushing the agenda and leading on this very critical issue.

Jim Haslett

I know what their agenda was: They would like us to play in our home state, ... And our players like that, too, to be honest with you. It's just more of a travel issue and a family issue. But I'm sure our families and their families and friends will go to Baton Rouge to see the game and be with them.

Joe Barton

Then Hurricane Katrina hit, and energy is back on the agenda big time,

The administration's agenda just doesn't resonate in Illinois.

The agenda that they push has changed several times. It has gone from Bush started the war for oil. Once the blood-for-oil argument failed to get traction, they moved on to he's fighting daddy's war now. It's amazing how many talking points we've gone through - and there's going to be more to come, I'm sure.

Jack Kenny

The agenda is to tell a good story. That's all we really want to do, tell a good story about a good man and his family and the struggle to get through life.

Anton Balasingham

The agenda is one line, but there are one thousand matters to discuss (on the ceasefire).

The agenda from developing countries will have to be a priority.

Talks focused on one essential subject, that of the presidency of the republic ... and this point remains on the agenda for the next session, next Monday.

Student leaders need to put their personal agendas aside.

There's this pent-up feeling that we've been working too hard on the president's agenda and not enough on what we want.

James Marsters

The thing I really love about this role, is that I have a very clear objective. I know my objective from the very beginning and it's going to carry me through the whole season. That was the problem with Spike. In all honesty, that character had no objective 90 percent of the time. I would have to make it up ... To find your objective is like a gas pedal for acting. And if you can find that objective and play it honestly, it's like 'Wham!' And if you can't find it, you're mired. I'm really happy about an objective the audience suspects and the other characters don't know. It's the hidden agenda of a zealot -- and it's really interesting.

I want to initiate a bilateral agenda that helps Mexico and the U.S. together compete with the world better, especially with the economies of Asia and the Pacific.

Steve Schmidt

The New Majority group cares deeply about the future of California and includes some of the most distinguished leaders in the country. The governor is grateful for their ongoing support of his bold agenda to continue moving the state forward.

Nan Aron

It reveals that he has pursued a very consistent agenda that favors government intrusion into our personal lives and sides with powerful interests over ordinary Americans.

It's not something fundamental that's changing so much as the far-right agenda that has pushed too far, and people in the West ... are pushing back. In the short term, we'll switch back and forth in this state.

Thomas Perez

For many people, and particularly in communities of color, the basic bargain of America - that if you work hard and play by the rules, you can share in the nation's prosperity - has become a raw deal. That's what President Obama's opportunity agenda is all about - making good on our country's half of the basic bargain.

For a president who came from the oil business and who still has many friends and backers in the industry, putting this initiative at the top of his agenda took some guts.

Chris Lehane

I hope this means Mr. Reich will educate Senator Bradley's team on Medicaid, Medicare and Social Security -- all programs that Bradley's agenda threatens to dismantle, imperil or change.

I have placed development issues at the top of the agenda right from the outset, and I would like to see an early harvest of the key development issues at the ministerial this week, or at least see that we have made substantial progress in resolving them.

Jacqueline Winspear

I love time with family and friends, but completely relish time on my own when I have no agenda to follow, no to-do's, just me and time alone.

Ken King

I'm thrilled that he's here. I think it's great that he would take some time out what is an incredibly important and significant beginning to his prime ministerial agenda and include us. I'm just as happy as a clam.

Evan Bayh

No longer will we see an agenda tilted to the far right. It will require people to hammer out a true consensus and compromise, and I think that will be good for America.