Famous Quotes & Sayings

I think people should be able to contribute as long as it's local. If this is going to be the future, where outside groups come in to steer local elections toward a national agenda and the law does not change, then at the end of the day the candidates receiving the contributions will have to answer to themselves.

Ken Mehlman

I think he's focused on a lot of things - working to help people at the White House and talking to people on the Hill about the agenda next year, and he's certainly focused on the '06 elections,

Brian Williams

I think it will dominate our news agenda for the foreseeable future.

I think it would be bad form to do that. I'm sure he has his agenda and I'm sure he'll stick to that.

Janice Hahn

I thought it wouldn't hurt to have somebody else's advice, ... The only agenda I have is catching Reggie and I thought this was an opportunity to give this evacuee something to do.

I think they're just picking on Rachael because they don't want people to know they don't have an agenda and if they do it's hidden.

I don't have a set agenda for the future. I just want to become as involved in the community as possible.

Maxine Waters

I don't have them down here asking me what my urban agenda is. I don't find them really doing in-depth stories on community-based organizations that have been struggling for a long time and who are out trying to get funds. They aren't interested in those stories.

Ollanta Humala

I'd just say the situations in our two countries - Venezuela and Peru - are completely different. The fact that we have an important agenda of change here doesn't mean that we want to join in the ideological conflict between Venezuela and the United States.

I don't know what his agenda is. I have to listen to what he has to say. I vote for the man who I think is going to do the best job for the state.

Saxby Chambliss

I don't know what Katrina is going to do to budget reconciliation overall, ... There's simply no way that we can carry out the agenda that we had in place at the end of July, that we thought we would be dealing with today, just because of Katrina.

Bob Geldof

I don't care who I have to get to, to make this agenda work. They must know that I am in no one's pocket, that I am not beholden to anyone.

Ben Nelson

I came to this decision after careful consideration of his impeccable judicial credentials, the American Bar Association's strong recommendation and his pledge that he would not bring a political agenda to the court.

Lee H. Hamilton

He certainly has kept his agenda in front of us,

Tony Judt

Healthcare reform is a paradigmatic case. It is self-evidently necessary and inevitable and has been on the agenda for 35 years, and the political class seems completely unable to respond to it.

Shakira

In Colombia, education is sometimes considered a luxury, not a human right. And it's not a priority in the agendas of many leaders.

Mikhail Gorbachev

I think the environmental problem will be the number one item on the agenda of the 21st century... This is a problem that cannot be postponed.

Ken Ham

Anti-Christian ideology has permeated much of the secular news media, and so often Biblical Christians are mocked, misrepresented or attacked for what they believe by anti-Christian agenda driven reporters.

Roger Mahony

I find it inconceivable that we're meeting for five and a half days, and there isn't one moment on the agenda to deal with the greatest crisis we've ever had in the church since 1789.

Kent Conrad

I found him to be extraordinarily intelligent, and he has assured me that he brings no ideological agenda to the Supreme Court. He wants to be a justice for all of the people.

Rachel Cusk

For years I had lived in my body half-consciously, ignoring it mostly, dismissing its agendas wherever I could, and forever pressing it into the service of mental conceptions that resulted, almost as a by-product, sometimes in its pleasuring and sometimes in its abuse.

Katrina pretty much stops his legislative agenda cold.

Condoleezza Rice

John Bolton is personally committed to the future success of the United Nations, and he will be a strong voice for reform at a time when the United Nations has begun to reform itself to help meet the challenging agenda before the international community.

Michael Medved

I think it combines an outrageously obvious agenda with outstanding artistry.

It appears Roy Moore is campaigning on an agenda that echoes the same positions Gov. Riley has already taken. Most of the issues Roy Moore outlined (Monday) were detailed in Gov. Riley's Plan for Change back in 2002, and Gov. Riley has worked ever since then to implement them.

Business needs to push the agenda rather than waiting for it to happen.

Because we made real progress and because in 1998, we said here's our future agenda -- save Social security, keep the economy going, pass a Patients' Bill of Rights, continue to invest in our children's education -- the public responded and we moved closer to being a majority in that historic election in 1998,

Tony Blair

China is a major priority for Britain. We've got to engage with China on a broad agenda -- because China's impact on our interests is large and growing.

Orrin Hatch

I have become convinced that, for conscientious and reasonable defenders of the Second Amendment, it is not enough to simply oppose the gun-control communities' legislative agenda which safeguards the right to keep and bear arms,

Jeff Sessions

I think it's clear to me that what - when I look at the tea party, it's about one-third Democrat, one-third Republican, one-third independents. But 100 percent of them are sure that the agenda that is taking place in Washington, D.C., is about extremism and is about bankrupting this country and every state within this country.

It is a highly focused agenda on storm recovery issues, as well as seeking the budget she wants.

I think the energy agenda will be carried forward perhaps a bit more diplomatically.

Tom Cole

I think the congressional agenda has been more realistic and frankly more limited than Bush's. The Bush presidency has a lot of big ideas, which is generally good thing, but there just is not a lot of legislative follow-through.